Hawks walk away from Niemi

[snipezo]

The Chicago Blackhawks have walked away from the $2.75 million contract that was awarded to Antti Niemi in arbitration, which makes the Stanley Cup-winning goalie an unrestricted free agent.

Instead, the Blackhawks have signed veteran netminder Marty Turco to a one-year, $1.3 million contract.

The team confirmed the goalie shuffle in a conference call on Monday.

"We exhausted all of our options to make this work," said Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman. "This is the direction that made the most sense. You have to have flexibility within your roster and this was the best way to defend the Cup."

lulz.

 

[playmaker7]

Well picking Turco up was a good move afterall...

Back to being playoff hopefuls

 

[Gtown81]

stupid

 

[fletch]

if Niemi turns out to be huge they're going to be pissed aha.

 

[playmaker7]

Meh forgive me if I'm wrong but I think Niemi benefited greatly from having great defensemen and 2 way forwards in front of him