That's exactly what's going on here. Columbus tried to fast track to the offseason and the league said hell no. He'll sign in C-Bus July 1.

They probably shouldn't. I know people (and likely the Jax) think this is a low-risk move but it's really going to be a waste of time.

Grigorenko officially signs.

Not a game breaker on a team lacking game breakers, but they have a lot of offensive pieces here. It doesn't take much to get three of them to click.

Lebrun reports RFA PLD and his camp are unhappy around lunch, and by dinner he's re-signed. Way to use the media!

Rumors still abounding that he's asked for a trade. If true...what is it with Lumbus? Can't be that bad a town to live in.s

Sadly, Rick Nash loved it there--he likely would've played his entire career there if they hadn't squandered his prime years.

Nothing about this makes sense. In Columbus, Pierre-Luc is the star forward, plays for a pretty good playoff-calibre team in a quiet market and it's the most likely place where he might touch 9M on a long-term deal.

Obviously, where there's Torts there's usually drama.

Elliotte Friedman on SN960 says a player told him CBJ was kind of expecting something like this re: Dubois. Says he was told it wasn't about the negotiation, wasn't fully about clashing with Tortorella, mainly about Dubois wanting a bigger stage.

But what does PLD want? To be the second line centre in a bigger market? Really?

Go from being a beloved 1C on a small market team to a 2C on a huge contract on a large market team and be reviled by the smaller market fan base for the way you handled that move... What kind of total and complete fucking douche bag would want such a thing?

Nyqvist out 5-6 months with shoulder surgery. Already offensively challenged, this won't help.

Normally I try to leave players to their own devices and avoid judgments (of course I wasn't always this way) but this kind of thing just makes me dislike a player. This is the same shit Eric Lindros pulled...but of course I'm not at all complaining about that since the Avalanche built two Cup wins out of his bratty demands.

Again, might not even be true, but if so, what a dunderhead.

This is aside to PLD. I think there were a few reasons that Lindros cited but I think what it boiled down to was him really just wanted nothing to do with the Nordiques owners. And from what I understand of Quebec's ownershup, who could blame him? Obviously it sucked for Nords fans. But I've kind of come around on what Big E did because of what we have seen and see with horrible ownership, management and teams just completely unwilling to pay for talent and just suck teams dry for as many pennies as possible. And we've seen throughout the years, including with Lindros himself, of bad ownership/management/coaching giving little to no fucks about the health and well-being of players. More players need to look out more for themselves.

I wanted McDavid to to to Europe so Edmonton would either have to deal him or lose his rights when he re-entered the draft, but I was probably more likely to win the lottery than that happening.