The Colorado Avalanche have announced that they've completed a trade with the Boston Bruins.

Matt Hunwick will be moving to Colorado while Avs prospect Colby Cohen will likely be headed to Providence to meet up with the AHL Bruins.

I'd have more on this, but it's been a very long day and while I'd like to share my thoughts with my readers about how I don't like this trade for the Avs, I'm just going to go to sleep instead.

However, I do have to say that after seeing Hunwick play in Boston for the last few years, he's a good young player. But I think Cohen will be the better of the two in the long run.

But that's just me.

You can find the official press release at the Avalanche's official website, here.

The Twins have won the rights to negotatie with Japanese Superstar Tsuyoshi Nishioka.
The Twins will have 30 days to work out a contract with the switchhitting middle infielder. Nishioka will be represented by the Beverly Hills Sports Council from the United States. Nishioka who plays both shortstop and second base, led Japan’s Pacific League in hitting this year with a .346 average.

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The Colorado Avalanche announced this morning that they had acquired defenseman Ryan O'Byrne from the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for 18 year old prospect Michael Bournival.

The move comes on the heels of an injury marred first couple of months this season for the Avs, who have lost 4 of their top 6 defenders to injury.

Captain Adam Foote, Kyle Cumiskey and Kyle Quincey are all missing from the lineup due to concussion like symptoms while Ryan Wilson is also missing time because of an apparent leg injury.

This situation leaves 4 rookies picking up a lot of the slack, Jonas Holos, David Liffiton, Kevin Shattenkirk and Colby Cohen. Among them, Holos has the most NHL experience, with 10 games.

O'Byrne will help the Avs blueline, adding size, some grit and 128 games worth of NHL experience to the thin lineup.

You can read a press release from the Avs at their official site, found here.

The season starts in alittle over 48 hours, the beer is being chilled, the Red Wings 2010-2011 roster is set, and opponents should already be pissing their pants.  So who made the team? 

Forwards - Henrik Zetterberg, Pavel Datsyuk, Tomas Holmstrom, Todd Bertuzzi, Valtteri Filppula, Johan Franzen, Dan Cleary, Mike Modano, Jiri Hudler, Darren Helm, Justin Abdelkader, Patrick Eaves, Kris Draper and Drew Miller

Defensemen - Nicklas Lidstrom, Niklas Kronwall, Brian Rafalski, Brad Stuart, Ruslan Salei, Jonathan Ericsson, and Jakub Kindl

Goaltenders - Jimmy Howard, Chris Osgood.

Jesus tapdancing Christ, is that a roster to fear.

As for those notable names missing, Kirk Maltby, who spent 14 years with the organization has cleared waivers and will start the season in Grand Rapids.  Rumor has it, however, that the 37 year old will likely retire and possibly join the Red Wings front office as a scout.  He has until tomorrow to decide.  Derek Meech has also cleared waivers and will be reporting to the Griffins. 

Not reporting to Grand Rapids is Mattias Ritola, who has claimed off waivers Tuesday by the Tampa Bay Lightning.  Because of his time in the Red Wings front office, Lightning GM Steve Yzerman knows Ritola well and while he didn't make the Wings squad, Yzerman will make sure he feels at home in Tampa.

Is it October yet? YES!

As we near the beginning of the season, its important to mention one thing - I'm third generation "I don't give a damn" when it comes to preseason hockey.  Sorry, I just don't care.  Other teams are trying to gel and figure out what combinations could propel them to the playoffs and the Wings, on the other hand, are just trying to not hurt themselves and getting their AHL players of NHL experience.  Both are fine but its boring, the scores don't count and its barely on television. 

The most relevant thing this time of year is the regular season roster and the line between those that will be playing at the Joe and those that will be playing in Grand Rapids (or simply just not playing) is being drawn.  After suffering a concussion in Saturday's preseason game against Chicago, the Detroit News reporters that enforcer Aaron Downey has been released.  I don't think anyone really expected him to make the team but it is sad to see a career likely end like that. 

On to Grand Rapids are forwards Willie Coetzee, Ilari Filppula and Jamie Tardif, defensemen Travis Ehrhardt, Sergei Kolosov, Sebastien Piche and Logan Pyett and goaltender Thomas McCollum.  None of these are surprises, though it would have been awesome to see iFilp play next to his brother in Detroit.  

The Wings currently have 40 players on their roster and will need to get to 23 by next week.  Some will be obvious (goalie's MacDonald and Pearce, defenseman Lashoff and Janik, forwards Raedeke, Minard, Owens and Andersson) but the Wings do have some tough choices to make.  Who stays between Eaves, Miller and Ritola?  Who is going to provide a defense with some smart, consistent play on the third line?  And more importantly, who's gonna stay healthy long enough?

Ok, maybe preseason isn't that boring afterall.

Normally, I don't look into rumors too much for my job here at The Sports Radio.  The rumors, whispers and miscellaneous trade / free agent talk I hear from around the league usually gets posted at my personal blog. 

But seeing as how this particular rumor involves the team I cover for TSP, and it's picked up significant steam in the last couple of days, it's probably time I write about it.

As I wrote about previously, the Colorado Avalanche were dealt a major blow to their forward ranks last week with the injury to Peter Mueller (his second concussion in less than six months).  And while many have speculated that the Avs would simply give a young, up and coming player a chance to prove himself at the NHL level in Mueller's spot, there has been some trade talk picking up about the Avalanche's available options.

The rumor, that's becoming particularly strong, is that the Avs could look to the cash-strapped New Jersey Devils for help.

The Devils sit at about $63 million, roughly $4 million above the 2010-11 NHL salary cap ceiling, and thus have to move between $3-6 million dollars before the season starts (The Devils were also fined against the cap for the whole Ilya Kovalchuk fiasco), and one of the leading candidates for a change of address is Devils captain Jamie Langenbrunner.

Langenbrunner carries a single year left on his contract at about $2.8 million and has a No-Trade Clause he would have to waive for such a trade to take place.

While there is that little hurdle to overcome, you can't help but think that it's a move that would make sense for the Avalanche.

The Avs aren't sure when Peter Mueller will be back, or if he even will be back at all this season, Jamie Langenbrunner brings lots of versatility, lots of leadership and some offensive ability for a relatively affordable price.  Not to mention he played on a line with Avalanche center Paul Stastny during the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver on Team USA.

That said, the Devils have never (and likely never will be -- as long as GM Lou Lamoriello's around) been an easy team to make trades with.
Lou's a very crafty negotiator and if Avalanche GM Greg Sherman does decide to go to the trade route -- and the Avs are in fact looking at acquiring Langenbrunner -- one has to wonder just what Colorado would be willing to give up.
New Jersey's not really in a position to bargain at this point, with their salary cap situation, but you never know what Lamoriello's got up his sleeve.
Would he accept a mid-round draft pick, a prospect?  Is he even interested in trading his captain?

I guess we'll just have to wait and see. 

Trent Edwards won the starting quarterback battle to begin the season for the Bills.  Now he's unemployed.

The Bills announced today they have released the veteran QB after attempts to trade him were unsuccessful.

Edwards was benched before the Bills 38-30 loss to New England on Sunday in favor of Ryan Fitzpatrick. 

There's no indication on where Edwards may land.  He was the Bills third round selection in the 2007 NFL draft and played his collegiate career at Stanford.

I guess an assurance from your boss doesn't mean you'll keep your job.  Jimmy Raye has been fired by the 49ers and will be replaced by quarterbacks coach Mike Johnson.

Via ESPN.com

Raye's dismissal was first reported by NFL.com.