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Date Team News
April 1,2003 Blast Call up Foote and Giguere from the farm team
March 21,2003 Marauders Claim Jason Williams from waivers (Renegades)
March 11,2003 Gulls Claim Johansson, Andreas and Knuble
March 9, 2003 Rams Submit a claim for Knuble and Johansson, Andreas
March 9,2003 Rams buy out Nemchinov and Tenkrat; places Aubin on waivers
March 5,2003 Rams Claim Havelid and Klee
March 4,2003 Brawlers Put in a claim for Niclas Havelid and Ken Klee
February 28,2003 Gulls Lilja was signed to a U4 contract
February 26,2003 Gulls Put a claim in for Lilja
February 14,2003 Gulls sign the following players to U4 contracts; Kloucek, Delmore, Cullen, Chouinard
February 11,2003 Gulls Pick up Bierk, Zac (G) and sign him to a U4 contract
January 30,2003 Chiefs Call up Bertuzzi due to injury to Demitra
January 15,2003 Dragons Picked up Ed Belfour G
January 14,2003 Renegades Place Slegr on waivers
January 13,2003 Shogun Release Kjellberg and buy out the rest of his contract.
December 6,2002 Dragons Blouin, Sylvain L was released by the Dragons
November 29,2002 Storm Pick up the following players off of waivers.Eric Bogiunecki (St. Louis) and Eric Belanger (LA Kings)
November 4,2002 Brawlers/Dragons
Due to the fact that Grant and I have come to a parting of the ways over the running of the team and the direction that each of us think it should go Grant has fired me as head coach my assistant and general manager as well Bill Barilko and cowboy Bill Flett
and he will name a coach and gm in the near future but will take over the controls till then
 
I have now taken over controlling interest in the Montreal Brawlers and have hired Bill Barilko and cowboy Bill Flett as assistant coaches  Manon Rheume has been released from position of special liaison as has Borje Salming and Gaston Gingras. Guy Lafleur has been retained for the present in the head coach position, Brian Bellows has been hired as interim general manager
October 8,2002 Brawlers The following players have had their contracts bought out. Vernon, Verbeek and Corkum
October 8,2002 Renegades Buy out the contract of marian cisar, Sign jason williams to a U4, Announce the following players have been demoted to the farm.P.Schastlivy, T.Lydman. , B.Mirinov, S.Rucchin, F.Kuba, K.Beech, D.Vyborny, Justin Williams, D. Aiebisher and K.Timonen
October 6,2002 Chiefs The following players have been sent to the farm: Poti, Tom, Bertuzzi, Todd, Denis, Marc, Klesla, Rostislav, Allen, Bryan, Chimera, Jason
October 3,2002 Blast Have signed the following players; Turco, Marty, Walz, Wes to a R2 contract
October 3,2002 Blast The Blast have made the following roster moves. The following players have been called up;  Morris, Derek, Spacek, Jaroslav, Czerkawski, Mariusz. The follwoing players have been put on the farm; Lemieux, Claude, Lukowich, Brad, Foote, Adam
October 4,2002 Pride The Pride have sent the following players to the farm; Brunet, Benoit, Buzek, Petr, Green, Travis, Pratt, Nolan, Simon, Chris, Warriner, Todd, Zubrus, Dainius
October 4,2202 Brawlers The following players have been sent to the minors; Turek, Roman, Berry, Rick, Commodore, Mike, Dean, Kevin, Lumme, Jyrki, Poulin, Patrick, Rucinsky, Martin, Souray, Sheldon, Wallin, Niclas.
October 4,2002 Brawlers Signed Garon to a U1 and Knutsen to a 2R contract
October 3,2002 Chiefs  The Chiefs have claimed free agent Chimera, Jason for $302,000
October 2,2002 Chiefs The Chiefs have signed the following players 
Valk, Garry W U2/04
Johnson, Brent G R3/05
October 2,2002 Fog The Fog have sent the following players to the farm. Primeau, Wayne, Reasoner, Marty, Murray, Marty, Blake, Jason, Bradley, Matt, Renberg, Mikael, Rozsival, Michal, Kiprussof, Mika. 
October 1,2002 Blast The Blast have sent the following players to the farm: Ference, Andrew, Van Ryn, Mike, Svehla, Robert, Hill, Sean, Daigle, Alexandre, Ruutu, Jarkko, Reirden, Todd, Garon, Matheiu, Giguere, Jean-Sebastien.
October 1,2002 Gulls The Gulls pick up Ribeiro, Mike for 400,000.
October 1,2002 Gulls The Gulls pick up Ouellet, Maxime for 450,000.
September 28,2002 Dragons The Dragons have sent the following players to the farm: Pahlsson, Samuel, McDonald, Andy, Petrovicky, Ronald
September 27,2002 Moose The Moose have sent the following players to their minors. 

Noronen, Dipietro, Shvidki, Boynton, Mezei, Markov, McCauley, Antropov

September 27,2002 Moose The Moose have made the following moves:

Buy out the contract of Grosek, Michal

Sign Jokinen, Olli to a U4 contract

Sign Richards, Brad to an R4 contract

Pyatt, Taylor R2 contract

September 26,2002 Dragons The Dragons have signed the following players:

Khavanov R3

Sekaris U2

Eloranta R2

Tugnutt R1

September 21,2002 Gulls The Gulls have signed the following players:
Ozolinsh            R4    02/06
Hendrickson       U2    02/04
Havlat                R4    02/06
Cechmanek        R5    02/07
September 18,2002 Pride Picked up Raycroft from Waivers
September 7,2002 Gulls  announce that Rob Blake has been named team captain, with assistants to be Paul Kariya and Brendan Morrison.
August 28,2002 Storm Sign Irbe to a R3 contract
August 28,2002 Dragons Bill Barilko is to be my asst coach   and cowboy Bill Flett is my general manager
August 26,2002 Fog Name Teppo Numminen captain and Denis Gauthier and Jeremy Roenick assistants.
August 26,2002 Fog sign Andrew Brunette to R4 and Vyacheslav Kozlov to R2.
August 26,2002 Dragons The Dragons announce the new hire of Darryl Bellows. Darryl will be looking after the day to day operations of the team.
August 26,2002 Chiefs The Charlestown Chiefs have announced that Fedorov will be the new Assistant captain instead of Primeau
August 26,2002 Lumberjacks The Coquitlam Lumberjacks have been sold. The new owners are the Horne family. Mike Horne will be managing the team. The team has been moved to Gibsons and will now be known as the Gibsons Gulls. Please welcome the new owners.
August 13,2002 Mammoths klemm r4, langenbrunner r4, McEachern u4, nortstrom r5, pederson u4, roy u5
August 13,2002 Shogun Forsberg R5, Richardson R3, Stillman R3, Varada R3, G. Johnson R2, Zholtok R2, Sillinger R2, Markov R2, Scatchard R2, Zamuner U1
August 10,2002 Pride
Amonte    R5/02-R3/05    
Ferraro    U3/02-R1/03   
Hedican   R2/02-R1/03    
Jagr          R5/02-R5/07    
McCabe   R5/02-R5/07    
Pilon          R3/02-R1/03    
Simon        R4/02-R2/04    
Frankhouser    released, Wilson              released 
August 9,2002 Storm
A Carter 2 year R                
C johansson 2 year R          
I Korolev 2 year R                
D Mcammond 2 year R        
M. Satan 5 year R               
T Fleury 2 year R                
August 9,2002 Lumberjacks The owner of the Lumberjacks is stepping down and is taking a more silent role in the team business affairs. He has turned the reigns of the team over to Kerry McGaffney. He saw Kerry's resume and he knew that there was no one else that could do a better job. 

Kerry thanks Stan for the opportunity and will make the Lumberjacks organization a winning franchise.

August 8,2002 Dragons lindros 3 year restricted

reichel 3 yr restricted

damphousse 3 yr restricted

gratton 2 yr restricted

housley 1 yr unrestricked.

kapanen 3 yr restricted

salei 2 yr restricted

August 8,2002 Icehawks Josh Green - U5/07

Martin Biron - R3/05

Bob Boughner - U5/07

Andreas Dackell - U5/07

Jean-Pierre Dumont - R3/05

Marian Hossa - R3/05

Oleg Kvasha - U5/07

John Leclair - U5/07

Peter Popovic - U2/04

Andrei Zyuzin - R3/04

August 5,2002 Lumberjacks
We have just resigned the following players:
Paul Coffee to a U/2yr
Paul Kariya to a R/5yr
Ethan Moreau to a R/3yr
Alexei Nazorov to a U/2yr
Rob Niedermayer to a R/3yr
Lyle Odelein to a R/3yr
James Patrick to a U/2yr
Brian Rolston to a R/3yr
Teemu Selanne to a R/5yr
Brian Skrudland to a U/2yr
Bill Houlder to a U/3yr
Kevin Stevens to a U/2yr
July 21,2002 Moose Released Andres Ericksson
July 19,2002 UHL The draft will be delayed until we can figure out the finances this year.
July 9,2002 UHL The Draft will take place July 20,2002
July 14,2002 Bulldogs
the tri city bulldogs have  been relocated to Detroit
and will be [playing all there home games at the JOE

 

July 14,2002 Maniacs the Memphis maniacs have been sold to MSG corporation and have been moved to New York.their home rink is now Madison Square Garden and are called New York Maniacs
July 11,2002 Moose The Moose resign the following players:
Dallas Drake    to a U2  
Sundin             to an R3   
Yushkevich       to an R2   
Brodeur            to an R2    
Niinimaa           to an R3  
Sundstrom        to an R3  
July 10,2002 Bulldogs The Bulldogs resign the following players 
eastwood u3
holzinger u3
karpa u3
keane u3
nash u3
weimer u2
podien u3
March 15,2002

Moose pickup Bylsma
Brawlers pickup Andreychuk
Marauders pickup Malakov
Moose pickup Boynton
Maniacs pickup Trepanier

Maniacs drop Dome
Moose drop Antropov and Jokinen

March 12,2002 Maniacs  drop Flaherty
March 12,2002 Marauders  claim Osgood and drop Hebert
March 7,2002 Blast  drop McLennan
February 27,2002 Mammoths The Mammoths have fired Drew Sturrock.and hired Conrad Latek as their new coach.
February 27,2002 Mammoths  claim Shulmistra
February 21,2002 Bulldogs drop Westlund
February 18,2002 Nordiques
Head coach Peter Stastny has been relieved of his duties
with Les Nordiques after mounting losses and promising to dress players in
important games and then not playing them. Jacques Demers has been hired as
his replacement. Assistant coach Anton Stastny has also been replaced by
Dale Hunter.
The lack of leadership has also been addressed: Zhamnov has been named as
the franchise's first captain with Holik and Ragnarsson as alternates.

 

February 17,2002 Shogun  drop J. Hackett pickup Jason Cullimore and J. Modry
February 3,2002 Dragons acquire Sullivan, Mike
February 3,2002 Maniacs 
drop Wregget and pickup Flaherty
January 15,2002 Moose  drop Carbonneau and Garpenlov
January 15,2002 Moose acquire Steve Smith, sign to a u1