The Continuing Chronicles Of Jay Feaster's Incompetence

[TGWL]

I want Doan on the Rangers. I want DOAN on the RANGERS!!

[Ruki]

I want Doan on the Rangers. I want DOAN on the RANGERS!!

Well, I want Malkin and Crosby on the Leafs.

[SeanDMan]

Trade for Lu, use him as a chip to send to Pitt.

[The Sultan of Swank]

Free to a good home: 1 30something year old Mexican Alaskan center, shaved head, looks great carrying the puck over the blue line. Must give up due to high maintenance costs. Very low points, LIKE NEW!

[TGWL]

We'll take him. But only if we can trade him back for another stud defensemen.

[Ruki]

Free to a good home: 1 30something year old Mexican Alaskan center, shaved head, looks great carrying the puck over the blue line. Must give up due to high maintenance costs. Very low points, LIKE NEW!

No, bad!

Bad Basha.

[Guest mr. potato head]

Leafs in on Doan apparently.

Good player, fits the Burke mold, exactly what they need to finish maybe 10th in the East.

[Toe]

Doan would be ok, but that addresses none of their needs. Reimer / Scrivens is a question mark in net, there is no true #1 center, and a 2nd / 3rd defenceman would help.

I'd actually roll the forwards we have. Other then the gaping hole at 1C, the top six is pretty good.

[TGWL]

Well, getting Doan allows you to move a few more pieces to get a decent center. If you land Doan, you can easily give up Franson, Kadri, Macarthur, or even Kulemin - Not all, but a decent package to land Scott Gomez

I'm kidding!

[The Sultan of Swank]

TGWL, I'm still mad that Glen Sather didn't realize that Bob Gainey had his fingers crossed the whole time on the phone. We'll probably get him back someday... after Sather shells out 130 million over 11 years and trades him back to Montreal... after a devastating injury or some such OH JESUS CHRIST FUCKING WORST DEAL OF LIFE!

Honestly. I'm not mad. Nope. Hasn't been 3 years of this albatross 'round our neck. Gainey/Gauthier was our captain, and we all stood by while he shot the bird. Now we're cursed to the doldrums for all time.

[Guest mr. potato head]

So Troubagate has made its way to Deadspin and holy shit this thing's just going to blow up in everyone's face isn't it.

Basically, Michigan's student paper claimed Kitchener offered one of their recruits $200,000 to defect to Kitchener, citing unnamed sources. Kitchener asked them to retract the story, the paper said no, so Kitchener is suing the paper for ONE MILLION DOLLARS. I mean they probably only set the amount so high for the headlines, but even so, probably not the best PR strategy.

Edited July 11, 2012 by mr. potato head

[SeanDMan]

Apparently Florida signed both Peter Mueller AND Wojtek Wolski. Interesting move.

[SeanDMan]

Scratch that, NHL.com typo on the Wolski signing, it's the Capitals.

Also, saw a TSN report on Mark Jankowski, and Craig Conroy said they felt like they'd gotten a "1st Line Center at pick 21". I thought it was a bit of a stretch to project him as being a 1st line center already but then I rememebered their roster... I guess he doesn't really need to have anything but a decent training camp and he'd probably still be ahead of Matt Stajan.

[Plubby]

Poor Craig Conroy. He's gone senile.

[Mountainous Cleavage]

He's baaaack... for another year Edited July 12, 2012 by Mountainous Cleavage

[Ruki]

And probably still going to score 20+ goals.

[Ruki]

So, some things requested by the NHL for the new CBA:

-reduce players hockey related revenues to 46% from 57%

-10 seasons in NHL before being UFA

-5 year contract limits

-Salary must be equal in all years of contracts, no signing bonus.

-ELC 5 years instead of 3

-No more arbitration

Bolded is what I think the NHLPA will have the biggest issues with.

[Plubby]

I think the second and second-last on the list will be rejected out of hand. Can't see them being agreed to and more importantly, I like both of them the way they are.

[Guest mr. potato head]

Yeah, and you can't even make an argument for those two other than "owners are greedy". And most of the rest seem to be coming from "GMs are stupid".

Wondering if the NHL realizes they won't have any goodwill left for a second lockout.

[Ruki]

But if there is a lockout, the Leafs have a very good chance of picking first overall with having 3 balls in the lottery