The Official 2013-2014 NHL Hockey Thread

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No more James Neal. Traded to the Predators for Hornqvist and Paling.

[jredd109]

kesler to the ducks.

[BigCat8]

Never forget the Sam Gagner era in Tampa Bay.

[jredd109]

Never forget the Sam Gagner era in Tampa Bay.

haha, lasted all of 89 minutes. ended up getting traded, with another guy, for a 6th round pick...

[BigCat8]

Never forget the Sam Gagner era in Tampa Bay.

haha, lasted all of 89 minutes. ended up getting traded, with another guy, for a 6th round pick...

A trade which makes so little sense, it's astounding. Normally you make moves like that to clear cap space, but Tampa retained 1/3 of Gagner's salary. So they added $1.60m of Gagner's salary, subtracted Crombeen's $1.15m cap hit, and wound up $450k in the hole for the next two seasons with only a 6th round pick to show for it. Not the most clever move.

They got some cap relief from shipping out Teddy Purcell, sure, but that's a totally separate transaction. I can't make sense of it.

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[Positive A]

Spezz still a Sen. Trade needs to happen.

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Free agency at noon. Not a lot of big names out there this year. See what happens.

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Spezza to Dallas

[T Rav]

Today will be a tougher day for Positive A than he expected. If it wasn't Canada Day, I'd express mail over a wholesale package of kleenex.

Chiasson could be good. It's a decent return.

[capable_keL]

thomas vanek tho

[an-also]

thomas vanek tho

Be glad its only a 3 year deal. Would have been idiotic to give him a long-term deal considering how inconsistent he is.

[capable_keL]

thomas vanek tho

Be glad its only a 3 year deal. Would have been idiotic to give him a long-term deal considering how inconsistent he is.

right, hated how he played in the playoffs but it's still an upgrade, nice piece, right?

[an-also]

thomas vanek tho

Be glad its only a 3 year deal. Would have been idiotic to give him a long-term deal considering how inconsistent he is.

right, hated how he played in the playoffs but it's still an upgrade, nice piece, right?

Yes. Giving him 3 years means he'll actually still be playing well for his next contract.

[capable_keL]

would you rather have matt moleson?

[alpha]

Iginla to the avs as well as brad Stuart. Fucking Doug Wilson sitting on his hands like a jack ass so far this offseason

[jredd109]

miller to the nucks.
caps gave niskanen 40 mill for 7 years. get paid son.

[Homer Simpson]

thomas vanek tho

i read this at break at work today. w/o thinking i just kind of said out loud "we got Vanek" to a bunch of people i didnt know. lol. now to shore up the defense.

[BigCat8]

Flyers are pretty much handcuffed right now. Emery signed for 1 year/$1m, DEL goalie Rob Zepp for 1 year/$600k, but until somebody takes Vinny off our hands, we're stuck.

I guess the hope is that with the UFA C options severely dwindling, we can still get Nashville to take him on.

Surprise of the day: the Blackhawks, already over the salary cap, sign Brad Richards.
Washington, in a desperate bid to improve their D, signed Niskanen for 7 years, $5.75m. Slight gamble. Not as outright mind-bottling as them signing Orpik to a 5 year, $5.5m deal, though.

[jredd109]

orpik is a solid defensive d-man. and with ovechkin on your team, when he's on the ice the other team is pretty much on the PP so they need some solid defence.

why in the shit did the flyers sign lecavelier to that ridiculous contract in the first place?

[Kiran187]

Word is flyers might be looking to trade Lecavalier now that his $2mill bonus was due to him on July 1. He just became a lot cheaper to unload.

Fuckin Brad RIchards is living it up right now. $20 mill in buyout money but will still get a regular salary next year for a nice $2mill with a top 3 contender. Everyone says he fell off (myself included) but he's the one laughing right now.

[capable_keL]

over 5 million dollars in contracts were thrown out in 8 hours yesterday

[DLG]

Giroux was arrested for repeatedly grabbing the buttocks of a male police officer. Alcohol is believed to have been involved.

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[Positive A]

Hilarious this happened outside the Cabin. That place blows.

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orpik is a solid defensive d-man.

Orpik has been awful for the past two seasons. He is a shell of his former self. And he can't stay healthy ever.

Niskanen is okay, but he is the softest dude in the planet. He just gets man handled in the corners and in front of the net.

Capitals overpaid for both of them, but that seems like the trend yesterday. Engelland got $3M a year from the Flames.

[capable_keL]

western conference is STACKED

[T Rav]

Central in particular is stacked.
Free agent frenzy was fun, but man these GMs can't be complaining about bad deals any time soon. Some really attrocious ones. I love the Richards deal. And even Ehrhoff's deal.

[BigCat8]

why in the shit did the flyers sign lecavelier to that ridiculous contract in the first place?

Good question. It's really not a bad contract if you can use him as a 1C or 2C, but with Giroux-Schenn-Couturier down the middle, he was never going to center one of the top 3 lines. They tried him at LW, and that didn't work at all. He was apparently excited to play in Lavy's system, but that lasted all of 3 games. I have no complaints about Vinny's abilities, but $4.5m for a guy not playing his natural position (or playing his natural position on the 4th line) just isn't cutting it.

Also, CLOLde Giroux. Absolutely hilarious. The Flyers late season motto was #ClutchTime, and Claude took that with him into the postseason. It's just so stupid and silly that I can't even be mad he got arrested. I don't care what he does, as long as he stays off the golf course.

[Homer Simpson]

western conference is STACKED

Norris divison is insane...expect for Winnepeg. nobody likes Winnepeg.

[jredd109]

canucks signed vrbata. good pick up to replace the offence they lost with kesler.