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Wow. Goodbye Dany Heatley, hello Martin Havlat.

What will we do with the extra 1.3 mil in cap space?

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Actually, we save $2.5 mil in cap space. Now have 20 players signed and just over $6 mil more available. Hmm...

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Sharks got Havlat?....not too shabby

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I like it. Last year Heater had 26 goals on the Sharks, Havlat had 22 on a team with no offense. And in his two years with SJ, Heater had only 5 goals in 32 playoff games. Nowhere near good enough for a $7.5 million player. And another significant thing is Havlat's locked up for four more years. As it was, Thornton, Marleau, Heatley, Pavelski and Boyle were all scheduled to be UFAs at the same time.

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I like that trade for you....Enjoyed Havlat on the Hawks...

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Heatley has to be awful in the dressing room...

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dunno if it was said, but talbots contract violates the cba, flyers are going to have to fix it

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Aside from Heatly being a DMB fan, I have no respect for him. Glad to see the sharks trade him off.

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Havlat has been said to be awful as well.

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I don't know who wins this trade. Minny gets some offense but SJ clears cap room. I'm not sure Havlat is going to help out that much. Heatley had a down year this year but the previous 2 had 39 each. Marty's never done that.

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Biggest free agent buts:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mul...content.1.html

Rangers are on there 7 times I think.

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Is that link n/h?

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My man Chris Gratton taking the cake.

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Yeah that was a bad one. Flyers made some...interesting moves from 97-99.

For the Wings on there twice, Krupp would have been ok if healthy. Cujo I blame totally on Wings ownership/management. When you pushed him aside for Hasek after your entire team stunk it up against the Ducks. Forget that Hasek hadn't been on the ice since he won the Cup a year earlier and then Hasek couldn't stay healthy and they had to turn back to Cujo. Then he got hurt Legace got the chance and stunk in the first 4 games against the Preds and they had to go back to Cujo AGAIN an he bailed your ass out by giving up 1 goal in two games to win the series. That's why I was ok with getting a salary cap. Made the Wings have to make the right moves. They got greedy after their moves worked out in 02 and they tried stacking up which didn't work. Won more playoff games in 07 (not getting to the Finals) than they did in all of 03 and 04 playoffs combined.

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Know what is crazy? No Stamkos news. No offer sheets. Nothing.

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There was a report they were getting closer to a deal. 5 years and 37mil was the last offer supposedly. We'll see.

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Lots of Blackhawks too.

God, I hate reading about Huet.

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I thought someone would put out an offer sheet with the Cap floor where it was at. A few years ago, it almost certainly happens.

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Yeah. Campbell was bad but at least he provided something. Campbell it was more the length anyways, at least to me. Huet had never done anything to deserve that and I can't imagine there was a bidding war for the guy. And Campbell, at least with hockey fans, had name recognition. I bet even people who followed the game might not have known who the guy was. I'll scratch my head on that one for a while.

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Ladd signs a 4 year deal with the Jets and avoids arbitration. 4.4mil cap hit.

Rumors Conklin will be signing with the Wings. Totally fine if that's true.

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I love Conklin for what he does. A very capable and dependable backup. A little surprised, as I thought MacDonald did a pretty respectable job and they'd give him the backup job.

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From what I've heard he wanted a one-way deal and the Wings wanted a two-way deal to add depth in the minors since most of their goalies are pretty young. I thought he did well too. Much better than I expected.

I like Conklin a lot too. He's Manny Legace. The perfect backup. Can come in, play strong but can't go right back to the bench. Legace proved in St. Louis he wasn't exactly starter material.

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Campbell helped win a cup....overpaid yes but if you win I think it is worth it.

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Fact that you only had to pay him for 3 of the 8 years and won a Cup I think is the complete victory.

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Here is my rant from another forum:

I do not get, for the life of me, why this is not being talked about more. Yes, it is a kick in the balls to the GM who has to make a tough call between matching the offer sheet or taking the draft picks. But this is a chance to get a franchise player. I mean there are three of them out there. Stammer. Doughty. And you could probably argue Yandle as well. This isn't a freaking gentleman's club. This is competitive. You paint yourself into a corner with salaries (St Louis, lecav, malone, etc.), you are a low budget team, and now you can't afford Stammer, well too bad. These aren't on the cusp players. they are already stars to superstars.

If the rival GM chooses to pick on you five years down the road, so be it. but that shouldn't detract from offers being made. These offers are made all the time in the NBA and it's just accepted. Take care of your RFAs or else someone might swoop in and take them.

I am just appalled that not one offer has been made to any of the significant RFAs.

I heard Loiselle on the radio with Bobcat a few days ago. "we won't submit an offer sheet because the other team will just match". Then make a high offer sheet and make them commit, at least its strategic.

WTF???

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Still kind of surreal to me to see these words written

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Good deal on Ladd. Only guy I really still miss.















Besides Burish, obviously. Really miss Bur.

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I heard on Boston radio that Kaberle is likely going to Carolina for 3 years/$12.75 mil.

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And the Bruins picked up Joe Corvo for a 4th rounder.

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I guess Corvo could help the power play. But I hate the fact that he's a woman beating POS.