Originally Posted by Ch28 (Post 6797414)

This is sad considering how Kesler was running his mouth about how players in Vancouver need to take a discount in order to ice a competitive team.

Originally Posted by Greenstoner (Post 6797425)

i thought Burrows was the one who said that ??

Originally Posted by darthchilli (Post 6797335)

first things first, this all happened while I was on a plane coming back from hong kong, and i was in shock

and i must say..FINALLY SOME FUCKING DECENT HOCKEY TALK IN THIS THREAD OMG...regardless.

Burke CONTINUES to shape the Leafs into the hard hitting DEFENCE first hockey team he built in Vancouver and Anaheim. Sadly, Celine Dion has to EARN his spot just like Luke Schenn. I understand SUPERSTAR here plays a different game, but he is a big upgrade from Mike Komiserick. Theres going to be COMPETE for ice time amongst the Dmen, The leafs better hope that Phil Kessel can be a one man show. The leafs do have some promising talent coming up in Nazem Kardri.

Its great to see some HOCKEY TRADES go through as it just does not happen. At the same time, very rare for Burke who likes to DUMP picks for instant depth

The Flames have a buncha forwards here, with the excepton of Mayers who have never played in the west, where its more trap and hard hitting hockey. For Stajan and Hagman to be successful, they must buy into the defence first system in the west.

Ian White has better numbers than celine dion, and in the long run, they have JayBo and Giordano who has been great.

Ollie Jokinen isnt going to get traded to ATL, Ollie isnt going to go anywhere. Ollie is terrible. Ilya Kovalchuk will land to a team that will provide INSTANT impact to the organization, and they WILL trade for PROVEN players that have years remaining in their contract. I believe Kovalchuk doesnt have a NTC so ATL can ship him to wherever they please.

It does appear CGY is dumping money to make room for Kovie, but they got nothing to give up anymore.

Originally Posted by RiceIntegraRS (Post 6797471)

Well Loungo, Sedins, Burrows all took a paycut to stay here and keep this team competitive. Kesler at 5mil a year isnt taking a paycut. Maybe 6yrs 24million contract and I would like to see him get a front loaded type contract where he gets like 6mil in his first and maybe 2nd season. Looks like $6mil, $6mil, $4mil, $4mil, $2mil, $2mil

Originally Posted by RiceIntegraRS (Post 6797471)

Well Loungo, Sedins, Burrows all took a paycut to stay here and keep this team competitive. Kesler at 5mil a year isnt taking a paycut. Maybe 6yrs 24million contract and I would like to see him get a front loaded type contract where he gets like 6mil in his first and maybe 2nd season. Looks like $6mil, $6mil, $4mil, $4mil, $2mil, $2mil

Originally Posted by RRxtar (Post 6797558)

a 25 year old isnt going to going to sign a 5 year front loaded contract that sees him make $2m when hes 30. he could potentially be a $7m player by then.

front loaded contracts generally go to players who will be on the downside of their careers when the contract is in its final years, enabling a buy out or retirement.

Originally Posted by murd0c (Post 6797697)

So henrik was named 2nd star of the month. 1 point behing ovie
And he played 2 less games and against harder teams to boot.
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Originally Posted by Greenstoner (Post 6797710)

what ? Henk is still #1 on the scoring leader with 78 Pt and Ovie is #2 with 76pt.

Henk also has 1 game in hand.

Originally Posted by fobulaus (Post 6797556)

Burrows yes, but I don't think Luongo and Sedins took a paycut at 6.1 mil cap hit... Remember Sedins signed at the rate of pt per game players... Look at guys like Datsuyk (6.7 mil), Martin St Louis (5.25mil), Hossa (5.2 mil), Pat Kane (6.3mil) who are all getting paid similar amounts