FLUSHING, NY - Back in Spring Training if anyone thought Mike Pelfrey would be the Mets best pitcher come the All-Star break, he or she would have been laughed at and thought to be a kook.
Not even Pelfrey himself would have figured he would be this good.
Yet, there he was at Shea Stadium tonight mowing [...]

Ok I’m here at Shea tonight and have a few thoughts.
1) Church is DLed with Nick evans back up. Evans is here for tonight’s game.
2) It’s Jet night with six former Jets who played at Shea here tonight. The list: Greg Buttle, Emerson Boozer, Randy Beverly, John Schmitt, Marty Lyons and Wesley Walker.
3) A terrible [...]

It didn’t take Jaromir Jagr long to finally decide where to play next season. Actually the decision was done only hours after Glen Sather took the Rangers out of the running.

I have a BBQ to go to, so hopefully no signings today. Will be back tomorrow with something on the Mets.
Have a safe one.

No one can blame Glen Sather for rejecting Jaromir Jagr’s proposal to come back as the highest paid Ranger. After all, the team wanted to spend its money on defense, while trying to get quicker up front.
So with Jagr dragging his feet with a decision and Sather no able to give him an incentive based [...]

Glen Sather announced today the Rangers signed Swedish left wing Markus Naslund and former Buffalo defenseman Dimitri Kalinin. Naslund got a two year deal, while Kalinin is on a one year plan.
Speaking on a conference call, Sather pointed out Naslund was part of the Blueshirt plan to play more with puck moving and wide [...]

After yesterday’s festivities, we are seeing Jaromir Jagr in a holding pattern in deciding with future. Taking the Matts Sundin route, Jagr issued a statement through his agent that he will take a few days to decide his future. Edmonton, Broadway or Omsk?
And that future probably won’t be in Pittsburgh who signed Islander retreads, Ruslan [...]

Lou Lamoriello apparently went into this offseason trying to prove Thomas Wolf wrong.
Because apparently in New Jersey, you can go home again.
The Devils general manager started shopping on Tuesday looking for more offense and he came up with some very familiar names. First he inked Brian Rolston to a four year, $20 million contract and [...]

Sean Avery got away and Jaromir Jagr may be the next to go. Even the always lucrative Cablevision money isn’t enough to get the big name this year to the Garden.
So what’s Glen Sather to do?
Make a trade, of course.
After inking Wade Redden and Michal Rozsival on Tuesday, Sather delt some of his blue line [...]

Martin Brodeur may have been the happiest player in the New York area yesterday.
No, it’s not because his Devils re-acquired Scott Niedermayer and Scott Stevens didn’t come out of retirement.
It’s because his nemesis Sean Avery is out of the conference, signing a four years deal with the Dallas Stars worth $15.5 million
In a move rumored [...]