*The Crosby Effect* A Penguins Dynasty 2.0

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Buffalo Sabres sign defenceman Teppo Numminen to a one-year contract.

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Detroit Red Wings sign forward Aaron Downey to a one-year contract.

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Colorado Avalanche sign forward Joe Sakic to a one-year contract.

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Tampa Bay Lightning sign defenceman Andrej Meszaros to a six-year contract.

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I'm just gonna post all the trades in one post to get straight to the Penguins stuff.

	To Columbus Blue Jackets Jonathan Sigalet	To Boston Bruins Matt Marquardt
	To St. Louis Blues T.J. Fast	To Los Angeles Kings 5th round pick in 2009
	To Philadelphia Flyers Danny Syvret	To Edmonton Oilers Ryan Potulny
	To Minnesota Wild Marc-Andre Bergeron	To Anaheim Ducks 3rd round pick in 2008
	To Colorado Avalanche Marty Sertich	To Dallas Stars conditional 7th round pick in 2009
	To Tampa Bay Lightning Vaclav Prospal	To Philadelphia Flyers 7th round pick in 2008 conditional 4th round pick in 2009
	To Carolina Hurricanes Darcy Hordichuk conditional 5th round pick in 2010	To Nashville Predators 5th round pick in 2009
	To Toronto Maple Leafs Jamal Mayers	To St. Louis Blues 3rd round pick in 2008
	To St. Louis Blues Chris Mason	To Nashville Predators 4th round pick in 2008
	To Calgary Flames Mike Cammalleri 2nd round pick (#48 overall) in 2008	To Los Angeles Kings 1st round pick (#17 overall) in 2008 2nd round pick in 2009
	To Los Angeles Kings 1st round pick (#12 overall) in 2008	To Anaheim Ducks 1st round pick (#17 overall) in 2008 1st round pick (#28 overall) in 2008
	To Montreal Canadiens Alex Tanguay 5th round pick in 2008	To Calgary Flames 1st round pick (#25 overall) in 2008 2nd round pick in 2009
	To Phoenix Coyotes Olli Jokinen	To Florida Panthers Keith Ballard Nick Boynton 2nd round pick (#49 overall) in 2008
	To Toronto Maple Leafs 1st round pick (#5 overall) in 2008	To New York Islanders 1st round pick (#7 overall) in 2008 3rd round pick in 2008 (#68 overall 2nd round pick in 2009
	To Columbus Blue Jackets R.J. Umberger 4th round pick (#118 overall) in 2008	To Philadelphia Flyers 1st round pick (#19 overall) in 2008 3rd round pick (#67 overall) in 2008
	To Nashville Predators 1st round pick (#7 overall) in 2008	To New York Islanders 1st round pick (#9 overall) in 2008 2nd round pick (#40 overall) in 2008
	To Buffalo Sabres 1st round pick (#12 overall) in 2008	To Los Angeles Kings 1st round pick (#13 overall) in 2008 3rd round pick in 2009
	To Ottawa Senators 1st round pick (#15 overall) in 2008	To Nashville Predators 1st round pick (#18 overall) in 2008 3rd round pick in 2009
	To Washington Capitals 1st round pick (#21 overall) in 2008	To New Jersey Devils 1st round pick (#23 overall) in 2008 2nd round pick (#54 overall) in 2008
	To Minnesota Wild 1st round pick (#23 overall) in 2008	To New Jersey Devils 1st round pick (#24 overall) in 2008 3rd round pick in 2009
	To Washington Capitals 1st round pick (#27 overall) in 2008	To Philadelphia Flyers Steve Eminger 3rd round pick (#84 overall) in 2008
	To Phoenix Coyotes 1st round pick (#28 overall) in 2008	To Anaheim Ducks 2nd round pick (#35 overall) in 2008 2nd round pick (#39 overall) in 2008
	To Nashville Predators 2nd round pick (#38 overall) in 2008	To Phoenix Coyotes 2nd round pick (#46 overall) in 2008 3rd round pick (#76 overall) in 2008
	To Florida Panthers 2nd round pick (#46 overall) in 2008	To Phoenix Coyotes 2nd round pick (#49 overall) in 2008 4th round pick in 2009
	To Los Angeles Kings Brad Richardson	To Colorado Avalanche 2nd round pick (#61 overall) in 2008
	To San Jose Sharks 3rd round pick (#62 overall) in 2008	To Tampa Bay Lightning 4th round pick (#117 overall) in 2008 5th round pick (#147 overall) in 2008 3rd round pick in 2009
	To Chicago Blackhawks 3rd round pick (#68 overall) in 2008	To New York Islanders 3rd round pick (#72 overall) in 2008 4th round pick (#102 overall) in 2008
	To Los Angeles Kings 3rd round pick (#74 overall) in 2008	To Buffalo Sabres 3rd round pick (#81 overall) in 2008 4th round pick (#101 overall) in 2008
	To New York Rangers 3rd round pick (#90 overall) in 2008	To Phoenix Coyotes Alex Bourret
	To San Jose Sharks 4th round pick (#92 overall) in 2008	To Los Angeles Kings 4th round pick in 2009 5th round pick in 2010
	To Boston Bruins 4th round pick (#97 overall) in 2008	To Columbus Blue Jackets 4th round pick (#107 overall) in 2008 5th round pick (#137 overall) in 2008
	To San Jose Sharks 4th round pick (#106 overall) in 2008	To Nashville Predators 7th round pick (#207 overall) in 2008 Toronto's 4th round pick in 2009
	To New York Rangers 4th round pick (#111 overall) in 2008	To Nashville Predators 7th round pick (#201 overall) in 2008 4th round pick in 2009
	To Chicago Blackhawks 6th round pick (#179 overall) in 2008	To Los Angeles Kings 6th round pick in 2009
	To St. Louis Blues 7th round pick (#185 overall) in 2008	To Los Angeles Kings 7th round pick in 2009
	To Anaheim Ducks 7th round pick (#208 overall) in 2008	To Philadelphia Flyers 7th round pick in 2009
	To Philadelphia Flyers Janne Niskala	To Nashville Predators Triston Grant 7th round pick in 2009
	To Colorado Avalanche Matt Hendricks	To Boston Bruins Johnny Boychuk
	To Phoenix Coyotes Brian McGrattan	To Ottawa Senators 5th round pick in 2009
	To Vancouver Canucks Kyle Wellwood	To Toronto Maple Leafs claimed off waivers
	To Tampa Bay Lightning Gary Roberts Ryan Malone	To Pittsburgh Penguins conditional pick in 2009
	To Edmonton Oilers Lubomir Visnovsky	To Los Angeles Kings Jarret Stoll Matt Greene
	To Tampa Bay Lightning Brian Rolston	To Minnesota Wild conditional pick in 2009 or 2010
	To Philadelphia Flyers Tim Ramholt	To Calgary Flames Kyle Greentree
	To Tampa Bay Lightning Janne Niskala	To Philadelphia Flyers 6th round pick in 2009

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	To Columbus Blue Jackets Raffi Torres	To Edmonton Oilers Gilbert Brule
	To Carolina Hurricanes Joni Pitkanen	To Edmonton Oilers Erik Cole
	To Calgary Flames Rene Bourque	To Chicago Blackhawks 2nd round pick in 2009 or 2010
	To Minnesota Wild Marek Zidlicky	To Nashville Predators Ryan Jones 2nd round pick in 2009
	To Los Angeles Kings Denis Gauthier 2nd round pick in 2010	To Philadelphia Flyers Patrik Hersley Ned Lukacevic
	To New York Rangers Nikolai Zherdev Dan Fritsche	To Columbus Blue Jackets Fedor Tyutin Christian Backman
	To Toronto Maple Leafs Mikhail Grabovski	To Montreal Canadiens Greg Pateryn 2nd round pick in 2010
	To Vancouver Canucks Steve Bernier	To Buffalo Sabres 2nd round pick in 2010 LA's 3rd round pick in 2009
	To Buffalo Sabres Craig Rivet 7th round pick in 2010	To San Jose Sharks 2nd round pick in 2009 2nd round pick in 2010
	To San Jose Sharks Dan Boyle Brad Lukowich	To Tampa Bay Lightning Matt Carle Ty Wishart 1st round pick in 2009 4th round pick in 2010
	To Minnesota Wild Corey Locke	To Montreal Canadiens Shawn Belle
	To Toronto Maple Leafs Ryan Hollweg	To New York Rangers PIT's 5th round pick in 2009
	To Anaheim Ducks Joakim Lindstrom	To Columbus Blue Jackets conditional pick in 2010
	To Chicago Blackhawks Tim Brent	To Pittsburgh Penguins Danny Richmond
	To Dallas Stars Lauri Tukonen	To Los Angeles Kings Richard Clune
	To Boston Bruins Martin St. Pierre	To Chicago Blackhawks Pascal Pelletier
	To Tampa Bay Lightning Andrej Meszaros	To Ottawa Senators Filip Kuba Alexandre Picard SJ's 1st round pick in 2009

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	To Ottawa Senators Ryan Shannon	To Vancouver Canucks Lawrence Nycholat
	To Toronto Maple Leafs Mike Van Ryn	To Florida Panthers Bryan McCabe 4th round pick in 2010

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The Pittsburgh Penguins selected two goaltenders, one center, and one defenseman on the second day of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa. The Penguins selected one player in the fourth round (120th overall), one in the fifth round (150th overall), one in the sixth round (180th overall), and one in the seventh round (210th overall).
The Penguins picked center Nathan Moon from Kingston (OHL) in the fourth round (120th overall). The 5-11, 179 pound center is a native of Belleville, Ontario.

Season	Team	Lge	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
2006-07	Kingston Frontenacs	OHL	56	13	27	40	39	5	2	0	2	0
2007-08	Kingston Frontenacs	OHL	68	35	42	77	79	-	-	-	-	-

Goaltender Alexander Pechurski was selected in the fifth round (150th overall). The 6-0, 187 pound goaltender is a native of Magnitogorsk, Russia.

Season	Team	Lge	GP	W	L	GAA	SV%
2007 2008	U-18 World Championships (Russia) U-18 World Championships (Russia)	IIHF IIHF	3 5	2 4	1 1	3.90 3.06	.861 .885

With the 180th pick (sixth round), the Penguins took Patrick Killeen from Brampton (OHL). The 6-4, 194 pound goaltender is a native of Almonte, Ontario.

Season	Team	Lge	GP	W	L	SOL	GAA	SV%
2006-07	Brampton Battalion	OHL	8	1	3	0	5.73	.834
2007-08	Brampton Battalion	OHL	34	20	9	2	2.76	.908

The Penguins selected Nicholas D’Agostino from St. Michael’s Buzzers (OPJHL) in the seventh round (210th overall). The 6-1, 177 pound defenseman is a native of Bolton, Ontario and has verbally committed to Cornell University (ECAC) beginning with the 2009-10 season.

Season	Team	Lge	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
2007-08	St. Michael’s Buzzers	OPJHL	46	5	18	23	22	12	0	3	3	8

The Penguins will invite the players selected in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft to attend a rookie conditioning camp in Pittsburgh beginning on Tuesday, June 24th.

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Sidney Crosby was named one of the world’s top all-around athletes in rankings compiled recently by the Wall Street Journal. The results were published in the paper’s weekend and online editions (online.wsj.com).
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ 20-year-old center was ranked as the world’s No. 6 all-around athlete by an expert panel that graded candidates on six criteria: speed; vision and reflex; stamina and recovery; coordination and flexibility; power, strength and size; and success and competitiveness.
Judges were Ed Coyle, exercise physiologist at the University of Texas; Steve Fleck, chairman of the Sport Science Department at Colorado College and former head of the physical conditioning program for the U.S. Olympic committee; Eric Heiden, five-time Olympic gold medalist in speed skating and currently an orthopedic surgeon at Salt Lake sports medicine facility; Kris Homsi, director of sport science for Sparq, a training and assessment company used for college recruiting; and Mark Verstegen, who operates the Athletes Performance training facilities.
Czech decathlete Roman Sebrle, current world champion and Olympic gold medalist, was named the world’s top all-around athlete. Lebron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers was second, followed by boxer Floyd Mayweather, LaDainian Tomlinson of the San Diego Chargers and tennis star Roger Federer in the top five.
Crosby was sixth, followed by hurdler Liu Xiang of China, 400-meter sprinter Jeremy Wariner of the U.S., soccer star Ronaldo de Assis Moreira of Brazil and Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees.
The Journal’s panel began with a list of 79 top athletes before formulating its top 10.

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Penguins stars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin have been nominated for 2008 ESPY Awards.
Crosby is a candidate for the Hummer “Like Nothing Else” Award and Best NHL Player, while Malkin is a candidate for Best NHL Player. Crosby captured Best NHL Player honors last season.
For the fifth consecutive year, fans will determine the winners in 37 categories (excluding special awards) by voting online at www.espys.tv. Voting runs through 11:59 p.m. on July 12. The 2008 ESPYs will be televised Sunday, July 20, at 9 p.m. on ESPN and ESPN HD.

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Sidney Crosby, who shared the NHL scoring lead in the playoffs and led the Penguins to the Stanley Cup finals before his 21st birthday, was named the winner of the ESPY award as the Best NHL Player.

Winners are selected in a nationwide vote of fans, conducted by ESPN. It was the second straight year that Crosby won the NHL award.

The ESPY Awards show, in its 16th year, was hosted by Justin Timberlake at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles and televised nationally by ESPN on Sunday night.

Tiger Woods was named Best Male Athlete and Brett Favre of the Green Bay Packers was honored for Best Record-Breaking Performance.

Among the other winners were Tom Brady of the New England Patriots (Best NFL Player), Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers (Best NBA Player), Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees (Best Baseball Player), the Boston Celtics (Best Team), Candace Parker of the University of Tennessee and LA Sparks (Best Female Athlete) and the New York Giants (Best Upset).

Crosby, 20, was tied for the NHL scoring lead with 63 points and challenging for his second straight league scoring title when he suffered a high ankle sprain Jan. 18 against Tampa Bay.

He missed 29 games and finished the regular season with 24 goals and 48 assists for 72 points in 53 games.

Crosby averaged 1.36 points per game while NHL scoring champion Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals averaged 1.37.

In the playoffs, Crosby became a dominant force once again, registering 27 points in 20 games (6-21-27) to tie Henrik Zetterberg of the Detroit Red Wings for the league scoring lead. Zetterberg played two more games.

Crosby and the Penguins will report to training camp on Sept. 16. The Penguins will open the season in Stockholm, Sweden with games against the Ottawa Senators on Oct. 4-5.

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Happy 21st, Sid!







The thing about Sidney Crosby is that he became so good, so fast – and handled it all so well -- people forgot how young he was.

Even now, people forget how young he … is.

Sid turns 21 today. Twenty one. In another life, he might be entering his senior year of college, getting ready to earn his degree and send out resumes, looking for a job to chart his place in the world. Instead, he is on the cusp of his fourth National Hockey League season, captain and leader of the hottest young team in hockey, trailblazing scorer and trophy winner, the fresh face of the new NHL and the game’s most marketable commodity.

Expectations always were great, the hype always enormous, especially as he dominated the highest ranks of Canadian major junior hockey to become two-time Canadian junior player of the year in 2004 and 2005. His career CHL points-per-game average of 2.51 was second in national history only to the 2.81 posted by someone named Lemieux. But even as he became the clear-cut No. 1 prospect in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, the supreme prize of the first post-lockout draft lottery, the kind of franchise player every general manger dreamed about … no one could have imagined he would accomplish all this before he turned 21.

Consider that Crosby:

• Become the youngest player in NHL history to score 100 points (18 years, 253 days)
• Broke Mario Lemieux’s team rookie scoring record with 102 points
• Became the youngest player ever to lead the World Championships in scoring, in 2006
• Won the Art Ross Trophy as NHL scoring champion, the Hart Trophy as league MVP, the Lester B. Pearson Award as the game’s most outstanding player and was named First-Team NHL All-Star as a 19-year-old in 2006-07
• Became the youngest player ever to win the Art Ross Trophy.
• Became the youngest player ever to receive the Lester B. Pearson Award.
• Became the second-youngest player ever to win the Hart Trophy (Wayne Gretkzy)
• Became the youngest player to start in the NHL All-Star Game since fan balloting began in 1986
• Became the youngest team captain in NHL history (19 years, nine months)
• Led his team to the playoffs for the first time in six years in 2006-07
• Led his team to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in 16 years in 2007-08

And he’s even overcome adversity. Crosby’s shot at a second straight NHL scoring title vanished in 2007-08 when he suffered a high ankle sprain that sidelined him for almost 30 games. But it is intriguing to remember that he was tied for the NHL scoring lead with 63 points when he suffered the injury on Jan. 18, and he finished the season with a points-per-game average (1.36) that was virtually identical to that of the superbly talented league scoring champ Alexander Ovechkin (1.37).

Moreoever, he rebounded magnificently in the Stanley Cup playoffs, sharing the NHL playoff scoring lead with Detroit’s Henrik Zetterberg (despite playing two fewer games), leading the league in playoff assists, scoring two goals in the Penguins’ first win of the Cup Finals on home ice and hoisting his young team to within two wins of the sport’s ultimate prize.

Clearly, though, Crosby isn’t caught up in all he’s accomplished, because that prize – winning the Cup, and then winning more Cups – is what motivates him above all else.

In a recent interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, he identified losing in the Cup Finals as the greatest disappointment of his young career, said he’s still bothered by it, said that even several months after the fact, “being so close and not winning is still hard to digest.”

“Not closing the deal – its’ hard not to think about it,” he said. “Everybody I see brings it up. I’m reminded by it everywhere. You always see things on TV where guys had the Cup in their hometown. It’s a constant reminder. The memory of losing is not something that just goes away.

“I thought I was motivated before. It’s definitely more now. Being that close and not being able to do it – it’s just hard. The quicker you can get back to win it, the better.”

And so he’s not satisfied, not by a longshot – even with all the trophies, the records, the accolades, the long-term contract, the sponsorship deals.

Wealthy, accomplished and famous beyond any reasonable imagination as he turns 21, Sidney Crosby is only just beginning.

Wait ’til he’s 22.

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Doing it and knowing you can do it are two different things.

Luca Caputi learned the difference last season. He and the Pittsburgh Penguins hope that lesson carries into what should be a very bright future.

Caputi, taken in the fourth round (No. 111) of the 2007 Entry Draft, finished third in the Ontario Hockey League with 51 goals and fourth with 111 points, results nearly double his previous season totals of 27 goals and 65 points.

"If you told me at the beginning of the year that I would score 50 goals, I probably would have laughed," Caputi told NHL.com. "But as the season progressed and it became reality, I stayed focused and confident the whole season."

That focus and consistency was something Caputi wanted to concentrate on heading into the 2007-08 season, and it certainly paid off. He was as good in the first half -- 27 goals in his first 37 games -- as he was in the second -- 24 goals in his last 29 games.

"I just wanted to play the same way, the same style," said Caputi. "I knew I would be successful, but how successfully showed through my statistics. I tried to play a simple game, (play) the same way every night."

Helping Caputi in that vein was his work ethic.

"He dedicated himself to training hard and dropped weight and really got himself into really good physical condition," said Jay Heinbuck, the Penguins' director of amateur scouting. "Now you talk to (the IceDogs) coaching staff, he sets an unbelievable example for the rest of the team. He's a workaholic."

When Caputi first joined the IceDogs, he was overweight at 220 pounds and in poor condition.

"That was the main factor when I first came to junior from AAA," said Caputi. "I was probably around 220 pounds, but it was all baby fat. None of it was good. I learned very quickly in my first OHL camp, and my first coach, Greg Gilbert, said you're not going to be a good hockey player with that weight and conditioning."

What helped Caputi was peer pressure from some of his IceDogs teammates, Patrick O'Sullivan and Daniel Carcillo.

"In the last two years, he's seen guys he played with being drafted," said Mario Cicchillo, a former IceDogs assistant who became coach last season. "We had on our team the one year Patrick O'Sullivan. … and he had great habits, on-ice and off-ice. Another guy we had was Daniel Carcillo, and he was the same thing, days off he'd be skating, he'd be one of the hardest workers in the gym. He'd see the guys working, and think if I want to get to the National Hockey League, I have to pay attention to off-ice training."

There some good early returns. After scoring just eight goals in his first two junior seasons, he had 27 goals and 65 points in 2006-07.

The jump to the following season, though, was stunning.

"You'd like to think a kid is always going to have a jump in production year after year, so I did expect a jump," said Heinbuck, "but I didn't think he'd be a 50-goal scorer in the OHL. We saw some intriguing qualities; we saw he could put the puck in the net. … I did some homework on him, and if you go back in the past he had been a scorer in minor hockey (so) he has run numbers in the past. It didn't surprise me his production increased, but not that much."

Cicchillo, who had a front-row seat, wasn't all that surprised. He's known Caputi since he was 7 years old, and knew just what kind of player he was dealing with.

"He was always a goal scorer," said Cicchillo. "He could always score goals; I've seen him first-hand as he played minor hockey. … Goal scorers never really lose their touch and he proved it."

Beyond the numbers, the Penguins also have been impressed with Caputi's hockey sense and demeanor on and off the ice.

"He always was around the puck or always 6-10 feet from a teammate (for) support, out-number guys," said Tom Fitzgerald, the Penguins' director of player development. "That's his asset. When I followed him during the season, it showed how well he supported the puck. The analogy is a (baseball) second baseman. You don't sit there and ask yourself, what do I do if the ball is hit to me. It's before the batter steps in the box, you know where you're going with the ball if it's hit to you.



Last season was Fitzgerald's first overseeing the Penguins' prospects; he took an instant liking to Caputi when they first met.

"'When I'm breaking out, I'm down low, where's my centerman, where's their defenseman pinching?' However he did it, he displayed to me great hockey sense. And to me that's something you can't teach."

"I think Luca has his head is screwed on right," said Fitzgerald. "He sets goals, but his goals are team-oriented. … His goals were to take his team to the Memorial Cup if I can and earn myself an NHL contract, and I thought this was great. It was all team-oriented, which in turn would help him reach his goal of getting an NHL contract."

He reached that goal in late April, when he signed his first professional contract, and rewarded the Pens with four goals and eight points in 19 American Hockey League playoff games with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.

Caputi says he feels no extra pressure to perform an encore.

"You have to believe in yourself and believe you can do it, and trust yourself that you can do it," he said.

He's already shown the work ethic to drop from 220 pounds to the 185 he played at last season. Standing 6-foot-3, he now is working to add some good weight.

"This summer I worked to get stronger, and I put myself on a high-carbohydrate diet, so my caloric intake would be higher, but I could still work out," said Caputi. "I'm at 198 now. I did a body fat test last week and I was at 8.9. I'm pretty lean and pretty happy right now."

The Penguins also are happy with Caputi. And even with all the well-known offensive firepower in Pittsburgh, it's possible he could win an NHL job in training camp.

"I think that's why you have training camp -- it's an open tryout," said Fitzgerald. "If he comes into camp and plays hard, plays smart, plays the way he's capable of playing, he puts himself in a position to be successful and move up the professional totem pole."

"I talked to the coach (Michel Therrien) and I talked to Tom Fitzgerald a couple times," said Caputi. "What they told me was go to camp and they have no plans for me. Where I start is up to me. They want me to go there and prove myself again."

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Biggest Lost During Off-Season: Todd Bertuzzi

Biggest Acquisition: None

Lets see what the Ducks can do this year after their early playoff exit by the hands of the Dallas Stars.

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Biggest Lost During Off-Season: Bobby Holik

Biggest Acquisition: Re-Signing Kari Lethonen

Thrashers came in second to dead last last year. Hopefully with Lethonen back in net, they can reach somewhere higher than 14th in the East.