Well, scratch another goalie from the FA pool out there.

Corey Schwab — one of the Lightning’s many backstops (and a fan favorite) during the horrid days of the past — has rejoined the franchise as an associate goalie coach (behind Jeff Reese) and scout.

The article also lists several internal moves with scout and trainer shifts…

I saw Schwab was a UFA and thought it woudl be cool to have him back in the fold… Having him in this incarnation works just fine for me.

As of right now, this is the St. Pete Times Forum:

A silent tomb, converting from concert to concert to other public engagement. It is absent the one characteristic that it was built for: hockey. NHL hockey. Tampa Bay Lightning hockey. It’s been absent of this for a long while now but soon — soon my precious — they will be brought together again. Soon…. soon the boards will be put up, the ice will be laid and the banner raised.

Just not soon enough

For those interested, the Tampa Bay Lightning have long had Arenavision on their web site - live video streaming from the Forum. It doesn’t always work (with IE or Firefox) but the feed source URL is here. This should open Windows Media Player (if you have it installed).

I report this morning about how Vincent Lecavalier might be willing to take less money to stay on long term and what do I read in the afternoon? Visiting my beloved HockeyBlogs, I see Hockey Will Tear Us Apart breaking the news that Marian Hossa wants Jerome Iginla money.

Out of context quote from Slam:

“We’re at a dead point right now,” said Hossa, who was scheduled to make $3.45 million last season. “We are nowhere. They offered me a three-year contract, but it wasn’t good enough. It wasn’t anywhere close to my comparables. If you look at my points the last two seasons, they’ve been close to Iginla and (Boston’s Joe) Thornton….. I just want to be paid what I feel is a fair amount and I don’t want to settle for less.”

The money offered to him was $11.5 Million over 3 years (Milan Hejduk money)… He’s got how many awards under his belt? How many Eastern Conference Titles? How far has he helped lead his team in the playoffs? He certainly isn’t team captain, is he considered a team leader?

You want to compare yourself to Iggy, Marian? To make financial demands like this lowers your compatibles to him ten fold.

It’s stuff like this that makes me worry about Vinny and Marty even more — especially Marty with this morning’s reports negotiations are not going so well.

Kent Hughes has negotiated a one year deal in principle between his client, Vincent Lecavalier and the Lightning. Why haven’t you heard about a one-year contract signing already then? Because the two sides are talking long term deal. The St. Petersburg Times reports that Vinny is willing to take a stay-in-Tampa-Bay discount for the long term deal.

Meanwhile, in both the Trib and Times articles, there is mention that negotiations between Feaster and Martin St. Louis’ agent haven’t gone very well which contradicts a post that I made on this blog suggesting Marty was willing to take less to stay in TB.