Back when Doughty was holding out, I made a spreadsheet — unpublished until now — projecting the growth of his retirement nest egg until Doughty’s ultimate retirement from the NHL at age 100, his consciousness long since having been uploaded into a robot. Here is that spreadsheet:
Good Stuff You Missed the 1st Time
Which players got screwed the most by the two lock-outs?
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The 2004-2005 lock-out took a year out of the careers of a generation of players. Now, the 2012-13 lock-out is robbing a second group, and it’s doing it to some people for the second time. Some players — Mike Cammalleri, Dustin Brown, come to mind — may even have benefitted from playing an entire season…
AUDIO: Doughty Laughs
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USA Hockey: What are Tier I, Tier II, AAA, AA, A, B (and BB?)?
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When my kid joined the circus that is youth hockey, I was assaulted by lingo that had mutated wildly in the thirty years since my own youth hockey “career” ended. Then as now, there were mite, squirt, peewee, bantam and midget teams. Then as now, there were AAA, AA, A and B teams. But that…
The Cup, Names, Petitions, since the lock-out [CHART FUN]
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Yesterday, we learned that the Kings did not petition to have Andrei Loktionov’s name engraved on the Stanley Cup. How unusual is that? I decided to find out. As I said I would in my last post on Loktigate, I went back and looked at the rosters of past Cup-winning teams, to see which players…
Fix It
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Loktionov omission is unconscionable
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Andrei Loktionov played 39 regular season games for the Kings, and 2 more in the playoffs. The cut-off to qualify to get your name on the cup is 41 regular season games, or one game in the Finals. Loktionov didn’t dress in the Finals, so I was prepared for the news that his name wouldn’t…
Weber Offer Sheet: CIRCUMVENTION?
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One interpretation of Philly’s offer sheet is that they’re trying to make it actually impossible for Nashville to come up with the money. They’re not trying to force Nashville into a cap-crisis (which is a strategy the CBA anticipates). They’re trying to force more money into season one of the deal than is allowed by the CBA, for the purpose of undermining Nashville’s ability to compete.
Miss America has two boyfriends…
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Miss California has two boyfriends, Jonathan Quick and you, Jonathan Bernier. She wants to date both and choose her steady boyfriend at some point in the future. She’s kind of leaning toward Quick. Then she wins Miss America. Then she marries Quick. But she would still like to pay you a visit every once in awhile. Not very often, but just when her new husband needs a rest.
Fat Broads You Regret Banging Win Stanley Cup
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Meanwhile you, Cam Janssen, aren’t even allowed access to us — the Stanley-Cup Champion Los Angeles Fat Broads — because you didn’t dress for a single game the entire playoffs. Devils’ Cam Janssen calls LA Kings ‘the fat broads you just regret banging’; makes off-color gay joke | Puck Daddy – Yahoo! Sports Cam Janssen, the…