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PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:57 am    Post subject: NHL Season 2006/2007 Reply with quote Add User to Ignore List

Anyway the season isn't far off, training camps are nearly underway and mostly rookie camps are already going on.

Anyway there's been a few interesting developments I felt like chatting about most obviously are the offer sheet to Ryan Kesler from the Philadelphia Flyers, the mad contract given to Rick DiPietro and the impending retirement of Keith Primeau.

On the subject of Kesler; almost as soon as Simon Gagne was signed by the Flyers to his five year contract (yay!) the Flyers launched an offer sheet at Ryan Kesler for a one year and $1.9 million deal, overpayment for sure but obviously they see Kesler as someone with potential to be good and fill that Primeau slot. The reason for the overpayment is pretty obvious, they think at that price the Canucks won't match because they're close to the cap and Nonis issued Kesler with a take it or leave it two year deal of around $900k per.

Now Kesler has signed the deal with the Flyers, he has to do that for it to even matter at all and the Canucks have a week to either match the offer made by the Flyers or take a second round draft pick as compensation for losing Kesler. Apparently this isn't unexpected from the Canucks it's not like they didn't see the Flyers coming, Clarke tried to trade for Kesler in the summer but Nonis rejected his offers and Clarke apparently told him at that point he may try to sign him to an offer sheet.

Now if Nonis knew this I can't imagine why he didn't make a bigger push to get Kesler penned to a new contract I know they have to pay what they think is right but 900k for him isn't high, I think they could of got it done for a couple hundred more thousand instead of being faced with a choice a second round draft pick or paying the guy $1.9 million.

I've been doing my reading on this, since I'm very interested in the situation if the Canucks do match the offer then they are not allowed to trade Kesler for 1 year from that point. So there's no signing him and trading him somewhere he doesn't want to be to get back at him for signing the offer sheet.

So far it's been five days and Kesler hasn't had the offer matched, apparently things are being talked about in Vancouver today so maybe it will be matched soon. TSN reported the Canucks would almost certainly match but I hope they don't personally, I guess that's obvious from a Flyers fan but Kesler seems a deecnt player and Canucks fans (up until he signed the offer sheet anyway) talked about him as a future captain and I recall they in fact compared him to Mike Richards when they could. He's not as good as Mike Richards in my estimation, they would match without thinking about it if he was, but he's a good player anyway I think.

There's been a lot of moaning on the hockey forum I read about this setting the contract price of players with only 10 goals and 23 points at almost $2 million but I don't think it does at all. It's a special circumstance, Kesler is a good young player not worth $1.9 million truly but the Canucks are pressed to the cap and the Flyers are willing to pay that to snatch him away, it's more about trying to reach a value the Canucks won't match than believing Kesler is worth that much money.

I'd love to have Richards, Kesler, Carter and Umberger. I mean that would be a grand line up of young centres wouldn't it, the only team I can think of that matches that is Pittsburgh with their blasted Crosby/Malkin partnership coming. Lucky them.

The weird thing is the Flyers are stacked with centres anyway, the mroe pressing need would appear to be top end defence, we have lots of bottom pairing D players but lack beyond Pitkanen for top defencemen a bit, well top defencemen who can move quickly anyway.

The other thing being talked about is RFA offer sheet retaliation on Carter, Richards, Nittymaki, Pitkanen and so on. Well this is a possibility it's true, some people believe Clarke has instigated the start of this happening more often by breaking an unwritten rule but this is within the rules, it happens in the NBA and NFL more often, why shouldn't it be a part of hockey. The difference though I think in the Flyers situation is that our impending RFA players are worth more than Kesler is, somebody wants to get Pitkanen, they'll be giving up multiple first round picks and we'll still probably match that, for Carter and Richards it's going to be quite a lot of money before we don't match too. Nittymaki, unless he puts up a good year in the NHL I can't imagine anyone even trying for him at the end of this season.

The DiPietro contract! Milbury is still playing his part here and Wang is mental. I remember they offered him a huge extension once before just like this when Milbury was actually in charge, this franchise is going down the pan, I wouldn't sign for the Islanders if I was a hockey player right now.

DiPietro is 25 they have signed him to a $4.something million deal for 15 years, he's there until he's 40 years old now and being paid good money regardless of if he improves his ability or if he declines as the years go on, I really don't like this deal one bit. The Islanders are all wrong, just in general at the moment.

I'm a bit saddened by Primeau's retirement coming up, he wasa great captain for the Flyers and he turned it up so much in his last playoff run, we all wanted to see him come back and replicate that level of play for the team but he only played a further nine games where he was actually putting up decent point numbers I thought. I guess it wasn't to be, I hope he takes a year off from it all, spends it with his family and then comes back to the Flyers in a coaching job, I think his passion and commitment to the Flyers would be a great boost to have at the club as things go forward for Philadelphia. I also really hope the rest of symptoms get better and the guy can get on with his life after this.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Add User to Ignore List

I liked Kesler, but I probably won't miss him too badly now that Burrows has signed.

The DiPietro deal is completely insane. What are his stats right now, anyway? 31st Goals-Against? I doubt I even heard his name before this (following the western conference almost exclusively probably doesn't help) so how does a guy like that score himself a 15-year contract worth $67.5 million? Either Wang is completely off his rocker or there were favours involved.

Shame about Carter going to Columbus, but at least his time with my Canucks finally showed the management which kind of player works best with the Sedin twins. I doubt they'll try pairing them with a grinder again.
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DiPietro isn't a bad goaltender, he's reasonable. He played a bit for the USA team and I think he did ok there as well, the hope for the New York Islanders must be that the guy is going to get better and their long deal starts looking like a bargain when he hits his peak. If he doesn't get better then they have really shot themselves in the foot.

I don't think he'll ever be an elite goaltender, just reasonable as he already is. That contract will look awful when he's a fading 37 year old still bringing home his dollars for being back up. I hope he the NYI have a get out clause somewhere along the lines, they might need it.
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That's a gamble and a half on DiPietro. I bet they were saying Yashin wasn't a bad player. The contract amounts aren't anywhere close, but it's still a sign that Wang didn't learn nothing. Giving yourself a contract that you can't move, even if you want to, is horrible.

There are out clauses, but still man.... that's crazy. Peca said in the Toronto newspapers that he was offered a 9 year contract. This isn't a good risk to take from Wang.

Good risks; that's what the Kessler situation is. Sure the Flyers are overpaying, but they're getting their hands on a bright young star and this payment could end up paying off later. It's a very clever way of getting access to a young star. Usually young players are locked up by their club until FA, this was a neat way to get access. It's a bit shady, sure... but I still think it was a good move by the Flyers.

The last thing I'll remember about Primeau was the cup run he almost took the Flyers on during the season pre-lockout. The guy was a man possessed and almost single-handedly beat the Lighting. I know he caused all kinds of trouble for my Leafs, then again... 'Zeus caused all kinds of trouble for my Leafs :(

Apparently Frantisek Kaberle is gone for the season. I just heard "Kaberle" and nearly crapped my pants. I breathed a sigh of relief that it was his brother, not my man Thomas. The reason I bring this up is that a blue-chip prospect, Jack Johnson, is "in-play" according to this TSN article. If you guys watched the world juniors you'd know he was the rock on the blue line and probably the best defencemen in the trourney. I really wish the Leafs could send something down there, but we can't.

With the news of Zherdev wanting to head to Russia to play, it seems the 'jackets went and signed Anson Carter.

The Paul Maurice era begins for the Leafs. He says he wants to work Sundin like a dog. Sundin, averaging his 20 minutes a game is the most under-used superstar. At age 35 his body isn't that beat up so he still has a few more years left on him.... I hope. Still, I'm not all that excited at the prospects for the Leafs. At least I can rest assured that if we don't make it to the 2nd round this year, Fergy JUNIOR will be canned. Gawd I hate him.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Add User to Ignore List

Yeah that's all you can say about it compared to Yashin, it's not nearly that amount of money but now we're under a cap - it could come back to bite them when he sucks and is aging as much as he could seem a bargain in a couple of years if he gets better and that's a big if too. He's 25 years old, he's not too old for a goalkeeper so there's time to improve but who really knows if he will at this point like you say it's a gamble and a half.

It's the same thing that will stick with me about Primeau as well, my myspace background has been Keith for ages, it's a picture from during those playoffs when he scored and just stood holding his stick high in the air while all the fans all decked in orange t-shirts went crazy in the background. I love that photo. I'll miss the guy seriously and I think he'll end up working for the Flyers in some capacity, it's a shame he has to go out like this really. Trying to look at the positive now, the Flyers have cleared cap space to go after Kesler and if they don't land him they have a bit of flexibility, Preems was being paid about $3.5 million which was a decent deal for a guy like him actually.

I wouldn't mind Zherdev on my team either you know, he'd just cost more picks since I guess he must be asking for a fair amount of cash or something. He's a good scorer.

And again I'd love to land a prospect like Jack Johnson, seriously. He has been billed as a really good one and I would keep him around if it was just a matter of waiting for him to finish college, if he doesn't want to sign for Carolina though then it's another matter. I don't think they'll trade him though personally unless the return is very good. The Flyers don't have a good enough D-man spare to go for Johnson though anyway so it's moot from my point of view.

I liked Paul Maurice for the Canes back in the day I think he'll do a good job in Leaf land. Ferguson has made some questionable moves I think but I don't rate him worse than Quinn's efforts in the past (he was GM/Coach right? My memory hasn't turned rubbish?).
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Oh dear, I'm not in the best of moods at the moment when I say this but I just found out Flyers goaltender Antero Nittymaki has torn him Labrum and is out for at least 4-6 weeks with the injury which will likely require surgery to repair. This comes a day after Robert Esche lets in 5 goals on 16 shots in a preseason game, great. Apparently there are a few options rumoured to be being looked at by the Flyers at the moment, Sean Burke (please, please, please no!), Phantoms starter martin Houle and an impressive tryout player for the Flyers called Jere Myllyniemi.

Knowing nothing about the third guy to be honest my hope is they opt for Martin Houle who was apparently the best player for the Phantoms last year who took the starting job from Rejean Beauchamin (the Canadian WJC starter a couple of years back) who himself went to the ECHL for starts in the end. I mean Houle is cheap so it makes financial sense under the cap since Nittymaki will go onto IR, Houle's salary will be written off as a replacement player and for the duration of the injury we'll actually be able to exceed the cap a tiny amount I think (by exceed I mean the gap between Nittymaki's and Houle's salary is still available to use as an injury replacement, I could be very wrong here though).

All the same this is an upsetting turn of circumstance because Nittymaki was just unseating Esche as starter completely when this happened, the guy had a great Olympics last year after being brought in as a injury replacement for Atlanta's hotly tipped youngster Kari Lehtonen and Mikka Kiprusoff who both dropped out. He played his way to a silver and while the team was very good ahead of him he had a good tournament personally as well. He got so burnt out last year when Esche got injured and he played every game of a 12 game road trip and sort of fizzled towards the end of the year but the guy is a really good player on his day and I was hoping he would step it up a bit.

Personally if they bring Burke into the club at this point I'm going to scream at someone and probably hit them as well. The guy is so past it that I'd rather see a young player come in and try, they don't have to play the majority of games just act like a normal backup for a couple of months and pick up the slack when Esche is faltering and hopefully not getting a groin strain as he seems susceptible to. Really this is quite bad news for the team since we had two capable goaltenders just a day ago and now we're lacking any NHL experience in the back up position which is a worrying sign for me.

On a more positive note because I need to say something that will make me feel a bit better even if it is relatively old news, the combination of Calder - Richards - Carter as a second line has been looking great in preseason and scoring quite a few. Place this behind a first line of Gagne - Forberg - Knuble and that's two really good scoring lines capable of doing very well for the team. Honestly the defence doesn't look all that for the Flyers but I've been hearing Hatcher has been moving a lot better since his offseason surgery and Rathje has been moving better again too (he had postseason surgery on his hip as well).

Lars Jonsson who was a first round pick for the Bruins but they didn't want to give him the rookie max contract joined the Flyers instead at the behest of a certain Swedish player on the Flyers (the cap'n, Forsberg) and he has supposedly looked very good in preseason. He was an outside bet for a roster spot and apparently he's grabbed the chance. He is now billed as a powerplay specialist for us and lower pairing d-man I'm pretty excited about this guy's chances of having a good season for the Flyers and looking forward to seeing how he copes coming from Europe and straight into the NHL game it should be interesting. I really hope we stole something nice from the Bruins with this guy.

Edit: Now Nittymaki is having Cortisone injections through the season and going to play. I'd prefer he didn't personally and just fixed this with the surgery, I guess they wouldn't do it if there was a risk of long term damage though so maybe I'm being overly pessimistic.

Lars Jonsson has a high-ankle sprain too from the other night's name.
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I wonder why Nitty is doing that. I did think he was getting the job after Esche did poorly in preseason while he came off a solid world championships and Olympics. Maybe this is why, he knows this is his chance to usurp Esche. He was great for me when he was on my hockey pool team last year, but during that stretch of 18-20 straight games, he got killed. But I think his play during that stretch solidified his position as the future for the Flyers.

The Jackets have signed Nikolai Zherdev which should help them even more. Nash, Carter, Zherdev, Federov and Vyborny.... that sounds pretty good. Foote and Berrard on the back end all they need is a goalie to climb out of the basement.

My Leaf defencemen are dropping like flies, I think we've lost 4 of them so far. This kind of lessens the importance of the preseason fight for jobs. The guy who is left standing wins it I figure. We don't have a winger for Mats Sundin yet either... while we were overpaying huge amounts for the likes of Gill and Kubina, the coveted spot next to Sundin is left vacant. We all hope Kyle Wellwood, a 5'8" 2nd year player can succeed there, but who knows...

Paul Maurice has been working the Leafs hard, which is good. I hope it pays off.

Season starts next week, I'm so excited... only 5 days!! Leafs will not be last in the division, I guarantee it!
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Add User to Ignore List

Blasphemy wrote:
Leafs will not be last in the division, I guarantee it!


And yet I will not be happy until all of the other clubs north of the border have more points than "Canada's team". ;) Canucks to the cup!
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You know, we're on average about 10 games in and a lot of press has been made about Buffalo winning 10 straight games. Unfortunately, this isn't entirely true. They are really only unbeaten 10 straight games as they won 3 of those games in the shootout. This means the current standing record of 10 straight victories should still stand since it was achieved prior to the shootout era. We'll just put an * next to Buffalo's record. Who is the current record holder? I wonder....


The Leafs and Habs played one heck of a game on HNIC (or Saturday night). Sure it was sloppy at times, but the game was wild. Chances everywhere, both goalies playing well and one of the most inspired preformences by Mats Sundin that I have ever seen. It was an awesome game that we won in round #7 of the shoot out.

My Leafs got blown out back to back against Ottawa, but I'll be honest, I count every game against Ottawa a loss. We just can't beat them in the regular season. They will never beat us in the playoffs so if the Leafs can make it to the playoffs and play the Sens, we'll advance. It was very enjoyable to see the Sens lose to the Bruins tonight. That keeps the Senators below the Leafs in the division.

Despite how bad the Leafs may look, they're nowhere near as bad as the basement feeders this year. Pittsburgh? Boston? Hah, I don't think so. It's actually the Philadelphia Flyers. Man, do they look horrible. The whole team is dysfunctional and I'm surprised by how bad they have played. Whoo weee, I feel bad for anyone who's a fan of the Flyers... I mean it's gotten so bad I think the best thing to do is change your name and hope nobody recognizes you.

How's your team doing this year?
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My Canucks are doing pretty well. It's really amazing how great the Sedins have become over the last couple seasons, even without Anson Carter. Watching these two just on their own is a real treat, especially for those of us who still remember the horrid Keanan years. Naslund is just gravy and he's the captain. Add to that newcomers like Pyatt and Bulis, to say nothing of Luongo, and I think Vancouver might actually break past the quarterfinals this year.
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Damn you Blasphemy you liar, I wasn't the one claiming the Flyers would win yesterday now was I? No, that was you trying to get my hopes up for future disappointment. No really last night sucked I turned the game off at 6-1 in frustration over their performance, I find it a terrible thought that Forsberg probably won't be in the playoffs this year for some reason, I mean even if the team plays awful he would probably win a couple games on his own (like last year!). I don't know Niitymaki didn't do well last night and Esche came in and played like himself, I guess it's time to admit a new goalie is something the team might need but the team itself does not want to trade young players or picks (something Snider stated and if Holmgren wants any chance of hanging onto that job he needs to do as Snider says) so I don't know who they would get that is obviously better than Nitty.

Aside from that it's been obvious this defence can't cut it, Pitkanen is good but Hatcher and Rathje have been bad, Jones and Meyer haven't been good, in fact Jones has never been good to my knowledge at least Meyer was decent last year. Picard is a rookie so you expect mistakes there but there's already a ton of mistakes in this blueline so he's not truely helping matters, Jonsson is interesting but he's an offence first defenceman and while he sounds alright and did great in camp this team is letting in more goals than any other Flyers team I've known so it needs defensive players more than anything.

I could moan more about the situation but it's only making me a bit depressed, oh well, I'm still hoping the team can do something a bit respectable with the season, I hate that whole consolation of "at least we get a high pick", I want the team to win every night so I'd rather they come one spot short of the playoffs than dead last and get the number 1. the team needs to start playing though I mean it's almost the same group that turned up 100 points last year so it's difficult to accept they're so bad this year.
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I figured this was a better place for a bit of hockey talk than the actual fantasy thread, I know it draws the same crowd but this is just for the sake of neatness I suppose.

Anyway I just wanted to bring up the two trades I read about today, Adam Hall goes to the Minnesota Wild for Pascal Dupuis first of all. The thing here is both players have been under achieving for both teams so I suppose the hope is that they can regain form with a change of scenery it sounds to be a mostly lateral move here, perhaps Hall has a bit more potential to be a bigger time player but Dupuis is a bit more of a versatile role player and the Rangers seem to be chasing things now given their recent move to acquire Sean Avery as well.

The other trade is interesting, Josef Vasicek goes to Carolina in exchange for Eric Belanger. Belanger is pretty decent on fast offs and is a relatively speedy third line type of player apparently Nashville are lacking anyone good on face offs besides Legwand and wanted this to happen. Carolina traded Vasicek to Nashville for Walker in the first place so it seems a reasonable move for them too, I was reading Vasicek never really worked out for the Predators so I imagine Carolina's hope is that by bringing him back to the place where he was once a pretty good player will spark a return to that form instead of just getting the guy who was playing over in the West where he was by all accounts largely underwhelming.

I can't wait for the real trade action to begin happening, it's not too long away now and I'm kind of excited and a little scared even though the Flyers aren't going to be getting anyone. I've never experienced my team being a seller at the deadline it should be a very different experience for me this year, I don't want to see players thrown away for rubbish but I'd love to get a hold of some nice picks or prospects from contending teams who have them to spare and build a brighter future for this team. Should be interesting all the same.


An update: Belanger was subsequently dealt on from the Predators for Vishnevski from the Atlanta Thrashers. The Thrashers suddenly start looking a little thin on defence but Belanger makes a decent fill in for the injured Steve Ruccin at the centre position, you have to say Atlanta looks like they need another defenceman if they want to go anywhere this season though, really.
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I remember when I use to know virtually every player in hockey. Now I don't. Stupid lockout still has me balled up. So go Rangers, do, something, please?
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I have not been paying enough attention to hocky this season i gotta start to watch more games. All i know though is that the Wings traded Manny Legacy, and i will never forgive them. I still love them but i gotta hold a grudge because of our inability to keep a steady goaile.
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The Wings didn't trade Legace, they just didn't resign him when he was going to be a free agent, as a result he signed for the St. Louis Blues in the offseason. He got his first shut out of the season the other day actually. Really though...how can you blame them? Legace had never been the starter for the Red Wings and he hasn't been the greatest goalie on earth for the Blues, in fact Hasek has been right near the head of the league after a bit of a shakey start, he has one of the best GAAs of anyonein the league!

Anyway there's been another trade go down!

Andrew Ference and Chuck Kobasew (CGY) for Brad Stuart, Wayne Primeau and a draft pick (BOS).

I find it a little surprising that Boston were the ones to throw in the draft pick here since the best player in that deal has to be Stuart, Kobasew has some potential as a scorer but coming up to the deadline I would have thought Boston could have got more, I know the New Jersey Devils were heavily rumoured to be after Stuart as well. Boston are certainly a funny bunch, Primeau and Stuart came in the Thornton trade so if you want to extend how you look at the whole deal...

Thornton for Sturm, Ference and Kobasew.

Not a pretty picture for a Bruins fan I think.
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