NY Rangers Announce New GM, Captain

The New York Rangers are pleased to announce the hiring of Chris Smalley as their new General Manager. A life-long native of suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota, Smalley becomes only the third American GM in PHL history. Prior to joining the PHL, Smalley was a GM and Head Coach in the EMFHL for 16 seasons, and led his teams to the Prime Minister's Cup Playoffs in 8 of his last 9 seasons. His team made 2 Finals appearances, but was unable to claim the title on both tries.

"When I received the call and was told I got the job, I was very excited! The New York Rangers have a rich and storied history, and I'm thrilled to be a part of this great hockey club," Smalley said. "With all struggles this team has had this season, some changes will certainly have to be made. That means we may have to make so tough decisions when it comes to coaches and players. I don't want to single anyone out, but I will start with a top-down approach - and go from there."

Rangers GM Chris Smalley also announced that the team has voted RW Marian Hossa as the team's new captain. "I was happy to see the team selected Hossa. In the short time that I've met Marian, I got the sense that he is a good team leader. And to get the confidence from his team-mates with this vote, it confirms my impression of him as a team leader. We are excited to have Marian as our team captain."

Chris Smalley
Rangers GM

Whalers Trade Block

The Whalers are officially putting Marek Svatos on the block and are looking at getting a #1 center. We have had some sniffs already and want to give everyone a shot. I will weight all offers and take the heaviest, lol. My interests are well documented as far as what type of players I like. So try and keep that in mind when you make an offer.

Happy Bidding
Whalers GM
Paul Gagne

Whalers PR

Well I guess my little experiment with the rookies isn't quite working as well as I had planned. This idea of building a new team of my own players is not showing well on the scoreboard. Oh well. I still think that in the long run my plan will achieve my goals it just might take a season or two and in the mean time I will just have to be satisfied with little moral victories along the way. For example: beating up on the Senators (tough break getting into this Division), taking it to the lowly Booins (could be a little tougher this year but we are up for it) and of course doing my best to pound those guys from the belle provance ( or however those frenchies say it).

Our record may not be where we want to be but we have long considered this to be a building year and Mr. Svatos is not too pleased about that. I think he had hoped to be challenging for the cup by now and I don't see that happening just yet. We of course would like to give him a chance at that elusive cup if there are any takers. We are still looking for youth and or picks so if any of you contenders are looking for some extra scoring, drop me a line.

Thanks for your time and patience
Whalers GM
Paul "Keep it Youthful" Gagne

CBJ have a farm goalie on the block

Willing to look at all ofers. TC or Cash (less than market Value)


2 Thomas Greiss 0 L G 6 7 7 7 4 6 7 7 8 - - 59


Warren

Stars news

The Northstars are faring well in our new division so far this season. The team is playing as we expected with our current roster. The departure of netminder Vokoun has had no negative effect on the team due to the outstanding play of old geezer Chris Osgood. Our assesment of an over rated playoff chokin Vokoun seem to be accurate as Osgood is among the league leaders in gaa and save percentage and Vokoun is conspicuously missing from the league leaders list. That being said we do have a problem. Our corps of centers is not deep enough to be taking the penalties that they are so therefore we are in the market for a new #1 centre and are putting Peter Mueller on the block along with Dustin Boyd. One of these guys needs to go for a center who'll be on the ice in special team situations as well as not putting the team down a man constantly. Heres the digits, Mueller is the guy we really want to move here.
31 Peter Mueller 0 R C 8 8 8 6 5 2 9 8 9 8 4 75
7 Dustin Boyd 0 7 R C 7 7 7 7 7 3 7 7 9 7 9 77
JohnStars GM

Richards is FA Bust

At the end of PHL8, RW Mike Richards signed the most lucrative FA contract in the history of the PHL.

1 Mike Richards 1- R RW 8 7 9 9 9 8 9 8 9 9 5 90

How has he followed up that contract? In his first season with the Rockies, he finished 5th in team scoring, netting well under a PPG pace.

F 1 Mike Richards 80 25 30 55 7 6 2 1 1 227 56 11.0

The Rockies management team and coaching staff struggled all year to find him the linemates to get him going. Before this season, they decided to give him more of a leadership role and named him Team Captain, thinking it might be the tonic he needs to really start to play up to his potential. This has proven to be a poor tactic, thus far. In the first 14 games of PHL10, Richards has looked like a borderline PHLer on most nights. He again finds himself 5th in team scoring, but an even slower pace than last year.

F 1 Mike Richards 14 3 3 6 -4 1 0 0 0 31 7 9.7

It has been rumored that Richards may now be 'on the block', with the Whalers and Flyers mentioned as possible destinations for the under-performing, super-star.

For the Colorado Complainer, this has been Nathan Livingston.

Rockies Sucking... AGAIN!

The Colorado Rockies play 9 of their first 10 games on the road to start PHL10... and thus far, the results have been dismal. The team is 1-5-2 to start the season, they've scored a total of 16 goals through 8 games, are clipping at only 13% on the PP and are decimated by slumping players...

... what the hell is going on in Denver? How long can coach Joey Kocur keep his job? We know GM Livingston isn't going anywhere. That pompous jerk must have naked pictures of the Owner... only he knows how the GM is still employed in the PHL.

Another season, another nightmare in Denver. I'm personally thinking of moving to Oakland, maybe the Seals need a writer.

For the Colorado Complainer, this has been Nathan Livingston.

Youth Experiment

Well the Whalers experiment is in it's infancy just like the team itself. Our glorious GM, Mr. Paul Gagne, wanted to build his own team and is definitely well on his way to do this while starting four 18 yr olds. The only other team to use this much youth is the Seals and this is the factor for the bad record so far. Even though the Whalers are playing in the toughest division in the PHL they still believe they will contend.

With Rajala, Cehlin, Scevior and Siren all starting for the big club the only regret Mr. Gagne has is that he doesn't have at least 2 more rookies including a dman and a pro ready rookie goalie. Juha Metsola is doing a valiant job in the PMHL but is at least a season away before he will be moved to the big club. With this being said Mr. Gagne has given me permission to mention that a few players are on the block. This list includes Weiss, Chimera, Svatos, Pyett and Daigneault. Yes the team captain is on the list and let me tell you he is none too pleased to always being placed on the block. When I last talked to Svatos he had no flattering words for Mr.Gagne but also understands that he has value and that Paul has no desire in having players from the old Eastern Block countries. Coming up in the minors tho the future of the big club looks great with PK Subban, Juha Metsola and Luca Sbisa getting experience and getting ready to shore up the backend.

All in all the Whalers are looking to get even more youth in moving the players above and still hope to contend in this really tough division. Mr Gagne still says the Whalers will finish above the terrible Booins and can't wait to see how their season series plays out. Should be a blood fest.

Well from Hartford this will be all for now but we will keep all you fans apprised of the dealings and moves that our fantastic GM, Mr. Paul Gagne, makes to acquire youth and skill.

From the Desk of
"Iron" Mike Keenan

Shake-Up in Denver?

The Colorado Rockies are 0-2-2 to start the season, with their only 'high point' being a 4-4 tie in their home opener last night against the Sabres. With the Aces doing so well, its unlikely GM Livingston is going to simply sit and watch this team put in another sub-.500 season. With the talent being brewed down on the farm, there's little room for the veterans of this team to continue to struggle.

Other than G Kari Lehtonen, Ds Mitch Maunu and Marc Staal, and team Captain RW Mike Richards, there are very few players safe on the Rockies roster, as many will be replaced by young players coming up from the farm for PHL11.

As has become custom with the Rockies, they simply cannot score. They have a total of 8 GF through the first 4 games of the season. This is simply putting too much pressure on Gs Lehtonen and Jonas Hiller, as they have to steal a game in order for this group to a W.

For the Colorado Complainer, this has been Nathan Livingston.

Grim Reaper Going North

Colorado Rockies GM Justin Livingston has announced the organization found a replacement for the late Bob Probert.

"Bobby and his memory are fueling the Aces right now, so we wanted to get someone with a good hockey mind, for sure, but it was also a priority to bring someone in that meant something to Bobby as well." Livingston explained, "With his best friend and team-mate Joey Kocur already coaching the Rockies, it didn't make any sense to bring him back down to the PMHL. So, since we couldn't bring in the guy that fought along side Bobby all those years, we asked ourselves, 'Who was he fighting all those years?' ... The answer we came up with was Stu Grimson!"

So, it seems Bob Probert's replacement is perhaps a man that knows him more intimately than anyone else alive, having done battle with him so many times over the years.

"I fought Probey more times than I care to remember... I didn't win very many," admitted Grimson.

He continued,"I'm extemely proud of what Bobby has started here in Anchorage, I'm committed to finishing this off for him... we want to win the PMHL10 Championship in his Honour."

And so the Age of the Reaper has begun in the PMHL, and the Aces are promising to take No Prisoners!

For the Colorado Complainer, this has been Nathan Livingston.