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Pittsburgh's Scuderi has been difficult to miss in playoffs - USATODAY.com.

The Bad: Well - the cap situation is even more of a mess. That shit ain't good. I thought they'd only be offering a one-year deal to anyone since next year is going to be Salary Cap Doomsday with...

Martin Havlat(notes) has agreed to be the historically fragile offensive talent to replace another historically fragile offensive talent for the Minnesota Wild, signing a six-year, $30 million...

Several teams have left themselves ripe for raiding: How does Chicago pay for Kane and Towes and Keith who are RFA’s next year, not to mention Versteeg and Seabrook? Who does Calgary dump? 40...

Biggest winners today were the ones who didn't get involved in this mayhem... via Illegalcurve.com (illegalcurve) on Twitter.

With TSN saying Hossa signed with Chicago for 12 years, I have 'Hawks at $34 mill for eight players in 2010-11 witn no Kane, Toews, Keith via Kevin Allen (kausatoday) on Twitter.

Hossa will be 42 when his Chicago contract is up. Chicago, you came so close to being cool again. Epic fail. Epic. via Pokecheck (Pokecheck) on Twitter.

[NOTE: some of the musings are out of date; I am not updating anything other than to throw some highlighting on the Chicago stuff and I am adding one editorial comment in a big blue font; you have...

...but only because that's where the good shrinks are, and he'll be needing years of therapy to recover from Cup-induced PTSD. I actually expect the Wings to sign him now, because for him to leave...

The season after next will be interesting cap-wise, as [commenter "src3" on the Inside the Kings "board" said] said. Not just because of Frolov being a UFA and the cap coming down a bit, but also...