1) Don't let any of the other rumor sites fool ya, this deal was a shock top all. There had been speculation that Johnson was available for the past few months, but most of those rumors circulated around Eastern time zone teams(Pittsburgh/Columbus)
2) We at FAUXRUMORS were as surprised to hear about this deal as anyone. It apparently went down very quickly. Our sources in Carolina and LA didn't sniff this baby out until it was about to be announced, thus we weren't able to alert our readers to it before hand.
3) Unlike other sites we're not going to make like we knew of things in advance when we did not. This is one of those times, BUT. Unlike those other sites we can give insight into the deal that others will/can not
4) From what we're now being told there was more than a fall out with the Carolina organization and Jack Johnson. Apparently, things almost came to blows with he and Hurricane GM Rutherford. When Johnson informed the portly former goalie of his intention to return to college and possibly complete his degree (This would put his rights back into the draft) Rutherford went ballistic. Calling Johnson a "Piece of shit", among other things.
5) It was almost a certainty after this that Johnson would never don a Hurricane jersey. What was left was to see what team might take a chance of acquiring his rights with the understanding that they may lose them for nothing if he stays in school for the full 4 years.
6) As always keep it here for the latest news/rumors and discussion. Were told the Devils situation will shortly be decided.
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Zherdev Signed!
1) As was predicted on this site last week, Columbus Blue jacket RFA forward Nikolai Zherdev was signed to a three-year contract.
2) Financial terms were not disclosed but as FAUXRUMORS reported here last week it's worth in excess of $7 million, or 2.1 mil/year.
3) We again are in a position of patting ourselves on our collective backs for being the only web blog on the Internet to have this information a week BEFORE it was official
4) A special thanks to " Steve " (Name changed) our source who was so kind in keeping FAUXRUMORS ahead of the curve on this one.As always keep it here for the latest!!
2) Financial terms were not disclosed but as FAUXRUMORS reported here last week it's worth in excess of $7 million, or 2.1 mil/year.
3) We again are in a position of patting ourselves on our collective backs for being the only web blog on the Internet to have this information a week BEFORE it was official
4) A special thanks to " Steve " (Name changed) our source who was so kind in keeping FAUXRUMORS ahead of the curve on this one.As always keep it here for the latest!!
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Leg II Announced
1) The now famous FAUXRUMORS tour of 30 NHL cities is pleased to announce the schedule for our second of 4 legs.
2) 11/13- Carolina11/15- Tampa11/16- Florida11/17- Washington11/18- Pittsburgh
3) Yes, as with our first leg announced previously, it is quite an ambitious schedule. Also as we have mentioned before please feel free and write to our e-mail address(fauxrumors5@yahoo.com) to arrange a tailgate meeting in advance.4) We look forward to meeting all the many folks who have already written us, and to new readers to our site as well.
As always, keep it here for the latest!
2) 11/13- Carolina11/15- Tampa11/16- Florida11/17- Washington11/18- Pittsburgh
3) Yes, as with our first leg announced previously, it is quite an ambitious schedule. Also as we have mentioned before please feel free and write to our e-mail address(fauxrumors5@yahoo.com) to arrange a tailgate meeting in advance.4) We look forward to meeting all the many folks who have already written us, and to new readers to our site as well.
As always, keep it here for the latest!
Monday, September 25, 2006
Major Announcement!
1) We here at FAUXRUMORS are VERY excited to announce the dates of our first leg of our '30 NHL cities before 2007' tour.
2) Unfortunately, despite our best efforts the schedule will not allow us to visit Dallas. ( they are on a 2 week road trip at the moment that we would be able to visit them.
3) As scheduling flights/rental cars/hotels is an arduous, sometimes daunting/ frustrating task, we were unable to get that 1 city into our itinerary. We promise our Texas readers that we will make it up to you at some point in 2007!!
4) Here is the schedule for the First Leg:
City
Atlanta- 10/19
Colorado-10/25
Vancouver-10/27
Edmonton-10/28
Calgary- 10/30
LA- 11/1SJ- 11/2
Anaheim - 11/3
Phoenix - 11/4
Toronto- 11/6
5) Thankfully the members of FAUXRUMORS are all seasoned travelers, but even for them this is a very ambitious undertaking. Stay tuned as we get closer to the season for further updates. Feel free to comment/write to our e-mail address(fauxrumors5@yahoo.com) or respond to this web site so we can arrange a tail gate party before the game in your area.
6) We look forward to meeting all our loyal readers and supporters. As always keep it here for the latest!
2) Unfortunately, despite our best efforts the schedule will not allow us to visit Dallas. ( they are on a 2 week road trip at the moment that we would be able to visit them.
3) As scheduling flights/rental cars/hotels is an arduous, sometimes daunting/ frustrating task, we were unable to get that 1 city into our itinerary. We promise our Texas readers that we will make it up to you at some point in 2007!!
4) Here is the schedule for the First Leg:
City
Atlanta- 10/19
Colorado-10/25
Vancouver-10/27
Edmonton-10/28
Calgary- 10/30
LA- 11/1SJ- 11/2
Anaheim - 11/3
Phoenix - 11/4
Toronto- 11/6
5) Thankfully the members of FAUXRUMORS are all seasoned travelers, but even for them this is a very ambitious undertaking. Stay tuned as we get closer to the season for further updates. Feel free to comment/write to our e-mail address(fauxrumors5@yahoo.com) or respond to this web site so we can arrange a tail gate party before the game in your area.
6) We look forward to meeting all our loyal readers and supporters. As always keep it here for the latest!
New Writing Style
1) At the request of several of our loyal readers we here at FAUXRUMORS will be altering our writing style. Instead of the usual paragraph form for our posts, we will now begin to use numbered bullet points
2) This in an effort to make the posts more reader friendly.
3) Feel free and continue to send in your thoughts/suggestions to our e-mail address(fauxrumors5@yahoo.com) or respond to right here to this site. Either way, we thank you for all the many kind words we have recieved.As always, keep it here for the latest
2) This in an effort to make the posts more reader friendly.
3) Feel free and continue to send in your thoughts/suggestions to our e-mail address(fauxrumors5@yahoo.com) or respond to right here to this site. Either way, we thank you for all the many kind words we have recieved.As always, keep it here for the latest
What Lou Will Do
1) With all the rabid speculation running wild among the usual rumor mongers out there, we here at FAUXRUMORS did our home work to try to find out exactly what the devils plan to do about their anticipated salary cap situation.
2) To that end we sent some of our best, most reliable people into 'hell' if you will, to find out what Lou plans to do with the Devils
3) We also had to have our mole in the NHL NYC office give us the scoop on how the Mogilny/Malakhov situations would shake out. The rest is what we have found out, and what we expect to happen as a result:
4) For one its almost a slam dunk that Mogilny will be deemed ineligible due to injury. Meaning his salary will NOT count. Malakhov is another story. He won't be allowed to be swepped under the rug.
5) We're hearing that the Devils could trade his rights to a Western Conference team that has cap space for a 1st rounder. The team getting Malakhov won't really have to pay him, only loses space to sign other players this season. By doing this Lamarello will avoid having to trade any of his star players
6) We're told this should all be done before the weekend is out Reemeber to keep it here for the latest!
2) To that end we sent some of our best, most reliable people into 'hell' if you will, to find out what Lou plans to do with the Devils
3) We also had to have our mole in the NHL NYC office give us the scoop on how the Mogilny/Malakhov situations would shake out. The rest is what we have found out, and what we expect to happen as a result:
4) For one its almost a slam dunk that Mogilny will be deemed ineligible due to injury. Meaning his salary will NOT count. Malakhov is another story. He won't be allowed to be swepped under the rug.
5) We're hearing that the Devils could trade his rights to a Western Conference team that has cap space for a 1st rounder. The team getting Malakhov won't really have to pay him, only loses space to sign other players this season. By doing this Lamarello will avoid having to trade any of his star players
6) We're told this should all be done before the weekend is out Reemeber to keep it here for the latest!
Preseason Predictions
The hugely anticipated FAUXRUMORS preseason predictions editions are set for publication by October 1. New this year will be an interesting format that we here at FAUXRUMORS have created.
In place of just listing the projected order of finish from 1-16 with an explanation after each team, we will instead give a 'best/worse case scenario' range of finish.
This will be based upon possible injuries, players having breakout season's etc.We feel this will give us the most ability to state why a team will do well/poorly this season.Unlike our award winning 'off season' analysis' series, we will do one conference at a time, instead of divisions.Keep it here for the latest news and hockey talk that you will not see anywhere else.
In place of just listing the projected order of finish from 1-16 with an explanation after each team, we will instead give a 'best/worse case scenario' range of finish.
This will be based upon possible injuries, players having breakout season's etc.We feel this will give us the most ability to state why a team will do well/poorly this season.Unlike our award winning 'off season' analysis' series, we will do one conference at a time, instead of divisions.Keep it here for the latest news and hockey talk that you will not see anywhere else.
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