Allsports thinks Heatley has lowered his value with his open trade demands

Hello everyone, well it has been a while since my last post for sports news or sports on the web. That happens when you have two daughters playing Rep lacrosse on two different teams for their city. I wrote a post a while back on the subject about minimal time for writing. It was titled ” Allsports is having a hard time Finding time to write” and was written back on May 21st.

So if you are a hockey fan and have been paying attention to sports news in the print media or on the web, you will know that the NHL draft took place in Montreal last week with Brian Burke and the Maple Leafs picking 7th. They chose NAZEM KADRIwith the pick although they wanted to get Brayden Schenn who ended up going to the L.A. Kings with the number five pick. Brayden is the younger brother to the Leaks Luke Schenn.

Nazem Kadri

Today at noon,  NHL free agency starts so chances are a few players will be changing their address. Don’t expect too many general managers to jump in with many long term offers for players due to the uncertainty of the salary cap in the next couple of years. Projections indicate that it may drop by as much as five to ten million based on economic uncertainty.

Calgary traded with Florida to get the rights to Jay Bouwmeester, then signed him to a 5 year 33 million contract yesterday before free agency kicked in today. This will give the Flames one of the best back ends in the league.

The main topic for my discussion today as you can see from the tittle is Danny Heatley. If you have been paying any attention to sports on the web, you will be aware that Mr. Heatley asked to be traded from the Ottawa Senators last week. The problem was that he did so in a public forum, not discreetly as he should have done. Like Jim Basillie and the way he went about trying to purchase the Phoenix Coyotes, he raised a few feathers around the league. Speaking of which, Brian Burke has openly stated that he has no interest in Heatley and the way he went about things.

He should have done so quietly in private with Bryan Murray. Instead he put a gun to Murray’s head and now Ottawa is in a tough spot to try and move him. Heatley’s total lack of discretion will be seen around the league by the other general managers as Heatley being a man with little integrity, who lacks commitment to the team that got him out of a bad situation in Atlanta and gave him a very lucrative deal last year of 7.5 million per season. That’s a lot of money for a guy who has not won anything yet. The other GM’s will think he is playing the “blame game” and not a stand up guy. It will be questioned whether you can win with a guy such as Danny boy on your team and that he might be more trouble than he is worth. He could also be viewed as a cancer in the locker room and a pain in the behind for team chemistry.

Allsports does not believe there will be much interest for Heatley and his price tag, although the Edmonton Oilers were willing to trade for him. The deal was vetoed by Heatley by the way because the Oilers were not on his list of teams. So way to go Danny boy you will likely end up back in Ottawa where all the other guy’s know you don’t want to be and they will give you the cold shoulder and likely treat you as an outcast. Can’t say as I blame them.

So Allsports will add Dan Heatley to his list from his post back in March called “Allsports top Guys you won’t win a Championship with“

“No Gut No Glory”

Walt Webb

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