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leafsnation wrote:Leafs just signed Kontiola to a 1 year deal...any body know anything about him?

One of or if not the best Finnish player outside NHL (not anymore obviously)!
2012 he scored most points in World Championships (10 games 8+8), that should say something. And a part of this years Finnish Olympic Team, chosen over many NHL players.

David Legwand did not stayed long in Detroit. He signed a 2 years deal with Ottawa worth 6 millions.

philou21 wrote:David Legwand did not stayed long in Detroit. He signed a 2 years deal with Ottawa worth 6 millions.

He was never coming back. That's why Wings fans at the deadline were so up in arms about giving up Jarnkrok. DET could pull the rental off with Weiss on LTIR. Even w/ DET still having injuries, he was relegated to 4th line wing (because he kept blowing important faceoffs in his own zone). He was totally outplayed by kids like Sheahan and Andersson at C when he was healthy, and then even kids like Jurco and Pulkkinen on wing.

$3m AAV isn't awful going to a team like OTT but.... they shouldn't expect too much. He may have at one point been NAS's #1 C, but he's certainly not a top six player at all anymore, even for a bad team.

jhcjobpb wrote:

leafsnation wrote:Leafs just signed Kontiola to a 1 year deal...any body know anything about him?

One of or if not the best Finnish player outside NHL (not anymore obviously)!
2012 he scored most points in World Championships (10 games 8+8), that should say something. And a part of this years Finnish Olympic Team, chosen over many NHL players.

Keep in mind CJ that we lost four of our best centers from the OG so that explains most of it. Still, he played well there too, but I'd say that at least Jori Lehterä and Leo Komarov are even better than him considering overall skills.

Ottawa also desperately needs depth at centre. Thinking Kyle Turris is a number 1 NHL centre is funny enough but thinking that Mika Zibanejad is a number 2 centre is even worse.

Legwand will fit int the #2 slot with Michalek and Chaisson on his wings. That would be a fine #3 on a playoff team.

ForNever wrote:Keep in mind CJ that we lost four of our best centers from the OG so that explains most of it. Still, he played well there too, but I'd say that at least Jori Lehterä and Leo Komarov are even better than him considering overall skills.

I have that in mind. And yes they might be better overall (but that's up for discussion). As Komarov and Lehterä has better defensive skill than Kontiola. But Kontiola is better imo in offense than those two.

I would say that Kontiola is better than Lehterä defensively. But my opinion is based on International games only

Bryan Murray as been diagnosed with cancer. Hope everything will be alright for him.

Biggggg contracts signed in Chicago. Wow. 10,5 for both Kane and Toews.

Read somewhere that Scheinder would have signed for 6 millions per year in NJ. Ridiculous.

Dany Heatley to Ducks. Only 1 million/year.

coombs14 wrote:Ottawa also desperately needs depth at centre. Thinking Kyle Turris is a number 1 NHL centre is funny enough but thinking that Mika Zibanejad is a number 2 centre is even worse.

Legwand will fit int the #2 slot with Michalek and Chaisson on his wings. That would be a fine #3 on a playoff team.

Turris has been the #1 centre for the last 2 seasons. The Sens are better off without Spezza...they play harder and they play better. Zibanejad will be given every opportunity to be the 2nd line centre. He had chemistry with Michalek last season, while Spezza was out (again). Legwand will help with their PK. Scoring goals was never their problem last season, it was bad penalties at bad times and an even worse PK that did them in.

Turris is no number one to me, second at best.

For Heatley it could be a pretty good deal at 1 million, even though I think that guy is done.

Turris is a #2 centre (I won't argue that), but he's been Ottawa's #1 for the last 2 seasons.

Heatley's a bum.

Someone pulled out a prank on the net saying Boston had signed Subban for 2 years or something like and some people actually believed that and were freaking out. Awesome.

philou21 wrote:Someone pulled out a prank on the net saying Boston had signed Subban for 2 years or something like and some people actually believed that and were freaking out. Awesome.

Subban is actually signed for three years with Boston.

Manimal wrote:

philou21 wrote:Someone pulled out a prank on the net saying Boston had signed Subban for 2 years or something like and some people actually believed that and were freaking out. Awesome.

Subban is actually signed for three years with Boston.

Sounds like the NFL guy in Cleveland who tweeted and article about Lebron James sigining in Cleveland.... it was an article from years ago.

DET once again showing the decay of sense in the front office, signed the useless pulp that used to be Dan Cleary... AGAIN. Gave him a NTC too according to CapGeek, because hey, why not? Hey Tomas Jurco, you were pretty awesome last season when in DET so... here have the Nyquist treatment and start in GR again so we can play Dan Cleary's corpse instead, because we learned absolutely nothing from doing that same thing to Nyquist last season.

Primis wrote:

Manimal wrote:

philou21 wrote:Someone pulled out a prank on the net saying Boston had signed Subban for 2 years or something like and some people actually believed that and were freaking out. Awesome.

Subban is actually signed for three years with Boston.

Sounds like the NFL guy in Cleveland who tweeted and article about Lebron James sigining in Cleveland.... it was an article from years ago.

I was referring to Malcolm Subban

LOL Manimal!

I just got back from work and I was wondering if that was true after all since I haven't had the time to check on RDS yet.

Manimal wrote:I was referring to Malcolm Subban

I know you were.

In both cases it was true, just not the absolute 100% truth people would jump to assuming it was.

About darn time the Avs reach a deal with O'Reilly. Two years is a little bit short but at least he earns 500 000 less than last year.

philou21 wrote:About darn time the Avs reach a deal with O'Reilly. Two years is a little bit short but at least he earns 500 000 less than last year.

I'm surprised he accepted that deal. Guess he likes to play for the Avs.

Yeah I was kinda scared that with what he got from arbitration last year he would get all high about it. Especially since he made an ass of himself last post-season. I was really hoping that he will stay since he improved alot this year. Glad maybe Sakic or Roy convinced him to stay.

Detroit has now lost all three assistant/associate coaches to new jobs this offseason.

Video Ass. Keith McKittrick --> Ass. Portland WHL
Assoc. Tom Renney --> CEO Hockey Canada
Ass. Bill Peters --> Head Carolina Hurricanes.

They hired on Tony Granato as a new Ass. Coach, but still have 2 slots to fill. It'll be interesting to see who they get and what it means for the team. Wings fans have been fairly unhappy with Wings assistants for some time now (poor special teams) even predating all 3 of those.

Complicating all that is that very long-time Ass. Coach in Grand Rapids, Jim Paek, has left to head up the Korean national team. So even Jeff Blashill is looking for a replacement in GR at the same time.

I don't know that I've ever seen so thorough of turnover of assistants that did not involve firing.

Can Subban just sign his darn contract already? I can't take it anymore here, medias are constantly talking about him and the negos and the fans are freaking out on the internet about Subban leaving next year, people complaining that Bergevin sucks because he can't make Subban sign a long-term deal etc etc, freaking crazy fans. I should just give up going on the RDS website these days.