nobody talks about your bad contract situations when you've got a Cup, I like it, its going to get out of hand after next season though, so I'll just enjoy the temporary tranquility
nobody talks about your bad contract situations when you've got a Cup, I like it, its going to get out of hand after next season though, so I'll just enjoy the temporary tranquility
30M locked up for 5 players? LA Lightning?
You can tell WoW changed the MMO for good when players started complaining about the amount of time they sink, into a time sink.
The problem is building a team under the salary cap is that players keep thinking they should be getting paid more and more, which is fair considering how overblown NFL, NBA and MLB contracts are by comparison and hockey players probably feel like they are getting cheated. I think the league just needs to increase the salary cap to something like 85 or 90 million dollars and let teams spend whatever money they want, the teams that aren't going to be spending money are already dying or nearly dead so having a high salary cap shouldn't matter.
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Not Fehr's fault that Buttman wants to be a Nazi.
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Smells like an old Glen Sather offer to me.
Lol Wade Redden.... People talk about Gomez being a waste of money? Lol.
You can tell WoW changed the MMO for good when players started complaining about the amount of time they sink, into a time sink.
Wings are apparently out of the Rick Nash hunt now. They made the Jackets a "hell of an offer"but Howson said no and essentially hung up. No negotiation, nothing. Supposedly they would have to offer Franzen, Filpula, along with two guys like Nyquist and Helm. Got to love Howson trying to get just an insane return on Nash to try and save his job.
I can almost guarantee no team will take Nash with the ludicrous things Howson wants in return. :|
With the exception of Toronto, mostly because I think Burke is just that brain dead.
red panda red panda red panda!
Last edited by Irony; 2012-07-18 at 05:36 PM.
You can tell WoW changed the MMO for good when players started complaining about the amount of time they sink, into a time sink.
Wings and Quincey settled their arbitration. 2 years, $3.55 and $4 million. A bit more than I'd like but I can handle those numbers.
Last edited by conscript; 2012-07-18 at 07:14 PM.
2 years for Quincey. 3.55M and 4M. I'm fine with that price. Second year is a bit steep, but whatever.
You can tell WoW changed the MMO for good when players started complaining about the amount of time they sink, into a time sink.
I am slightly concerned that that is going to hurt their ability to resign their bundle of UFA/RFAs next summer. Howard, Filp, White, Kindl, Smith, Nyquist, Miller, Brunner, Mursak, and Cleary all need to be resigned. Several of those guys are going to garner some serious raises (Howard, Kindl, Smith, Nyquist, Brunner, Mursak). I think White's fate comes down to Shea Weber's status. As much as I like White I don't know if they would keep him over the cheaper, younger, and comparable Kindl or the cheaper, younger, better Smith.
Signing Howard, Filp, Brunner and Smith is gonna be expensive. Howard is the one I'm really concerned with. With how good he was, he deserves around 6M.
You can tell WoW changed the MMO for good when players started complaining about the amount of time they sink, into a time sink.
So apparently Weber signed an offer sheet from Philly for 14 years and over 100 million... wow.
EDIT
So that's either 4 first rounders over the next 4 years, or 2 firsts 1 second and 1 third (not sure which years for second/third), depending on how much he's getting per year.
If I'm Nashville, and I either have to commit 100 million to Weber with a team that has very little chance of legitimately competing for a cup, or getting those # of mid-late first round picks... I'm probably more inclined to take the picks.. Shitty.
Last edited by VanillaO; 2012-07-19 at 05:52 AM.
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. GOD DAMMIT PHILLY, HE WAS GONNA BE OURS NEXT SUMMER!
God fucking dammit.
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Sign Semin now please, we now have no reason not to.
You can tell WoW changed the MMO for good when players started complaining about the amount of time they sink, into a time sink.
I think it would be hilarious if Nashville decided to troll Weber by matching the offer.
I can't believe Weber signed a long term offer sheet. Congratulations to him on now being a Pred for life since they will almost certainly match that since they have said they would commit those sort of terms and money to him. I honestly figured Weber would have signed a one year sheet with someone to force Nashville to let him leave one way or the other. This is going to backfire on Weber big time if they match.
If they don't, poor Pekka Rinne. Extends thinking they are building a solid core around him and then the entire core leaves.