Look, I’m sure it’s buried in the CBA somewhere. I’m sure everyone else is right and I’m wrong. But, as I said in an earlier post, I just don’t get why Justin Schultz isn’t an unrestricted free agent as of June 1, today.
Tag Archive for General Managers
Gillis reveals teams “showcase” players for trades
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Over the last few years, I have witnessed several bloggy debates about whether teams really showcase players in an attempt to spark a trade. When a player’s ice time suddenly increases, there’s usually someone out there who will shout “showcase!”, and this is sometimes met with snarky dismissiveness by team representatives and/or journalists. If you…
Brian Burke: Stanley Cup Playoffs = Woodstock … suspensions = mud
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I prefer Monterey myself, but I get the point. Just so long as it’s not Altamont. Brian Burke: Outrage over NHL’s suspensions overblown – The Globe and Mail With much of the focus in the NHL playoffs on the eight suspensions handed down in the first week, the Toronto Maple Leafs general manager told…
Burke reveals the Pittsburgh Model is actually his ass
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“What’s the Pittsburgh model?” Brian Burke snapped that question back to the media during a postseason press conference on Tuesday [...]. The [...] question had been about preaching patience to the fan base and [the idea of collecting] high draft choices through years of unsuccessful hockey [as a way to turn Toronto into] a Stanley Cup…
Dean Lombardi Trade History
The complete record of Lombardi’s trades as Kings GM. Carter, Johnson, Richards, Schenn, Simmonds, Smyth, Quincey, Cammalleri, Tyler Myers (?) (more)
When Will Bryan Murray Be Held Accountable? – Habs Eyes On The Prize
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When Will Bryan Murray Be Held Accountable? – Habs Eyes On The Prize.
From Tom Benjamin’s NHL Blog: The Heatley Soap Opera
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An interesting counter-point to the Heatley mess, from Tom Benjamin: The level of vitriol being directed at Dany Heatley from the media seems astonishing to me. Dan Barnes, for example. I’m not a big fan of Dany Heatley (the person, not the player) but there is another way to see this story. While Heatley’s behaviour has…
From The Hockey News: Top 10 Roenick quotes [the two I liked anyway, plus bonus Patrick Roy retort!]]
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4. “I liked Patrick’s quote, (that) he would have stopped me. I wanted to know where he was in Game 3. He was probably getting his jock out of the rafters of the United Center.” – On Patrick Roy after Game 4 of the conference semifinal between Chicago and Colorado in 1996. Roy’s retort: “I…
From Mlive.com: New Blackhawks GM Stan Bowman suggests that cap may not fall for 10-11 season, discusses Hawks’ Red Wings-like ‘one-year window’
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Actually, it’s Mlive (from Detroit) quoting a block from the Chicago Daily Herald [with my comments in brackets]: The Hawks are under the NHL’s $56.8 million salary cap for this season [no, you're not] but part of the reason Bowman was promoted to GM was to navigate the team through next summer when there will…
From Battle of California: More on Doug Wilson
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Undoubtedly BoC is already in your blog aggregator, but I’m clipping out this bit anyway, since it’s so true and so much fun to contemplate: Whatever trade options GM Doug Wilson may have had at the draft (and we can only speculate there) are now fairly diminished. How it affects the Sharks going forward? Remains to be seen. Still,…