Although I hate the Rangers, if I was a hockey player I'd want to play with them. Are they like the Yankees? 51.5 million for Gomez and 35.25 for Drury that's some serious money. I knew that Buffalo was going to lose all the 'good' players. If they were going to win the cup this year was the year to do it. Nearly everyone is up for free agency. Nice to see Philly get some good players...wait did I just say that what I meant to say is Flyers suck!
I don't think that there was anyone on the Caps that was up for free agency (we shipped them all off before the trade deadline). But nice to see that we got Tom Poti and Viktor Koslov. A veteran D and a pretty good center. He'll probably be put on the line with Ovey and Semin (although I've heard rumors of them being split up and placed on different lines).
I knew that Islander-nation wasn't going to be able to keep Smyth plus they lose Blake. Hopefully the Rick can score some goals too because they're going to need him to man up. It's a sad day on Strong Island.
Ha Ha you have to pay attention to the Blueland people and the 'high-flying Atlanta Thrashers' [points and laughs]
No word on Lang yet? I know that Detroit is shopping him.
So even though Boston re-signed Ms. Finland they are still shopping him? Seems strange are these contracts not guaranteed? or are they and they looking for someone to just take him for what they paid him? I know with the Jagr deal we got the royal shaft. We were still paying his salary and there are even options (that I think we had to pay him this year too)...let me find the article. The Caps were paying between 4-4.5 million on his contract for the next 4 years but if certain conditions were met than a fifth year would be added to the contract. This was the final year of his contract. If he scores 40 goals or 90 points and his team wins the first round of the playoffs in the final year of the contract.
If he scores 80 goals or 180 points in the final two years of the contract and his team wins two rounds of the playoffs.
If he wins a major award in the final three seasons of the deal or his team wins two Stanley Cups in that time.
