NHL news,and commentary...

Blackhawks reject arbitration award of $2.75 million to Antti Niemi,making him the eighth Blackhawks player,to abandon ship,as a unrestricted free agent,and signing Marty Turco,who played with Dallas,for ten years,and i can count on one hand the number of wins,against Red Wings,in Detroit... i believe he has won only once,maybe twice,in Detroit,in regular season,in his career,and has a 21-26 playoff record,with a respectable 2.27 G.A.A,and a .914 save percentage,which means Dallas did not score for him too often,in the playoffs... Chicago has better team than Dallas,and Turco had a miserable year last year,in goal... his backup beat Red Wings,twice in two very disputed games,as referees took a goal away from Red Wings,in one game(which the NHL said was wrong call),and in another game,allowed a goal in a shootout,from 30 feet away,when referee next to goal waved it off,and Stars announcers were dumbfounded in disbelief,when the goal was counted... i listened to the call of the Dallas announcers,a few days later,and they sounded like they could not believe it... sorry,i still have a very hard time with that series of two games... i am not saying that Dallas did not have chance to win games,but both situations were treated like,"screw you,Red Wings...",by incompetent referees...