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New re-sign deals in NHL for 2010-11 season
By admin | August 13, 2010
Chicago Blackhawks, the Stanley Cup champion have re-signed defenseman Jordan Hendry to a one-year contract.
Posting a plus/minus rating of plus-5 with two goals and six assists. Hendry appeared in 43 games. He also appeared in 15 playoff games.
To free agency or trades, the Blackhawks have lost a number of players since winning their first Stanley Cup in 49 years, including Ben Eager, Brent Sopel, Colin Fraser, Kris Versteeg, Andrew Ladd, Dustin Byfuglien, Adam Burish and John Madden.
Forward Mark Mancari was also resigned to a one-year contract by the Buffalo Sabres. Mancari spent most of last season playing for Portland of the American Hockey League and he was a restricted free agent. To finish eighth in AHL scoring, the 2004 seventh-round draft pick led the Pirates with 74 points (28 goals, 46 assists) in 74 games.
With the Sabres, he also had a goal and assist in six games, which gives him two goals, and three assists in 16 NHL career games.
The Columbus Blue Jackets re-signed Mike Blunden to a one-year contract and the team wanted another young forward to be back in the fold.
59 penalty minutes in 40 games with the Blue Jackets in 2009-10, the 23-year-old Blunden had two goals and two assists. On March 25, against Chicago, he scored the first goal of his NHL career. With Columbus’ American Hockey League affiliate in Syracuse, he also had seven goals and nine assists in 25 games.
Blunden was acquired by the Blue Jackets from Chicago in exchange for Adam Pineault (pih-NYOH’) on Jan. 10, 2, Chicago’s second pick, 43rd overall, in the 2005 draft. Blunden has played 203 games in the AHL and he is a native of Toronto.
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