Brent Sutter News

Thirty-minute games are nothing new to Jay Bouwmeester. They were a regular occurrence during his six seasons with the Florida Panthers.

Brent Sutter, the resident landlord, said it loud and clear the other night. The rent's due, and Olli isn't paying the bills.

The paper showing payrolls across the NHL has yellowed from being tacked to my basement bulletin board for nine years, but today it helps tell the story.

Craig Anderson had a solid season in 2008-09 for the Florida Panthers, going 15-7-5 with a .924 save percentage and a 2.71 goals-against average, his best season in an NHL career that to that point had been relatively undistinguished.

In the midst of his well-grooved daily routine - ice-bags in the morning, ice-time at night - Karlis Skrastins stops to answer a question.

On the surface, it's easy to say the Olli Jokinen experiment is a flop. In the 11th game of the campaign, last season's major trade-deadline acquisition finally scored his second goal.

The player who led the NHL in ice time last season, Jay Bouwmeester , did so for a marginally talented Florida Panthers team where - out of necessity - he needed to be all things.

Jay Bouwmeester grew up in Edmonton, but he didn't have a glossy poster of an earlier Bo on his bedroom wall and didn't hang around the Edmonton Oilers dressing room hoping Dave Manson walked by so he could get his autograph on a scrap of paper.

The deal for Dany Heatley -- who has lots to prove -- should put them over the top.

Theoren Fleury's improbable comeback continues to gain steam, and his output earned the loudest Saddledome cheers last night.

NHL preseason Fleury jolts Panthers with speed Calgary Flames' Theo Fleury, left, battles with Florida Panthers' David Booth in front of Calgary goalie Miikka Kiprusoff, from Finland, during second period preseason NHL hockey action in Calgary on Sunday Sept.

Calgary coach Brent Sutter has some tough decisions ahead of him. i i i Auditions are coming to a close in NHL training camps everywhere, and a few hopeful players will try once again to impress Flames coach Brent Sutter when the Panthers visit the Saddledome on Sunday.

Theoren Fleury works out at Max Bell Arena on Friday. Photograph by: Christina Ryan, Calgary Herald And on the seventh day of training camp, Theoren Fleury rests.

If Dion Phaneuf is determined to silence his critics, he's not letting on. If the precociously talented Calgary Flames blue-liner lays awake at night wondering what happened to his 2008-09 season, let alone his game, he's not about to share.

The Calgary Flames open the 2009-10 National Hockey League regular-season slate against arguably their biggest rivals, the Vancouver Canucks.

Three months after resigning as head coach of the Minnesota Wild, Jacques Lemaire is set to go back behind an NHL bench.

Devil heroes departed today, and the waiting continued for Lou Lamoriello to make his first free agent strike.

Round two starts off with a bang with the announcement of a trade between the Florida Panthers and Calgary Flames.

Jun 26, 2009 8:03PM report this NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman was massively booed when he opened the draft but I couldn't help thinking most are doing it out of habit rather than out of any real malice.

Columbus Blue Jackets general manager Scott Howson has made one thing clear this summer: His top priority is keeping Rick Nash in Columbus long-term. A big forward who just turned 25, Nash has one year remaining on his contract and the team can start negotiations with him on July 1. Nash is coming off a 40-goal season in which he helped the Blue ...