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The Official 2012 NHL Stanely Cup Finals Thread: Part II
- Thread starter warwick.hoy
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I said it before and I'll say it again.
If the Devils beat Philly, we're going up against the Kings for the cup!
I'm excited to see East meets West like this. It will be a fun Stanley Cup Final series!
If the Devils beat Philly, we're going up against the Kings for the cup!
I'm excited to see East meets West like this. It will be a fun Stanley Cup Final series!
LA is a great story of the #8 team romping the #1 team, then slaughtering the #2 team, before mercilessly beating the #3 team to go onto the cup.
NJ is a great story of the greatest goalie of all time's possibly final hurrah with a team of youngins in front of him. A few vets mixed in and you've got one hell of a team!
I am very surprised by the Devils- congrats to them for pulling off 3 difficult series wins. I've picked against them the first three rounds; i'm hesitant to make the same mistake a fourth time...As for LA- they were supposed to be really good this year anyway and they just found their stride too late to pick up much higher than 8th. If you told me they would make the finals at the beginning of the season I would not have been surprised at all. I think I'm betting on LA in 6.
As a former goalie, I have a warm place in my heart for awesome goalies. Currently, however, that place is filled with love for Johnny-Q.
Marty - Thank you. Good night.
Hal Gill played during the last game of the regular season and all of his playoff minutes on a broken leg:
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Now that's playing with heart and guts. Go ahead and re-sign that one GMDP.
We've also signed a few low-key prospects, so I'm assuming that's GMDP's way of preparing for a "no one resigns/worst case scenario" later on in the summer.
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Now that's playing with heart and guts. Go ahead and re-sign that one GMDP.
We've also signed a few low-key prospects, so I'm assuming that's GMDP's way of preparing for a "no one resigns/worst case scenario" later on in the summer.
you better believe that just about every team in the league is salivating over your d-men. Dallas' new owner has already promised big moves this summer and he's talked before about how important it is to have a sizable defense. You've got good things going on in Nashville- it won't be that easy to steal the players away, as much as I'd love to see a few in a Stars' jersey.
but first, there is a cup to win....
After the controversial Kovalchuk deal that provided an extra ding against the cap for the Devils,...I thought they were doomed for a few years,...and here they are going to SCFs.
I'm actually going to make it a point to watch this one.
Casually rooting for the Kings.
I know it's going to be a bitter pill for Flyers fans if Ritchie and Carter accomplish something they couldn't in 6 seasons in Philly. But I don't care about that. I'll be happy for them and the rest of the Kings if they hoist the cup.
I'm actually going to make it a point to watch this one.
Casually rooting for the Kings.
I know it's going to be a bitter pill for Flyers fans if Ritchie and Carter accomplish something they couldn't in 6 seasons in Philly. But I don't care about that. I'll be happy for them and the rest of the Kings if they hoist the cup.
Shaved my playoff beard this morning. Sad to see it go after a month and a half.
I was definitely starting to look quite grizzly from not maintaining it, so maybe it's for the best.
I was definitely starting to look quite grizzly from not maintaining it, so maybe it's for the best.
The problem Nashville has is the problem most of the contenders except Detroit have. They went over the cap to get there. Unless some of the Nashville players are willing to take a pay cut there is no way the Preds can keep them all. Detroit is one of the few contenders that is significantly under the cap.
For Nashville to keep Sutter they have to pay Weber considerably under market value. This is my beef with the cap. Think about it, a hockey team needs about 25 good players to make a cup run. Well the average Star is at about 7 million a year. For a team like Nashville, this means Weber, Legwand and Renne are about half of their entire payroll. Then you add in some very good players at lets say four at 4.5 million a year and your left with about 15 mil to split between 15 players. So basically its impossible to keep and develop your own talent.
So the formula seems to be get 3-4 stars and a bunch of rent a players and make a cup run if you stay healthy.
But that's just the thing. We still have $12 million in cap space AFTER the trade deadline moves. We were (and have been) one of the lowest spending teams in the league. We still have the room to make both Suter and Weber happen. The problem with that though, is it would eat through most of the space we had, and few other players would get any sort of raise unless we let several forwards walk.
If we sign all the d-men to contracts that are at the same level or at a raise of 10-15% (excluding Suter and Weber, somewhere in the neighborhood of 6-7 million a year for both), we still would have $35 million a year for forwards. Our D would cost around $21 million, our goalies will cost ~$8, and that leaves around $35 million if the cap stays at $64 million.
I think we can do it, and it makes the most fiscal sense in that we would have all of our star players locked up for 3-5 year, but I know GM's will be throwing the kitchen sink at us for Suter's rights.
There are a few reports out there that Dominic Hasik, age 47, is looking at making another comeback. He played the 2010-2011 season in Europe and trains like crazy, plus there are teams interested in him. I think he could do it. I could see a team like Toronto, or TB being interested in him to mentor their young guys.
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