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I'm very much considering a t-shirt jersey of the Jets. Probably Ladd's or Buff's.

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Im going to buy a Jackets Carter jersey

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He might leave though...oh wait 11 year deal.

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:lol yeah exactly - he might die of old age before he's a RFA again

The new CBJ uniforms are actually really cool though - Ive wanted to get one for a while

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Here is an itneresting tidbit. Vinny Lecavalier and Bryz will the highest paid players in the NHL next season at $10mil. HA HA Bryzgalov is making $10mil.

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I don't care how much he makes as long as he brings home a cup.

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Flyers will lose a lot of games 1-0 next year :lol

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Hey guys and gals. I'm not going to make a big fuss about this and will only post this once. (Well twice actually, once in the NHL thread and once in the Phillies thread.) I know we all have our own little blogs and some of us write for different places just to keep us interested in our team and some of us even write because it's our job. I just wanted to pass along a new website that my buddy and I started:

www.broadstreetbuddies.com

My buddy and I are simply give our thoughts on the Phillies (he'll focus on them) and the Flyers (that's me). We sort of write in our own different styles and aren't trying to pretend that we are in the in, have any breaking news, or are professionals. We just give our thoughts about the teams, recent moves, and game by game breakdowns. He's been doing this for the Phillies on his older/other blog for about 3 years now. I threw in some NHL and Flyers articles very sparsely on the old site and will now go full bore with the Flyers as he has done with the Phillies.

So check it out. Or don't. Or mock me. Or all the above. I don't care. Either way it'd be silly if I didn't at least post it... :) Thanks.

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I like the banner - pretty cool with the logos through the bricks

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Read a really dumb blog post today on hockeybuzz. the Hawks are going to lock up Sharp long term, and are shopping Troy Brouwer, and this guy is suggesting that they are dumb for that. his points were:

-the Kings finished one point ahead of us and are making drastic moves to get better while we maintain the status quo
- says we shipped out hundreds of hits from Ladd, Byfuglien, and Eager and replaced that with John Scott

so clearly this guy is dumb.

"The Hawks finished 2 points out of the 4 spot and 7 (4 games) out of the 3 spot. If they were playing to capacity during the beginning of the year and didn't dig themselves holes by dropping a few stinkers:

Columbus, New Jersey, Dallas, Calgary, St. Louis, Florida

Especially those Jersey, Calgary and Florida games." perfect comment on that blog post. The Hawks EASILY have one of the best cores in the entire league, especially when you look towards the future. The Hawks are going to compete for the West and be a contender for the Cup for years, I mean we came one goal from beating the Canucks in what was technically a rebuilding year. If there is one thing that kills us, it isn't Sharp's contract, it's Campbell's. Campbell would be great for us in the $4 mil range, but $7 is ridiculous. I love him, and it is noted that we suck when he isn't in the lineup, but man would seven million go a long, long, long way for this team. Not extending Sharp is stupid, and it will happen because it makes perfect sense.

Fuck that guy

/rant

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Well Twitter is blowing up right now. Looking more and more like it will be the Jets. We'll know in about 7 hours or so I guess won't we?

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What happened to all the Buffalo - Calgary rumors yesterday?

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Tamps signs Eric Brewer to a 4-year deal with a cap hit of $4 mil.

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For all our Recchi/Bruins/Bucci fans:

http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/bruin...ement-and-more

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Word is that they are going to be called the 'Manitoba Jets'

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Sounds like it will be Manitoba Jets.

edit:
Oooo beat me by like a second.

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Still waiting for Regehr to wave his no-movement clause, and if this happens the thought is that the Flames would bring Smyth in. This would be heartbreaking to Oilers fans everywhere. It would be like we are living in backwards land.

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Manitoba Jets? Barf. If you're going to name them the Jets then just make it the Winnipeg Jets

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actually Dreger is saying that he was wrong, and the secret is out. it will be Winnipeg Jets

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Agreed. They had been saying from the get-go, even before they got a team...actually back when they were trying for the 'yotes, that they wanted to include the whole province in the process, and feeling of the team and were considering at that time going with the 'Manitoba X's'. Looks like they are sticking with it (unfortunately)

Edit; Winniped Jets = awesome :thumbsup

Edit 2; Hopefully they use the same emblem/symbol/jerseys as before.

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If I was a Winnipeg fan I wouldn't bitch. It sounds like they gave in to the fans on this one. I'd much rather have Manitoba Jets rather than Moose, Bears, Polar Bears or even Falcons, which was my second choice.

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Winnipeg Jets it is. It's everywhere

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Well now I'll wait till tonight. Sounds like it might actually be WINNIPEG Jets now. Fucking twitter.

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Real_ESPNLeBrun Pierre LeBrun
Hawks confident they can hammer out an extension this summer for Sharp

Hopefully no more than $5.5m cap hit. Stan will probably overpay just like he did Seabrook.

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From Pierre Lebrun's blog today:

Also briefly discusses Regehr situation.

http://espn.go.com/blog/nhl/post/_/i...ction-to-trade

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Apparently Richards found out about the trade from the internet. That sucks.

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Flyers run such a classy organization.

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its on ESPN, Winnipeg Jets

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All over now. Good to see. T-Shirt will be ordered within the coming weeks.

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Do they still have the same old school logo?

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I'm gonna guess no. I mean you have to try and get something new to sell more merchandise. Now the game against the Yotes in December when they play in Winnipeg....better have throwback jerseys on that night.

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Winnipeg should wear their new jerseys, 'yotes should wear throwbacks to vintage Jets gear.

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They actually do.

Richards heard reports of a possible trade from his agent two hours before the actual trade. So don't act like he didn't until the very second he opened his phone.

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Actually they do.

I'm sure it leaked on the net as soon as the NHL got approval. An inside source tells one reporter and it's all over the place.

Richards was on the radio saying he saw on the internet and got the call like 5 minutes later. Not an issue in my opinion.

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:lol Look at us.

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:lol :lol :lol

Haters gonna hate.

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Bruins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Can't wait to see what they do with pick 9!

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Still kinda sucks for the players to find out that way.

I don't like the Carter story though. How he said not to believe it and then traded him anyways.

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As if the Stanley Cup champs get to pick 9th. Fuckin' leafs bolololololo

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I'm so excited to get Stamkos tonight!

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I don't see that happening.

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As someone said yesterday Yzerman would need to have a head injury and unlike Lindros he skated with his head up. :)

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The Bruins won the Stanley Cup?

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Back in 1972, I believe.

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Im getting antsy that the Sabres haven't done anything yet :lol

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Well I've finally caught up on the new season, sad as it is to see this one go :D

All the Winnipeg stuff is pretty cool. I was pretty oblivious to expansion/relocation in the 90s.

BOBBY ORR!!!

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Quick funny story about Bobby Orr - He was my idol growing up, I wore #4 when I was playing etc. Anyways, he was dating a nurse in my Dad's hospital so he finally arranged with her a chance for me to meet him for a few minutes. I was probably about 8. The question that I decided to ask him was if he hurt his face when he fell after scoring that goal :lol - I had the famous picture of him paralell with the ice in my room and always had wondered that. At least my Dad was there to help me get his autograph haha

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I think it's a pretty good question. I'm sure he got a laugh out of it... and it's probably never been asked. So he probably remembers it. Think about that... every once in a while Bobby Orr gets a little chuckle to himself thanks to you :) I think that's pretty awesome.

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Did he hurt his face??

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:lol I've never thought about it that way before

He never really answered - he just laughed

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HALLELUJAH (cue angel's singing)

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=6701414

:multi:multi

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Tampa was ranked #2 in ESPN's franchise ranking. Somehow. If they get rid of Stamkos, we will be watching a press conference from Bettman that Quebec is getting a hockey team within weeks. In fact, they will start a season ticket drive within minutes.

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They Flyers have a better chance of trading their leading scorer and their captain within 10 minutes of each other than getting Stamkos. Oh waaaaiiiittt....that already happened.

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Stamkos is going nowhere.

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Yup. This.

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BRIAN CAMPBELL MAY BE GOING TO COLUMBUS.


holy shit

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What???????

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Vacationing?

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this guy is a radio host for Edmonton, so it's coming from someone who would have no need to make this up, but here's his tweet

"Hearing that Brian Campbell MAY be on the move to Columbus. Not a done deal yet, but if it happens you heard it first here. "

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Nobody goes to Columbus on vacation

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I am glad Shero has not lost his mind like seemingly every other gm has so far haha.

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there is really no shitty contract the Hawks would have to take in exchange for sending Campbell to Columbus

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Except Brian Campbell. :trap

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it could maybe be Vermette or Brassard coming our way, because the Jackets wouldn't want 4 centers over $2.6 mil

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:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol

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"Hearing that Brian Campbell has been dealt from Chicago to Columbus..."

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it's startin to come out, it happened

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Bunch of new jerseys have been revealed so far, the preds, panthers and kings all have new threads.

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Keep in mind Campbell would have to approve the trade. I wouldn't get your hopes up.

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it's all over twitter and Hradek just said they are trying to find out if it just happened on NHL Live

EDIT: I shouldn't say it's all over twitter, but a few have come out and said it happened

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Wow. I just checked everything. Supposedly this is a done deal. Holy fuck.

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what in the world are we getting?

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Very important:

https://twitter.com/#!/Aportzline/st...92654821003264

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how is trade dead just like that?

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No deal.

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I'm all kinds of fucked up now

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Lots of hoops to jump through, especially with Soupy.

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Campbell turned down waiving his NTC.

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Not done. He declined to waive his NTC too.

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Campbell didn't waive his no-trade

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Wait, what happened?

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what i don't get is that if he declined to waive it last night, why is this heating up and getting close now?

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Changed his mind? Slept on it? Who knows. Other teams in play maybe.

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there are a few teams with more money than Columbus. goddammit.

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"Told reports that Blackhawks D Brian Campbell refused to waive his no-trade clause for #CBJ are inaccurate. This from high source in #CBJ."

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"Campbell may have declined to waive his NTC within the last few days, but it was not for #CBJ."

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it's nice with there being a little bit of mystery to who the top pick is

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This trade ain't happening.

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cool stat
Only 8 times has a player that was picked first overall gone on to win the Cup with the team that drafted him. 3 of those 8 players are Pittsburgh Penguins. Mario, Fleury, and Sid.

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Ryan Nugent-Hopkins #1 overall. Another great offensive talent on the rise for the Oil. I would have preffered them to take Larsson to fill up the D-line, but can't complain with this kid :thumbsup

Also, LOVING the fact that it's all but a done deal that #94 Smyth is coming back to Oil country!

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Kane is the another one, but idk who the other 4 are

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Denis Potvin, Mel Bridgman, Guy Lafleur and Rejean Houle.

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I'm just glad he didn't go to Calgary. Smyth will be good in Edmonton; especially with all those young players and rookies. It would have made zero sense having him in Calgary... They have enough old, overpaid dudes!

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that can't be true because Vincent Lecavalier is one of them, or that stat is wrong

EDIT: nevermind, he wasn't drafted #1, duh

EDIT #2: wait yeah he was

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Ya, the stat is wrong. looking through theres a bunch of others.

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"All 10,000 of them"

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hopefully Winnipeg has their jersey here

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Brouwer to Ottawa for a 2nd round pick, giving them 5 that round. Could be useful when trying to trade Campbell

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Trade Campbell then sign Richards and a few veteran grit players for the bottom 6 and you could pretty much hand the Cup to the Hawks. Nice to dream about though hah.