KernelPanic
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He's from Gatineau, "coming home" would be Ottawa not Montreal.
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NHL Off-Season 2013 |OT| Celebrate Good Times Come On
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He's from Gatineau, "coming home" would be Ottawa not Montreal.
Still in Quebec not Ontario, plus he wasn't watching any Senators games as a kid.
gaming_noob
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KESSSEEELLLLLLL
Daniel Briere? Don't talk about Briere... you kidding me? Briere? I just hope we can resign our franchise player.
If that's the case, let them both go. Trade Kessel now before it's too late.
Dubbedinenglish
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BRB sending Kessel images of Cuban coffe and pastries.KESSSEEELLLLLLL
Daniel Briere? Don't talk about Briere... you kidding me? Briere? I just hope we can resign our franchise player.
KernelPanic
Member
We have too many forwards right now, I can't see how we could add one via FA without trading one or two out.
gaming_noob
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At this point it sounds like a promise of naked pics of Bozak does more to influence him to sign somewhere.
But Gatineau is basically a part of Ottawa....
And yes, we can't let kessel go
As much as everyone likes to pick on him, he's an elite goal scorer. Gotta throw as much money as we can at him.
But Gatineau is basically a part of Ottawa....
And yes, we can't let kessel go
As much as everyone likes to pick on him, he's an elite goal scorer. Gotta throw as much money as we can at him.
"basically" but isn't
And again, what team would he have watched growing up? The non-existent one?
I agree, but if not signing Bozak to an eight year, $40m contract bothers Kessel as much as Lebrun suggests, that's a huge problem. Plus, they supposedly share the same agent, which complicates things further.But Gatineau is basically a part of Ottawa....
And yes, we can't let kessel go
As much as everyone likes to pick on him, he's an elite goal scorer. Gotta throw as much money as we can at him.
There's only so much money to go around
We sign bozak for that and we may not be able to ice a complete team
We don't know if the cap will go up in a year, either.
I know it's going to happen too, french player who finally has no other option decides to go to Montreal, then pretend like he's always wanted to play under the intense pressure. Although if there are two other teams still, maybe he bitches out again, we don't need anymore centres, especially not small ones. Desharnais may even be better at this point as well.
KingHenrik30
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Lebrun says he thinks the final 3 are NJ, Nash and Mon. NJ makes sense since he wouldn't be too far from his kids.
Exactly. If Kessel is offended that Nonis refuses to waste an inordinate amount of cap space on his good buddy, we'll have a huge problem on our hands.
With that being said, I doubt that will happen. Dreger has been going nuts with the Bozak stuff on Twitter, and I'm gussing that most of it is pure speculation.
I bet it will be trade deadline levels of excitement!
CrazedArabMan
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Wings have offered contracts to Brunner and.... ugh Cleary.
I'm so hoping Cleary doesn't resign, meltdowns will happen if he does and it is the rumored 3 million for 3 year deal, MELTDOWNS!
I'm so hoping Cleary doesn't resign, meltdowns will happen if he does and it is the rumored 3 million for 3 year deal, MELTDOWNS!
The "same agent" thing is overplayed. A shitload of NHL players are represented by someone at Newport sports, does that mean if we sign Bozak we can get Stamkos too since he's under the same management group? These guys are professionals and know there's only so much money to go around for an entire team. I can't imagine that Kessel and Bozak are such BFFs that they can't play apart.
CrazedArabMan
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So Cakeboss, what would you do if Alfie signed with another team?
I do hope Paul Ranger decides to play for the leafs...
I would not feel bad in any way if going into the year after this one having rielly / gardiner / gunnarsson / ranger / liles and franson
Softest D in the league? You bet, but their offense could be amazing and dynamic
I would not feel bad in any way if going into the year after this one having rielly / gardiner / gunnarsson / ranger / liles and franson
Softest D in the league? You bet, but their offense could be amazing and dynamic
I agree with you (see my last post), but he fact that prominent members of the media are talking about their relationship so publicly is a bit unsettling.
Here's hoping Kessel likes Lupul more than he likes Bozak.
How can you not like his pretty eyes?
Who's the catcher in that relationship?
TurtleSnatcher
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Really don't want Bozak. Would rather have Weiss and Ribeiro or trade for a C like Statsny or something.
CrazedArabMan
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Detroit News said:
YES!!!! Run Cleary, run, run far far away to another team that will pay you your 3 million! One of your guy's teams better be stupid enough to offer him his money!
Start a revolution movement in Kanata to remove Mr.Melnyk Morsi from the organization.
KernelPanic
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However Newport knows what kind of offers its other clients are getting. I imagine they can ask friends who are agents elsewhere as well.
For example if Newport knows that a certain player is getting offers for X dollars for X years, they can tell Bozak they can ask for at least that much (if not more if they think he is better).
The whole Melnyk saga seems to be playing out like Tom Hicks in Dallas.
You remember Barrage's reaction to Modano signing in Detroit? Just like that.
KernelPanic
Member
Hey CakeBoss we just resigned Paul MacLean to a 3-year extension.
We can afford to keep the coach at least :lol.
We can afford to keep the coach at least :lol.
Leafs should use this to their advantage. Just bring a picture of Lupul to free agent negotiations. "Here, how can you not want to see this sexy god naked?"
Jonas Siegel ‏@jonasTSN1050
No question Grabovski struggled in 2013. And yet, his numbers dont differ significantly from Bozak in far less ice-time & defensive role.
Jonas Siegel @jonasTSN1050
Bozak: 18 even-strength points in 722 mins. Grabovski: 13 in 664. Bozak: 12 goals. Grabovski: 9. Bozak: 52.6% FO. Grabovski: 50.6%.
Jonas Siegel @jonasTSN1050
Bozak played 187 more minutes than Grabovski, including 55 more on the power-play.
Jeff Veillette ‏@Jeffler 21m
Tyler Bozak played 139:14 of 5v4 time this year (season+playoffs). Phil Kessel was on the ice with him for all but 38 seconds
So, Bozak gets more offensive zone starts, easier minutes and offensive-mined wingers, and still barely manages to outproduce Grabovski (who was banished to the shutdown line) at even strength. Add in the discrepancy in PP time, and I think it's clear who the better player is.
No question Grabovski struggled in 2013. And yet, his numbers dont differ significantly from Bozak in far less ice-time & defensive role.
Jonas Siegel @jonasTSN1050
Bozak: 18 even-strength points in 722 mins. Grabovski: 13 in 664. Bozak: 12 goals. Grabovski: 9. Bozak: 52.6% FO. Grabovski: 50.6%.
Jonas Siegel @jonasTSN1050
Bozak played 187 more minutes than Grabovski, including 55 more on the power-play.
Jeff Veillette ‏@Jeffler 21m
Tyler Bozak played 139:14 of 5v4 time this year (season+playoffs). Phil Kessel was on the ice with him for all but 38 seconds
So, Bozak gets more offensive zone starts, easier minutes and offensive-mined wingers, and still barely manages to outproduce Grabovski (who was banished to the shutdown line) at even strength. Add in the discrepancy in PP time, and I think it's clear who the better player is.
While there's nothing wrong with Yost looking into some finances and posting about it, the email he got was correct that he was bordering on libel there.
Is it true that 1 of the owners of the Coyotes now is from Ottawa? and that Phoenix looks to have a higher salary cap than us next season? and that they have no problem signing Mike Cuntass Smith to 6 years for 5.5M when they didnt even have an owner in place? while we are struggling to give our franchise player 5-6M for 1 fucking year with a cracker ass owner in place.
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Holy fuck.
Zombie James
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Grabovski bought out? Grabbooooo
WHAT OMFG FUCK YOU NONIS
gaming_noob
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I'm Ok with Grabovski gone, but NOT at the expense of re-signing Bozak!!
SuperSonic1305
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