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Marian Gaborik and Mike CammalleriBlob Mckenzie wrote:The_Pauser wrote:Well, it looks like we won't be winning the Cup anytime soon. Oh well.
Who were they going to sign this summer ? Who were they going to bring in that puts up over a ppg regular season and close to that in the playoffs for a combined cap hit of 14 million.
How can it be improved?
I notice your link is from before last season.sagebrush wrote:% of the team's cap for ea Sedin, from new contract in 2009/10 to next contract in 2014/15
yr: sedin cap: team cap: %: notes
9/10 6.1M$ 56.8M$ 10.7 new contract
12/13 6.1M$ 70.2M$ 8.7
13/14 6.1M$ 64.3M$ 9.5
14/15 7M$ 64.3$ 10.9 new contract, projected cap
Consistent is the word.
If true...http://www.thescore.com/nhl/articles/12 ... four-years
The NHL's salary cap could go up to $80 million within the next four years, according to Elliotte Friedman of CBC Sports.
Speaking on Sportsnet 590 The Fan's "Prime Time Sports", Friedman said some within the sport expect the cap to rise to that level prior to the 2017-18 NHL season.
CRIKEY! I haven't seen this much hatred since... almost everyone... went off on this guy:The_Pauser wrote:Well, it looks like we won't be winning the Cup anytime soon. Oh well.
Do I detect a hint of sarcasm Dave?dbr wrote:Sweetheart deal. I guess Mike Gillis took TheBrownKnights studies to heart.
A legit bottom 6 center or a top 6 winger.......PLUS Shinkaruk, Horvat, and Kassian becoming significant impact players (I.e. taking a solid leap in their games to the point where they'd be fairly close to realizing their potential). That, along with the twins, Kes, and Lou, playing at their current level, is what I think will make us contenders again.Nuckertuzzi wrote:The Brown Knight wrote:Bring in one good shut down center or top 6 winger with the freed up cap space next year, and I think that's pretty much all we need.
For a Cup?!? Not a chance, we need way more than that. We still have a goalie whom I'm very happy with in the reg season but can't trust at all in the playoffs and unless Lu demands a trade again our goaltending won't change anytime soon. We added a top 6 player last year and still got swept in the first round. We don't have a true stud d-man that almost every Cup team has. Our top scorers are still way too inconsistent with their production in the playoffs. Should I go on??...
To me the only way this team will be a true contender again is by having at the very least 3 or 4 legitimate scoring threats emerge, to take the pressure of the Twins and Kes, not unlike what's happening down in San Jose where people don't focus on Thornton and Marleau anymore. They've added so much depth in the past couple years with homegrown talent, but yet they still don't have a Cup so what's it going to take for us?? Even if the Kassians, Shinkaruks and Horvats do reach the level of Couture/Pavelski/Hertl, it has to happen soon if it happens at all, not 3-4 years from now. There's no hope of landing a Norris type d-man anytime soon and as mentioned we'll have to live with our goaltending warts in the playoffs for the unforeseeable future so to me the only way we can get over the hump is by adding a lot of depth to be able to outscore our deficiencies. Right now we're nowhere near that and while a top-6 plus forward or a shutdown center can certainly improve the team, it's not even close to enough to make us a contender.
I guess it's a good thing that Hank has nearly 5 seasons to get 190 points.Nuckertuzzi wrote:The team may have just avoided extending another franchise embarrassment 20 more years of not having a 1,000 point scorer. Not that it's any guarantee Henrik will get 190 points in the next 4 years but if this deal was not signed, there's no 1,000 point player in sight. This may not be important to many (of course a lack of a Cup is the ultimage embarrassment) but it's sad we'll have 4 retired jerseys tomorrow (though some deserving) and no 1,000 point player, which to me legitimizes a franchise forward. Man would it have sucked to see Hank or Dank break hit the milestone wearing a [blank] jersey.
So one potential embarrassment avoided, now it's up to MG or the next GM to get some help for the Twins to end the other big embarrassment.
Nobody. The highchair GM would have us let our two best players walk, pressure everyone else with a movement clause to waive it so we can deal them for cents on the dollar, go through several seasons in one of the highest priced markets in the league with tens of millions in cap space and a roster that wouldn't be a sure thing to win the Calder Cup all so we could have a decent-to-good shot at drafting players who could drag the franchise back to respectability half a decade from now.Blob Mckenzie wrote:The_Pauser wrote:Well, it looks like we won't be winning the Cup anytime soon. Oh well.
Who were they going to sign this summer ? Who were they going to bring in that puts up over a ppg regular season and close to that in the playoffs for a combined cap hit of 14 million.
Indeed. Hope Glenn Healey, his bum-buddy Non-nuts and his jizz-licking coz Dreger have a good cry before the weekend's over. They are so gonna need it.Blob Mckenzie wrote:Eye Bags deserves extra credit for the timing of the announcement. He is giving a big FUCK YOU to the Leaves and the CBC by signing players the Leaves wanted and would have pursued next summer and for having the game on at 4:00 . Steal the thunder from Canada's team and their cheerleaders at CBC.
Eat that Nonis .........no it isn't a cheeseburger.
I'm sincerely confused. I don't know if you're talking about The_Pauser or Kevin Lowe.dbr wrote:Nobody. The highchair GM would have us let our two best players walk, pressure everyone else with a movement clause to waive it so we can deal them for cents on the dollar, go through several seasons in one of the highest priced markets in the league with tens of millions in cap space and a roster that wouldn't be a sure thing to win the Calder Cup all so we could have a decent-to-good shot at drafting players who could drag the franchise back to respectability half a decade from now.
I realize you're probably kidding, but the Leafs would have had no interest in signing the Sedins next year. They have no cap for one thing, and for the other they already have their entire top 6 (Kessel, Bozak, JVR, Lupul, Kadri, and Clarkson) locked up for next year (and five of them locked up long term). (And they still need to sign Bolland and Phaneuf, both of whom are more important to them than the Sedins would be). Whatever their weaknesses, scoring certainly isn't one of them, so what would they need the Sedins for?Blob Mckenzie wrote:Eye Bags deserves extra credit for the timing of the announcement. He is giving a big FUCK YOU to the Leaves and the CBC by signing players the Leaves wanted and would have pursued next summer and for having the game on at 4:00 . Steal the thunder from Canada's team and their cheerleaders at CBC.
