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On April 02 2013 14:36 Funnytoss wrote:Calgary was basically dumping salary. There's no way Bouwmeester is worth nearly 7 million a year =_=;;
Agreed. This is a good trade for Calgary. Pick can be expected to be 15-20 range. Bouwmeester was once upon a time worth around that price but not any more. Kinda sorta puts a band-aid on the bad trade for Iginla (Bostons offer was soooo much better, even with a conditional 1st. Thats why you get lists of teams amended into the contract and not verbally)
Edmonton on a tear. Admittedly tearing apart the Flames isn't much of an accomplishment but still. Hoping the boys can keep this up for 4 or 5 games in a row. With all the damn 3 point games being played in the west this year gaining ground is tough. Really need to win a large chunk of our games to make the playoffs.
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Canucks somehow strike again. This team has no idea how to play a full 60 minute game, one minute they are playing like a Stanley Cup contender, next it is like they are trying to look like a bottom of the barrel WHL team lol. Come on guys!
EDIT: The second line is playing out of their mind this year, really a break out season for Hansen. To have a positive note with my negative note.
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On April 02 2013 14:36 Funnytoss wrote:Calgary was basically dumping salary. There's no way Bouwmeester is worth nearly 7 million a year =_=;;
Have you seen the minutes he plays? Sure, that's not great value for the money, but he's still by all means a top pairing defenseman. I don't see why Feaster didn't look to eat a bit of the money involved and look for more.
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Anyone else hear about Alexei Yashin coaching the Russian women’s Olympic hockey team? I certainly hope he's better at coaching than playing the game. ._.
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Given the price for defensemen (two 2nds for shitty Doug Murray??), I have a hard time believing that Feaster won the JBo trade. Even if his contract is brutal, it's not so brutal when compared to other teams who have a legitimate top-pairing guy making the same or more. But yeah, that's what they get for handing out NTCs to every damned player they sign.
Man, now I have to cheer for the Blues to miss the playoffs so that Calgary's pick gets deferred. BURN CALGARY BURN IT ALL DOWN.
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On April 02 2013 23:47 StarStruck wrote:
Anyone else hear about Alexei Yashin coaching the Russian women’s Olympic hockey team? I certainly hope he's better at coaching than playing the game. ._.
Aren't the Islanders still paying him too? Hahaha, the Islanders have the Russian women's coach on their payroll - makes sense somehow.
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On April 02 2013 23:49 Flaccid wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2013 23:47 StarStruck wrote:
Anyone else hear about Alexei Yashin coaching the Russian women’s Olympic hockey team? I certainly hope he's better at coaching than playing the game. ._. Aren't the Islanders still paying him too? Hahaha, the Islanders have the Russian women's coach on their payroll - makes sense somehow.
He's one of their coaches and yes he is still getting paid by the Islanders. Mikhail Chekhanov is the head coach, but he's still helping prepare them for the Sochi games. I'm excited to see what will happen as the IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship gets underway in Ottawa with our girls in action tonight.
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I've always been a huge Shawn Horcoff booster, defending him tirelessly while the slack-jawed mob in Edmonton continuously throws him under the bus. Sure, he's overpaid - but he's a wonderful player whose skill-set is not reproduced anywhere else on the roster. Guys like Shawn Horcoff are very important to hockey teams who want to win.
Thanks to this shortened season and an injury to Horcoff, I get to use some actual evidence to back up this assertion:
Oilers with Horcoff: 11-4-3
Oilers without Horcoff: 4-9-4
Absolutely nuts. When Horcoff got injured, management failed miserably in their decision not to find immediate help for the team. It's hard to know how many points were sacrificed by this decision. If the Oilers fail to make the playoffs (they currently have an approximately 25% chance), this will be the number one reason.
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Man the Canucks just got Derek Roy from the Dallas Stars for second round draft pick and prospect Kevin Connauton. This is a really good trade for the Canucks.
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On April 03 2013 01:46 Shelke14 wrote:
Man the Canucks just got Derek Roy from the Dallas Stars for second round draft pick and prospect Kevin Connauton. This is a really good trade for the Canucks.
Guess Kessler is out for a while.
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On April 02 2013 23:47 StarStruck wrote:
Anyone else hear about Alexei Yashin coaching the Russian women’s Olympic hockey team? I certainly hope he's better at coaching than playing the game. ._.
dude Yashin was pretty good when he actually played hockey. He had no heart he was a bum. Thats what sinked him. But when he played he was solid. 780 pts in 850 games is pretty good for a guy who played in the 90's
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On April 03 2013 03:03 Kevin_Sorbo wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2013 23:47 StarStruck wrote:
Anyone else hear about Alexei Yashin coaching the Russian women’s Olympic hockey team? I certainly hope he's better at coaching than playing the game. ._. dude Yashin was pretty good when he actually played hockey. He had no heart he was a bum. Thats what sinked him. But when he played he was solid. 780 pts in 850 games is pretty good for a guy who played in the 90's
That's where we differ. I don't think he was particularly good. Sure his points were good in the regular season but he didn't play a two-way game and as you said. He had no passion on the ice. Something Ovechkin really needs back. I don't care about the antics that comes along with it. The guy needs to be the spark plug he once was to get people excited for when the Caps play.
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did you even watch him play StarStruck? He was playing hockey the way it was played in the 90s -- you dont need to play a two way game when you can have a 250 lb defender clutch and grab speedy forwards -- and he was getting a ton of points. The guy was legitimately a top 30 hockey player at his height.
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On April 03 2013 00:30 Flaccid wrote:
I've always been a huge Shawn Horcoff booster, defending him tirelessly while the slack-jawed mob in Edmonton continuously throws him under the bus. Sure, he's overpaid - but he's a wonderful player whose skill-set is not reproduced anywhere else on the roster. Guys like Shawn Horcoff are very important to hockey teams who want to win.
Thanks to this shortened season and an injury to Horcoff, I get to use some actual evidence to back up this assertion:
Oilers with Horcoff: 11-4-3
Oilers without Horcoff: 4-9-4
Absolutely nuts. When Horcoff got injured, management failed miserably in their decision not to find immediate help for the team. It's hard to know how many points were sacrificed by this decision. If the Oilers fail to make the playoffs (they currently have an approximately 25% chance), this will be the number one reason.
he is drawing the toughest minutes by a pretty large margin too
http://somekindofninja.com/nhl/usage.php?f1=2012_s&f2=5v5&f3=&f5=EDM&f4=C+LW+RW&f7=10-&bubbleType=corsiRel&yAxis=qoc&update-filters=Update Results
41% def zone and tougheest competition. dude is overpaid, but he is pretty good at what he does
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On April 03 2013 04:14 Sub40APM wrote:
did you even watch him play StarStruck? He was playing hockey the way it was played in the 90s -- you dont need to play a two way game when you can have a 250 lb defender clutch and grab speedy forwards -- and he was getting a ton of points. The guy was legitimately a top 30 hockey player at his height.
I'm over 30 and I'm a hockey fanatic. I rather not discuss clutch and grab because it's old news. My mind didn't change then and it hasn't changed now. Yashin to me was always a hack. People on these forums know how critical I've been on Spezza since Junior and if I had to pick between the two I'd rather have Spezza any day of the week regardless of eras. Regardless of who Yashin did and didn't play with. It has very little to do with the fact that Yashin never produced in the playoffs. I want players on my team who have an actual pulse. Yashin to me was a floater and had no character.
On April 03 2013 04:15 QuanticHawk wrote:Show nested quote +On April 03 2013 00:30 Flaccid wrote:
I've always been a huge Shawn Horcoff booster, defending him tirelessly while the slack-jawed mob in Edmonton continuously throws him under the bus. Sure, he's overpaid - but he's a wonderful player whose skill-set is not reproduced anywhere else on the roster. Guys like Shawn Horcoff are very important to hockey teams who want to win.
Thanks to this shortened season and an injury to Horcoff, I get to use some actual evidence to back up this assertion:
Oilers with Horcoff: 11-4-3
Oilers without Horcoff: 4-9-4
Absolutely nuts. When Horcoff got injured, management failed miserably in their decision not to find immediate help for the team. It's hard to know how many points were sacrificed by this decision. If the Oilers fail to make the playoffs (they currently have an approximately 25% chance), this will be the number one reason. he is drawing the toughest minutes by a pretty large margin too http://somekindofninja.com/nhl/usage.php?f1=2012_s&f2=5v5&f3=&f5=EDM&f4=C+LW+RW&f7=10-&bubbleType=corsiRel&yAxis=qoc&update-filters=Update Results41% def zone and tougheest competition. dude is overpaid, but he is pretty good at what he does
He's certainly a role player in their dressing room with all the kids on the team plus almost every player I could think of is overpaid. There are very few bargains in the league.
Jagr welcome to Boston. Knew they would get him after what happened with Iggy.
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weeeeee
rangers supposedly in on clowe... meh. they really could use a non sucky bottom six but i dont feel like seeing them pay out the ass for a mediocre rental
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I enjoy Vancouver getting Roy. :D
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I do NOT enjoy Boston getting Jagr, however.
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is getting roy to replace the other dimunitive but skilled forward they traded away last year acknowledgement that they got throttled in the kassian-hodgeson trade??
roy is a good pick up for them though. slots into the top 6 and should do well since he wont face top notch opponents with the seidns there
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On April 03 2013 00:30 Flaccid wrote:
I've always been a huge Shawn Horcoff booster, defending him tirelessly while the slack-jawed mob in Edmonton continuously throws him under the bus. Sure, he's overpaid - but he's a wonderful player whose skill-set is not reproduced anywhere else on the roster. Guys like Shawn Horcoff are very important to hockey teams who want to win.
Thanks to this shortened season and an injury to Horcoff, I get to use some actual evidence to back up this assertion:
Oilers with Horcoff: 11-4-3
Oilers without Horcoff: 4-9-4
Absolutely nuts. When Horcoff got injured, management failed miserably in their decision not to find immediate help for the team. It's hard to know how many points were sacrificed by this decision. If the Oilers fail to make the playoffs (they currently have an approximately 25% chance), this will be the number one reason.
I love Shawn Horcoff. I do not love his contract. When that abomination is expired I really hope the Oielrs can sign him at a more reasonable price. He's an excellent player and an important part of the team.
The Oilers best chance at making the playoffs is for the west to stop playing god damn over time games. I'd wager a guess that ever team has played at least 12 OT games. Winning every game they play till the end would help too. We do have a very favorable schedual with alot of home games and weak opponents
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