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April 21, 2010 Author: Bob Crawford

Well, we’re over a week-and-a-half deep into the off-season, so I guess it’s officially time to start thinking about next year.

With that in mind, here is a list of the contract statuses, according to the best information I have access to, of all the guys who finished the year with the Wolf Pack, or spent time with the Pack and finished the season under contract to the organization and playing elsewhere. Players are listed alphabetically, first the goaltenders and then the skaters:

Chad Johnson – Signed for one more season
Cam Talbot – Signed for two years
Steve Valiquette – Unrestricted Free Agent
Matt Zaba – Unrestricted Free Agent

Andres Ambühl - Restricted Free Agent
Lee Baldwin – Signed for two years
Mike Berube - Unrestricted Free Agent
Donald Brashear – Signed for one more season
Julien Brouillette – Unrestricted Free Agent
Dane Byers – Restricted Free Agent
Chris Chappell – Signed for two more seasons
Derek Couture - Unrestricted Free Agent
Paul Crowder - Restricted Free Agent
Devin DiDiomete – Signed for one more season
Tysen Dowzak – Signed for one more season
Brodie Dupont - Restricted Free Agent
Anders Eriksson - Unrestricted Free Agent
Ryan Garlock - Unrestricted Free Agent
Evgeny Grachev – Signed for two more seasons
Ilkka Heikkinen - Restricted Free Agent
Brent Henley - Unrestricted Free Agent
Ryan Hillier – Signed for one more season
Mike Hoffman - Unrestricted Free Agent
Corey Locke – Unrestricted Free Agent
Chris McKelvie - Unrestricted Free Agent
Kris Newbury – Unrestricted Free Agent
Jared Nightingale - Unrestricted Free Agent
P.A. Parenteau - Unrestricted Free Agent
Corey Potter - Unrestricted Free Agent
Patrick Rissmiller – Signed for one more season
Bobby Sanguinetti – Signed for one more season
Michael Sauer - Restricted Free Agent
Justin Soryal – Signed for one more season
Dave Urquhart - Unrestricted Free Agent
Dale Weise – Signed for one more season
Nigel Williams – Signed for one more season

Shows You What I Know Dept.: My quiet pick to be a strong playoff team, get out of the Atlantic Division and maybe give Hershey some trouble in the Conference Finals was Portland, and last night they officially became the second team ousted from the Calder Cup playoffs. The Pirates were swept by the Manchester Monarchs, with the final blow being a resounding 7-2 pounding administered by the Monarchs in Game Four.

Kevin Dineen’s Pirates showed all kinds of firepower against the Wolf Pack this year, but it sounds like the goaltending of Manchester’s Jonathan Bernier, of which the Pack also saw more than enough this season, more than trumped Portland’s offensive ammunition. The Pirates were missing dynamic rookie Tyler Ennis, who is averaging nearly 16 minutes of ice time per Stanley Cup playoff game for parent-club Buffalo, and I would have thought that Dineen & Co. had enough depth to fill that void, but it appears as though that wasn’t the case.

Mike, the current agreement covers the upcoming 2010-11 season.

Posted by: Bob Crawford

- Apr 22 2010 3:55PM

Bob, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the current arrangement and 3-year contract with Northland AEG LLC expire in June 2010? If so, have you heard any info on possible contract extension with Northland at this point?

Posted by: Mike

- Apr 22 2010 3:39PM

Chris, I really haven't kept track, but I think it's only two, the one that was used before this year and this year's CT Lottery logo.

Posted by: Bob Crawford

- Apr 22 2010 12:33PM

over the 13 years the pack have been in hartford how many different center ice logos have they have.

Posted by: chris

- Apr 22 2010 11:17AM

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