metronome Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Well they traded Bob to the CBJ for a few picks Thank God the Oilers didn't fuck up and picked Yakupov. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klobersaurus Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Jordan staal traded to the canes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUSK Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Bruins get Malcom Subban, PK Subbans brother. Ranked No.1 North American goalie in the draft. BYE BYE THOMAS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 Thomas has already stated he won't play this year. He waived his no trade/no movement stuff, so the Bruins may be able to trade him to a team trying to get to the cap floor as they'll take his cap hit but not have to pay him his salary. Thomas turned into a real douche in my mind with this stunt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RALPH LAUREN Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 what is the reason behind that? he's a recent cup winner. wtf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 I don't know, but ever since he refused to go to the Whitehouse with the rest of his team to meet Obama something has been up with him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chemical ali Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 waiting for sid the kids final season is killing me congrats to hexy,ritchie,gags,and justin williams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosluggo Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 If the Hawks pick up Luongo I'll be rooting for the SHARKS next year.. WTF GTFO/DON"T WANT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUSK Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 Pavel Bure, and Adam Oates... it's about time both of them made it into the Hall of Fame http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/8098966/2012-hockey-hall-fame-inductees-time-pavel-bure-got-recognition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john brown Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 Still anxious for what Ken Holland has up his sleeve. Waitingggg... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 Minnesota Wild just got way more serious about winning. Fuck Dany Heatley though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaced0ut Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 happy birthday to the biggest pussy alive/best in the show today sid the kid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shameless self promotion Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Yall should be scured now that we got rick nash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asthma al Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 we should all be scurred bout the player lockout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shameless self promotion Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asthma al Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Cosign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUSK Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 definitely no season. There is no way either side is budging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RALPH LAUREN Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 imagine being in the prime of your career, and loosing a year production/stat/record wise... or being a cup team with that one last shot due to age... sucks that everything is big business, it's the corporate influence that has destroyed our country. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john brown Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 I hate that this is really happening again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUSK Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 imagine being in the prime of your career, and loosing a year production/stat/record wise... or being a cup team with that one last shot due to age... sucks that everything is big business, it's the corporate influence that has destroyed our country. This. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullshitTantrum Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 fuck gary bettman. and you will all die by the blade when the lock out is over. at least AHL is still going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john brown Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asthma al Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Feels weird waking up on New Year's with no NHL Winter Classic to watch. Weak! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klobersaurus Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 fosho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbydigital Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 fo a second i thought shit had changed. i miss hockey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john brown Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 There is hope for a 48 game season. *crosses fingers* Anybody keeping up with the World jrs? USA vs Canada early tomorrow morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 RNH with 11 points in 4 games is showing he's way to good for this tournament. I have to work tomorrow so I'm choked I'm not going to get to watch this game, it should be awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asthma al Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 U.S.A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asthma al Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 That kid Gibson was making some pretty good stops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asthma al Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 NHL, union have tentative agreement NEW YORK -- A tentative agreement has been reached between the NHL and the players' association. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr stood side by side in the early hours of Sunday morning to announce there was a framework in place for a new collective bargaining agreement. Although the deal still requires language clarification, legal fine-tuning and ratification from both sides, a verbal agreement has been reached on the major points. "We still have a lot of work to do," Bettman said, "but it's good to be at this point." The deal still requires majority approval from both the board of governors -- as early as Tuesday -- and the NHLPA membership before it can become official. The tentative agreement is a 10-year deal with a mutual opt-out clause after eight years and includes contract term limits at seven years (eight years for a team to re-sign its own players), a source confirmed to ESPNNewYork.com. "I am happy deal has been reached and excited to get back to playing hockey," Penguins star Sidney Crosby said in an email. For the first year, the salary cap is $60 million but teams can spend up to $70.2 million in the transition period, while the floor is $44 million. Sources said the 2013-14 salary cap, a very divisive issue, will be $64.3 million, while the floor will remain at $44 million. Contract salary variance is capped at 35 percent from year to year, with the provision that the last year can't vary more than 50 percent from the highest-salaried year, a source told ESPN.com. Revenue sharing will spread $200 million, with a $60 million NHLPA-initiated growth fund included. The NHL had hoped to change the opening of free agency to July 10, but the players stood firm and it will remain July 1, although it will start later this year due to the delayed season. Olympic participation will not be part of this agreement; the two parties will work on a side agreement regarding the Olympics and possibly the World Cup of Hockey. Veteran forward Shane Doan said the players knew it would be concessionary bargaining from the beginning, but was satisfied with the terms agreed upon. "You knew you were in that position, and I think as a union we got the best deal we could possibly get, and you're happy," he said. "You're just excited to play hockey again and do what you really enjoy and have a passion for." Word of the agreement came after the two sides hashed out their remaining differences for more than 16 hours at a hotel in midtown Manhattan. It was the lengthiest negotiating session and latest night of a lockout that has lasted 113 days -- almost four months. George H. Cohen, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, issued a statement congratulating the NHL and NHLPA. "The negotiated agreement represents the successful culmination of a long and difficult road in which the parties ultimately were able to reach mutually acceptable solutions to a wide variety of contentious subjects of bargaining," he said. Bettman did not have details on a timeline for ratification or a potential schedule for the opening of the regular season. It is believed the sides are aiming for either a 48- or 50-game season depending on how quickly things get done. Sources told ESPN.com that a 50-game season would start Jan. 15, while a 48-game season would start Jan. 19. Fehr said he hoped the next steps could be accomplished "fairly rapidly" and with "dispatch." "We'll get back to what we used to call business as usual just as fast as we can," he said. Both sides are committed to playing as many games as possible, even if it requires starting the season midweek, multiple sources told ESPN.com. The 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs are expected to stretch into the end of June to account for the delayed start and compressed season. The last stumbling blocks between the two sides -- Year 2 salary cap, contract term limits, variance and length of the CBA -- were resolved with the help of federal mediator Scot L. Beckenbaugh, who assisted in negotiations twice previously and might now go down as the hero of this lockout. When talks went sideways after a lengthy face-to-face session Wednesday, Beckenbaugh diffused the tension by meeting with both sides separately Thursday and Friday. Those lengthy sessions appeared to have produced enough progress to bring the league and union back together Saturday morning for their first in-person meeting since Thursday. Winnipeg defenseman Ron Hainsey, one of the NHLPA's most active participants in negotiations, said Beckenbaugh's assistance was crucial. "There was a way to work your ideas through a third party, who was able to really help the process," Hainsey said. The two sides also reignited negotiations with an ominous deadline looming. The NHLPA's 48-hour window to vote on reauthorizing the union's executive board the right to file a disclaimer of interest expired at 6 p.m. ET, providing the union the hammer to disband should negotiations go south. The players chose not to go down that road with a deal in sight, however, just as they did earlier in the week when Fehr spurned the opportunity to file a disclaimer Wednesday night. Before a deal was struck, the league had canceled all regular-season games through Jan. 14. The 2012-13 work stoppage marked the third lockout under Bettman's tenure. The negotiating process -- which began in June but intensified when the league submitted its first proposal July 13 (one the players found almost universally insulting) -- has been marked by episodes of mistrust, missteps and a significant amount of enmity between the two sides. There were times players felt disrespected and underestimated, and that their willingness to make concessions went unreciprocated. On the flip side, the NHL was quick to express, both outright and through back-channel avenues, its lack of trust for Fehr and what it felt were his "negotiating tactics." Instead of leading both the NHL and NHLPA down the path of mutually assured destruction, however, the toxicity abated as the window narrowed on time left to salvage the season. "We got through it," Doan said. "The emotion of it, you kind of ride the roller coaster of it up and down, but you kind of sense things were going in the right direction and you want to make sure they kept going in the right direction." After the marathon negotiating session ended, there seemed to be a convivial spirit between the two sides. Chris Campoli, who got into a heated clash with owner Craig Leipold back in November, was seen talking with Bettman, while deputy commissioner Bill Daly and NHLPA special counsel Steve Fehr shared some words as well. Should the deal become official, the league will play a truncated season similar to 1994-95, when a lockout resulted in a 48-game schedule. Said Doan: "Everyone's obviously relieved it's over and done with, for all intents and purposes, and we're able to kind of move on to what we all enjoy doing a lot more than this." hyped, 48, 50 game season! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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