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2011 NHL Off-Season: The Puck Boat edition

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OvahInDovah said:
Unfortunately, that contract isn't. Another obvious cap circumvention.
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The only reason that goes through is because he will be younger than 40 when it expires.

It continues to get more and more likely that the Wings will sign Kaberle and call it 'good enough'.
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J.D. said:
Hmm doesn't seem too bad on the surface (although I wouldn't want my team signing him for 10 years)...how does it break down?
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He'll earn 15M of the 40M before the puck even drops for the 2012-2013 season (a year from October). The last 3 years of the deal are at 1M each.
 
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OvahInDovah said:
He'll earn 15M of the 40M before the puck even drops for the 2012-2013 season (a year from October). The last 3 years of the deal are at 1M each.
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How the heck does this deal pass and Kovy's get rejected. It's the same principle just not as extreme.

Clearly Ehrhoff is not going to make it to the end of this deal.
 
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If the deal ends before he turns 40, it's hard to say he clearly won't see the end of it.

Wings interested in kaberle? I hope he's better for them than he was for the bruins.
 
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PrezdeJohnson09 said:
How the heck does this deal pass and Kovy's get rejected. It's the same principle just not as extreme.

Clearly Ehrhoff is not going to make it to the end of this deal.
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He may make it to the end, but it's just another one of those deals that flaunts the cap. Someone suggested that you shouldn't be able to have greater than a 25% difference in salary/compensation through any years of the cap. That seems like it would be effective in limiting these sort of deals.
 
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J.D. said:
If the deal ends before he turns 40, it's hard to say he clearly won't see the end of it.

Wings interested in kaberle? I hope he's better for them than he was for the bruins.
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Kaberle is one of the more intriguing UFA's in my opinion; solely as a spectator. I have no idea what he'll pull down. I wouldn't be surprised if he pulled down 4.5M in this market. And I wouldn't be surprised if he got 2M. Who knows.

Wisniewski should fare well tomorrow unless Columbus wraps him up tonight.
 
J.D. said:
They traded Brian Campbell and cleared cap space for Steve Montador? :confused:

Obviously didn't watch him closely in Buffalo, but from what I remember, he was a train wreck during the playoffs for the Bruins a couple years ago.
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I'm still scratching my head..
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
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Kenny had better be right on this lazy-a55 hack. :mad:
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Hell, if I'm Lidstrom, I'm tempted to call Holland up and ask him exactly what he's doing to put the team in a better chance to win, which is what Holland sold him on to come back again.
 
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bronconick said:
Hell, if I'm Lidstrom, I'm tempted to call Holland up and ask him exactly what he's doing to put the team in a better chance to win, which is what Holland sold him on to come back again.
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To the contrary, Lidstrom knows why he agreed to come back - because he's still very capable, and because Rafalski's retirement was unexpected, and Lids didn't want to leave the Wings up ****'s creek without a paddle in this FA market.

Next year, Lids is done, and Detroit will likely be after Ryan Suter.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
To the contrary, Lidstrom knows why he agreed to come back - because he's still very capable, and because Rafalski's retirement was unexpected, and Lids didn't want to leave the Wings up ****'s creek without a paddle in this FA market.

Next year, Lids is done, and Detroit will likely be after Ryan Suter.
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Man, that's only going to fly until he gets to camp and Babcock tells him his new partner is Big-E.
 
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Columbus Dispatch reporting that James Wisniewski is off the market.

6 yrs/33M. (heh)

That means a 5th round pick for Montreal.
 
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Also....

Patrick Eaves 3yrs in Detroit. Didn't see dollars.

Sami Salo 1yr/2M in Vancouver.
 
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