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  1. biittner77
    i'm not really fearful of losing anybody we don't want to lose, especially 7 years down the line. Plus, there's a very good chance Bryant gets bought out of his first few years of FA anyway. I wouldn't go that far. 100% chance then? Deals similar to what they did for Castro and Rizzo.
  2. biittner77
    i'm not really fearful of losing anybody we don't want to lose, especially 7 years down the line. Plus, there's a very good chance Bryant gets bought out of his first few years of FA anyway.
  3. biittner77
    Yeah, you'd only associate it with the title A New Hope if you'd seen it during the last 25 years.
  4. biittner77
    October preview Reminds me of that skit where Adam Sandler is talking trash from the OF while secretly saying "please don't hit it, please don't hit it, please don't hit it."
  5. biittner77
    who else though this was going to be about star wars?
  6. biittner77
    Yes he did, and he looked like the best player on the ice for the Hawks until OT. This brings me great joy.
  7. biittner77
    I'm not sure what the parameters of "our era" are but Herb Brooks comes to mind. Or coach Carter. They made a movie about him so he must have been pretty good.
  8. biittner77
    YOU CAN DO BETTER Try "FBI surveillance van" A coffee shop in town uses that.
  9. biittner77
    I didn't get to see the game last night. Did Tuevo get any PP time? I wonder how long before they put Timmonen on the PP? Maybe we'll see both against the Sha arks
  10. biittner77
    Weren't they one of the teams interested in Castillo? Perhaps they'll expand a possible deal.
  11. biittner77
    With Smith gone, they need Nordstrom to kill penalties. What they needed to find out was whether Desjardins could be effective on the PK. So the choice was to scratch Sharp (not Happening), Versteeg (not happening) Richards, Bickell or Tuevo. Low man on the totem pole (Tuevo) enjoys the buffet with Carcillo in the press box. Desjardins was pretty invisible the other night. I missed the first 2 periods but I can only remember seeing him once during the 3rd period. Moving forward, I think we'll see Tuevo against the skill teams and Desjardins against the teams that like to goon it up.
  12. biittner77
    haha Why is this funny? We'd be pissed if some AA pitcher broke Rizzo's wrist in ST and he missed a month+ of the season. Is Pence some kind of crazy racist person/ holocaust denier or something like that? Or am I thinking of someone else.
  13. biittner77
    It begs the question: is a team like Calgary better off missing the playoffs and improving their draft position? There's no way they beat Van and whoever beats the Ducks. It's a long shot but they could still win the lottery with f they miss the playoffs.
  14. biittner77
    Whichever line Sharp has been on has bled goals all season. Having a more defensively responsible center in Vermette will help that a lot. Shaw at wing allows him to chase the puck rather than try to figure out who he's supposed to take as center. It will be interesting to see what happens to opponents shot attempts once the Hawks have played some better teams after hopefully dispatching the Oil on Friday.
  15. biittner77
    I thought the Sharp Vermette Saad line looked quite good. Sharp had an extra hop in his step last night, likely for obvious reasons Conversely, Versteeg looked out of place on the top line a lot of the time. That's understandable since they're used to Saad being there. I still want Sharp, Vermette and Hossa to be a line so we can call them the VHS line since they're all old enough to know what a VHS is. Timmonen was a lesson in correct positioning = no wasted motion.
  16. biittner77
    This summer won't be as bad as 2010, but they will lose someone like Sharp and or Bickell, depending on how much the cap goes up. Between Richards ($2 mil) Oduya ($3.375) Roszival ($2.2) and Carcillo ($550,000) that pays for the increases to Kane and Toews. Increases to Saad could be as much as $3 million (he currently makes ~$900,000). Kruger likely gets about $.5 million more. Then they have to pay to replace those guys. The most likely to go (by salary) Sharp ($5.9) Bickell ($4 mil) and Shaw ($2 mil)
  17. biittner77
    I guess now that they have Vermette they don't need Ben Smith on the PK. Maybe they think Shaw or Hartman can fill his roll on defense. Plus this opens up a spot for Tuevo.
  18. biittner77
    I like both these moves for the Hawks. In a year when the Hawks were throwing out a lot of different guys on defense, Dahlbeck couldn't stick. I've heard only good things about him but he was hardly can't miss and next year he loses his waiver exempt status. As for the draft picks, the Hawks can't find room for the guys they have that are ready now. No one they were going to get with a late 1st round pick was going to be a sure thing regardless of how deep this draft is supposed to be. The fact that the teams that expect to make the playoffs are trading away their draft picks is telling.
  19. biittner77
    More importantly, this pushes Shaw to wing where he belongs, alongside Kruger and Smith where they can wreak havoc and maybe even score a goal every so often.
  20. biittner77
    I agree. The Caps are looking to add for a run this year so they likely don't want to trade a roster player that's helping them now. Unless there's another team involved but those types of deals seem to never happen in the NHL. I'd take Broeuwer back for Sharp but there's no way the Caps do that. Trade Sharp to the Caps for prospects, trade prospects from Caps + Raanta to the yotes for Vermette?
  21. biittner77
    Maddon better grow a mustache.
  22. biittner77
    Keep in mind that Oduya and Roszy both come off the books so they could keep a guy to help even things out in case Jons/ Dahlbeck etal don't pan out. They can't trade Shaw unless they're willing to play Tuevo at center or they get a center as part of a trade. If you want to say they should already be playing Tuevo, I'll have to agree. But I think they keep Shaw until the off season.
  23. biittner77
    And Rouglas has sons Rouglas, and Rouglas, and Roberto. He also has a father that was a really big Scooby Doo fan.
  24. biittner77
    Twitter consensus is that they're setting up the salary cap for a trade. History has shown that Stan will go out and get a defenseman when he needs to with decent results. Campoli was decent until he coughed up the turnover that led to the OT winner against Van. Oduya was an integral part of the 2013 run. I think we'll see Erixon to IR or waived before the deadline. Cuminsky lasts until TVR returns unless they need to add his salary to equation. All this means that the Hawks could now get a D man currently making ~$3 million provided that the other team is willing to pay half (which is the max) of the remaining cap hit. Without capgeek it's hard to know for sure but I think those figures come out under the cap.
  25. biittner77
    Only if you expect him to not play at all. I think Tuevo plays Friday and Carcillo sits. At some point Shaw will be a healthy scratch. He hasn't been good for a while now. Probably the best lineup is this: Saad Toews Hossa Sharp Richards Kane Versteeg Tuevo Shaw Bickell Kruger Smith
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