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Hockey Notes On A Saturday Night
by Paul on 10/10/09 at 11:44 PM ET
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from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,
• This season, we were supposed to see the integration of “size-to-fit” or “form-fitting” goalie pads to go along with goaltenders’ size-to-fit pants and upper-body equipment.
But the pads, the most controversial item, have not been changed. Two NHL governors I spoke with are upset about it. The governors voted for these changes back in June 2008. Hockey operations man Kay Whitmore, who is the goaltending supervisor for the league, has done a ton of work on this. All the equipment manufacturers were on board with the new pads, but the NHL Players’ Association has put it in limbo because it balked last spring at how the new pads were measured....
• There’s a Jack Adams Award for top coach of the year, so why not an award for GM of the year? Last season, Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke proposed that the league establish an award for the GMs, and the GMs agreed to move on it in June. But it wasn’t clear when exactly it would happen. It now appears as though it is a go for this season and should be awarded for the first time in June at the NHL awards.
• The Penguins met with Sergei Gonchar’s agent, J.P. Barry, just before the season started, but both sides have agreed to postpone the next round of talks until January, when GM Ray Shero will have a better idea of next season’s salary cap.
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