Free Agency Madness: Hour 4
by SamFels on Jul 1, 2009 2:00 PM CDT
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2:00 I DON'T WANT TO PLAY!!! I JUST WANT TO BANG THE BEAUCHEMIN DRUM ALL DAY!!!
2:03 NHL Network just ran this ad for a self-defense video that might be the most homoerotic thing I've ever seen. I'm honestly questioning everything right now.
2:04 Let me clear something up, Beauchemin has not signed here, I'm just calling for it. And quoting Todd Rundgren.
2:10: McClure with his one salient thought of the day. The Hawks will now have three players wearing numbers in the 80's, meaning they'll have more receivers than the Bears. Whatever, Cutler still rules.
2:12 If the reports are true that Wiz is looking for 4 million a year, he better be offering free catscans to everyone.
2:18 So if these trends continue, will the Hawks be signing Rick Nash next year? We're becoming Real Madrid.
2:22 TSN has gone to their Crusty Old Man Table who hate money and anything having to do with it.
2:24 And now they're panning Campbell's signing, clearly indicating that none of these guys could put the oatmeal down long enough to actually watch the Hawks.
2:47 Will things ever change with Philly? A great team that's going to depend on a fiasco in net. Same as it ever was...
2:29 Things slowing down, so they're all bitching that no one wants to go to Edmonton. Apparently the Northern Lights just aren't the draw they used to be. Huet will land here if he goes anywhere.
2:35 Ah, commercials for the opening of CFL season. So funny, for no reason I can explain
2:40 Even the 300 Level is on board with this move. What a day.
2:50 Spacek to the Habs. I'm sure they'll love his shotgunning ignore your own zone ways.
2:56 Kills is going to drive this bus for a bit as I'm about to go cross-eyed. later, folks.
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I think I blacked out
So, Hossa is a Hawk. Honestly, I think they improved today. Hossa on this team should excite us hawks fans and scare everyone else.
well
at least everyone not wearing a Scum or Pen sweater
by Crease Monkey on Jul 1, 2009 2:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Is there any legit news that the Beauche is on his way here?
by Old World Flavor on Jul 1, 2009 2:04 PM CDT reply actions
Question for you numbers people
You know on the NHL thing, they are showing the total cap hit, anyone know what we are at number wise?
probably too soon to tell
since there is going to be some kind of movement either Huet or Versteeg/Barker or something. But going into today the Hawks were at $43,929,707 not including the RFAs
by Crease Monkey on Jul 1, 2009 2:07 PM CDT up reply actions
oh
which meant the Hawks had $12,870,293 of cap room left…again not counting the RFAs
by Crease Monkey on Jul 1, 2009 2:09 PM CDT up reply actions
no one
will forget the season marty gave us..but when it came down to it he obvioulsy cared more about the $$.. Hossa has proved he wants to win i support the moves dale made today
I think there’s way more going on in these kinds of negotiations than we can possibly know, and I don’t doubt for a minute that Havlat genuinely wanted to stay here. Completely disagree with you.
I'm with Chico
I don’t really blame either side for not reaching an agreement.
Agreed...
at least until we see what Havlat signs and know what he was offered.
But my guess is that things just didn’t work. It was unlikely.
That's a fair point a buddy pointed out when I was making fun of Hossa
Athletes all over the world are willing to chase money over the chance to win, so a guy who is more interested in winning than making as much money as possible is somewhat refreshing.
The guy's a cup chaser!
He wants to win and will take a pay cut to have the chance to play with a good team committed to winning! Selfish prick!
Scott Neid
Stayin with the ducks. 1 year 6 min i wanna say
plus bonuses
yeah and D.Pang was saying or intimating that Wiz may be looking for $4m per year…guh
by Crease Monkey on Jul 1, 2009 2:10 PM CDT up reply actions
Not saying
that marty didnt want to stay..im sure he did.. but if they were able to pull off this deal with hossa then marty wouldnt accept a lesser deal.. theres more to it than us fans can know but i support the moves
the Jackets just “lost” Aaron Rome to the Canucks:)
by Crease Monkey on Jul 1, 2009 2:13 PM CDT up reply actions
and the Preds
have re-signed Joel Ward. Two years at $1.5 million per season.
by Crease Monkey on Jul 1, 2009 2:14 PM CDT up reply actions
at
two years at an average of $ 1.3 million per year.
by Crease Monkey on Jul 1, 2009 2:15 PM CDT up reply actions
He'll have to compete with Mason
and they’re both about the same …
Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
Detroit may target the Avs Ian Laperriere
they need a grinder …
Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
yeah
they’re saying that nothing may get done with Havlat until Gaborik lands with someone.
by Crease Monkey on Jul 1, 2009 2:15 PM CDT up reply actions
Let's sign them both.
Screw the cap.
On a potentially related note, who else is drinking?
I'm still so shocked
I can’t even LOCATE my booze, much less lift the bottle to my mouth.
by gmh on Jul 1, 2009 2:17 PM CDT up reply actions
Good god...
I’m pretty sure if i came with in 100 ft of Pierre I would kill him… i dont know how these TSN guys are doing it…
is
Obama a Pens fan like he bandwagons the Steelers?
by Crease Monkey on Jul 1, 2009 2:20 PM CDT up reply actions
He has said
many times that he loves the Bears as long as they’re not playing his steelers.
You and I are gonna live forever
no
he’s a Steelers fan…he’s admitted it on camera several times
by Crease Monkey on Jul 1, 2009 2:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Congrats NHL
you crashed twitter.
You and I are gonna live forever
by Original Six on Jul 1, 2009 2:22 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
NO
YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH WITH THE REAL MADRID COMPARISONS. plus, they don’t have to deal with the cap over there.
Well, better Madrid than Valencia with their abysmal debt issues, I suppose.
by gmh on Jul 1, 2009 2:26 PM CDT up reply actions
The one thing you can say about the cap
is that you don’t end up with the lunacy that you get with, oh, I don’t know, an Eto’o contract that would allow him to buy a suburb of Manchester if he wanted.
WAIT FOR THE WHISTLE!
by Sec 326 Bureau Chief on Jul 1, 2009 2:26 PM CDT up reply actions
Hate to bring soccer talk to a hockey blog
But Barca will win La Liga, not RM
I still haven't figured out the
differences between Premiere League and the Champions League…then again I’m a baseball guy foremost.
by Crease Monkey on Jul 1, 2009 2:26 PM CDT up reply actions
champions league
includes teams from all over Europe, kind of like a “champion of champions” type thing (well, it started out like that anyway). Premier League is just the English championship.
by gmh on Jul 1, 2009 2:27 PM CDT up reply actions
But!
The English Championship goes to the top club in the second tier of England’s teams. They couldn’t call it the second division like everybody else for some reason.
WAIT FOR THE WHISTLE!
by Sec 326 Bureau Chief on Jul 1, 2009 2:28 PM CDT up reply actions
Premier League = England. Champions League = Europe.
Best two/three/four teams from each country go to Champions League.
WAIT FOR THE WHISTLE!
by Sec 326 Bureau Chief on Jul 1, 2009 2:27 PM CDT up reply actions
Premiere League is in England
Champions League is the Top 2 fclubs from Premiere League, Serie A, Bundelisga and La Liga(Spain)
concurrently
Instead of one competition as north american sports go by, you compete in three or four at the same time in football.
www.secondcityhockey.com
Think of it as...
playing in your conference season, conference tournament, and NCAA tournament all at the same time instead of one after the other in college basketball.
www.secondcityhockey.com
Yes.
But is it art?
WAIT FOR THE WHISTLE!
by Sec 326 Bureau Chief on Jul 1, 2009 2:30 PM CDT up reply actions
one more question
so in Europe which is a bigger deal? I assume Premiere League in the UK but otherwise is one more important/recognized than the other? Premiere vs Champions?
by Crease Monkey on Jul 1, 2009 2:32 PM CDT up reply actions
thanks
I think that pretty much clears soccer up for me then….never was a big fan other than the World Cup but I’ve started to watch the Premiere and Champions games on ESPN more often.
by Crease Monkey on Jul 1, 2009 2:35 PM CDT up reply actions
no
not really…I just watch the games not rooting for anyone or any one player in particular. I had an English born girlfriend in college who used to make me watch games on Setenta in exchange for forcing her to watch baseball with me…she was from the Chelsea area originally so I saw a lot of their games.
by Crease Monkey on Jul 1, 2009 2:43 PM CDT up reply actions
Chelsea isnt a bad team, and as long as you don’t follow Man U its all good. My choice in the EPL is Liverpool. Gerrard is a beast in the middle, and while Torres looks kinda girly hes a great scorer.
I'd imagine
if one had English lineage it would be easier to choose a team to follow…I’m half Irish/Hungarian so I don’t have any roots there and there’s no one player that stands out to me as a guy I’d have to follow.
by Crease Monkey on Jul 1, 2009 2:55 PM CDT up reply actions
like is it one right after the other? I know the Confederation Cup is like the baseball equivalent of the WBC and of course the World Cup is king and the Olympics to a lesser extent.
by Crease Monkey on Jul 1, 2009 2:29 PM CDT up reply actions
confeds cup
is considered the tune-up for the world cup. each country that won the highest trophies available to each continent and the world cup (spain: euro 2008, brazil: copa america 2007, usa: gold cup 200whatever, etc.) get to participate.
there’s actually some interesting tension between the world cup and the olympics, but I won’t get into that here.
by gmh on Jul 1, 2009 2:33 PM CDT up reply actions
An English team will be really busy during the year
The League is 38 games. And the top teams are in the Champions League, 2nd tier teams play the UEFA Cup, and then there’s the FA cup as well. Plus they go on ehibition tours and lose their players to international call-ups.
Seriously
four years for Big Country Raph Wiggum?
What the hell is Tampa Bay thinking?
Best part is
Puck Daddy heralded it as a great signing to boost their D, I actually started laughing out loud at my cubicle causing awkward looks from the co-workers.
by Old World Flavor on Jul 1, 2009 2:31 PM CDT up reply actions
thanks for changing the subject!
soccer? really?
updates
Thanks for site, year recaps, for twits from Vegas. Hossa!!!!
opinions please?
Full Tilt is giving me a black and red jersey to wear out here. I told em put #19. Name on back Marvel. Cool or retarded?
go with Toews
its better than an inside joke by the people on this site. Thats an awesome idea though you can wear that to Hawks games as well
I've had that jersey
since like 06, when I got one from Full TIlt. It’s actually a really decent jersey.
I got my nickname “battery” and 55 on it. still wear it around quite a bit.
I was thinking about ordering another with 24 and JCH on the back. But I think it’d be funnier on a hawks jersey
Putting the oatmeal down...
hahaha! I love it!
My phone is constantly buzzing with texts from fellow Hawk fan-buddies with Hawk news/celebrating/scowling/etc. It’s truly interrupting my work day. I’m being paid to text about the Hawks now.
"What the hell, let's review it." - Dale Tallon
"They are!" - Pat Foley
"What a farce." - Dale Tallon
Ive given up
I have tried to be useful today, but it just isnt going to happen
Education is where it's at
For the last month I’ve been getting paychecks for sitting at home and doing nothing. It’s glorious.
When the boss is away
The Hawk fans will play
by MissConduct10 on Jul 1, 2009 2:39 PM CDT up reply actions
Philly has their backup
Brian Boucher has signed with Philadelphia – two years, $1.85 m…one more FA goalie off the market.
The 6.8 Million Dollar Man
HAHAHAHAHA. I want to go to a Lightning blog and laugh at them, not sure if anyone would be there.
Hossa's spot.
Now that its pretty clear that Pahlsson isnt coming back and the signings that have happened how do you see coach Q fitting the pieces together. Would Sad Panda fill in JHC’s spot with Bolland and Ladd?
right you are..
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