Official NHL 2006 Off-Season Thread

[Zurvan]

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There's got to be more to this story than "my wife doesn't like it here."

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Why? His wife still spends most of her time in St Louis with their kids, from what I heard. I'd want to be traded, too. Of course, I wouldn't marry somebody like that. For $7M/year, you live in Edmonton. It's supposedly a nice place.

Pronger isn't going anywhere - there isn't a GM in the league dumb enough to pay what Lowe wants, and Lowe knows he'll play his butt off even if he stays.

[Meezer]

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Why? His wife still spends most of her time in St Louis with their kids, from what I heard. I'd want to be traded, too. Of course, I wouldn't marry somebody like that. For $7M/year, you live in Edmonton. It's supposedly a nice place.


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If a guy loves his family, it comes before everything else. But why sign a 5 yr. contract without finding out whether your family can live in an area or not? At 6+ mil, an awesome season, and the ink not even dry, why not give it another year? I gotta agree with lozen here--if not out of logic, then out of idle speculation (*cough*gossip*cough*).

In the States, we have a lot of sports to go around and only hockey fans can recognize the team. The hockey players deal with autographs, yells of encouragement and high-fives, but they can largely move around unmolested. I don't know if people have anything else to do in Edmonton besides watch hockey. Being an Oiler player there is probably like being Mick Jagger walking naked down a NYC street at noon with his hair on fire.

With absolutely no sources to back me up, I say the puck bunnies of Edmonton did the Oilers in. [img]/images/graemlins/ooo.gif[/img]