2010 NHL Offseason Thread

[Sepukku]

Chinch... you can maybe be a fill-in if one of the remaining 4 teams sign up, but we're doing 14 team league (16 means there will be a massive goalie issue as each team has 2, 3 in 10-12 man leagues. Even 14 is pushing it.) So far 10 teams signed up, 4 have yet to respond.

Anywho, Kariya will be back the following year, he still isn't in retirement age yet, hes 35 only (surprisingly). I thought he was like Selanne pushing 40 but he'll be 36 at the beginning of next season so hopefully he can get healthy but this is the 2nd full season of his career he'll be shutdown for concussion issues so he might want to save his own future health-wise and just call-it-quits early. IDK though, that depends on a lot of stuff the fans don't see - his medical records and what his doctors are telling him, his personal finances, how much of his identity is typed up in being a hockey player, etc.

Edmonton might actually be a half decent team this year with Niemi, probably not playoffs but at least not dead last:

Top 2 lines:
Penner / Gagner / Hemsky
Taylor Hall (!) / Cogliano / Stortini

Defensemen:
Souray / Ryan Whitney
Kurtis Foster / Smid

They also have Eberle who is going to be a good player eventually, hes been tearing up the minors for a few years and was the 2010 WJC Most Valuable Player, maybe this is his year..

Anyways, Whitney (trade deadline I believe), Foster (Tampa Bay), and Taylor Hall all good steps in the right direction along with potentially Niemi also being a big plus and frankly Souray can't miss much more than he did last year.

[Thoronas]

Souray will not be playing on that team this year. They'll put him in the minors before they put him in an oilers jersey again.

[Sepukku]

I don't watch Edmonton play much, I saw him fight Iginla, get hurt, and thats about all I saw him this year, but why? Last I knew, he's got a booming shot and he plays a tough physical game and has experience which like... 80% of the Edmonton roster... doesn't have. If they don't need cap space, why bury him in the minors? You really think hes worse than Edmonton's 7th best defenseman who would consequently be bumped into the lineup by him being waived/minored for nothing?

[Thoronas]

It's not about his play on the ice. He wants off the team and management sees him as a poison in the dressing room.

[Sepukku]

It's not about his play on the ice. He wants off the team and management sees him as a poison in the dressing room.

He must want to play for Calgary

[Vaspinne]

He must want to play for Toronto

That's where Calgary dumped it's locker room poison. And they made it their captain.

[Sepukku]

They dumped the other half on New York... and then took it back!

[Vaspinne]

They dumped the other half on New York... and then took it back!

Yeah, I'm not going to lie, that signing was pretty infuriating. The only upside is the cost, but even then it's still pretty jaw dropping in how ridiculous of a signing it was. My hopes on the season are Tanguay getting us 50+ points for 1.7mil. His 2 best seasons were with Calgary, so hopefully he can regain some of that scoring touch.

[Sepukku]

NHL.com reporting Jordan Staal's sliced foot at the hands of that cheating piece of shit PK Subban in last year's playoffs has had "a setback" and isn't healing as quickly as Penguins doctors would've liked...

Still thought he should've been suspended, that shit looked intentional, didn't he cut or almost cut someone else too?

[Izzy]

If you're missing some responses, I'll try out fantasy hockey this year. I'm assuming that I'll be horrible at it though.

[Callisto]

NHL.com reporting Jordan Staal's sliced foot at the hands of that cheating piece of shit PK Subban in last year's playoffs has had "a setback" and isn't healing as quickly as Penguins doctors would've liked...

Still thought he should've been suspended, that shit looked intentional, didn't he cut or almost cut someone else too?

In his defense he was trying to go after Cooke, but all white people look alike.

[Chinch]

Chinch... you can maybe be a fill-in if one of the remaining 4 teams sign up, but we're doing 14 team league (16 means there will be a massive goalie issue as each team has 2, 3 in 10-12 man leagues. Even 14 is pushing it.) So far 10 teams signed up, 4 have yet to respond.

cool beans, just msg here or PM me if anything changes and I'd love to hop in and play some fantasy hockey. Also, Zach Stortini ftw! love that dude.

[NynJa]

Plan the parade, the Stanley Cup is coming to Toronto boyiessss

AAAAAHAHAHAH, you're right though, there is a Stanley Cup parade every year in Toronto, the parade that watches the cup board its flight to the WINNING team.

[NynJa]

Last I knew, he's got a booming shot and he plays a tough physical game and has experience which like... 80% of the Edmonton roster... doesn't have.

He lost majority of the shot in montreal when he suffered the huge laceration on his wrist.

[Callisto]

If I'm not mistaken Souray was like Fulton from Mighty Ducks, he had a howitzer shot but could only put it on net like 20% of the time at best lol.

[Richybear]

would make sense if Edmonton actually re-signed Gags.
Unfortunately, they're being retarded about it, and not even talking to him at this point.

Eberle is awesome, Hall should pan out well, same with MPS.

Also Sep.. LOL @ Horcoff not being on your top 2 lines. That's how everyone feels around here about him, yet management also figured he's worth a 5.6m cap hit per season.
Same management that traded Smytty and the team has had no heart since.
If it wasn't lolCalgary, I'd say they were the most local NHL franchise.
Vancouver doesn't count, since I loathe the Sedin sisters.
Toronto is LOL
Ottawa is almost as bad.
So by default, and because they've been my fave team since 1986 (Gogo Stephane Richer!), Montreal is Canada's only NHL franchise.

/endrant
ps: Fuck Tambellini for not re-signing Sammy yet.

[Ishido]

NHL.com reporting Jordan Staal's sliced foot at the hands of that cheating piece of shit PK Subban in last year's playoffs has had "a setback" and isn't healing as quickly as Penguins doctors would've liked...

Still thought he should've been suspended, that shit looked intentional, didn't he cut or almost cut someone else too?

Not this shit again

[Bregor]

Not this shit again

Rink's closed.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2679/...4bc76cba_o.jpg

[Sepukku]

Here he cuts Matt Cooke but doesn't succeed in injuring him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxxdonJ5QnI

And here he injures Staal who is STILL recovering:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zMj70ISxVE

Both times he comes in contact with someone he does this quarter/half turn bullshit and lifts the back skate off the ice a little as it spins around.

[NynJa]

Subban tried to injure those players just like the refs werent bias all series