EHM The Blue Line

Danny wrote:Brandon Bochenski once bulked up over the summer. Didn't turn out too well

Ewwwwwwwww!

Schenn, Kaberle, Komisarek, Beauchemin, Phaneuf, yeah your right it's an awful defence. You prove pretty well you don't know your hockey LOL.

Kaberle is a top D-Men, Phaneuf can be a top D-Men too, he got some problems at Calgary but we're gonna see with the new season but he proves he can be really good. Komisarek is overated but can be a good 4-5 defenceman. Schenn is young but he will become good . Beauchemin is a pretty good 3-4 defenceman, Gunnarsson looks like a decent young D-man too. The big problems is Finger and Van Ryn. Yeah sucks really well, your team called the Nucks don't have the 2/3 of that defence, yeah it sucks bad.....

Van Ryn is taking the year off of hockey, so he's on LTIR, meaning his cap hit is 0. Finger will get waived and buried in the minors I'm sure, and Komi is looking healthy. Don't forget Gunnarsson.

9 teams are facing cap penalties, most notably Chicago at 4.1, Boston at 1.75 and Toronto at 1.4.

http://www.capgeek.com/news/20100702-ni ... onuses.php

More fuel for the Simon Gagne rumours:

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=326408

Personally, I don't think I'll be too upset to see him go - He's injury prone, and getting old. Now's the best time to trade him and still get a good return... like a real starting goalie, for once, Holmgren!

philou21 wrote:Schenn, Kaberle, Komisarek, Beauchemin, Phaneuf, yeah your right it's an awful defence. You prove pretty well you don't know your hockey LOL.

Kaberle is a top D-Men, Phaneuf can be a top D-Men too, he got some problems at Calgary but we're gonna see with the new season but he proves he can be really good. Komisarek is overated but can be a good 4-5 defenceman. Schenn is young but he will become good . Beauchemin is a pretty good 3-4 defenceman, Gunnarsson looks like a decent young D-man too. The big problems is Finger and Van Ryn. Yeah sucks really well, your team called the Nucks don't have the 2/3 of that defence, yeah it sucks bad.....

I guess you did not watch/follow the Leafs at all last season, because what you said proves you don't know hockey.


Kaberle is pretty good yes, Phaneuf is overrated, the rest can defend, but can't move the puck out worth rubbish, and yeah the Nucks don't have as naff a defence as that, who would want it.

Oh alright so you base your opinion on the season they got? What about bad goaltending and no attack to score goal to win? Sorry but the Nucks are not better at defence and everyone knows that, the main reason is called Luongo who can back up the bad defence, you're just not can't stop argue and admited your wrong that's all, you're ALWAYS argueing on everything, I think I'm done answering your posts I just waste my time.

Taylor Hall will probably sign his contract with the Oilers tomorrow. Dean Lombardi says that Kovalchuk as turn his back on the Kings. NJ and NYI are still in the running for signing him...well with the Kings out of the run the KHL is closer I think.

alexob18 wrote:Van Ryn is taking the year off of hockey, so he's on LTIR, meaning his cap hit is 0. Finger will get waived and buried in the minors I'm sure, and Komi is looking healthy. Don't forget Gunnarsson.

Van Ryn's cap hit is 0 because he became a free agent last Thursday

Right... I forgot that he was a UFA. I thought he had another season on his contract... read some article that made it sound like he did.

My bad

Kovalchuk sign with the Devils a 7 years, 60 millions contract apparently, not sure if it's a good sign for his career.

brodeur isn't getting any younger and he is the heart and soul of NJ

Bob Probert died today. It looks like an heart attack.

He was so young...

R.I.P. Bob Probert

It is very unfortunate, thousands would buy tickets to a game just because Probert "might" get into a fight.

That's a real shame about Probert but not a huge surprise. He really abused his body when he was younger. That takes a toll, even if you clean your act up.

The Bruins have entered contract negotiations with 2011 UFAs Chara and Bergeron. Chiarelli said both are definitely going to be re-signed.

Yup! That's a good thing. And I hear they're close to coming to a deal with Stuart.

bruins72 wrote:That's a real shame about Probert but not a huge surprise. He really abused his body when he was younger. That takes a toll, even if you clean your act up.

Yes I read about him taking drugs and alcohol alot. He even got ban from Canada because of that. I didn't knew that about him so when I read that I've got the same reaction as you, not surprising.


Between Halak sign a 4 years 15 millions contract with the Blues.

bruins72 wrote:Yup! That's a good thing. And I hear they're close to coming to a deal with Stuart.

Yeah, Stuart refused to file for arbitration, on the contrary to Wheeler and Campbell. Player elected salary arbitration also means a second buyout period for the Bruins. Although I don't think they're going to buy out Ryder.

Yeah, it just doesn't make sense for the Bruins to buy out Ryder. This is the last year of his contract. I'm pretty sure that if they bought him out, they'd have a cap hit this year and next. Why do that to themselves next year? Plus, this being a contract year, Ryder is bound to have a decent season. Still, I'd love it if they could trade him for a box of tape and some sticks.

Contract years mean nothing to good ol Mikey. In his contract year in Montreal he was bombarding fans with cardboard planes from the pressbox.
The Bruins however need to move one bigger contract. Ideally you wanna go with 22 players on the roster, Bruins have 17 not counting Sturm. Including cap penalty and wiggle room for Chia they've got like 3m left.

Kovalchuk is still on the market,his agent said on twitter

philou21 wrote:Between Halak sign a 4 years 15 millions contract with the Blues.

Not gonna repeat it I hope he will be successfull with Blues I guess there is rising new SC winner team in STL similar to CHI this season... We'll see.