Ongoing NHL thread - Part deux

[forty_three]

I haven't been following that closely yet 43, are most of the BJs on the IR yet?

Knock on wood, cross my fingers, sacrifice a goat - only David Clarkson is banged up. Tweaked a knee and probably will be back tomorrow night. He might have been ready tonight but they want Boll in tonight in case Nash tries to slap Bob with his purse again and Prout can't get there fast enough.

I like Wiz, but if the curse followed him to Carolina I am fine with that.

 

[forty_three]

Former Canes player charged with assault on a female

Aaron Ward.

You done fucked up now, A-A-Ron

 

[KennyBanyeah]

Former Canes player charged with assault on a female

Aaron Ward.

You done fucked up now, A-A-Ron

Weird. I don't see anything on TSN about this.

 

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Weird. I don't see anything on TSN about this.

It's hidden in between McJesus articles, Kenny.

 

[KennyBanyeah]

Apparently there will be SOME cap repercussions for the Kings (as per Blob). Still seems like an end around a bad contract.

Kings and Richards reach settlement over contract

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Apparently there will be SOME cap repercussions for the Kings (as per Blob). Still seems like an end around a bad contract.

Kings and Richards reach settlement over contract

Luckily for the Kings, Chris Pronger (D-AZ) has been assigned to review the details of the settlement.

 

[davnlaguna]

Apparently there will be SOME cap repercussions for the Kings (as per Blob). Still seems like an end around a bad contract.

Kings and Richards reach settlement over contract

On the books for 15 years
No idea for how much

 

[dash]

Jared Boll warming the cockles of 43's heart with two minor penalties in the first period.

 

[forty_three]

^ I loves him.

 

[dash]

43 is not Saad seeing that puck behind King Henrik.

 

[forty_three]

Good to see the Jackets have broken the habit of losing composure late in periods.

 

[sherbert1421]

damn. jackets just had a 3rd period meltdown

 

[dash]

Holy hell, what happened in Columbus?

 

[forty_three]

Holy hell, what happened in Columbus?

They took the Rangers lightly. Got a lead and tried to sit on it Those guys didn't win the President's trophy by accident.

Back at it tomorrow night.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Anybody know what Mike Commodore's problem with Babcock is?

Mike Commodore (@commie22) | Twitter

 

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Anybody know what Mike Commodore's problem with Babcock is?

Mike Commodore (@commie22) | Twitter

This might explain it, BBB.

Mike Commodore rips Mike Babcock, claims Columbus coach waived him over jealousy

 

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Excuse the big wall of text that follows - This is Mike Commodore speaking to a reporter from his KHL days.

They offered me a one-year deal worth one million. My gut was screaming: “Don't take it, you've got one chance, if it doesn't go well, you're done in the NHL!”

“I told my agent: ‘I don't want to play in Detroit for Mike Babcock, I don't trust him. Call him back and tell him thank you, we'll get back to you.’

"My agent then told me the GM put a 15-minute time limit on the offer. I needed to make up my mind in 15 minutes or he was gonna pull the offer off the table. This was July 1st, free agency had just started 10 minutes prior. I called the GM and told him: ‘Ken, Mike Commodore here, I like you, you're a good guy. Is it you who wants me or the coach?’ Ken Holland said that he wanted me and so did Babcock. So I told him that I would love to play for Ken, and I would love to play for the red wings, but that I didn't trust the coach from previous experience. So I called the coach, by now I had 10 minutes left.

"I called him: ‘Babs, Mike Commodore here. Please be honest with me, do you want me on your hockey team or not?’ He said he did. I wanted to know if I’d get an opportunity. I told him I am not looking for anything special, but that I needed to know if I was gonna get a fair shot and a chance to play. He said ‘I want you on my team. You will get a fair chance. We need someone physical on the back end with a right shot. I want you. You will play.’

“I hung up the phone, five minutes left. My gut screamed ‘Say No!’ This coach screwed me over nine years ago. He buried me in the paper after I had a good camp in Anaheim. He buried me so I would look bad so he could then play his boy from juniors who was an undrafted rookie at camp that year ... Kurt Sauer. Six years later when I finally had a chance to take a shot back at him publicly I did so in the paper when I was in Columbus. But then I started to think about Detroit, a good team, always makes the playoffs, get to play with great players, and about maybe getting the opportunity. So I took Mike Babcock's word and I signed the contract, thirty minutes into free agency. I signed the [expletive] contract faster than when I was a ‘hot commodity’ four years earlier. I was one of the first players gone that year in free agency. Off the board July 1st.

“I went to camp in Detroit, and got scratched out. I did injure my knee a bit so I missed couple of days in camp and the first four games. I got back as if it was nothing major. I came back, and the team won its first five games. I got scratched, but okay, the team was winning. We lost seven in a row, then I wasn’t even close to playing. Scratch, scratch.

“Finally, it was mid-November,Ian White got a puck to the face and was going to miss a week, we went on a road trip. A four-game road trip, and I thought to myself that this was my chance. I played three games, no two games, I think, three minutes a night… The only time I touched the ice was when the fourth line was on, and the faceoff was in the neutral zone. I was opening the doors for Lidström, that’s all I was doing, being a cheerleader.

“Bab then met with me, said he was calling up guys from minors, and scratched me until Christmas. Then the GM forced the coach to play me; I played fifteen games, I fought, I played the best I could with the ice time I was getting. And then I got traded (to Tampa) because Ken Holland felt bad.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Thanks for the refresher dash. Forgot he took the harsh realities of the NHL so hard.

 

[sherbert1421]

while commodore shouldn't be complaining he couldn't crack a depleted wings lineup because he sucked. I will say one of babcock's biggest weakness while he was here was to put players in his doghouse with no chance to get it out of it. We saw this with kindl, smith, hudler, and filppula.

He was extremely stubborn sometimes to a fault

 

[forty_three]

So today is Friday, right? Jackets first game against the Rangers HOME OPENER BABY!

Fuck.