Blue Notes

First of all, for your PDAs/cells/calendars, on Friday at 1 p.m., I'll answer your questions and discuss the prospect camp and free agency in the first of what we expect will be many live chats here at Blue Notes.
More details to come in the next couple days...

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Rumblings on the free-agent front: Don't discard the Sundin reports; Malone and Orpik remain on the radar; If I had a vote, I'd cast it for Brian Rolston, too, and for Kurt Sauer as a low-cost D...One Blue Notes reader who watched him regularly after his trade from Vancouver to Washington is singing the praises of LW Matt Cooke (UFA, 29, $1.5 mil, 10-13, 91 PIMS last season) as a potential replacement for Avery if Sean and the club can't see eye to eye. By the way here's Avery's essay in Men's Vogue on his sojurn among the journalist fashionistas:
http://www.mensvogue.com/magazine/articles/2008/06/sean-avery

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Jottings in the margins from camp today:
The goaltenders, particularly Antoine LaFleur, (who has 'flower power' inscribed on the back of his mark) looked a bit sharper than on Monday in the green/blue scrimmage. Same players on each squad (no Hillier, Gaulton---injuries). A little more contact...No. 2 Derek Stepan was upended and slammed his chin into the post, no harm, no foul...LW Danny Hobbs scored a goal...Both Dave Maloney and Sam Rosen, who stopped by to watch, took notice of tryout D Joe Ryan...C Max Campbell (fifth-rounder, 2007, U of Western Michigan) caught my eye; seemed to be able to create shots and was around the net often...No. 9, Adam Graves, remains multi-talented and willing to do anything: He helped workers replace a plexiglass panel behind one net... Amateur scout Ray Clearwater was among the observers...

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