League News: NHL Talk - (News n' Scores n' Stuff) | 2024-25 Summer Edition
- Thread starter AlexModvechkin8
- Start date
-
Xenforo Cloud will be upgrading us to version 2.3.5 on March 3rd at 12 AM GMT. This version has increased stability and fixes several bugs. We expect downtime for the duration of the update. The admin team will continue to work on existing issues, templates and upgrade all necessary available addons to minimize impact of this new version. Click Here for Updates
Marshall
A Mahoney guy
CapitalsCupReality
It’s Go Time!!
- Feb 27, 2002
- 67,423
- 22,590
- Feb 15, 2005
- 5,413
- 4,320
To maybe be glass half full — aren’t broken ankles faster to heal than really bad sprains?
Maybe it won’t be that long?
Maybe it won’t be that long?
notDkristich
Registered User
- Jan 27, 2013
- 1,532
- 1,365
simple fracture usually heals quick. needs screws or pins, oh hell na
g00n
Retired Global Mod
- Nov 22, 2007
- 31,528
- 16,322
I think the key difference between breaks and soft tissue injuries has always been that breaks are not likely to recur due to healing back stronger whereas soft tissue is always weakened and becomes more likely to recur. Soft tissue has the added disadvantage of scar tissue creating problems.
- Feb 15, 2005
- 5,413
- 4,320
Yeah - also without a clean break, you can have multiple events where you lose bone chips, so they’re floating around the tissue causing problems, coupled with bone spurs that can interfere with flexion, and then you get a wash, rinse, repeat cascading effect over the years, and pretty soon it’s painful to walk a mile, let alone play hockey
CapitalsCupReality
It’s Go Time!!
- Feb 27, 2002
- 67,423
- 22,590
Langway
In den Wolken
- Jul 7, 2006
- 33,229
- 10,782
Seems to be a lot of overrated defensemen these days...and not many great ones.
Calicaps
NFA
Wow. And meanwhile JC74--NHL's ice time leader last year--not on the list anywhere. That's fun.
The whole list isn't in the picture until you click on it he's in group 5A
Calicaps
NFA
CapitalsCupReality
It’s Go Time!!
- Feb 27, 2002
- 67,423
- 22,590
Langway
In den Wolken
- Jul 7, 2006
- 33,229
- 10,782
Woopsy daisy.
PlushMinus
Registered User
- Nov 18, 2021
- 2,205
- 2,605
Hopefully the Bruins f*** the relationship with Swayman so badly that he ends up playing somewhere else.
They are certainly doing a good job so far!
- Feb 15, 2005
- 5,413
- 4,320
In other words, our ask for Swayman has been way more than $64 million and we were never going to agree to that number.
trick9
Registered User
- Jun 2, 2013
- 12,737
- 6,013
As it should be.
He'd look like a moron taking 8m a year when Igor will likely get 11+ within a year.
Bruins are the idiots here for moving Ullmark without having a solution for Swayman ready. This feels like someone is feeling the pressure because their season is heading towards the toilet because of that mistake. They basically gave all the cards to a guy they strong-armed in arbitration negotiations while back, and now he's going to take every penny he's going to get.
g00n
Retired Global Mod
- Nov 22, 2007
- 31,528
- 16,322
After seeing Draisaitl get 14 million Igor should ask for more. Goalies have been underpaid for awhile.
Even the Bruins just gave Lindholm 7.75 million. Swayman is significantly more valuable than a 2C like Lindholm.
CapitalsCupReality
It’s Go Time!!
- Feb 27, 2002
- 67,423
- 22,590
I feel like goalies have become like RBs in the NFL in some aspects. Nobody wants to pay a massive number.
Jags
Mildly Disturbed
Agreed, and I think it's for a similar reason -- they very often lack shelf life. In the NHL where contracts are guaranteed, it's even more crucial. If a great goalie wants top money for 4 years, let's talk. But just like every other position, when the time comes for them to get paid, they want the term, too. So it's not the dollar figure teams are balking at, in my opinion. It's that they want the huge money AND max term, which I'm not sure has ever really worked out super great for the teams in question.
