Bryzgalov signs 3 year extension

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This is awesome. Mark my words, this team will be a top 5 team in 18 months form now with the young kids on the team and the others coming up in the next year or so.

Glad to see it was not for 13 years. That seems to be the trend lately.
 

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This is awesome. Mark my words, this team will be a top 5 team in 18 months form now with the young kids on the team and the others coming up in the next year or so.

Glad to see it was not for 13 years. That seems to be the trend lately.

:shock: Top 5 ?!?!? :eek:
 

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Everything seems to be falling in place for the Coyotes to really become a great team. With Doan, Jovo, and Reinprecht being the only guys on the team over 30 (they are all 31), this team has a pretty solid core of young players.

Add in Porter, Kolarik, Wheeler, Summers, MacLean, and Turris in the next couple of seasons and this team may become a real contender. Who knows, maybe Billy Thomas will turn into something also.
 
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Darren Pang excerpts on the signing:

This is a great day for the organization. They are clearly going in the right direction and this will take a huge load off the shoulders of the Russian born goalie. Just the other day I was talking to Bryz and he seemed a little worn down. He mentioned to me this was not a fun time, with negotiations going on and it was also hurting his play and his focus. I told him to just stop the puck, lead this team to the play offs and let his agent, Don Meehan work it out with with Coyotes GM Don Maloney.

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I had heard from a former GM in the league that a negotiation like this would have an effect on the play of Bryz, as he knows him well, and I believe it did take away from his focus for a few games as he met with Meehan in Edmonton and Calgary on a previous road swing out West.

The Coyotes have a great young stable of prospects both in the NHL and waiting in the wings and getting Bryz signed was an essential move to solidify the foundation. They have a fine prospect in the AHL in Josh Tjordman and David Lenevue has been playing great, while Tellqvist has proven to be a great team player and 2nd guy as the players love him and he has that quality about him to get along with all his goalie partners.

With players like Kyle Turris, Blake Wheeler, Kevin Porter, Chad Kolarik and Brett McLean waiting in the wings, the future looks very, very bright.
Pang does have a lot of solid material on his blog, which is located here:

http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog.php?post_id=12781
 

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This is great!

I'm still stunned about how Bryz just fell into the Coyotes laps.
 
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