Ongoing NHL thread - Part deux

[Cobiemonster]

This would be a nice pickup for a lot of teams

 

[Cobiemonster]

Also this big nugget:

 

[Otis B. Driftwood]

Ribeiro will be lucky to get a job with a beer league. Screw him!

 

[Otis B. Driftwood]

lebrun's rumblings

Rumblings: Brodeur eager to go on market - Cross Checks Blog - ESPN

I guess that sense of rejection hasn't quite made it through yet.

 

[forty_three]

Ryan Johansen of Columbus Blue Jackets receives qualifying offer: report - NHL.com - News

Johansen got a qualifying offer from the Jackets, so he can sign any offer sheet he wants, the Jackets can match.

Jackets also qualified; Tropp, Collins, Erixon, Savard, and Golubef. Decision pending on Frattin.

 

[Harry Crack]

Good to see Burkie's up to his old tricks.

The old hippie could mix in a bloody haircut though don't ya think ?

 

[forty_three]

Cap issues in Philly.

Salary cap not friendly to Flyers

Umberger prime candidate for buyout. So the Hartnell trade makes a little more sense. Buyout a 3 year deal instead of a five year one. Someone was going no matter what.

 

[pixburgher66]

Ryan Johansen of Columbus Blue Jackets receives qualifying offer: report - NHL.com - News

Johansen got a qualifying offer from the Jackets, so he can sign any offer sheet he wants, the Jackets can match.

Jackets also qualified; Tropp, Collins, Erixon, Savard, and Golubef. Decision pending on Frattin.

I don't blame Johansen one second for sticking up for himself...however, being so vocal in the media may not be the smartest of ideas.

 

[Cobiemonster]

 

[pixburgher66]

Seems to be quite a few non-tendered players. Very interesting day shaping up tomorrow, and a quick moving one it would appear, seeing as the wooing period now exists.

 

[mattola]

 

[Cobiemonster]

Cap issues in Philly.

Salary cap not friendly to Flyers

Umberger prime candidate for buyout. So the Hartnell trade makes a little more sense. Buyout a 3 year deal instead of a five year one. Someone was going no matter what.

More I think about it, I would just buyout both R.J. and Vinny and then sign a pair of guys like Milan Michalek and Nikolai Kulemin

 

[forty_three]

Wait until he signs a big offer sheet with the Isles and the Jackets let him go.

 

[mattola]

Wait until he signs a big offer sheet with the Isles and the Jackets let him go.

Id imagine it would have to be the big offer for the five 1st rounders. how would you feel about that?

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Id imagine it would have to be the big offer for the five 1st rounders. how would you feel about that?

Isles couldn't do it, don't have their first-rounder next year

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

You mean Keith Aulie, the guy a certain GM once claimed was "the real centrepiece" in a certain trade for a certain Red Bull hat-wearing douchebag, was non-tendered? Hilarious.

 

[dash]

Call me crazy, but I don't think BBB is a fan of Brian Burke (lol)

 

[forty_three]

Id imagine it would have to be the big offer for the five 1st rounders. how would you feel about that?

I love Johansen and think he is going to get even better over the next few years. But I have no use for someone who puts themselves before the team. So if he does sign some asinine high dollar / long ass term offer to try and pin the Jackets down, I'd just as soon let him go. I'd rather be bad for a year than stuck with a giant douche for 6.

Same deal as Bob last year. I love the guy. But if he would have signed a deal in the K... good riddance.

Johansen wants 4 years or more. Jackets offered 3. They will get this done. If he just signed the 3 year and produced this coming year and next at the same rate, he's going to get the long term one before he gets to RFA again.

Bob will have a five year deal signed before the end of the year. I have no doubts.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

I love Johansen and think he is going to get even better over the next few years. But I have no use for someone who puts themselves before the team. So if he does sign some asinine high dollar / long ass term offer to try and pin the Jackets down, I'd just as soon let him go. I'd rather be bad for a year than stuck with a giant douche for 6.

Same deal as Bob last year. I love the guy. But if he would have signed a deal in the K... good riddance.

Johansen wants 4 years or more. Jackets offered 3. They will get this done. If he just signed the 3 year and produced this coming year and next at the same rate, he's going to get the long term one before he gets to RFA .

It's not "putting yourself before the team". The team has money because players play hockey. The players have a right to try and get as much of that money every chance they get.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Call me crazy, but I don't think BBB is a fan of Brian Burke (lol)

What gave it away?