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2010 NHL Off-Season: Sather is a dink

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Word is Super Agent Alan Walsh is playing hardball (again) with the Thrashers, and is refusing to let Ondrej Pavelec sign his RFA contract until he sees just who the Thrashers intend to sign: a backup (like Moose) or a potential starter (like Nabokov, Mason, Turco).
 
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Aparch, the reason Lydman got signed and Oystrick was bought out is very simple.

Lydman - Good NHL defenseman
Oystrick - Good AHL defenseman
 
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GreatLakerMohawk said:
Aparch, the reason Lydman got signed and Oystrick was bought out is very simple.

Lydman - Good NHL defenseman
Oystrick - Good AHL defenseman
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:D I figured as much. I know he's a career AHL'er, but it's not like he was a total flop during his stint in ATL. Had better offensive numbers than Braydon Coburn in ATL, and had (almost) just as bad a +/-.
 
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Uh oh, we have a potential challenger to craziest signing...how about Jokinen back to Calgary, where he bombed out in spetacular fashion?
 
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Back on the Boogaard contract:

Like some others on this board, I'm a closet Boogaard fan. I know he's mostly a useless ogre who may have been sired by a moose, but he was OUR useless ogre who may have been sired by a moose!

The real shame about it is that he had more than his fair share of opportunities to develop his hands in practice. He got a lot of workouts in practice working the low slot on power plays, the thinking being he could learn to put that monstrous frame of his to good use, but just never got the hands for it. He could have really filled a niche if he was able to do that.

Of course, Georges Laraque is out of the league now, and he had WAY better hands than Boogaard. So Boogey should consider himself lucky to have a job at all, I suppose.
 
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OvahInDovah said:
Buffalo screwed
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Nothing new. They're always screwed up there. I don't care how you pronounce Miroslav Satan's name. The one time they could've won a cup (and of course, didn't), one of their top scorers was named "Satan". The fact alone tells you everything you ever need to know about Buffalo sports.

Tangentially related: How is it that Satan has yet to play for New Jersey?
 
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OvahInDovah said:
Uh oh, we have a potential challenger to craziest signing...how about Jokinen back to Calgary, where he bombed out in spetacular fashion?
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Sather and Sutter going off in spectacular fashion the way Sather and Tallon did last year.

If that happens, I would not blame every Flames fan if they burned the Saddledome to the ground.

Kurtis Foster to Edmonton now. 2 years, $1.8 million.
 
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OvahInDovah said:
Tallinder, NJ, 4 yrs/13.5M

Buffalo screwed
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Less expensive than Paul Martin but older and not an offensive replacement. Nice player and better defensively but who is going to move the puck? Andy Greene I guess.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
Back on the Boogaard contract:

Like some others on this board, I'm a closet Boogaard fan. I know he's mostly a useless ogre who may have been sired by a moose, but he was OUR useless ogre who may have been sired by a moose!

The real shame about it is that he had more than his fair share of opportunities to develop his hands in practice. He got a lot of workouts in practice working the low slot on power plays, the thinking being he could learn to put that monstrous frame of his to good use, but just never got the hands for it. He could have really filled a niche if he was able to do that.

Of course, Georges Laraque is out of the league now, and he had WAY better hands than Boogaard. So Boogey should consider himself lucky to have a job at all, I suppose.
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Boogie is and was a waste of space, and I could not be happier the Wild will not have him on their bench. He sucked and no amount of cool fights makes up for that...NONE!
 
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Handyman said:
Boogie is and was a waste of space, and I could not be happier the Wild will not have him on their bench. He sucked and no amount of cool fights makes up for that...NONE!
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The only way I'll accept this contract is if Boogaard ends Malkin or Crosby's season with a clean open-ice check in the Rangers first meeting with the Penguins this seaosn.
 
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PrezdeJohnson09 said:
The only way I'll accept this contract is if Boogaard ends Malkin or Crosby's season with a clean open-ice check in the Rangers first meeting with the Penguins this seaosn.
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Like Laraque, he's a much cleaner player than anyone ever gives him credit for.

That said, it'll never happen. He's too slow to catch them legally.
 
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