The Pittsburgh Penguins signed Winger tough guy Arron Asham to a one year contract for 700 thousand. 5′ 11″ 205pd Asham played the last two seasons for the Philadelphia Flyers. Asham is more known for his physical style play than his scoring, but can still put the puck in the net, he netted 10 goals last season.
This changes the landscape of the Penguins lineup and could mean the end for team favorite like Eric Goddard who once again this year was benched for the duration of the playoffs. Asham played 23 games for Philly in the playoffs last year and had 4 goals and 3 assists.
With this signing the Penguins are left with a little under $2 million in salary cap, look for them to possibly make a trade and/or acquire a much needed right handed goal scorer for the power play before the season starts.
As if TV wasn’t bad enough already! When we were asked if we wanted to be in a bunch of the new commercials for “93.7 the Fan” sports talk radio, we had no idea they meant putting our ugly mugs on TV. Four PenguinPoop writers can be seen in the below commercial, as usual we are not going to tell you which ones we are in the video as to keep our identities secret, but you can see Reg Dunlop, Champ Kind, STH35 and yours truly. From what we have heard, they’ll be many more of these type commercials with us in them airing on KDKA TV through the fall.
NHL Snipers posts pictures of what most likely will be the Pittsburgh Penguins & Washington Capitals 3rd jerseys used in the 2011 Winter Classic at Heinz Field:
WBS Penguins winger Chris Conner re-signed with the Pittsburgh Penguins for 1 year at .55 million. The deal is a 2 way contract that will pay him less if he plays in the minors. Chris Conner was first signed by the Penguins a little over a year ago on July 7th from the Dallas Stars, the speedy 5ft 8in Conner played 8 games for the Pittsburgh Penguins last year and had 2 goals and 1 assist. This is a good signing by Pens GM Shero as Conner is a great fill in player for injuries, and who knows, might even see more time if the Shero doesn’t start signing some wingers.
Pittsburgh Penguins who right now have 5 defensemen lined up for next year (Orpik, Martin, Goligoski, Letang and Michalek) most likely just ensured WBS Penguins Ben Lovejoy’s place on the roster when they lost any chance of re-signing defenseman Mark Eaton who signed a two year $5 Million dollar deal with the NY Islanders.
It is estimated that the Penguins have just under 3 Million in cap space left and have yet to sign a quality winger. I personally like to see the Penguins take a shot at Lee Stempniak from Phoenix.
Penguins loaner defenseman Jordan Leopold signed a 3 year, 3 million dollar a year deal will Buffalo after the Penguins most likely didn’t offer him a contract or enough money.
Ray Shero lost the Hamhuis sweepstakes or did he? Shero traded a draft pick for the right to try to sign Hamhuis and failed. Then today Shero ended up with two better defensemen, Zbynek Michalek from Phoenix and Paul Martin from the New Jersey, both are now signed to long term contracts. Michalek a 5 year deal worth $20 million and Paul Martin 5 years $25 Milion. The Pens defense is now secure!
Ilovemaxtalbot: And by the way, for my own personal thought on Ovechkin - DEFINATELY A DOUCHE!!!!
Ilovemaxtalbot: Max Talbot simply rocks! Mad Max was overly nice in his comments about Ovechkin - I enjoy the subtle side of great DIGS! Max [...]
PENZRGR8: Alex Ovechkin a "Douche"? I think Talby was being nice on that one. Of course Ovechkin is a jerk. You can tell [...]
nater97: I think we should go after Cheechoo, no is biting and we can set the price low. We know what he has done and what [...]
nater97: If Staal or Malkin move to the wing I think we should go after Moore. Montreal doesnt want him and we could use another penalty [...]
shoot87: overpaid for Martin, like Michalek
dekhead33: I think the Pens made two great signings today. They solidified our defense for the future with proven players to go along with the people [...]
