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Strangelove
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by Strangelove » Sun Jul 16, 2017 4:11 pm
ESQ wrote:Doc, if you're going to play "what if" over the two year offer, you also have to play "what if Sundin played the full season?"
This is
not a game of "what if".
The offer was a
real-life occurrence.
All this time I've been criticizing
the offer.
The fact everyone ended up concluding he was a $2.5M guy (at best) at age 38 proved me right.
I'm was concerned about the
2nd year of the idiotic
$20M offer.
Sundin would have been
38 years old starting that 2nd year
... and would have had the highest cap-hit in the NHL by far.
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by Strangelove » Sun Jul 16, 2017 4:14 pm
Uncle dans leg wrote:Strangelove wrote:Uncle dans leg wrote:
Maybe he
would have helped win a cup that year...but as is the case with both(or is it the same?) scenarios... he didn't
He was worth $2.5M max and would have received $10M.
R U I N E D
Your Canucks wouldn't have been able to afford a few of their star players (did you check out the link?)
How do they "win a cup" with some of those star players removed?
Hell, a person could argue "No Presidents Trophies and No 2011 Playoff Run".
The fact he (miraculously) didn't accept the Tard Offer, doesn't excuse Gillis from offering it.
I was going to look up sundins stats from the season prior but Esq did it for me...thx
20m was the offer in the summer that he didnt accept and as pointed out semi-retired to play cards and get fucked up at the lake. He was on record as saying he hadn't been working out but with persistence the canucks coaxed him out for one last hurrah.
Also you cant quantify with numbers what his presence meant to emerging superstars H+D as well as Kesler. He was a hockey legend and inspired the pack of wild swedes that were the heart of the soon to be contender, as well as launching them into art ross trophies. I would say he most certainly helped push those 2 into the upper echelon of the NHL.
Considering how adept MG and Gilman were at fiddling the numbers I am sure they would've carried on as such and found a way.
Straw grasper!
"Straw grasper"
I've been
clearly talking about the
2nd year of that Tard Offer... what about THAT!
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by Strangelove » Sun Jul 16, 2017 4:17 pm
Cornuck wrote:Island Nucklehead wrote:Mats came for half a year, then he left. That was nearly 10 years ago.
Yes, but don't you see how that ties in with this year's development camp? C'mon, IN - make the connection!
I wasn't the one who derailed this thread... but then I didn't exactly underail it either.

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by Blob Mckenzie » Sun Jul 16, 2017 5:01 pm
Strangelove wrote:Blob Mckenzie wrote:Lol at how cap space was valuable in 2009-10 but not now. Fucking hilarious!!!!
They would have wasted at least $7.5M in a $56.8 salary cap world.
How does that compare to anything going on "now".
You whine about a
little cap-space
now
... but the
massive waste of cap-space was okay
then?
There is no way to defend Gillis' ludicrous
$20M offer...
And after your dance .......
Game, set, match ..... for the Blobcat as usual
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by Cornuck » Sun Jul 16, 2017 5:02 pm
Strangelove wrote:Cornuck wrote:Island Nucklehead wrote:Mats came for half a year, then he left. That was nearly 10 years ago.
Yes, but don't you see how that ties in with this year's development camp? C'mon, IN - make the connection!
I wasn't the one who derailed this thread... but then I didn't exactly underail it either.

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by Strangelove » Sun Jul 16, 2017 5:38 pm
Cornuck wrote:Strangelove wrote:Cornuck wrote:Island Nucklehead wrote:Mats came for half a year, then he left. That was nearly 10 years ago.
Yes, but don't you see how that ties in with this year's development camp? C'mon, IN - make the connection!
I wasn't the one who derailed this thread... but then I didn't exactly underail it either.

Just waiting for a new sock named Szilveszter Matuska


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by Cornuck » Sun Jul 16, 2017 5:54 pm
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by Uncle dans leg » Sun Jul 16, 2017 5:55 pm
Cornuck wrote:
Did you ever think thats probably why we're here
nobody forks...with the jesus
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by Cornuck » Sun Jul 16, 2017 6:05 pm
Uncle dans leg wrote:
Did you ever think thats probably why we're here
I know for a fact that why some people keep coming back.

If we were
really interested in reading about hockey in a clean, well-mannered forum full of polite posters, we would be somewhere else. But we know that in between the drama, the name-calling, the childish insults and other non-pc banter - there is some of the best hockey talk on the net happening right here.
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by Lancer » Sun Jul 16, 2017 6:06 pm
Cornuck wrote:
Probably the most epic meme this summer. I'm still wiping the tears of laughter from seeing that.
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by ESQ » Sun Jul 16, 2017 7:50 pm
When is Development Camp anyway?
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by RoyalDude » Sun Jul 16, 2017 9:19 pm
Bubble Bath is the train wreck, not I.
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by Cornuck » Sun Jul 16, 2017 11:22 pm
RoyalDude wrote:Bubble Bath is the train wreck, not I.
What ever it is you want to believe, Dude....
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by Blob Mckenzie » Mon Jul 17, 2017 5:38 am
Cornuck wrote:
Is Doc the conductor?
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by Uncle dans leg » Mon Jul 17, 2017 7:53 am
Blob Mckenzie wrote:Cornuck wrote:
Is Doc the conductor?
The dudes caboose

nobody forks...with the jesus