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Engblommian Cup Keeper Phil Pritchard, of all people, is reporting the Blackhawks have signed Corey Crawford to a 6-year extension. Crow apparently signed it on his day with the Cup in Montreal.

On 1/25/2013 at 1:53 PM, 'Atom said:

For all the bird de lis haters I think the bird de lis isnt supposed to be a pelican and a fleur de lis I think its just a fleur de lis with a pelicans head. Thats what it looks like to me. Also the flair around the tip of the beak is just flair that fleur de lis have sometimes source I am from NOLA.

PotD: 10/19/07, 08/25/08, 07/22/10, 08/13/10, 04/15/11, 05/19/11, 01/02/12, and 01/05/12.

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f-ckin' right

EDIT: that was more an obligatory response than an endorsement of the contract, which I don't like unless it comes with a hometown discount. Crawford has been as bad as he's been good, Stephane Waite (they don't love you like I love you) just left the organization, and new restrictions on goalie pad size certainly won't help him, having some distinct mattress-and-a-prayer tendencies.

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Ren Lavoie is saying $36 million for Crawford. I feel that's a bit steep, but the contract extension doesn't kick in until 2014-15, so he's still at $2.67M for this season. Backload it, get three years out of it, then dump him off on some sucker like Nonis or Holmgren, and I'm okay with it.

On 1/25/2013 at 1:53 PM, 'Atom said:

For all the bird de lis haters I think the bird de lis isnt supposed to be a pelican and a fleur de lis I think its just a fleur de lis with a pelicans head. Thats what it looks like to me. Also the flair around the tip of the beak is just flair that fleur de lis have sometimes source I am from NOLA.

PotD: 10/19/07, 08/25/08, 07/22/10, 08/13/10, 04/15/11, 05/19/11, 01/02/12, and 01/05/12.

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I suspect Crawford's ups and downs have more to do with his skaters' control of possession than with Crawford himself. When Crawford was among the league's worst in 2011-12, it was when Toews missed several months with a concussion, Kane was playing out of position, Leddy didn't know what the hell he was doing, Hjalmarsson didn't know what the hell he was doing, and Andrew Brunette was dressing for games on a regular basis. The team got so discombobulated that the Bowmans had some crony looming over Quenneville at practice like a human Sword of Damocles. It's not that the team was bad in 2012 -- for as many goals as they gave up, they still came out ahead -- but they were heavily compromised and as such weren't able to go Globetrotting on teams like they did in 2009, 2010, and 2013. As long as the Hawks can get into that extra gear, Crawford should be fine -- and that's to say nothing of 2011, when they also couldn't get into that extra gear but Crawford still saved their asses on many a night.

No excuse for those softies he gave up to goddamn Boedker in the 2012 playoffs, though. Seriously dude.

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And now Niklas Hjalmarsson is signed through 2019. Hey everybody! We're all gonna get paid!

Terms aren't out yet but I'm going to guess at least $5MM per.

EDIT: 4.1! daaamn that's good.

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Blackhawks have really cornered the market on decent players with bad agents, haven't they?

On 1/25/2013 at 1:53 PM, 'Atom said:

For all the bird de lis haters I think the bird de lis isnt supposed to be a pelican and a fleur de lis I think its just a fleur de lis with a pelicans head. Thats what it looks like to me. Also the flair around the tip of the beak is just flair that fleur de lis have sometimes source I am from NOLA.

PotD: 10/19/07, 08/25/08, 07/22/10, 08/13/10, 04/15/11, 05/19/11, 01/02/12, and 01/05/12.

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Always. Also, "Meatball" is acceptable, because of this.

On 1/25/2013 at 1:53 PM, 'Atom said:

For all the bird de lis haters I think the bird de lis isnt supposed to be a pelican and a fleur de lis I think its just a fleur de lis with a pelicans head. Thats what it looks like to me. Also the flair around the tip of the beak is just flair that fleur de lis have sometimes source I am from NOLA.

PotD: 10/19/07, 08/25/08, 07/22/10, 08/13/10, 04/15/11, 05/19/11, 01/02/12, and 01/05/12.

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The Predators sent out an email to their season ticket holders with a typo calling themselves the Perds, not Preds. http://e2.ma/webview/4jygf/4a9aab06844ad6c364b3acf511b623a7

That's clearly either fake or some sort of joke.

Sporting Venue Count (for games): OHL: 19 (28 Total)- 770 games (after 18-19),

MLB: 13 (15 Total), NHL: 4

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Oh, it's very real. That's from the initial e-mail earlier this week. To their credit, the Perds have decided to run with it, and released the typo-laden follow-up.

Now buy one of my shirts while they're still topical.

On 1/25/2013 at 1:53 PM, 'Atom said:

For all the bird de lis haters I think the bird de lis isnt supposed to be a pelican and a fleur de lis I think its just a fleur de lis with a pelicans head. Thats what it looks like to me. Also the flair around the tip of the beak is just flair that fleur de lis have sometimes source I am from NOLA.

PotD: 10/19/07, 08/25/08, 07/22/10, 08/13/10, 04/15/11, 05/19/11, 01/02/12, and 01/05/12.

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