This is the free agent deal that really chaps my ass. Lets just say that I am not happy camper today; and I am sure there are other Wild fans that aren't very happy with the Wild management for letting Brian Rolston go.
All spring long we have heard how Brian Rolston isn't worth the money he was asking, apparently General Manager Lou Lamoriello (a better hockey mind that Risebrough) thinks that that Brian Rolston is worth 5 million dollars a year and isn't too much for a player that has one of the hardest slap shots in hockey. Look at the numbers folks; in three years in Minnesota Brain Rolston scored 96 goals assisted on 106 goals for 202 points in 241 games. Very few Wild players can say that during the last three season they have scored 202 points, Marian Gaborik has only scored 206. Lets just say that I am not a happy camper today. So now the Wild line up is short 30+ goals next season; I ask Doug Risebrough who is going to pick up the slack? Sure isn't going to be Pierre-Marc Bouchard who is a soft perimeter player that WON'T go into the dirty areas to score a goal.
Seriously Doug Risebrough; there is no reason Rolston shouldn't be a Minnesota Wild. everyone in the Wild's Division got better this off season and the Wild are going to be hard pressed to repeat as division champs this season. It will be interesting to see what the stumbling bumbling general manager
TSN.CA STAFF -- The New Jersey Devils have signed free agent forward Brian Rolston to a four-year, $20 million contract.
The 34-year-old native of Flint, Mich., scored 31 goals and collected 59 points in 81 games with the Minnesota Wild last season.
Rolston, who played three seasons with the Wild, was picked 11th overall by the New Jersey Devils in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft. He was a member of the 1995 Stanley Cup champion New Jersey team coached by current Wild head coach Jacques Lemaire, and signed with the Wild in 2004 after four seasons between Colorado and Boston.
The six-foot-two, 210-pound right-winger has 286 goals and 348 assists in 977 career NHL games with the Wild, Devils, Colorado Avalanche and Boston Bruins.
