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[wildcat48]

Mark Hartigan has signed with the Detroit Red Wings.


More to come.....

[Nordy]

Another one bites the dust

[ducksfanforlife]

Why would you go to an organization that just disappoints? Babcock might be one of the worst coaches in the league. Detroit should have tapped Carlyle, they would have won 3 cups in a row by now.

[wildwing94]

Really really really bugs me now that we lost Konopka and Glencross for nothing really than a couple guys who played a couple minutes in the playoffs.

[Maverik]

I agree.
I hate the fact that we basically traded Glenny and my boy Konopka away for nothing.

[wildcat48]

Forward Mark Hartigan told me Thursday he has agreed to a one-year, two-way deal with the Detroit Red Wings. If Hartigan is sent to the AHL, he would play for Crunch divisional rival Grand Rapids.

"They're not a team that has first-rounders, or second-rounders, or third-rounders in the organization,'' he said of Detroit. "They don't worry about contracts. If you're the best player in camp, they find a way to put you on the team. Other teams have been all about contracts.''

Hartigan said he received a similar offer from Washington, which could have re-teamed him with ex-Crunch forward Joe Motzko, who signed with that organization.

Lindsey Kramer spoke to Hartigan earlier today.

Lindsey Kramer's blog

[Go_Krog]

I agree.
I hate the fact that we basically traded Glenny and my boy Konopka away for nothing.

borderline nhl players dont have a whole lot of value. its good the contracts are off the books so younger more promising talent can be signed and brought in.

[Dark Knight]

Not worried about losing him or Motzko... they were not part of the Ducks' future anyway.

[wildcat48]

Not worried about losing him or Motzko... they were not part of the Ducks' future anyway.

Hartigan I could understand, but Motzko should be in the Ducks plans...He fits the player mold of the Anaheim Ducks....He went for the money and a chance to play in the NHL.

[Maverik]

Oh Motzko....

I'll never forget that crotch-grinding, on-the-boards hit you gave Quincy in the Detroit series....

[DropThePuck]

Mark Hartigan's summers have been as short as anyone's in hockey the past two years. And that's just fine by him.

This is the second consecutive year that Hartigan has been on a team in the Stanley Cup final. Last year, he was with the Anaheim Ducks during their run to the Stanley Cup.
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On the ice during the Cup presentation ceremony, last spring, Hartigan brought his father down from the stands onto the ice.

"My dad was crying," said Hartigan. "I hadn't seen my dad cry. His dad died when he was 12 and that's what he remembers, watching the playoffs, watching them win the Stanley Cup. He gets on the ice with me and the Stanley Cup and he was crying on my shoulder. That's when it hit me. 'Oh my God. This means more to him than it does to me.' It was a pretty special moment. It was pretty sweet."

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[ladiesandgentlemen]

Mark "Lucky Charm" Hartigan does it again (as foreseen by WC and DTP, amongst others):

-My favourite story is Mark Hartigan. He was a memeber of the Ducks last year and never played. In Anaheim last June, he got dressed in the 3rd period and went out on the ice to celebrate the Cup win over Ottawa. This year he gets signed by Detroit, gets benched for Helm in the Nashville series, and never gets back in the lineup. So Wednesday, he passes me by in the 3rd period on the way to the locker room to....yes...get dressed and go celebrate a Cup win. Two years, two cups, each one without a drip of sweat on the sweater. And not a single complaint. I hope he gets to win one someday when he's actually played in the last game. TSN host James Duthie

Nothing like being kept on dung in the dark

"That's a goal, yes," shouts Mark Hartigan, a Red Wing who hails from Fort St. John, B.C. Hartigan hasn't played since the Wings knocked off Nashville in the first round.

He jokes that he is part of the Red Wings "Mushroom Club."

"We're kept in the dark, but we keep growing," he says. Hartigan is watching the game on a TV monitor, just like me.

He's already tasted Stanley Cup glory, winning the championship with the Anaheim Ducks last season. As the minutes tick by, Hartigan admits nerves are getting to him.

"My heart is pounding. We gotta keep playing our game," he says. He’s reluctant to talk about the Wings winning the Cup for fear of jinxing them, but he admits he has a plan if Detroit is still leading in the final few minutes of the match.

"I'm going to put on my gear.”
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[DropThePuck]

What was that magical number of games played on the Stanley Cup winning team to automatically qualify to get your name engraved? Hartigan had 6 + 1 with the Ducks last year, so while he got his time with Stanley, his name isn't on it. He has 23 + 4 (1st round) with Detroit this year.

[Dark Knight]

What was that magical number of games played on the Stanley Cup winning team to automatically qualify to get your name engraved?

40 in the regular season or 1 in the Finals, if I remember correctly.

[DropThePuck]

40 in the regular season or 1 in the Finals, if I remember correctly.

Thanks! So ... Hartigan's always the usher, never the groom??? I suppose Detroit could petition if they felt he contributed significantly to the effort.

[DropThePuck]

The most celebrated and decorated player in the history of the St. Cloud State men’s hockey program will be a free agent for the second time in as many years unless the Detroit Red Wings re-sign him by July 1.

If they don’t, he should be in high demand. It won’t be a result of his statistics (three goals, four points, minus-2 in 23 regular-season games). What he can offer is a good luck charm.

He’s the only man on the planet who can say he was a member of the past two Stanley Cup championship teams — even though he didn’t skate a shift in either the 2007 finals with the Anaheim Ducks or with the Wings 10 days ago as they ousted the Pittsburgh Penguins in six games.
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Not enough, however, to get his name on the Cup barring a rare petition. NHL rules stipulate players must have at least 40 regular-season games or at least one game in the finals to receive the honor. Regardless, Hartigan will get a Stanley Cup ring. And, he’ll get the trophy for a day.

On Aug. 25, 2007, he had it in Fort McMurray, Alberta. He took it to a fire station, a local hospital and a youth center — all of which had recently experienced losses like he had with his mother. Then he held a party for about 150 people at his brother’s home, with a bartender on hand and steaks for all. The Cup wound up in the hot tub and later the shower. The following morning, he ate cereal out of it.

His daughter, Ava Lynn, is just 11 months old and already she’s had her picture taken sitting in the Cup, twice.

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[ladiesandgentlemen]

The world's luckiest hockey player winds up in the KHL:
Kā ziņo Rīgas Dinamo ģenerālmenedžeris Normunds Sējējs, tad klubs noslēdzis līgumus ar diviem kanādiešu hokejistiem - aizsargu Duviju Vestkotu (Duvie Westcott) un uzbrucēju Marku Hartiganu (Mark Hartigan)

[finagler]

his day with the cup:
http://www.hhof.com/html/exSCJ08_14.shtml

[sugarmama]

Hartigan's blog from KHL

Latest edition just posted. Pretty interesting stuff.