Panthers sign center Dominic Moore to 1-year deal

by David Dwork on Oct 5, 2009 12:53 AM EDT Comment 6 comments

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The Cats have added another new guy to the bunch, signing center Dominic Moore to a 1-year, $1.1 million deal. The team is expected to announce the signing on Monday. Moore was in talks with at least 3 other teams, but went with the Panthers due to his desire to play for Peter DeBoer.

"He thinks it's a huge opportunity to play for [Coach] Peter DeBoer. DeBoer is one of the brighter guys in the game. It's a perfect fit for Dom." said Moore's agent, Larry Kelly. "These guys will be kindred spirits. They'll be able to communicate extremely well and Pete will be able to assess what Dom does well and utilize him properly."

Moore is a gritty young forward who has displayed good touch at times. Last year he was having his most productive campaign before being dealt from Toronto to Buffalo at the trade deadline. Shortly after the trade, Moore broke his wrist but played through the pain and finished out the season. That is why after scoring 12 goals, 29 assists in 63 games with the Leafs he only recorded 1 goal and 3 assists in the 18 games he played as a Sabre.

He has played for 5 different teams in his 5-year career, totaling 35 goals, 65 assists and 200 penalty minutes in 305 NHL games.

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great sign

I love D Moore and was sad whe i found out Buffalo let him go but He is a good player thats gonna give you his best effort every night. Hard worker and a 40 pointer on the right line/

Got some work to do before being a playoff team let alone a contender again!

by thenewhockeytown on Oct 5, 2009 10:34 AM EDT reply actions

OK, random

Not that I don’t like Moore, but this kind of came out of nowhere. So… the question is: who is the next guy to go back to Rochester? Are they sending Matthias back, or is this the end of Koistenen as a forward?

I’m going to guess we’ll see Moore with Matthias and Kreps on the fourth line, and Koistenen as odd D-man out until Kulikoc gets sent back down to juniors.

This seems like a weird deal for a fourth liner, though. Maybe something’s up with Campbell and they think he’s going to miss games. Or maybe this is a setup for a coming trade.

by Johnny B on Oct 5, 2009 12:50 PM EDT reply actions

And as we see more, it makes more sense. OK, so Campbell’s getting demoted to the fourth line. I like him, but I think an Olesz-Moore-Dvorak line might be more capable as a scoring line as well as a penalty-killing/shutdown line. And I’m guessing Repik wasn’t all that, and his getting sent down was because this move was coming. So, we’re going to have Campbell-Matthias-Kreps on the fourth? That’s not a bad fourth.

To all the gloom and doomers harping on the acquisition of a third-line forward (not here, but elsewhere), there’s more than one way to win a hockey game and if you’ve got a good shutdown line that you can put against other teams’ top lines you can keep their best players off the scoresheet.

Additionally, if you have guys on four lines that can score and you can trust all of your players defensively, you can roll four lines and a: relieve the pressure off your top line guys to score, especially if the other team is putting a shutdown line out against you all game, b: keep the time line guys rested for power plays and late game pushes.

If you don’t have an Ovechkin/Crosby/Nash on your team, then you have to score by committee and strong third and fourth lines are needed in that situation. This move looks like DeBoer and Sexton realize the situation and are responding appropriately. And yes, Horton should be that guy. But he isn’t. If we’re lucky in a year or two Frolik will be that guy.

by Johnny B on Oct 6, 2009 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions

I agree

seems like we have lines 2a and 2b instead of a 2nd and 3rd line. Hopefully Moore plays at the same high level he was at last season before hurting his wrist.

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by David Dwork on Oct 6, 2009 1:49 PM EDT up reply actions

I think this is good, so we’ll see what happens.

And I just found SlapShot 2 for 3 bucks at Big Lots. :-P

by sydarm on Oct 5, 2009 8:25 PM EDT reply actions

I sincerely hope you didn’t pay that exorbitant amount for so much fecal matter.

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