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Post by Ye Olde Winesock on Jun 28, 2012 7:45:12 GMT -5
Sundin was a fine player, but not 1st ballot HOF considering the talent pool. Heavy lobbying from the Leafs organization put him over the top. Shanahan was the victim of some payback by a couple of heavy hitters for his vice-principal work. HHOF, like all Halls of Fame, is as political as they come. No doubt. The ceremony is in Toronto, so it's a big deal and the Leafs could use some positive PR. Sundin over Shanahan? I don't see it. And didn't Sundin once take out Bourque's knee, which started their long time feud.
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Post by HockeyNightinDixie on Jun 28, 2012 12:12:29 GMT -5
www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=399437salary cap to increase from US$64 million to $70.2 million. minimum also increases from $48 million to $54.2 million. Think anyone will want a $5M cap hit that you don't actually have to pay for now?
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Post by Peejay on Jun 28, 2012 12:18:28 GMT -5
www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=399437salary cap to increase from US$64 million to $70.2 million. minimum also increases from $48 million to $54.2 million. Think anyone will want a $5M cap hit that you don't actually have to pay for now? I can't remember if it was McKenzie or LeBrun that tweeted that 10 teams may have trouble getting to that number so a bidding war is not out of the question. Hopefully PC get's something done before the new CBA is signed or the NHL and NHLPA agree to start the season under the old CBA.
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Post by KSJ08 on Jun 28, 2012 15:37:15 GMT -5
www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=399437salary cap to increase from US$64 million to $70.2 million. minimum also increases from $48 million to $54.2 million. Think anyone will want a $5M cap hit that you don't actually have to pay for now? SWEET C YA Timmy!!!
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Post by madmarx on Jul 4, 2012 15:35:05 GMT -5
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Post by madmarx on Jul 4, 2012 17:52:56 GMT -5
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Post by Peejay on Jul 6, 2012 9:08:11 GMT -5
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Post by KSJ08 on Jul 6, 2012 14:28:38 GMT -5
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Post by eddy on Jul 11, 2012 11:09:06 GMT -5
He's saying it to keep his cards close to his chest. There's no doubt PC and the Bruins want Nash as much as any team out there - particularly with the likelihood of Horton not being himself for a long time, if ever. The team just needs to find a way to make it work. Columbus isn't getting Seguin or Hamilton, and other teams aren't going to give up their top guys either so Howson's pretty much up shit creek right now in terms of what he can get for Nash. I could see a package of kids (not Hamilton), some roster player(or players), and a pick (or picks) going over...along with TTs contract, which would actually be doing Columbus a huge favor to keep them above the cap floor.
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Post by HockeyNightinDixie on Jul 11, 2012 13:07:45 GMT -5
He's saying it to keep his cards close to his chest. There's no doubt PC and the Bruins want Nash as much as any team out there - particularly with the likelihood of Horton not being himself for a long time, if ever. The team just needs to find a way to make it work. Columbus isn't getting Seguin or Hamilton, and other teams aren't going to give up their top guys either so Howson's pretty much up shit creek right now in terms of what he can get for Nash. I could see a package of kids (not Hamilton), some roster player(or players), and a pick (or picks) going over...along with TTs contract, which would actually be doing Columbus a huge favor to keep them above the cap floor. If PC could get Nash in an exchange that includes Thomas's contract without giving up Seguin, Hamilton, Rask, Bergeron or Chara, then I would be quite impressed.
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Post by madmarx on Jul 11, 2012 15:11:30 GMT -5
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Post by eddy on Jul 11, 2012 15:30:43 GMT -5
He's saying it to keep his cards close to his chest. There's no doubt PC and the Bruins want Nash as much as any team out there - particularly with the likelihood of Horton not being himself for a long time, if ever. The team just needs to find a way to make it work. Columbus isn't getting Seguin or Hamilton, and other teams aren't going to give up their top guys either so Howson's pretty much up shit creek right now in terms of what he can get for Nash. I could see a package of kids (not Hamilton), some roster player(or players), and a pick (or picks) going over...along with TTs contract, which would actually be doing Columbus a huge favor to keep them above the cap floor. If PC could get Nash in an exchange that includes Thomas's contract without giving up Seguin, Hamilton, Rask, Bergeron or Chara, then I would be quite impressed. It's all about the salary cap floor. There will be teams vying for free cap money this year and Columbus will be one of them if they trade Nash, otherwise come the trade deadline, they could be looking at a situation of not being able to trade a player because they'd drop below the cap floor. Thomas' contract will just be a throw in to offset the cap loss from Nash without having any effect on Columbus operations.
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Post by HockeyNightinDixie on Jul 11, 2012 18:04:20 GMT -5
look at the poll to the right. six teams as possibilities for Nash, all nearly perfectly even (Bruins lowest at 14.89%, Rangers highest at 17.69%). No one has a clue.
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Post by Peejay on Jul 11, 2012 18:26:20 GMT -5
look at the poll to the right. six teams as possibilities for Nash, all nearly perfectly even (Bruins lowest at 14.89%, Rangers highest at 17.69%). No one has a clue. I can't see PC paying what the Jackets want but who knows. If what they turned down at the deadline is any indication, we don't have enough "extras" to get it done.
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Post by madmarx on Jul 12, 2012 17:46:51 GMT -5
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Post by kjc2 on Jul 14, 2012 20:13:41 GMT -5
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Post by RascalHoudi on Jul 17, 2012 11:22:32 GMT -5
sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/ladislav-scurko-2004-nhl-draft-pick-convicted-murdering-191039635--nhl.htmlWhile the above is a poorly written article, a better summary below is courtesy of HockeyBuzz blogger for Philly Bill Meltzer... ---------------------------------------------- In Kosice, Slovakia, former Flyers draft pick Ladislav Scurko has been convicted of the January 2008 killing of Slovak Extraliga referee Marek Liptaj in a non hockey-related dispute. Scurko confronted Liptaj and an argument soon turned violent at a service station in Kosice. The player used a kitchen knife to stab Liptaj 14 times in the chest and abdomen. He then drove the body to the forest and buried it in a shallow grave. Liptaj's body was not discovered for a year. In the meantime, Scurko continued his hockey career with HC Kosice, acting as if nothing had happened. When he was finally arrested in April 2009, Scurko confessed to the killing but later retracted the confession. He remained in prison until Nov. 2011 while trial proceedings remained delayed. This week, Scurko was sentenced to eight additional years in prison for voluntary manslaughter. He was not convicted of murder because psychiatric evaluations suggested that Scurko was mentally ill. In addition, police previously testified that they believed the killer's initial intent was not to murder his victim but rather to physically intimidate and coerce him into settling a personal dispute. Eight years is the minimum sentence in Slovakia for a crime of this nature. According to Scurko's statements in his initial confession, the referee had asked the player if he could move into Scurko's apartment while undergoing cancer treatments. The player agreed, but soon the situation sourced. The hockey player claimed he began to suspect that Liptaj did not have cancer, nor was the referee about to start paying rent to him. Once settled in the player's home, Scurko claimed, Liptaj repeatedly refused to move out despite increasingly forceful demands to leave. Finally, Scurko confronted him physically and attempted to force Liptaj to comply. That, according to the defendant, was what directly led to the multiple stabbings and panicked burial of the corpse. While initially in prison, Scurko retracted his confession. He said police tricked him into it. However, the court held that the key facts in the case were accurate and imposed the minimum sentence. Scurko was selected by the Flyers in the sixth round (No. 170 overall) of the 2004 NHL Draft. He played two seasons in the Western Hockey League for the Seattle Thunderbirds, where former Flyers' general manager Russ Farwell served as the junior team's GM. When the Flyers did not offer the forward an NHL contract, he returned home to play in Slovakia.
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Post by offwego on Jul 18, 2012 23:33:26 GMT -5
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Post by HockeyNightinDixie on Jul 19, 2012 5:38:00 GMT -5
interesting tidbit about Hamilton, if there is a lockout, he may go back to junior and be ineligible to play in the NHL why would that be the case?
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Post by Peejay on Jul 19, 2012 10:45:41 GMT -5
interesting tidbit about Hamilton, if there is a lockout, he may go back to junior and be ineligible to play in the NHL why would that be the case? Under the current CBA, a player can only be recalled from junior in emegency situations. There was a bit of an uproar with how long the Flames were able to keep Sven Baertschi up near the end of last season so I'm assuming there is strict rules of when they need to be returned.
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Post by HockeyNightinDixie on Jul 19, 2012 11:02:14 GMT -5
why would that be the case? Under the current CBA, a player can only be recalled from junior in emegency situations. There was a bit of an uproar with how long the Flames were able to keep Sven Baertschi up near the end of last season so I'm assuming there is strict rules of when they need to be returned. oh, so its if there is a lockout but it doesn't cancel the entire season. but if the lockout ends, it would be due to a new cba, which could give a temporary waiver for just this type of situation.
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Post by Peejay on Jul 19, 2012 11:14:35 GMT -5
Under the current CBA, a player can only be recalled from junior in emegency situations. There was a bit of an uproar with how long the Flames were able to keep Sven Baertschi up near the end of last season so I'm assuming there is strict rules of when they need to be returned. oh, so its if there is a lockout but it doesn't cancel the entire season. but if the lockout ends, it would be due to a new cba, which could give a temporary waiver for just this type of situation. Maybe...I'm not sure how much the CBA is attached to the deal that is signed with the CHL. They may be separate entities. Like does the CBA trump the CHL deal? I don't know. ;D
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Post by kjc2 on Jul 19, 2012 11:29:34 GMT -5
If there is a lockout and we miss 40 games, I don't think it would be a huge deal for Hamilton to finish out the year with his junior club. One more full year to add some weight on his frame won't be a bad thing.
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Post by KSJ08 on Jul 21, 2012 14:26:10 GMT -5
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Post by kjc2 on Jul 22, 2012 7:39:23 GMT -5
What a senseless and horrible loss.. Same girl that almost got caught up in the Eaton Centre shooting a little while ago. What are the frigg'n odds?
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Post by madmarx on Jul 22, 2012 15:50:41 GMT -5
Just curious when a person buys a bullet proof vest should red flags go up at that point,that and the 6000 rounds purchased ..
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Post by Losing my mind on Jul 23, 2012 5:32:16 GMT -5
As was stated earlier, how do laws protect the sale of illegal firearms? It's similar to the long gun registry in Canada, the legal guns aren't the problem.
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Post by eddy on Jul 23, 2012 7:43:52 GMT -5
As was stated earlier, how do laws protect the sale of illegal firearms? It's similar to the long gun registry in Canada, the legal guns aren't the problem. They don't but having pretty lax gun purchasing laws with little or no background checking makes it far too easy for any crazy to get a gun in the US. I'm in Michigan and I can buy a rifle or a shotgun as long as I can prove I'm 18 (which I am) an nothing else. No permit, no gun safety requirement, no licence to possess a firearm, and no record anywhere that I've actually purchased a gun. Nadda. (Handguns are a different story). I'm not saying that would have prevented this but there should be flags that go off somewhere when someone starts buying thousands of rounds of ammo, bullet proof vests, and semi-automatic weapons. The gun registry law in Canada was stupid and ill thought out from the get go.
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Post by Ye Olde Winesock on Jul 23, 2012 8:13:03 GMT -5
48 years left. Anyway...so the NBA will be putting advertising on jerseys now. Bettman will be all over this. Are ye ready for this, because this is where its headed.
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Post by Peejay on Jul 23, 2012 8:24:56 GMT -5
The gun registry law in Canada was stupid and ill thought out from the get go. It wasted millions of dollars and if I'm not mistaken the program was scrapped. When I was younger I use to think that the restrictions (handguns, auto and semi-auto) were stupid, but as a father of two I'm glad they're there. People can kill with rifles too, just not on as large of a scale.
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