Free Agent Frenzy thread

[BlueWolfZero]

Iggy still with no common sense....

 

[Jims_Doors]

Cooke signs with Minny.

3yr deal

 

[pixburgher66]

Iggy to the Bruins, Cooke to the Wild.

 

[gmalis1]

Let's review who the Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks lost in free agency:

David Bolland to Toronto. Good bottom six guy who is pesky defensively. But he's also often injured, terrible in the faceoff dot, not a good penalty killer or on the power play and doesn't score enough offensively. He was the worst Hawks player +/- for the season. And at $3.36 million a year, he's not worth the cap hit.

Michael Frolik. Great penalty killer. Terrible hands. Better than average speed. Physical enough, but not a real banger. Never repeated his 20 goal seasons he had prior to becoming a Blackhawks. Not worth the $2.2 million cap hit.

Viktor Stalberg to Nashville. Speed to burn. One of the fastest skaters in the NHL. Terrible hands. Defensive liability. In Coach Q's doghouse during the playoffs and said some not so flattering comments about how he felt about it DURING the playoffs.

Ray Emery to Philadelphia. Good backup to Corey Crawford. Hawks will probably miss him. Nice quiet guy. Definitely not a number one goalie though, even though he is only 30. Slow to react sometimes. Slow after he is down. Was better this season in shootouts than the season before when he was awful. Flyers can't rely on him to bring them to the promised land. It won't happen.

Hawks re-sign Leddy, Rozsival, Handzus and Bickell. Still waiting on Marcus Kruger. Looking to promote Brandon Pirri (AHL leading scorer), Ben Smith, Jeremy Morin and Jimmy Hayes.

Defensive 7 all remaining from last season.

Hawks need a backup goalie at this point, although they have signed Finnish MVP Antti Raata.

At this point (without Rozsival or Kruger or a backup goalie) Blackhawks are $5.8 million and change under the cap.

Nice job.

 

[higgyfan4]

‏@aaronward_nhl 3m
Like I said,Jarome Iginla to the Boston Bruins #TSN #ThisTimeForReal

 

[BlueWolfZero]

Apparently the Wild realized they needed to boost their team cheap shot quotient back to it's normal level....oh well thank God Minny isn't in the NW anymore

 

[pixburgher66]

I am gonna miss Cookie...he finished off great as a Penguin. Honestly.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Cooke signs with Minny.

3yr deal

Lol they loved him on the canucks

 

[BlueWolfZero]

Let's review who the Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks lost in free agency:

David Bolland to Toronto. Good bottom six guy who is pesky defensively. But he's also often injured, terrible in the faceoff dot, not a good penalty killer or on the power play and doesn't score enough offensively. He was the worst Hawks player +/- for the season. And at $3.36 million a year, he's not worth the cap hit.

Michael Frolik. Great penalty killer. Terrible hands. Better than average speed. Physical enough, but not a real banger. Never repeated his 20 goal seasons he had prior to becoming a Blackhawks. Not worth the $2.2 million cap hit.

Viktor Stalberg to Nashville. Speed to burn. One of the fastest skaters in the NHL. Terrible hands. Defensive liability. In Coach Q's doghouse during the playoffs and said some not so flattering comments about how he felt about it DURING the playoffs.

Ray Emery to Philadelphia. Good backup to Corey Crawford. Hawks will probably miss him. Nice quiet guy. Definitely not a number one goalie though, even though he is only 30. Slow to react sometimes. Slow after he is down. Was better this season in shootouts than the season before when he was awful. Flyers can't rely on him to bring them to the promised land. It won't happen.

Hawks re-sign Leddy, Rozsival, Handzus and Bickell. Still waiting on Marcus Kruger. Looking to promote Brandon Pirri (AHL leading scorer), Ben Smith, Jeremy Morin and Jimmy Hayes.

Defensive 7 all remaining from last season.

Hawks need a backup goalie at this point, although they have signed Finnish MVP Antti Raata.

At this point (without Rozsival or Kruger or a backup goalie) Blackhawks are $5.8 million and change under the cap.

Nice job.

Man...we should all just fall to our knees and bow at the alter of the Blackhawks. I mean can they do anything wrong?

 

[IndyAndy]

Setogucci to the Jets for a 2nd round pick

What the WHAT??!!

Seto was a VASTLY improved player over who he was '11/'12. To freakin' GIVE him away for nothing more than a draft pick is NUTS!

***post edit***

Just saw the Cooke thing after I typed up my little 'rant'.

 

[flyersfan4706]

So is #JagrWatch back on?

 

[Jims_Doors]

I liked Cooke, great on the PK, but glad that the Pens won't have to clean up his B.S. anymore. He wanted a 3yr deal and he got it. Glad he'll being playing in the West.

 

[mattola]

‏@aaronward_nhl 3m
Like I said,Jarome Iginla to the Boston Bruins #TSN #ThisTimeForReal

1 year deal $6M

 

[pixburgher66]

$6M for Iggy? Well, it's only one year, but I can tell you it's not that Iggy anymore. Love that man

 

[jstewismybastardson]

6 shmill 1 year for iggy??? Wow lol

 

[BlueWolfZero]

Again, where are these teams getting this money from?

 

[pixburgher66]

So is #JagrWatch back on?

Still want *dramatic sigh* Maybe after this year they can sign him to a 12 hour contract so I can complete the dream of him in the Pens uni ONE LAST TIME.

 

[higgyfan4]

Ok, trying to remember whose now left...

Jagr
Brunner
Cleary
Grabovski
Bryzgalov
Timmay
??????

 

[forty_three]

Man...we should all just fall to our knees and bow at the alter of the Blackhawks. I mean can they do anything wrong?

Absolutely infallible job getting rid of all the dead weight they didn't need. Stay tuned for the perfect contract moves and acquisitions blessed by God himself.

Also

Ray Emery to Philadelphia. Good backup to Corey Crawford. Hawks will probably miss him. Nice quiet guy.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

A local pointed out iginlas kelowna home to us when we were up there .. Took 2 years to build ... And this summer he started an addition to it ... My wife took a pic of it ... Ill see if i can get it on here

Gotta pay the bills i guess