Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

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Re: Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

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Blob Mckenzie wrote:
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Hockey Widow wrote:Hey Minny is buying out Matt Cooke.......JK, JK, JK no really they are buying him out JK about him coming here. Time for Matt to retire.
Good for him. He was always a 3rd liner who played tough (and a bit dirty), but, he has had a great career for a "plugger". I wish I'd been paid almost $21 million before I turned 37.
He played tough ?




Yeah no he didn't . He was a shit weasel
How can you say that? Did you not see how he absolutely pummelled Steve Moore, essentially ending his career!?!

Oh, wait. No thats not right. Moore tuned Cooke up.

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Re: Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

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Jim Hughson put on suicide watch. The reason?

18 year old Sam Bennet turned 19 today. Doctor's say he just needs time to adjust to this change and he is expected to make a full recovery.
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Flames sign Backlund, 3 years at 3.575 per. I think a tad high but coming from a team that just re-signed Sbisa....I'll let it slid.
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Hockey Widow wrote:Flames sign Backlund, 3 years at 3.575 per. I think a tad high but coming from a team that just re-signed Sbisa....I'll let it slid.
Big fan of Backlund, I wish he was a Nuck. Good signing by the Flames, future core player on the team, plays a gritty 200 ft game
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Re: Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

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Todd Bersnoozi wrote: Well, a lot of ppl on this board seem to invent a character, guys in hollywood probably do the same thing. It's probably more common than u think. :lol:
True story, a long time ago, on a fucking canuck message board far far away...

Someone created a character named "Magic 40"!

Magic 40 was a teenager who was related to then-Canuck Pavol Demitra (RIP).

Magic 40 posted in a very thick Slovakia accent.

Magic 40's inside scoop was that Demitra's buddy UFA Marian Gaborik had agreed to purchase a house in N Van!

LOL Canuckdom lapped that right up, even some local hockey writer took that story and ran with it!

So yeah... fucking character creators! :evil:
Todd Bersnoozi wrote: Maybe instead of the NHL, Avery should of went to the WWE. Might of made a hell a lot of more money. But then again, he's only 35, which is pretty young for a wrestler. He could make a former hockey player type character like the hanson bros or something. GM would luv him! :lol:
Yeahno, WWE guys crap bigger than p.o.s. Sean Avery!

And WWE guys are actors who are sane enough to follow a script.

Sean Avery, NOT:
http://pagesix.com/2014/11/04/sean-aver ... 1341741924

Former NY Ranger Sean Avery had a Shia LaBeouf-style meltdown on the set of his off-Broadway play “Negative Is Positive” and quit two days before it was due to open, after a stage manager politely offered him pizza.

He’s a playwright’s worst nightmare,” said “Negative” author Christy Smith-Sloman.

The show, which opens at Theater for the New City on Thursday, centers on an interracial married couple, and Avery was to play the lead character’s best friend.

On Monday, Avery left rehearsals early after growing agitated. On Tuesday, Avery’s behavior grew worse. According to Smith-Sloman, when a young assistant stage manager named Natalie asked the athlete-turned-actor if he wanted a slice of pizza, he said no, but somehow thought the assistant had called him an “a–hole.”

“He said I was ‘talking s–t’ and said I was ‘so full of s–t,'” Natalie, who was left in tears, told us. “That’s when I realized that I was dealing with a madman.

Next, director Andreas Robertz said Avery told him, “Don’t you know who I am?!” and stormed out. “I think something snapped in him,” said Robertz.

It’s a complete horror story … Avery had a complete meltdown in rehearsals and quit. He pretty much snapped,” Smith-Sloman told Page Six.

The playwright said she does not want hot-tempered Avery back. “It’s unbelievable he would do this two days before we open. At this point I don’t want him to be a part of this production. He can’t call people pieces of s–t and say, ‘Do you know who I am?’ [He] can’t threaten people.”

An understudy will replace Avery, who didn’t return our calls for comment.
Yeah, you should have known better than to have fallen for Avery's article there Todd. :hmmm:
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http://www.tsn.ca/sharks-working-on-a-b ... r-1.314689

Interesting rumor mill out there these days.....

The Penguins apparently have interest in Phil Kessel.

I wonder if they are actually considering parting ways with Malkin despite adamant denials to date.

It would make sense.
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Mëds wrote: I wonder if they are actually considering parting ways with Malkin despite adamant denials to date.

It would make sense.
No it doesn't make any sense whatsoever for the Pens to trade Malkin.

Bullshitter Friedman created the rumour and was later forced to retract.

What does make sense is for the Pens to trade Sutter:

http://blog.triblive.com/chipped-ice/20 ... z3do0k9uTF
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Wait a minute...

Magic40 typed with a thick Slovakian accent?

Funny, I never heard it that way whilst reading it
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Uncle dans leg wrote:Wait a minute...

Magic40 typed with a thick Slovakian accent?

Funny, I never heard it that way whilst reading it
I am telling you truth! You confused I think with Magic46??Magic46 eats the dick!
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Re: Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

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Strangelove wrote:
Uncle dans leg wrote:Wait a minute...

Magic40 typed with a thick Slovakian accent?

Funny, I never heard it that way whilst reading it
I am telling you truth! You confused I think with Magic46??Magic46 eats the dick!
Where'd the extra six come from????

Wait a minute....six....

Isn't he a long lost troll? I'm starting to see a pattern
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Re: Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

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Uncle dans leg wrote:
Strangelove wrote:
Uncle dans leg wrote:Wait a minute...

Magic40 typed with a thick Slovakian accent?

Funny, I never heard it that way whilst reading it
I am telling you truth! You confused I think with Magic46??Magic46 eats the dick!
Where'd the extra six come from????

Wait a minute....six....

Isn't he a long lost troll? I'm starting to see a pattern
Wtf does this have to do with the topic? Come on guys.
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Come on Zedee, you mist be choking! Did you think he had a thick Slovenian accent?....can't you see how this all ties the room together?

It is summer after all...good conversation tends to wander this time of year.
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Salary Cap has been set at $71.4M for next year.
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Rumour out of Vegas meetings - NHL expansion is on the table and open for business.
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This could get interesting quickly.

Graeme Roustan has already said he will apply for an expansion team in Toronto/GTA.

The obvious imbalance in the divisions points to two new teams in the west. Vegas seems like a done deal at this point. All kinds of rumblings keep coming out of Seattle. Quebec wants a team and is going to have an arena soon. Roustan wants to put a team in the GTA.

A team in Seattle would be great. A second team in the GTA makes a lot of sense to me. Quebec City is a small, government city. Who's going to buy the boxes? Vegas seems like a wild card to me.

Teams like Florida, Columbus, Carolina, Arizona and New Jersey are hardly guaranteed to stay in their current locations forever. I think if Quebec City is ever to get a team, or a second team moves to the GTA, it will be because an American based team has floundered and is relocated. This expansion exercise has to be aimed at fixing the imbalance in the divisions.
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