NHL Season 2007/2008

[fuji]

That's awesome man. Remember, any time Alfredson touches the puck, you have to Boo him. Boo him real good like only a Brit "football" fan can do! :D
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[Exile]

I was planning on booing Crosby more, I'd much rather see the rival Pens lose but I'll boo him at least once for you as well. I'll be in a Flyers jersey people would probably be disappointed if I didn't boo everybody on the ice.
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The worst is death, and death will have his day.

[Lonelion]

I hope you have a great time at that game Exile.
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[glen]

It will be hard for you to boo Crosby when he is not playing right now.

Have fun at the game and try not to get into to much trouble now there Exile.

and by the way go penguins Go!!
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[Exile]

The game isn't until October, Crosby should be back by then! It's the first game of next season.
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[fuji]

Man, it's been pretty quiet leading up to the deadline (unless you're Philly). A few deals here and there, but nothing too major. I wonder if this is the calm before the storm or indicative that it will be a quiet day tomorrow (or later today).

I don't think Prospal is good; I think he leeches off Lecavalier. But, Philly does need a center after Richards went down so it did address a need and it didn't cost too much. All in all, a decent trade for both sides I think. Philly has always liked strength down the middle with a solid core of centres.


Moving closer to home, it seems all of the Leaf's no trade-clause players have stated they will not waive them. Now, I don't know how many of them will stay this way, but I imagine a good majority of them. The ones that piss me off are Tucker and Kubina. McCabe is rumoured to be going to the Rangers, but who knows. In all of this, I am glad Kaberle will stay with us.

There is talk, at least by some leaf fans to trade Toskala. Now I think he's awesome. His numbers aren't good because he plays for the Leafs. Just consider that he's on the 2nd last placed team with decent numbers. Compare that to the goaltenders on other similarly placed teams. I think we could get a pretty good package for him, but I don't want to end up relying on Pogge (our top goalie prospect) to become a great NHL player. Right now, we have a sure thing with Toskie. Luckily, I believe I read that Fletcher (the Leaf GM) stated that everyone is available except Toskala. Thanks SJ for the great goalie! It's almost worth taking that bum Bell.

Anyway, this year I'm happy that I didn't have to take time off work to watch it. Working the midnight shift means when I get home, the shows will be at most, an hour in (with TSN's show starting at 8am).
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[Tullaryx]

Looks like the Sharks has made what could be on of several deals today. San Jose just acquired Brian Campbell from the Sabres and they only had to give up Steve Bernier and a first-round pick in the upcoming draft. Bernier is a good player who can be great but has always been inconsistent since he made the team. The pick they send over to the Sabres will be a late first-rounder and the way Wilson has been about trading for picks before or during the draft I have afeeling the Sharks may end up picking earlier. This will be a great trade for the Sharks if they can get Campbell signed to a deal before the end of the season. At the very least they've improved their blue-line with this trade.
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[Lonelion]

Interesting trades have occured,Brad Richards heading to Dalllas,Brian Campbell going to San Jose,Chistobal Huet going to Washington,Adam Foote returning to Colorado.

It's going to be interesting to see how all these trades play out,alot of solid moves that'll make teams better for the playoff stretch.
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[Tullaryx]

There's still talk of the Sharks making a play for Hossa and/or Kolzig with Marleau, Carle and/or Setoguchi being the three names in play to get one or both players. I, for one, think Kolzig would be a good pick-up to back-up Nabby in San Jose.
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[RedCydranth]

The Sabres have officially died. Losing Campbell is rough. But we offered several contracts to him and he denied them all, so it was a situation where we could have kept him until the end of the year and lose him for nothing a la Chris Drury and Danny Briere. The Sabres at least got something for the guy.

The Penguins getting Hossa from Atlanta is huge too. I'm a Penguins fan and they just got a lot deadlier. Hossa, Malkin and Crosby. Wow.
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[fuji]

Cliff Fletcher is my hero. If you guys get a chance to see his press conferences and interviews; he's literally said JFJ is an idiot, that Mats would've gotten a better return than Hossa, Pavel Kubina is a little punk and he's declaring war on the 5 no-trade clause players of the Leafs. When asked about interest in McCabe, he said so bluntly that there was no interest. His press conference was awesome man, the old guy was vicious.

I'm happy with what we got. I think Cliff got awesome deals on the players we gave up. He couldn't move the core, and now he called them out and said they won't be here next year.

Cliff Fletcher is my hero.
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[Tullaryx]

They should just tear down the Leafs roster and start from scratch. The one thing is whether not bringing those core players with their no-trade clause back next season will have much of an impact on the Leaf's salary cap numbers. I know in the NFL when a player still under contract is released before the start of the next season a certain hit is put on that team's salary cap numbers.
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[Exile]

That was rather the problem Tull, they couldn't tear apart the roster because of all the no trade clauses handed out! I laugh at the uselessness of McCabe mostly, I don't mock Sundin and Kaberle, shame Kabs wouldn't waive his clause to come to Philly because we had a deal in place that just hinged on his say so according to several media sources and fuji knows how much I like Kabs!

In the NHL to buy out a contract it costs 2/3rds of the contract spread over double the years so the cap hit is muchly reduced as a result but it's still over your head for a long time in some cases. The alternative is to send the player to rot in the minor leagues, if the player clears waivers and does not attend the minor league team to play there then the NHL team is able to void their contract. If they do report they get to ride the buses and earn their pay cheques, they then have no effect on the salary cap hit.
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Cry woe, destruction, ruin, and decay -
The worst is death, and death will have his day.

[Tullaryx]

That sort of salary cap hit seems to be less detrimental as the one's the NFL teams have to deal with when they have to cut a player.
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[fuji]