San Jose Sharks Play Perfect Hand, Get Antti Niemi As Chicago Blackhawks Move On

[Savoir_Faire_18]

Reported by multiple sources on Wednesday was the free agent signing of former Chicago Blackhawks net-minder, Antti Niemi. San Jose has ended a near month of waiting, in which Niemi was left gasping for reasoning into why a Stanley Cup winning goaltender was without a job.

The Sharks have unofficially signed Niemi to a $2 million contract, which in turn ends up being $750,000 less than the NHL arbitrator awarded him back on July 31st.

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[tbo41fan]

Excellent!

This was the sharks plan all summer.
Niemi will be exposed in SJ....no defense.
Also, i will enjoy seeing Niemi going home early in the playoffs when Thornton chokes again!

 

[DewsSox79]

nice read once again!

 

[tbo41fan]

Savoir's articles will be so sweet in the IGT's

 

[DewsSox79]

Savoir's articles will be so sweet in the IGT's

oh yeah. he should get writer of the month.

 

[tbo41fan]

definately

 

[icehogfan08]

Nice article

 

[Savoir_Faire_18]

Thanks everyone... just happy people read it all.

Anyways... two questions... who saw this coming? And what is IGT?

 

[Diddy1122]

Can't say I fully saw this coming, but with the salary cap the way it is, it was almost inevitable that our loss would be another team's gain. This definitely gives the Sharks an inside track on us, but I still feel we are the team to beat in the West. I also don't really buy this whole giving Hjalmarsson a large offer sheet was some slight of hand by them to net Niemi. Their D is weak & Hjalmarsson immediately would've improved it, that's why he got a big offer. There's no way the Sharks FO would know that an arbitrator would reward Niemi about .5mill more than we could spend on him. And that's the only thing that I'm sore about. If the damn arbitrator just rewarded Niemi $2mill, he'd still be in a Hawks sweater, which is what I think he really wanted. Damn you arbitrator!

 

[tbo41fan]

I saw it coming....

IGT is in game thread