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Wild Sign Kurtis Foster

The Minnesota Wild signed defenseman Kurtis Foster to a one-year deal worth $1.025 million. It doesn't surprise me that they kept him to a one year deal since they are saving up future dollars for Marian Gaborik, that and there are no guarantees that Foster will be a top player after his leg rehab.

The single year deal strategy is freaking me out a bit. I hope Doug Risebrough knows what he is doing. We lost Aaron Voros and Todd Fedoruk because he wouldn't offer any multi-year deals. I hope we aren't letting the talent we need slip away and the talent we have won't be as dedicated to team play if they are only working off a single year contract. I am in favor of multi-year deals whenever possible.

Still up in the air: Pierre-Marc Bouchard and Stephane Veilleux. Both have until Saturday to agree to a deal or go to arbitration. I would like to see them both stay. Any comments Wild fans?

 

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I agree! I’m trying to keep everything up to date on my blog, www.styleandsports.blogspot.com, and keep Foster on was definitely a good move. But you’re right, Risebrough seems to be losing his edge – first Rolston and Voros leave, now he’s only signing one year contracts, they can’t seem to nail down some of these solid players they’re going after….it’s hard not to be a little nervous!!

by cortneystorsved on Jul 3, 2008 4:44 PM CDT   0 recs

One bad apple spoils the whole d@mn bunch

Easily the biggest and worst move D.R. made this offseason was getting Jacque to come back. Think maybe New Jersey will take him back too? Look at Voros, when he came up from Houston, he was flying out there. He hit everthing that moved. He crashed the net so hard that he literally RAN OVER THE NET. Voros was awesome to watch, I loved it. three months later you could barely find him out there. Do you think AV decided to take it easy out there? no, it was coached out of him by Lemaire. Players in the league don’t want to play for Jacque. Superstar players don’t want to play for a coach that refuses to hold the other team accountable for liberties taken on the star players. Case in point, Why was Gaborik on the ice for the OT in the last game of season against Col.? At the end of reg. all playoffs seeds had been decided. We knew we were playing the Ave, and they or at least Laperrier, knew they were playing us. He won that series before it even started. At that point Colorado thew down the gauntlet and even though he had a bench FULL of enforcers, Jacque never answered the call. People don’t want to play for Jacque and if he wanted to go DR should have let him.

by W1ldfan on Jul 6, 2008 10:15 PM CDT   0 recs

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