Geez. What's with the lack of love for the HR Derby? It does them no good in their quest to become major league players, and there is a perception that this type of event can hurt your performance in the following weeks.
Liar. With a ridiculous attitude like this, where being the GD #1 seed is considered losing, there is no way you would be happy about just making it to the finals.
Is Parise going to actually put them in cap hell? They are 7.75 under right now. If they sign something that puts him just above Kane/Toews cap hit (6.3) they still have some room, plus, 3-4 candidates to be moved away for more space.
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.
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. The way you wrote it it was. At least to me.
Apparently he's looking for front loaded signing bonus money. That's something a more financially stable franchise can deal with (but might not be in the cards in NJ).
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.
I think David posted about this last page... Any word on what happened? deadspin brought it up and mentioned he suffers from migraines. he's being evaluated He's taking the rest of the season off for undisclosed medical reasons