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Best tweet of the day: Chi Dan@woodstennis_44 @TramyersCSN Parise and Suter are just waiting to see where Huet will sign
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I'd be shocked if the bolded part happened, ie dumping him for little return. He's a relatively solid stay-at-home defenseman. I'm sure there's a market for him. But I'd expect draft picks/prospects.
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I'm probably reading way to much into Twitter posts here, but I'd bet Pittsburgh is still in on Parise.
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I liked it better when they were in cap hell than when they've been comfortably below. Yeah it was fine in 2010 because they were a healthy team. And I know what you're saying. Just don't want to be in a situation where they can't add anyone at the deadline. Not that Stan has a track record of helping the team at that point anyway... I would rather build the best team possible by October and risk not being able to add than purposefully go in with space you may never get the chance to use. Yep! Also, if our drafts have been as good as advertised, we can give one of those guys a shot if there's an injury. Better than Stan trading for Oduya and then extending him at a ridiculous number. Cap hell and winning big>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>cap safe and being average. Can't we split the difference? To your point though, I would have loved for Bowman to pass on Oduya and give Dylan Olsen more of a chance. Certainly could have signed another guy like Brookbank and saved a few million.
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Hudler to Calgary. Had no idea he scored 25 goals last year. 4/16
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I liked it better when they were in cap hell than when they've been comfortably below. Yeah it was fine in 2010 because they were a healthy team. And I know what you're saying. Just don't want to be in a situation where they can't add anyone at the deadline. Not that Stan has a track record of helping the team at that point anyway...
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And the Torres suspension reduced by four games. Whatever.
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Obviously I'd be ecstatic if the Hawks got Parise, though I don't like the idea of being right back in cap hell. That's why I wonder who goes (other than Hammer).
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My question is what is a good contract for the Hawks to give Parise? More than Staal got of course. Guess depends how it is structured.
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I would have to think he'd actually think strongly about not returning to NJ. They do absolutely nothing to market that team, and ownership is a huge mess. I never thought Marty was leaving, but I think Parise needs to go somewhere else. Oh yeah no doubt their situations are different. Parise is presumably signing a long deal wherever he goes, so it makes sense for him to take into account the health of the franchise.
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I have no idea what any of that means. If he's playing his best and winning other tournaments, the major wins will follow. That's the way it was pre-2009. Come on, it's not complicated.
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So basically a NJ player is once again using the Hawks to get what he wants from Lou? I'm not complaining. This is how it works. Just funny.
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Eklund says we are in on Parise. Don't like a crazy money contract unless it's followed by a trade of Sharp.
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For a team that has been so worried about cap space the past couple years, spending over a million for such a non-essential player in any given year seems to be a waste. If all you are going to do is deal away your costly vets and stockpile prospects it doesn't make much sense to turn around and keep wasting millions on back-end guys. It's barely over a million a year for a guy who offers some size and stability on the back line. Things this team needs. I just don't see how that's a waste. The 5/6 D are important in the regular season if you want 2 and 7 to be worth a [expletive] come April.
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They said it yesterday on the broadcast and I think it's true. Tiger won so many majors before because he was consistently the best golfer in the world and was winning all the time. His preparation level was always there regardless of whether it was a major. Since he came back, he's used the lesser tournaments to get up for the majors, and it just doesn't work that way. So I see him winning these events and getting the game just right as a precursor to the major wins.
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I really don't think it is an overpay. Bouillon and Bickel (Stu, not Brian) both got $1.5M, Bickel for two years. I'd take Brookbank over both of them. RDS is saying Brodeur got a two year deal from NJ and is staying but I don't see it anywhere else just yet. Unless he jumps in and signs one of the big names, Bowman will have to make the big improvements by trades now. Or he will just sit by as a lot of us feared he would and bring back basically the same team. We still know Hammer is going. But probably not for much since everyone knows he's being shopped. I'm not saying send them Hammer, but what about talking to LA about Bernier?
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$2.5M total over the two years for Brookbank. No complaints there.
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Also indications are they are hot after Brodeur.
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No reason to so far. But they did just add Brookbank. I guess cements that Hammer will be traded.
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He's right though. Really? Was Marty anything more than a solid goalie this year? Bowman doesn't seem to me to be a guy interested in paying a truckload for solid goaltending. Did we have a solid goalie this year? For one year I'm fine with giving it a go.
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Tweet this morning from that Eklund goof: He's right though.
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Saw a report on Twitter that Toews mentioned (perhaps jokingly) that he was trying to lure Doan to town. I lost some respect for him in that playoff series, but I think he'd be a good guy to have around.
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I missed this before about Montador. Great news on Toews, though not surprising. Montador is a little though. He's a big deal to this team as it is currently made up. http://espn.go.com/chicago/nhl/story/_/id/8096352/chicago-blackhawks-jonathan-toews-steve-montador-recovered-head-injuries
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He's not a 2-way player and never will be. He doesn't play defense at all and of course his scoring has dropped for 2 years. Not saying they should dump him, but see if someone will overvalue him and we could get some players. Kane's scoring dropped this year because he was asked to play center rather than wing. That was a huge adjustment for him, and naturally affected his scoring. But his defense was much improved -- when Kane started in the defensive zone, 54% of the time, play ended in the offensive zone. That's 37th among forwards in the NHL. For comparison, Toews was 13th with 56.2% and Sharp was 14th with 56.1%. For a guy you say isn't a two-way player, that's really damn good. I didn't have that stat to back it up with, but that was just my feeling from watching him at center. Sure he had his lapses, but for a guy who isn't a natural center, that's understandable. But I saw a whole lot of instances where he busted it to make a strong defensive play.
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6/25 Mets (Santana) @ Cubs (Wood) 7:05 pm CSN+
kujay replied to Andy's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
This is the last, worthless evening, that you'll have to spend...
