MARIAN HOSSA PREVENTED YOU FROM KEEPING DUSTIN BYFUGLIEN: THE NHL 2010-2011 THREAD (INCLUDING CHICAGO CUP HANGOVER OFFSEASON SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

Have at u.

Better.

lolll

Symmetry, etc.

maybe should've included Toews, Kane, & Versteeg along w/ Hossa but it works

there was a hilarious caller on some morning show today decrying the Byfuglien trade b/c "I just started following the Hawks in the playoffs and he's my favorite player"

dude sounded like he was gonna off himself

"Shame u have to root for Kane and Toews etc. now that you just started being a fan, you fuckface" is more like it.

I dont begrudge anybody for becoming a new fan. the NHL should be trying to cultivate newcomers to the sport, after shooting themselves in the foot for so long. I don't have a problem with the caller. Plus Byfglien was a black guy in a city with a big minority population. Maybe the guy who called was a member of a community that doesnt traditionally follow hockey? Again, no problem with that here.

i think it was a decent move -- gotta make choices with yr toews/kane/hossa, and buff wasn't very consistent. and they got a pretty good return.

it is pretty sucky that you win the cup and two weeks later -- before the victory parades are even over -- big parts of the team are gone.

i can kinda see that caller's point, too -- byfuglien does seem like a folk-hero type of player.

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Former Carolina Hurricanes captain Rod Brind'Amour will announce his retirement Wednesday afternoon, but will remain with the team in some capacity, a source told ESPN.com.

Brind'Amour, who will turn 40 in August, played in 1,484 regular-season games and 159 postseason games, collecting a total of 1,295 points.

He led the Hurricanes to their only Stanley Cup championship in 2006.

Brind'Amour had served as the Hurricanes' captain from August 2005 to January, when Eric Staal, 25, was named captain. Brind'Amour remained an assistant captain.

jmod do u want kovalchuk y/n

considering how offensively challenged the kings can be I'm not 100% sure I do. he looks like he's a cheeseburger/LA coke binge away from:

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00530/ron1_350x475_530725a.jpg

But while I trust the Kings' development abilities for the first time in my life, I'm not 100% sure they'll EVER be able to draft top offensive players. It's a hard life in California :\

"considering how offensively challenged the kings can be I'm not 100% sure I do."

This is a retarded sentence, but you get my drift. I have Pavol Demitra flashbacks daily.

i would rather have gotten volchenkov than martin or michalek but hey who knows.

pens have an amazing amount of money tied up in a handful of players, but i guess at least none of them are cristobal huet or wade redden

or Olli Jokinen...

or rick dipietro

Looking @ the list of remaining FA's it seems like the entire eastern conference is available to the highest bidder, and the rest of the players are of retiring age (I didn't know Owen Nolan was still in the league tbqh)

it's a pittance really, but wtf at the rangers paying eric boogaard $6M over four years? do the rangers really need that particular goon that badly?

"new york rangers hockey tm"

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HAVE YOU MADE YOUR DECISION FOR CHRIST

Allegedly Bob Probert has died. RIP if true.

http://twitter.com/georgemalik/status/17816156472

wau

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR389em23T8

rip

I like to think Probert has gone off to fight Satan!

RIP

I am heartbroken over this. I have his autograph from when I was 12.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHLHVhRqFY8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE4Yfn83X4I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Y8wnU3Edc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V06mKDv7m-I&feature=related

imagine ilya kovalchuk had a one-hour espn special on his decision!

Kovalchuk for SEVENTEEN YEARS
http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/nhl/news/story?id=5392170

makes sense. He gets the equivalent of about the $10 million per year he wanted and the team isn't crippled by having to take a 10 million salary cap hit.

Of course, as long as they're doing it this way, why not make it a 30 year contract or whatever?

Gook luck to NHL for their upcoming season U_U

^^^racist

Re: Kovalchuk signing-

I may actually get to attend the victory parade this year. Nice work, Lou.

the devils look less and less like a cup team every day. i don't wanna knock kovalchuk and i definitely don't wanna knock volchenkov, i guess it's mostly because brodeur keeps gettign older and there's no solution back there, and they still have some JUNK contracts and now there's no space to re-up parise next year.

god help the devils if MB's knees finally go out

"now there's no space to re-up parise next year."

This issue needs to be addressed.

i recommend it be "addressed" by moving his rights to a team i want to watch.

I'm sure Lamoriello would be happy to hear from you.

NHL rejects Kovalchuk contract for salary cap circumvention

Good god. A fucking league is going to step in and interfere with a contract NOW???????

yeah, I figured that since they allowed the Hossa contract, the NHL was basically ok with this sort of thing.

Anyway, I guess at most they'll remove the last 1 or 2 years off the contract and then it'll be ok.

To be fair, the Hossa contract pays 3.5m a year in the last 4 years, and is only 12 years. The Kovy contract was 17 YEARS and teh last 4 or 5 years paid under a mill. While the former is bad, the latter is like OBSCENE.

that said though i wouldn't be surprised if this was enough for him to say fuck it, i'm going to the khl.

Obscene is a good word. He would have been 40 by the time he was done with the contract.

he would have been 44 -- an age at which only .02% of players are still in the league.

it's kind of ridiculous, but i guess i can't really blame teams/players for exploiting the loophole. MAYBE THE YEAR'S SALARY RATHER THAN THE ANNUAL CONTRACT AVERAGE SHOULD COUNT AGAINST THE CAP

They can't retroactively do that or half the teams in the league would immediately be over the salary cap, i reckon.

my awesome solution: cap = whichever is higher: avg of entire contract or avg of all years player is 35 or under. so for the kovy one it'd be from age 27-35 counted, so 2010/11 through 2017/18, which probably evens out to like 9 mill cap hit. Since they already have that over 35 rule they clearly consider 35 a magic number.

if you counted the year's salary rather than the average against the cap you'd just have different kinds of crazy contracts which circumvent the salary cap.

maybe make it the average for the next 4 years of the contract or something

he was, but that was perhaps in spite of him -- he was outplayed by ryan miller

anyway, there's no way that goal was his fault right?

second goal wasn't great and his defensemen have looked like ass, but mainly he inspires no confidence at all

otoh, it doesn't matter if your team can't score

will mike milbury cry when chara lifts the cup y/n

YAY BROOOINS!

I WUZ ROOTIN FOR YA ALL ALONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Poor Bettman...how can he stand to go out there and be booed every year?

haha this seems worse than usual!

HELLO LITTLE MAN GIVE ME CUP

that reaction to bettman was fucking amazing

grats broons, way to win one for the dude on the other end of that fucking diry-ass hit

dirTy

this was one of the better non-wings cups in recent memory imo

it's kinda hard for my heart to bleed for nathan horton when chara is on their team

well that's not true -- i feel bad for horton as a person, but not for the bruins writ large

of course not, they won!

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

i can confirm that the boston sports fans in my town do enjoy screaming like they're being killed, setting off fireworks, and driving around beeping their horns

crank that arcade fire, markers

loooooool

Rioting here in Vancouver. Fucking pathetic.

Hey lamp, I've got some jelly on my ass. How's it taste bitch?

This seems unreal. I was born 5 months after the last time the Bruins won the Cup. I can't quite believe it happened.

Extremely happy for Cam Neely to oversee this, as it was a shame he never got to win it as a player.

Peace

feel good for the people of boston, it's been a while for them

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, June 15, 2011 9:48 PM

whatever celebrations they have around here should be soundtracked by

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=araU0fZj6oQ

massachusetts celebrates massachusetts

This should have been on channel 38.

all this shit seems to disappear when i'm w/ u . . .

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tI5ThGIjADQ/TfggrLtPu-I/AAAAAAAABEE/Mi_dMAyYRyQ/s400/luongo.jpg

your fault ^^

i have only the mildest interest in hockey but man taking down that canucks team was a satisfying thing

the sporting world was def behind you guys *coughs*

apparently by winning championships in the 4 north american team sports in 6 years we have easily broken the previous record of 21 years ;)

that must be nice 4 u

my city is fucking stupid

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmvggtb5r81qz88eno1_500.jpg

c'mon guys, it's just old time hockey celebrations

anything goes in the finals amirite

I AM HUNGOVER

grats broons, way to win one for the dude on the other end of that fucking diry-ass hit

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dirTy

― dan m, Wednesday, June 15, 2011 11:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this was one of the better non-wings cups in recent memory imo

― dan m, Wednesday, June 15, 2011 11:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

One of the worst string of posts by one man in history.

don't worry, I'm sure you still hold onto #1 tough guy

TS: Bill Magill vs Rob Mv2

MAGILL OTM

J0rdan S, hockey fan

Holy mother of Jesus.

They did it.

I was puzzled by the Canucks' perfomance, I gotta admit. I expected more. They were banged up, no doubt, but I imagine their morale was sapped by Thomas and the B's suffocating physical play.

The two bummers last night: (1) Vancouver riots; (2) Savard wanted to be there, but wasn't medically cleared for flight.

Quite a bar tab:

http://www.boston.com/sports/hockey/bruins/extras/bruins_blog/jun11/bar_tab_bruins.jpg

skimming that, i don't see any sweet potato fries

http://www.sixteenwins.com/images/bruinstab.gif

bud light smdh

man, fuck bottle service, give me the cup and a six pack of old mil

flyers just got blown up

jeff carter to columbus; mike richards to the kiiiiiings

o_o

just don't make him yr captain

Guys, it's time

IF ILYA BRYZGALOV IS SO GREAT WHY HAS HE BEEN ON FOUR TEAMS IN TEN YEARS: THE NHL 2011-2012 THREAD (INCLUDING VANCOUVER RECONSTRUCTION, BOSTON HANGOVER AND OFFSEASON SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)