Panthers working with Bouwmeester
Posted: Thursday July 10, 2008 08:08AM ET
Panthers general manager Jacques Martin said Wednesday that negotiations between the team and the agent for defenseman Jay Bouwmeester have continued despite Bouwmeester deciding to take the team to arbitration. No date has been set for Florida's meeting in front of an arbiter, with hearings scheduled between July 20 and Aug. 4 in Toronto. Bouwmeester took the Panthers to arbitration once before, getting a two-year contract out of it in 2006. Since Bouwmeester elected to go to arbitration, he cannot sign with another team; Martin said the Panthers aren't going to trade him.
Jay Bouwmeester, Carlo Allegri/Getty Images
Comments (12)
Give him the money!!!!!!
DCruiser | 07/10/08, 09:22 AM
Report Offensive CommentJay's the only thing you've got left in South Flori-duh now. Give him the money!!!!!
DCruiser | 07/10/08, 10:01 AM
Report Offensive CommentI am still confused as to why there is a NHL team in South Florida.
7AM_Tailgate | 07/10/08, 01:44 PM
Report Offensive CommentIt looks like they'll have a solid D corps this season. Who's going to score though? Somehow i think that Martin got ripped off in trading his franchise player.
bostongm | 07/10/08, 02:22 PM
Report Offensive CommentI am still confused as to why there is a NHL team in South Florida.
7AM_Tailgate | 07/10/08, 01:44 PM
Cause ur a idiot. The have more fan base then the marlins do.
Legacyy84 | 07/10/08, 03:05 PM
Report Offensive CommentI am still confused as to why there is a NHL team in South Florida.
7AM_Tailgate
A favorite rant of mine... And to put it in the vernacular of legacy84
I r not a idiot
Seriously, because the folle commisioner thinks that by putting hockey everywhere, he will expand its popularity
Spiny Norman | 07/10/08, 03:13 PM
Report Offensive CommentSeriously, once they banned the rat tossing, Florida hockey when down the crapper.
They should do what they did to the Cleveland Barons and merge them with another dog.
After giving Bowmeester to Deadmonton to make up for the Chris Pronger snafu....
Hank Kingsley | 07/10/08, 05:27 PM
Report Offensive CommentI am still confused as to why there is a NHL team in South Florida.
7AM_Tailgate | 07/10/08, 01:44 PM
We all are! But thanks to the most hated midget in the universe, there they are!
DCruiser | 07/10/08, 05:58 PM
Report Offensive CommentWhat, Bouwmeester was not dealt with first? Who the Hell is the GM in Florida? Oh yeah, that guy. Nevermind.
cmh_phx | 07/10/08, 06:55 PM
Report Offensive CommentThe Bouwmeester...makin' copies...
YODA | 07/10/08, 07:36 PM
Report Offensive Comment@ boston Gm That was a totally raw deal for florida ! I don't know what martin was thinking trading jokinen and asking for so little in return .
Maybe John Ferguson Jr. helped him put that deal together !
He Rock | 07/11/08, 12:45 AM
Report Offensive CommentI think Martin was so pissed at Jokinen that he traded him to a worse place than Florida.
bostongm | 07/11/08, 01:31 AM
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