Tuesday Chum Bucket: Farewell Murray
Your daily assortment of links to news and analysis from around the hockey world.
- Recaps of the Sharks' 5-3 win over Anaheim. [Fear The Fin] [Mercury News] [CSN Bay Area] [Bay Area Sports Guy] [NHL.com] [Anaheim Calling]
- Mark Purdy believes the Sharks' trade of Douglas Murray may be the start of something bigger. [Mercury News]
- Jonathan Willis argues the Penguins significantly overpaid for Murray. [Hockey Prospectus]
- In a shocking turn of events, Murray doesn't look so hot in a ranking of the league's best shutdown defensemen but Vlasic does. [Pension Plan Puppets]
- Trade reaction from Pittsburgh. [PensBurgh] [The Pensblog]
- According to Doug Wilson, making the playoffs is still the ultimate goal here, which really should be an obvious statement about any team opting to trade their worst player. [CSN Bay Area]
- Are the Sharks going to make any more changes prior to the deadline? [Backhand Shelf]
- By the way, the Hurricanes signed Alex Semin to a 5-year, $35 million contract. [Puck Daddy]
- Fantastic read on the future of the Philadelphia Flyers' defense. [Broad Street Hockey]