2013 NHL Off-Season Thread: Bluefan's Own Personal Crying Game!

[Cail]

Rich Chere ‏@Ledger_NJDevils
Devils have signed Patrik Elias to multi-year deal. It will be announced today

[Sepukku]

Hate it when holiday are not on monday or friday

just get a better job, apparently banking is pretty legit. Hit reply-all on an email with ~3 co workers and 4-5 managers/directors/etc from a major bank, got an auto-reply Out Of Office message from each of the bankers saying "I am out of the office until Monday July 8th...."

Must be easy making 6 figures and working 120 days a year.

[Ishido]

Grabovski will be a good signing if he can be gotten somewhat cheap, and can be used correctly/stay motivated. Carlyle was an idiot with him.

e: He gets ~1.8m for 8 years from the Leafs, someone could sign him to a ~3.2m contract and he would be getting 5m a year while on a very reasonable contract. I would not mind that at all.

[Deader2818]

Elias is 5.5 mil per year/3 years.

[Ishido]

Elias is 5.5 mil per year/3 years.

In before a Sep rant about overpaying over the hill players

[Sepukku]

In before a Sep rant about overpaying over the hill players

why would i care about a division rival shooting themself in the foot?

[Brill Weave]

Seriously. Waste that money NJ!

[Deader2818]

why would i care about a division rival shooting themself in the foot?

Seems to be the MO of the Atlantic division. Or whatever its called now.

[Deader2818]

Also, who the hell is that in your sig Brill?

[NynJa]

why would i care about a division rival shooting themself in the foot?

almost as bad as having 45m tied up in 8 players.

http://i44.tinypic.com/3359pau.png

Looks like both of your teams feet have been blown off by shotguns

[Brill Weave]

Also, who the hell is that in your sig Brill?

Alison Brie dude. Always Alison.

[Brill Weave]

Looks like both of your teams feet have been blown off by shotguns

coughcoughgomezcough

[NynJa]

coughcoughgomezcough

Hey, Marc Bergevin got rid of Gomez before the ink on his GM contract dried...we had a string of really shitty GM's since 93, but this guy seems to have his head on his shoulders.

[Jamison]

I follow a couple of folks from PensInitiative. I'm still on the fence about them, though.

Also:

@PensInitiative Pens Initiative
NBC Sports is reporting that Matt Cooke is unlikely to re-sign with the Pens

[Deader2818]

I keep hearing rumors of Iginla to the Kings but I don't know if i want that.

[Ishido]

Uhhh I like you Pens homers but Elias is a pretty fucking awesome player.

He's old, but if you wouldn't want him on your team you're probably taking a pretty biased view.

[Ishido]

Elias is 3 points behind Malkin in the past 3 seasons combined. Ahead of Crosby.

Mostly because he's been healthy the whole time, but yeah. He's 21st in scoring for the past 3 seasons, so for 5.5 million even if he declines it's a damn good deal when you're looking at alternatives like Horton or Clarkson (who are both demanding more than Elias got).

[NynJa]

							
Season	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-	GPG	PPG
1995-96	1	0	0	0	0	-1	0.00	0.00
1996-97	17	2	3	5	2	-4	0.12	0.29
1997-98	74	18	19	37	28	18	0.24	0.50
1998-99	74	17	33	50	34	19	0.23	0.68
1999-00	72	35	37	72	58	16	0.49	1.00
2000-01	82	40	56	96	51	45	0.49	1.17
2001-02	75	29	32	61	36	4	0.39	0.81
2002-03	81	28	29	57	22	17	0.35	0.70
2003-04	82	38	43	81	44	26	0.46	0.99
2005-06	38	16	29	45	20	11	0.42	1.18
2006-07	75	21	48	69	38	1	0.28	0.92
2007-08	74	20	35	55	38	10	0.27	0.74
2008-09	77	31	47	78	32	18	0.40	1.01
2009-10	58	19	29	48	40	18	0.33	0.83
2010-11	81	21	41	62	16	-4	0.26	0.77
2011-12	81	26	52	78	16	-8	0.32	0.96
2012-13	48	14	22	36	22	5	0.29	0.75

I dont see any rapid decline here that theyre talking about

[Cail]

Pierre LeBrun ‏@Real_ESPNLeBrun
Hearing that Claude Giroux and the Flyers are close to agreeing to an 8-yr deal worth north of $8 M a year...

lolphi

[Brill Weave]

Hey, Marc Bergevin got rid of Gomez before the ink on his GM contract dried...we had a string of really shitty GM's since 93, but this guy seems to have his head on his shoulders.

Just saying people in glass houses....