2009-2010 NHL Season

[NEW.ERA]

Nikita Filatov has bolted back to Russia to play with CSKA in the KHL.

Columbus thought his development would be best served in the KHL, so they loaned him to his old team; he didn't exactly "bolt" back to Russia.

This is the beginning of a proper working relationship between the NHL and the KHL, just you wait and see.

Who's gonna pay his salary? That's the real question. Basically, what they are saying is that this player sucks so you can have him. They have development teams in Syracuse and Gwinnett, so by sending him back to Russia tells me this player royally sucks and he can't even crack the rosters of two minor league teams.

By playing in the KHL hes has the comfort of home, and he will be one of the top players on a competitive team.

Anyways..

Forsberg and Naslund both return to MODO and decline salaries. I don't know if I should commend them of call them stupid for passing up the money.

They did it because MODO is in financial trouble and they both did it because they wanted to pay homage to the Club that gave them there start. Many current NHLers that started with MODO have donated some of their salary to help them out.

[BrySmalls]

Congratulations to Bruce Boudreau, fastest Caps coach to 100 victories, and 4th fastest all time!

Not only that, but Ovechkin returned to the ice and scored. However, praise goes to Quintin Laing and Matt Bradley. Quintin took a block shot to the jaw while Matt was a bit bloodied in a fight with Aaron Voros in the first period and later scored the game winner in the third period.

[Corvus]

Nikita Filatov has bolted back to Russia to play with CSKA in the KHL.

Columbus thought his development would be best served in the KHL, so they loaned him to his old team; he didn't exactly "bolt" back to Russia.

This is the beginning of a proper working relationship between the NHL and the KHL, just you wait and see.

Who's gonna pay his salary? That's the real question. Basically, what they are saying is that this player sucks so you can have him. They have development teams in Syracuse and Gwinnett, so by sending him back to Russia tells me this player royally sucks and he can't even crack the rosters of two minor league teams.

By playing in the KHL hes has the comfort of home, and he will be one of the top players on a competitive team.

Anyways..

Forsberg and Naslund both return to MODO and decline salaries. I don't know if I should commend them of call them stupid for passing up the money.

They did it because MODO is in financial trouble and they both did it because they wanted to pay homage to the Club that gave them there start. Many current NHLers that started with MODO have donated some of their salary to help them out.

And really, its not like either of them need the money.

[BrySmalls]

Blackhawks look to sign Kane and Toews to extensions.

How on earth is this fiscally possible?

[NEW.ERA]

Blackhawks look to sign Kane and Toews to extensions.

How on earth is this fiscally possible?

I really don't know but I think Chicago should start looking long and hard at Rockford to see what they have and oh have fun trying to find a buyer for Brian Campbell.

[Corvus]

Blackhawks look to sign Kane and Toews to extensions.

How on earth is this fiscally possible?

30 year deals?

[Maz]

For the penguins....

Bad news:

Jay "Second Goalie" McKee is out.

Good news:

Superstar and Sergeant (Talbot and Gonchar) are back.

Even better news:

They face Ottawa.

[The_Admiral]

Blackhawks look to sign Kane and Toews to extensions.

How on earth is this fiscally possible?

Yeah, how should it be possible for a team to develop and retain its talent? Hey, if you don't like it, go to Russia.

I really don't know but I think Chicago should start looking long and hard at Rockford to see what they have and oh have fun trying to find a buyer for Brian Campbell.

No, you really don't know, and I don't even know what you're purporting to not know. Nonetheless, I'll respond to you in a manner that apparently you can understand:

The Blackhawks are well aware that they have a lot of talented prospects in Rockford and elsewhere by the names of Kyle Beach and Akim Aliu and Igor Makarow and Rob Klinkhammer and Nathan Davis and Bill Sweatt and so they are able to part with their role-players at the expense of maintaining a core of amazing players and while Campbell and Huet are overpaid relative to their contributions they're still playing well at the moment and there's little sense in wringing hands over their contracts in late November when the team is still poised to win the West and should the time come that they're [sic for this exercise] contracts become untenable there are always teams willing to take on retarded contracts and usually one of those teams is named the Toronto Maple Leafs so we'll cross that bridge when we come to it and in the meantime we'll watch the Hawks win games.

Ah, if only my team had the crackerjack fiscal wisdom of the Calgary Flames! Not being able to dress a full roster = capology! (I like neither you nor your team but I'll admit that was really lame when that happened and it's evidence that the NHL needs to seriously reform or altogether abandon its salary cap.)

[crashcarson15]

Blackhawks look to sign Kane and Toews to extensions.

How on earth is this fiscally possible?

Yeah, how should it be possible for a team to develop and retain its talent? Hey, if you don't like it, go to Russia.

You're aware the 'Hawks are in salary cap hell right?

[Don]

Blackhawks look to sign Kane and Toews to extensions.

How on earth is this fiscally possible?

Yeah, how should it be possible for a team to develop and retain its talent? Hey, if you don't like it, go to Russia.

I really don't know but I think Chicago should start looking long and hard at Rockford to see what they have and oh have fun trying to find a buyer for Brian Campbell.

No, you really don't know, and I don't even know what you're purporting to not know. Nonetheless, I'll respond to you in a manner that apparently you can understand:

The Blackhawks are well aware that they have a lot of talented prospects in Rockford and elsewhere by the names of Kyle Beach and Akim Aliu and Igor Makarow and Rob Klinkhammer and Nathan Davis and Bill Sweatt and so they are able to part with their role-players at the expense of maintaining a core of amazing players and while Campbell and Huet are overpaid relative to their contributions they're still playing well at the moment and there's little sense in wringing hands over their contracts in late November when the team is still poised to win the West and should the time come that they're [sic for this exercise] contracts become untenable there are always teams willing to take on retarded contracts and usually one of those teams is named the Toronto Maple Leafs so we'll cross that bridge when we come to it and in the meantime we'll watch the Hawks win games.

Ah, if only my team had the crackerjack fiscal wisdom of the Calgary Flames! Not being able to dress a full roster = capology! (I like neither you nor your team but I'll admit that was really lame when that happened and it's evidence that the NHL needs to seriously reform or altogether abandon its salary cap.)

So because some teams like the Blackhawks and the Flames cant manage their cap situation thats evidence the NHL should abandon the salary cap? What kind of Brian Burke logic are you trying to pull here?

[The_Admiral]

The system's broken if you're not allowed to dress twenty players. There's "being in cap hell," and then there's compromising the legitimacy of a contest by forbidding a team from playing its players. People buy tickets to watch a hockey game, not the unfortunate outcomes of frivolous beancounting. That's not fair to either team or either team's contingent of paying customers.

I think even the most ardent sports socialist has to concede that relative to the other systems in the other three leagues, the NHL's approach to the salary cap is far and away the stupidest one of all, which should come as no surprise because it's the NHL, far and away the stupidest league of all. By enforcing a hard cap and guaranteed contracts, no other system is as unforgiving of mistakes, and everyone needs to be allowed to make mistakes. Baseball lets you spend your way out of a bad deal, which superficially seems unfair but teams still have to eat that bad paper. The NFL nominally has a hard cap like the NHL does, but also essentially lets you dispose of bad players like racehorses with little or no long-term fiscal ramifications. The NBA still saddles you with bad money, but at least you have Bird rights to make sure your homegrown franchise players aren't casualties of mistakes that may not have even been your own. What makes the NHL so uniquely entitled to run double-penetration on teams? It's an awful system, and the loopholes that the Blackhawks, Flyers, and others have exploited for the sake of fielding the teams they deserve to field demonstrate how awful it is.

[Don]

The cap system isnt perfect, sure. But I think the competitive balance of the league is so much better with a salary cap and it forces a franchise to use its whole organization to be successful. Of course there are pitfalls, but lets not forget, the owners negotiated this salary cap and its structure, so really, youre pleading for the owners to blow up a system that THEY wanted. We lost a season because they stood firm (and rightly so) on so called "cost guarantees" and now they got it, and theyre (or you're, I cant figure out which) still not happy. Players are happy, cause they still get their money and long term stability while the GMs freely give out these long term deals. Now dont get me wrong, I think long term deals to young guys like Kane, Toews, Ovechkin, Richards, etc etc are good things, cause they drafted and grew these players and sure they should be able to keep them, but the Pronger deal and others like them are just ridiculous ways to circumvent the cap.

[BrySmalls]

For the penguins....

Bad news:

Jay "Second Goalie" McKee is out.

Good news:

Superstar and Sergeant (Talbot and Gonchar) are back.

Even better news:

They face Ottawa.

Karma was on the Sens side tonight.

[Shane Does Art]

Even better news:

They face Ottawa.

Thank you for making this shellacking a much more enjoyable experience.

[The_Admiral]

Now I realize why the Blackhawks are in such trouble with the salary cap! In addition to all the expensive contracts they own like those for Campbell and Huet, they also own Miikka Kiprusoff. It's gotta be expensive to own a guy like that. They've already hung two sixers on him this year!

[NEW.ERA]

Now I realize why the Blackhawks are in such trouble with the salary cap! In addition to all the expensive contracts they own like those for Campbell and Huet, they also own Miikka Kiprusoff. It's gotta be expensive to own a guy like that. They've already hung two sixers on him this year!

Doesn't help when the team in front of him can't play. I don't know what is about the Hawks can't solve that puzzle I got the hell out of the Saddledome just before the third started.

[The_Admiral]

Every time these teams play, the Flames seem to think they have this mandate to play "physical" with a team they repeatedly mistake for a bunch of shrinking violets, and as such take dumb penalties that fail to intimidate or debilitate their opponents. The Flames are tough, but they're not that tough, and the Hawks can dish it back out better than people think. It's a dumb strategy. The Hawks have spent too much time dithering on power plays this season (in all fairness they were missing Toews for a while), but if you keep asking them to convert power plays like that, eventually they're going to. Also, they just plain have Kipper's number.

[Sport]

Derek Dorsett gets planted to the point of fainting by James Neal.

The story goes that in the first period Dorsett, 5'11 175, tried to pick a fight with Neal, 6'3 220 (who had no problem injuring Brassard for the season in a fight last year). Neal pusses out and instead lets Trevor Daley take on Dorsett. Derek Dorsett gets killed in every fight he's in, there is absolutely no reason to skate away from a fight with him especially if you've got size. Then in the second period after a very chippy first period involving a whole slew of fights (none of them involving Neal) James Neal comes back on Derek Dorsett with this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl4gzfm1rWU

Cowardly if you ask me. He was immediately ejected, the Jackets were given 5 and netted 2 goals in that span, but still handle yourself like a man.

[NEW.ERA]

Every time these teams play, the Flames seem to think they have this mandate to play "physical" with a team they repeatedly mistake for a bunch of shrinking violets, and as such take dumb penalties that fail to intimidate or debilitate their opponents. The Flames are tough, but they're not that tough, and the Hawks can dish it back out better than people think. It's a dumb strategy. The Hawks have spent too much time dithering on power plays this season, but if you keep asking them to convert power plays like that, eventually they're going to. Also, they just plain have Kipper's number.

I agree with you and I don't why Darryl Sutter consistantly try's to hang his hat on toughness but try to get a Sutter to swallow his pride, yes it's great to have but not in the ''New NHL'' it's not 03-04 anymore. Just look at Brian McGrattan a very bad signing by D-Sutts he played 3:41 just to skate around and try hit someone we'll a player like Brandon Prust who's a good skater and can produce as well as dishing the blows is a healthy scratch.

You can't win these days with just trying to rely on toughness granted the signings of Glencross and Bourque last year are two diamonds in the rough and as for tonight thankfully it's only November.

[GFB]

Nothing on the Wings getting royally screwed in the @ss last night? Shocker.

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