While salaries are out of control in the NBA, general managers still possess the ability to make trades and in a lot of cases, multi-team trades. NHL general managers aren't creative enough or gutsy enough.
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Originally Posted by Moonlapse Vertigo
They are.
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Originally Posted by Cloned
Nah, NHL GM's are still relatively new at this cap business. NBA GM's have had lots of time to adapt and they still make the craziest decisions and contract offers known to man. How many bench players in the NBA make 10M or more per year? It's ridiculous.
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Originally Posted by Moonlapse Vertigo
A one-dimensional PP defenceman who scored something like 2 goals after February is fielding offers for 6.5 a season.
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Originally Posted by oiler4ever
i don't understand the hype about Harti as first line LW or even 2nd line. He create space for small fwds like JFJ did. He didn't really dominate here in OKC.
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Originally Posted by Cloned
Like I said, NBA GMs have had lots of time to learn from their mistakes and they seemingly either don't care to learn or can't learn.
At least Tallon learned from his Campbell mistake so he won't make the same mistake twice with Garrison.
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Originally Posted by Asher
Who does he think he is, JayBo or something?
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Originally Posted by Oilerz
I was probably one of the closest persons in the stands the night the puck hit him in the forehead-thunk! almost made me sick to hear it!
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Originally Posted by Section337
Plus just about every trade or trade proposal involves bad contracts or expiring contracts.
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Originally Posted by Krut
Agreed. We need one more d man and one big winger. At least.
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Originally Posted by Expatriate
just one word
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Originally Posted by OilerFan4Life
Does the Rome signing open the door to a Fistric trade?
Hemsky for Ott and Fistric....would anyone here do that?
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Originally Posted by Asher
I'd rather have Paajarvi fill that spot than Harti.
P.S. Is the TSN show online?
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Originally Posted by Joey Moss
Dislike. We need another defenseman and we need to get rid of Peckham and Potter.
Smid - Petry
Whitney - J. Schultz
FA/TRADE - N. Schultz
Dubnyk
Khabi
Potter is waived. Peckham traded in a minor deal.
Go after Carle or Garrison (if the price isn't as crazy as reported). If that doesn't work out go after Salvador. A strong shutdown guy who had a great playoffs. If THAT doesn't work out then trade for Hjalmarsson.
Would Chicago take something like Omark and 2nd?
Tambo needs to add 1 more defenseman to the group if we want to compete for the playoffs. We cannot settle for Sutton, Potter or Peckham in our top 6 D. Just my opinion.
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Originally Posted by DogEatDog
that is vancouver upping the price since they lost out on Justin
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Originally Posted by ZugNugget
in a second.
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Originally Posted by Oilbleeder
**** I missed it, Bryan Allen got 3.5M/yr for 3 years? That's a pretty good deal for the Ducks.
For a guy who played tough minutes for Canes, nice term and value.
Makes us even for Schultz right?
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Originally Posted by Asher
I'm guessing they're in full meltdown mode after losing Salo and having no replacement for him yet...
Tambo should have been in on Foligno or Latendresse IMO. Latendresse is the kind of high risk high reward player you take a shot at. Foligno would have looked good here on any of the top 3 lines. Were short LW's and Hartikainen can't be expected to be our 1st or 2nd line LW.
I'm one of the guys that wants Carle on the team, but with the bidding up to insane levels on Garrison, who's to say Carle with a longer track record of production and effective play isn't going to demand more? You start getting up at 5.5+ million per year on players and you start having to factor them into contracts for our top young players, and you just don't do that for middle of the road players no matter how much they'll help in the present.
Bouwmeester and his short term contract is looking more appealing than what it'd take to get some of the guys signed to a contract this UFA year.
Tambo should have been in on Foligno or Latendresse IMO. Latendresse is the kind of high risk high reward player you take a shot at. Foligno would have looked good here on any of the top 3 lines. Were short LW's and Hartikainen can't be expected to be our 1st or 2nd line LW.
i think paajarvi will do well this season, the ahl imo sure helped, with his off-season training im going to say he goes back into form like he was in 10/11 but better and will be good for us on second/third line lw position.
they're going to take a pretty large step back in the standings this year though
They'll still run away with the division rather easily... but instead of finishing first in the conference and league they'll be... maybe third in the West.
i think paajarvi will do well this season, the ahl imo sure helped, with his off-season training im going to say he goes back into form like he was in 10/11 but better and will be good for us on second/third line lw position.
or he might just stay in ahl 1 more season.
Paajarvi is fine if we want to be a butter soft team again. We need to add some more JAM and I'd be fine with moving Paajarvi to do it.
Tambo should have been in on Foligno or Latendresse IMO. Latendresse is the kind of high risk high reward player you take a shot at. Foligno would have looked good here on any of the top 3 lines. Were short LW's and Hartikainen can't be expected to be our 1st or 2nd line LW.
Latendresse, maybe (if he didn't want to play close to home). But for Foligno, do we really want to trade a top 4 defenseman for a winger?
I think we've seen the best Canucks teams the last two years. They didn't win anything and it'll probably be a gradual decline from this point on.
They have an opportunity to inject some talent with the Luongo trade, but it's not going to be easy. My guess is they don't get much back for him. Beyond that, I'd say next year basically hinges on a couple of disappointments, Kesler and Edler, returning to form. Big question marks imo. I know some people are questioning Schneider, but assuming he stays healthy I think he'll do fine.
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Originally Posted by Moonlapse Vertigo
They'll still run away with the division rather easily... but instead of finishing first in the conference and league they'll be... maybe third in the West.
You mean no 3-peat for the President's Trophy Champions! Say it ain't so!
<-- Credit goes to The Nemesis.
Oh, damn. Actually, that's a good deal.
