The Philadelphia Flyers got a head start on the rest in the free agent market when they traded for Kimmo Timonen and Scott Hartnell. Good for them! I think the Flyers along with Colorado will be the biggest come-back team of next season. Eventhough 6 million dollars per year seems a lot for Timonen, he will definatly bring more stability to Their defence and add firepower on the PP. This trade almost makes up for the disater trade of Kim Johnsson a few seasons ago.
The Boston Bruins hired Claude Julien as their new head coach. I thought he did a good job in Jersey and was wrongfully fired with only three games remaining of the season and the team on top of their division. The Bruins have not been very successful with their coaches the last couple of seasons (they have had 16 coaches in the last 30 seasons). Julien might be the man to turn them around. Obviously he will need the the right stuff on the ice to do it.
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So the revolving doors at the Garden brings us Claude Julien this year. As a long-time die-hard B's fan I welcome this change. The problem is I'm sure I'll be writing these same lines twelve months from now. The knock on Julien is that he's a nice guy - too nice. So in reality he's not much different than Dave Lewis. Except he doesn't look like Hitler.
Not so fast though. Still no press conference anywhere on the radar screen. Not like the B's to move this slow after a decision's been made official. Has ownership stepped in to campaign for, say, Mike Milbury?
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