So, you come within two wins of capturing your first Stanley Cup since 1975? Your team's history of goalie development has been less than stellar since the retirement of Ron Hextall in the late 90's. Goaltending has been the apparent Achilles' Heel of your franchise for the better part of three seasons. You flirt with the idea of signing Marty Turco or Evgeny Nabakov only to re-sign the journeyman goalie, Michael Leighton, who actually played pretty well for you during your spoiled Stanley Cup playoff run. So what do you do in the off-season to address your goaltending concerns? Why, you sign much-maligned winger-in-exile, Nikolai Zherdev, to return from Russia and seemingly replace clutch playoffs goal-scorer Simon Gagne! BIEN SUR!!
OH MON DIEU!! VRAIMENT?!
From the all-knowing twitter machine:
dchesnokov says: "The Flyers confirm Zherdev is close to signing with the team, as I reported yesterday."
In other news, the tragically protracted and desperate attempt by Ilya Kovalchuk's agent, Jay Grossman, to extort mega-millions from the L.A. Kings has finally come to a fitting and logical conclusion in which Kings' GM, Dean Lombardi, issues an emphatic "nyet".
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