Official NHL 2006 Off-Season Thread

[Zurvan]

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Brodeur's making 6M and even so, Brodeur has never been a UFA in his career

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Is it 6? Close enough [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

My point wasn't that Brodeur couldn't get more than 6M, it's that he didn't. He's set the gold standard for goaltender salaries at $6M. Any GM can point to that and say "You are not as good as Brodeur, there's no way we give you $2M/yr more".

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Thing is, Brodeur has always negotiated his own deals, so he's not giving away a huge cut to his agent. As a result he can sign for less - and he's usually given the Devils a slight discount on top of that. Luongo will get more than Brodeur on the open market, just as Brodeur would've gotten more on the open market than he did by staying in New Jersey. 'You don't get more than X' doesn't apply when there's 5 or 6 teams bargaining for your services.

[Triumph36]

Bruins fire Mike Sullivan - no surprise there.

Carolina re-signs Frantisek Kaberle to a 4 year deal worth 8.8 million. Too many years, too expensive. Should be something like 3/6.

[lozen]

I am surprised no one has posted on Pronger's request to be traded.The reason sounds like garbage his wife doesnt like Edmonton.Once I like to see a guy honor his contract.

[Meezer]

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I am surprised no one has posted on Pronger's request to be traded.

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See above. I wonder what sort of precedence this will set in the NHL. A guy signs <font color="red">a frigging contract </font> for 5 years and demands to be traded after less than a year. Not only that, but to insult the city that he played for and take off to Mexico (for those chilly Mexican summers) to avoid the media? There's got to be more to this story than "my wife doesn't like it here." I hope Edmonton trades him to Calgary. Somewhere nice and close so the Oilers fans can let him know what they think of him at every game.

[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.

[bluef0x]

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Brodeur's making 6M and even so, Brodeur has never been a UFA in his career.

Luongo's agent is Gilles Lupien, a big time [censored] - he absolutely refuses to deal with Lou L. at this point, I believe. I am sure Luongo and Lupien are convinced he will get big $$$ on the open market. I think Vancouver will try to sign Luongo long-term but I just don't think they will be able to - Luongo isn't worth a max contract and unless that's what Vancouver offers, Roberto's going to test the market.

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While I think it's a safer bet that Luongo will hit the UFA market next year.. Lupien will meet with the Canucks.

The Canucks qualified Luongo at $3.2 million, which gives the club his rights for the 2006-07 season, but the radio station is also reporting that Luongo's agent, Gilles Lupien, will meet with his client in Montreal this week to discuss the prospects of a long term deal.

Lupien, as you would expect, praised the Canucks today while taking a few pot shots at the Panthers.

"It was completely different," Lupien said after his initial discussion on Friday night with Nonis. "(With the Panthers) it was, 'We want five (years) and shut your mouth.'


Now on to the rumors! Thescore supposedly ran a ticker by saying that Ottawa and San Jose are hammering down a deal that will feature Havlat and Toskala traded. The condition being if Havlat will sign for 3 years.

[lozen]

I got to think it involves another women. Maybe he cheated on his wife with another women and she wants out of the hockey hotbed were women are throwing themselves at him.
You thought Dougy weight got booed wait till Pronger plays here with another team

[bluef0x]

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I got to think it involves another women. Maybe he cheated on his wife with another women and she wants out of the hockey hotbed were women are throwing themselves at him.
You thought Dougy weight got booed wait till Pronger plays here with another team

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First off, who wants ghostly, freckled canadian women thrown at them... and secondly, Pronger is already boo'd much more in SJ than Weight in EDM. It won't be anything new for the big man. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[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]