CSNPhilly is reporting that the Flyers have picked up contract negotiations with Ville Leino’s agent, Bill Zito. Leino’s contract expires at the end of the season.
The original hold-up in negotiations was that teams aren’t allowed to allocate more money in contracts than what’s allowed within the existing salary cap. That is to say, the team can’t have $63 million allocated for the 2011-12 season when the current cap is just over $59 million.
With the waivings of goaltender Michael Leighton and defenseman Matt Walker, however, the team has freed up future salary to re-sign Leino.
The expectation is that Leino will sign somewhere within the $2.5 – $3.0 million a year range over a three or four year timeframe.
Not all it's cracked up to be. Awesome for out of market, but if you live like say I do at college, but still technically in your team's market, your teams games are blacked out on Center Ice. My school doesn't have the channel the Islanders play on in their package, so I wanted to get Center Ice and watch, but I can't because I'm still in their market. Thankfully my girlfriend's dad has Slingbox so I can watch on their.
I have NHL Center Ice and I never have any problems... I get every game every night... I also enjot the NHL network, with all the highlights from everynight. It's like a sportscenter for hockey. and they also sometimes show international, college and AHL games. and it's perfect for the 1st and 2nd rounds of the playofss when versus cant show every game... you can watch whichever one you want, and finally usually they only have pens/caps games on national tv like versus, i like to watch smaller markets sometimes and get to know more about the leaugue. NHL Center Ice FTW!
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The original hold-up in negotiations was that teams aren’t allowed to allocate more money in contracts than what’s allowed within the existing salary cap. That is to say, the team can’t have $63 million allocated for the 2011-12 season when the current cap is just over $59 million.
With the waivings of goaltender Michael Leighton and defenseman Matt Walker, however, the team has freed up future salary to re-sign Leino.
The expectation is that Leino will sign somewhere within the $2.5 – $3.0 million a year range over a three or four year timeframe.
THIS IS GREAT NEWS \m/
NASTY goal by Leino during the game vs Nashville I was at last thursday...
My school doesn't have the channel the Islanders play on in their package, so I wanted to get Center Ice and watch, but I can't because I'm still in their market. Thankfully my girlfriend's dad has Slingbox so I can watch on their.