News and Notes Thread 10: Where all media bias gets beaten to death

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Estaal
To Nashville for
Jones + Colin Wilson

Draft Hanifin at #3 (because #CanesHockeyBaby)

Hanifin - Faulk
Jones - Fleury

Downgrade at forward but this might be the best Canes defense ever. Flip the script on the past 5 years and build defense first.

they would never ever do that trade

 

[Sens1Canes2]

they would never ever do that trade

But Staal makes $9 million, he has to be good.

 

[What the Faulk]

$9.5 million in actual salary next year. That's just a ridiculous amount. As much as Malkin and more than everyone except Weber, Kane, Toews, Crosby, Kessel, Lundqvist, and Ovechkin.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

he's #realgood

 

[Sens1Canes2]

$9.5 million in actual salary next year. That's just a ridiculous amount. As much as Malkin and more than everyone except Weber, Kane, Toews, Crosby, Kessel, Lundqvist, and Ovechkin.

That's why ANY talk of him being traded is, IMO, ridiculous. No team in the hunt can actually take that salary on, except maybe Ottawa (approx $14m in cap space IIRC), but the amount that would have to come back in Ottawa's case wouldn't change the makeup of the team. They'd be giving back too many effective players.

And that's the case with any contending team, IMO.

 

[What the Faulk]

I agree. For better or worse, he's probably going to play out his contract here. Hopefully he gets healthy and at least makes next season somewhat worth it.

 

[Unsustainable]

Skins out tonight with illness.

Eric - Jordan - Lindholm
Gerbe - Rask - Tlusty
Terry - Nash - Dwyer
Boychuk - McC - Malone

Lol

 

[Joe McGrath]

I agree. For better or worse, he's probably going to play out his contract here. Hopefully he gets healthy and at least makes next season somewhat worth it.

At least he only has one year left at that cost and not 3 more.

Also: Eric will sign a 6 year $6 million extension on July 2nd, in conjunction with Marc Staal signing his 7 year $6 million contract with the Canes. You know it to be true.

 

[What the Faulk]

I'm not sure about Marc but I fully expect Eric to be back for around that AAV

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

Hopefully Eric realises he's not worth anywhere around 8.25 aav and comes back for 1-1.5m less.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

Hopefully Eric realises he's not worth anywhere around 8.25 aav and comes back for 1-1.5m or less.

fixt

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

fixt

we could do like a sedin thing and sign all four of them (once we get marc) to identical contracts.

 

[Joe McGrath]

^ that's exactly what I said above, minus Jared of course.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Sign all of them to league minimum, watch other fanbases cry collusion.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

#3 --> http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/30-thoughts-coyotes-vermette-a-wanted-man/

http://www.nicholsonhockey.com/worthreading/2015/1/2/mckenzie-no-doubt-penguins-would-be-in-market-for-hurricanes-tlusty

What would the terms be like for a Tlusty extension and do you want the Canes to give that to him?

 

[What the Faulk]

I just don't think there's room for Tlusty in the top 6 going forward, and I doubt he'll be a 20 goal scorer from the 3rd line with Rask/Nash and Gerbe. What's that worth? Honestly, 3x3 is probably the most I'd do if I were Francis, and I can't imagine Tlusty being happy with that otherwise he probably would have signed it after last year.

 

[What the Faulk]

Pot, kettle. Head goes boom.

 

[Joe McGrath]

What is blue jersey for? Ready for contact but not game?

 

[What the Faulk]

I think just color coordinated lines. I think the only ones that mean anything are yellow for no contact and black for defenders.

 

[A Star is Burns]

And apparently capgeek has ceased operations. One of my favorite sites. Best wishes to the founder.

 

[nobuddy]

Pot, kettle. Head goes boom.

Nice twitpic that isn't of yourself, Mike. Clearly you aren't a serious journalist you ****ing hack.

 

[DaveG]

^
... really dude? I know he's not exactly mr popular here but jeez.

And apparently capgeek has ceased operations. One of my favorite sites. Best wishes to the founder.

I noticed that. Not good. NHLNumbers is OK but nowhere near as good or as functional a capgeek. REALLY hope this is just temporary, but I don't have my hopes up.

 

[nobuddy]

^
... really dude? I know he's not exactly mr popular here but jeez.



I noticed that. Not good. NHLNumbers is OK but nowhere near as good or as functional a capgeek. REALLY hope this is just temporary, but I don't have my hopes up.

No I wasn't being serious.

 

[tarheelhockey]

What is blue jersey for? Ready for contact but not game?

As mentioned they color coordinate their lines, but I think you've touched on the additional implication that he's skating with the scratches because he's not quite back yet.

 

[TheOllieC]

Nice twitpic that isn't of yourself, Mike. Clearly you aren't a serious journalist you ****ing hack.

You don't even work closely with the team. He obviously knows more than you.