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TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada10010 Posts
July 11 2013 20:30 GMT
#2981
looooool
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TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada10010 Posts
July 11 2013 20:30 GMT
#2982
hawk how mad
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Gao Xi
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Hong Kong5178 Posts
July 11 2013 20:31 GMT
#2983
I just saw the kovalchuk news, and i literally could not stop laughing.

Pretty scumbag
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TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada10010 Posts
July 11 2013 20:32 GMT
#2984
Spoked B blog ‏@TheSpokedB_blog
Kovalchuk to join SKA St. Petersburg

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sharkeyanti
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1273 Posts
July 11 2013 20:32 GMT
#2985
holy shit this is the most surprising retirement since Barry Sanders. He was on the decline of his career, though. Good luck to Kovy, hopefully he gets a chance to spend time with the family. That mostly sucks for the Devils, because they have very little offense. Being rid of the contract is nice, though the cap hit will hurt in some years.
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TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada10010 Posts
July 11 2013 20:34 GMT
#2986
Value of: Ilya Kovalchuk

Zach Parise
top 5 pick in 2014 NHL Draft
David Clarkson

-______- huge douchebag move, especially now that we know hes going to the KHL
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Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka27151 Posts
July 11 2013 20:37 GMT
#2987
How is it douchebag if the guy wants to go back to his home country? This is what you get by locking players out and giving them a taste of other options.
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JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada16769 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-11 20:47:27
July 11 2013 20:40 GMT
#2988
well he is guaranteed to be at Sochi 2014

the bigger ice surface in the KHL makes for a better game
and the players know it better than any "fan".

great salary cap circumvention by the Devils.

where is that guy that said Phoenix leaving was a "sure thing" LOL.
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QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32075 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-11 20:50:10
July 11 2013 20:45 GMT
#2989
On July 12 2013 05:30 TT1 wrote:
hawk how mad

i am a rangers fan this is hilarious to me lol

i kinda agree with mani in part. the owners are assholes, and deserve this.

on the other hand, he just totally fucking shafted jersey hard. after the fa rush, and righta fter he turned 30 so they get hit with the cap recaputre deal. and you can bet they woulda took that 1st penalty for him instead of mattau if they knew this was coming. he signed the contract, and he should honor it.

should be interesting to see the nhl/khl slap fight when he tries returning to cska


e: The Devils basically just got away with giving Ilya a 3 year $23m deal, and all it cost them was one draft pick and $250k until 2024

e2: wtf they voided so he can play. holy fucking cap circumvention. lou knew this was the deal all along lol that fukin sneaky bastard
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TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada10010 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-11 20:59:42
July 11 2013 20:49 GMT
#2990
On July 12 2013 05:37 Manifesto7 wrote:
How is it douchebag if the guy wants to go back to his home country? This is what you get by locking players out and giving them a taste of other options.


every european player has to deal with the same issues tho.. im sure all of them would like to be with their family and play in their home country but there has to be some sort of accountability when you sign a contract with a team. both NJ and kovi made a commitment to each other and now hes backing out of it now after NJ gave up a shitload of assets for him

1) he announced his retirement after free agency was over
2) NJ passed up on horvat (1st line potential) to get schnieder
3) they lost their 2014-2015 1st rounder in the kovalchuk acquisition
4) he made it impossible for NJ to sign re-parise/clarkson due to cap issues

all in all its a pretty douchebag move imo
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JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada16769 Posts
July 11 2013 20:50 GMT
#2991
On July 12 2013 05:34 TT1 wrote:
top 5 pick in 2014 NHL Draft

Kypreos on PTS says Jersey now will keep that pick
Ray Kassar To David Crane : "you're no more important to Atari than the factory workers assembling the cartridges"
crawlingchaos
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada2025 Posts
July 11 2013 20:54 GMT
#2992
I just... ugh. 250k cap penalty is nothing, but this really sucks the enthusiasm I had out of this season.


At least the Leafs look good this year. >:[
They say that life's a carousel, spinning fast you've gotta ride it well, the world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams, it's heaven and hell, oh well.
Sub40APM
Profile Joined August 2010
6336 Posts
July 11 2013 20:55 GMT
#2993
On July 12 2013 05:45 QuanticHawk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2013 05:30 TT1 wrote:
hawk how mad

i am a rangers fan this is hilarious to me lol

i kinda agree with mani in part. the owners are assholes, and deserve this.

my thoughts exactly, if he did this out of the blue. Otherwise, Lou continues to be an the Emperor Palpatine of the league. On one hand, clearly brilliant. On the other hand, really weird decisions sometimes that leave the Empire extremely vulnerable. Especially now that the moister farmers got off long island arent just doing t-41 runs against wampas.
TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada10010 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-11 21:00:10
July 11 2013 20:57 GMT
#2994
On July 12 2013 05:50 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2013 05:34 TT1 wrote:
top 5 pick in 2014 NHL Draft

Kypreos on PTS says Jersey now will keep that pick


thats good, takes alot of the sting out of it
roenick is going off on kovalchuk on twitter lol

https://twitter.com/Jeremy_Roenick
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CorsairHero
Profile Joined December 2008
Canada9491 Posts
July 11 2013 21:02 GMT
#2995
nothing stopping him from coming back to the nhl after a year right? hahahaha
© Current year.
TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada10010 Posts
July 11 2013 21:04 GMT
#2996
On July 12 2013 06:02 CorsairHero wrote:
nothing stopping him from coming back to the nhl after a year right? hahahaha


Dmitry Chesnokov @dchesnokov

Source close to Kovalchuk said he saw it coming. Most likely Kovalchuk will play for SKA. I am told major announcement will come very soon.

Dmitry Chesnokov ‏@dchesnokov 3m
SKA will announce Kovalchuk's signing tomorrow, per @plysenkov, wanted to do it today.
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TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada10010 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-11 21:14:43
July 11 2013 21:08 GMT
#2997
well at least NJ got rid of his contract, i guess it works out fine for both partys. NJ made a mistake by signing him to that deal in the first place and they paid for it by losing parise. i guess i was kinda over-exaggerating
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JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada16769 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-11 21:16:06
July 11 2013 21:14 GMT
#2998
"Smirnoff is the only Russian I can trust"

i don't blame the guy.
he gets to go home. he can play in the Olympics.
he gave NJ 100% when he did play for them.
he gets to play on a larger ice surface.

NJ and other teams realize how dangerous these super long term contracts are.
Ray Kassar To David Crane : "you're no more important to Atari than the factory workers assembling the cartridges"
StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
July 11 2013 21:23 GMT
#2999
So saw it coming lmao.
Gosi
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Sweden9072 Posts
July 11 2013 21:26 GMT
#3000
Didn't they sign this ridiculous contract to get around the cap hit? I'm pretty sure they saw this coming from the very beginning, just not so soon lol. It was pretty much just a game of numbers.
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