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balance all that with a guy who spends a life time of 5 am practices with families who sacrifice money, holidays and hours on the road driving to games all in the effort to make it in the big time, only to be told where to play, how to play, how much you are paid and if you dont like it, fuck you g...

All of this talk of signing Doan to a X year long contract so we can trade him in the waning years is bullshit, IMO. I dont think anyone said that, in particular what "I" said was; there is no guarantee that you could move him late in the contract but the odds are much higher in being able to do so...

All of this talk of signing Doan to a X year long contract so we can trade him in the waning years is bullshit, IMO. The guy can barely leave PHO for another team without being surgically removed from that teat: he's just not going to agree to a deal that will move him to another team yet again. I'l...

Canucks have signed Eddie Lack to a two way deal:

http://canucks.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=640466

edit: correction - it's a two year deal: the 1st year is two-way and the 2nd year is a one-way deal. Glad to have Eddie locked down.

It is August 23, Shane Doan hasn't signed yet he's been offered multiple contracts by multiple teams. He clearly prefersto stay in Phoenix, that tells me he doesn't really want to be here. If he doesn't want to be here, why would anyone want him on the team? Oh, that and we want to pay a 20-goal ma...

I'm at the PHO airport as I type this - anyone know Doan's address?

Paging Dr. Dude, paging Dr. Dude,

You have a call from Mr. Charron on line 2...

I think the real issue for the players with this last CBA is that salary spending hasn't been equal to overall League revenue growth. In their minds, they should be getting be getting 57% of the overall pie, and that's not happening. It's not happening, of course, because most of the teams and their...

Mëds wrote:Question, if the season is in the tank, and nobody plays, what happens to some of the bonuses and stuff that may be performance related etc.....do the players then lose out?

If there's no season, they're not even going to collect their base salary, let alone performance bonuses.

I'll add this. I agree with RD in that I do sometimes wish we would feed transgressors their own teeth for lunch. Keith was a good case in point - it would've been fucking nice to see someone skate up and just level him in response, but in reality, DK would've just skated away. Realistically, the be...

*****yawn, fart*****.......I am 42 and have followed the team since 76. I know there are people older than me, Leves, Dude, Doc, Topper, rats, and a shitload of others so don't feed me that crap, and they don't piss and moan like little children. Some of the rest of us prefer to see the team for wh...

Thanks RD. If those are the requisite sentiments I'd say I am about half in and half out. My animus for AV is pretty solid, Gillis - I like but am starting to question more and more, Raymond - feel for the guy but don't really see him progressing any further, Booth - jury still out, Grabner - liked...

This What brilliant post...this is the kind of stuff that gives me great hope in this place and that in times of bleakness you can still find some intelligent life on the CC planet. Someone possessing individual thought and is not swayed by the clique mob mentallity here, an ability to have the bal...

Potatoe1 wrote: No one should have any problem with Booth at 4.25, he has size, speed, grit, and scores at over a 20 goal pace. He gets 4.5 to 5 mill in free agency easily.

but but but no-one will ever take on that dumb over-paid bimbo's contract!!

we're saddled with it foreverz, OMG!!

It went south real quick after that post, regarding my thinkings on David 'bear baitin from way up high up in a tree with a high powered rifle dressed in camouflage' Booth. I fell for all the pre-hype hoopla comin' out of Florida, just the same as it was for Ballard. Soooo, basically you're saying ...