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They would have to send back salary, or have the Sabres agree to eat a big chunk of Millers to do it, Pens are pretty tight to the cap IIRC Saw yesterday they said they are looking, but not at Bryz as a replacement even though he could come cheap since their rivals the Flyers are paying him a nice chunk of change still

While everyone else on the leafs bench were hitting their sticks against the boards to "clap" while he was being removed from the ice, Kessel (if you see the video) basically just held his there against the board. Guess he only swings his sticks at players, doesn't want to injure the boards at his bench........... hard to say, I wasn't refering to it to say that Orr was being dirty though, just that many Laughs fans that love their tough guy want to make it out that Orr knocked Parros out with his hands of steel.......

looked like the Leafs may have passed by him to fast and the wind injured him. That looked like the softest hit I have ever seen in a hockey game. As for Parros, seen people saying broken jaw and concussion, but I think it will just be a concussion that will keep him out for a while. Colton Orr (The guy Laughs fans all think is going to just destroy Scott next time they meet) didn't knock out Parros with a punch, it was the jersey grab/hang on while falling that pulled Parros off his feet and chin first into the ice knocking him out. Throw in the moustache probably throwing off his balance due to its size, if he would have extended the facial hair a bit more into a full beard over the creepy 70s porn star/child abducter 'stache he may have had some padding on his chin and not been knocked out

loved it when Ron basically told him that Scott was already out there when Carlysle sent out Kessel and Cherry just blew him off like that wasn't important cause it would mess up his rant.Cherry is an idiot whiner who plays to his audience, says nothing bad about Kessel hacking away at Scott while Scotts tied up with someone else, but basically praises him for "standing up to the big bully" and says that children should take a lesson from this about bullying at school basically

That was a very weak goal too, trickled in through Prices 5-holeI'm starting to think Price is the #2 most overrated goalie in the league right behind Fleury. He always seems to use the excuse that its his equipment/pads, or his goalie coach........

Good thing Lindys gone, otherwise we would have about a dozen pages about how dumb this is and how only one should be captain................

When it was first announced that the team was being sold to NY businessmen last week I remember reading about how it includes some deals with the arena and that is what makes it worth the money. They basically said that the arena deal is worth losing money over the hockey team. I remember that too, he said that he made the deal because he had other offers, but he was only making a deal with someone who would keep the team in Buffalo. No one else making offers were willing to agree to that

If its like real estate, Location, Location, LOCATION! I think the difference could be found in the value of the venue associated with the team. I have heard that the arena is a huge money maker on other events that it makes losing money on the Panthers worth the investment

But could he do it better then Hodgsons Dad?or Is that something Gary Roberts could teach Cody in the offseason?

i agree with not giving the C to Vanek Most people always want to give it to the most skilled player all the time and think that just because he is the most skilled he should be the leader, but vanek has never struck me as a Leader type. I'm not saying that as a bad thing though, there are just some who are not leaders out there. i can't picture him as a take charge of the room and rally the troops kind of guy. He comes accross more as the quiet, gets the job done on his own type guy. Now, I also don't think it really matters who the captain is, and believe that putting a C on any player isn't going to change how the team plays on the ice. You don't need a C or and A on your jersey to speak up and rally the guys to win, and if you do, theres something wrong.

Florida Panthers are being sold soon to some investors from New York according to TSN

There seemed to be many players on the Canadians who were a little upset with Pat, calling him a coward and a cheap shot artist basically. Better watch out, the fans may have the police issue a warrant for his arrest next time he has to go play in montreal...... I'm shocked more rinks don't look like this in the pre-season

Good guess? http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=431975 "Bissonnette received a game misconduct - which calls for an automatic 10-game suspension - in the first period after leaving the bench to fight Kings forward Jordan Nolan in reaction to his hit on Coyotes defenseman Rostislav Klesla."

Don't see many going to Nets Basketball games either

But is that enough to make up for Fleury?

Saw an article this morning that was a link from the Vanek story that says Bylsma believes Fleury and Vokoun is the best goalie tandem in the league. I didn't realise Vokoun was THAT good **Fleury, the most overrated goaltender in Hockey**

Sounds like he may have used the Flyers as a way of getting the Wings to up their offer, or the wings may have used the situation to gauge what he would take to come back

Same here, everything I have seen just says its a front office position

No doubt he gets another deal, probably not something liek he currently has but a #1 goaltender type deal. There were takers for Luongo when he was on trading block, but the stumbling blocks were that no one wanted to trade for Luongo and his entire contract, while having to give up anything of value to the Cnaucks and not include a similar salary dump back to Vancouver. Gillis didn't want to give Luongo away just to get out of the contract, he wanted a good return back. Teams like the leafs, Flyers and other would have been fighting over him in FA if he was available and they didn't have to give up anything good in return. The Canucks had to do something because the entire situation was becoming more and more of a distraction that was going to cost Gillis his job if he didn't do something so he unloaded the one that he would get the best return for. The problem is that for so long, it was always how luongo would be traded and how the Canucks would ship him out because they liked the "up and comer" with the smaller salary. The front office was making it known they wanted to move him, fans turned on him because they liked the idea of the younger guy better, the media was consistently asking him about hsi contract and the fact that the team was going to move him somewhere else, Luongo got himself to the point where he knew he was being moved out and then all of the sudden the other guy is moved and they say Luo is their guy. I don't think I would be overly excited to come back to that either. Luongo on an open market would have no problem finding a newer job with a smaller deal, he has been one of the top goalies in the league for many years. He isn't one of the MANY one year wonders who teams go out and give big FA contracts to for maybe a couple of good seasons (Bryz, Bobrovsky, etc.)

Well, he got that part right, but it has nothing to do with the first part..........Theres plenty of other reasons why thats true

twice IIRC (Toronto and Vancouver?)

Wow, no one is going to use this to start a Leino to be bought out theory? Someone with his contract ssys that he needs to save money and thats why he has cheap seats to the Stones Concert, i thought someone would be all over that meaning he knows the Sabres are going to void his contract or something along those lines, people here are really slipping/letting this slide. Something must be wrong!

The Saviour? DoubtfulIt would have to be whomever is left from the "rotten old core" Maybe Tallinder although he did just return, but fans here seem to enjoy whipping the old dogs that are on cheap deals to fill a lower type role (See 2012-2013 - Hecht, Jochen) If I had to guess, I'm taking someone who is playing 3rd or 4th line minutes or maybe the number 5-7 defencmen on the team cause those guys are always expected to be superstars around here and are whipped for only being role player guys

Yup, all stuff that was already said before he was signed and Columbus knew aboutHe is signed long term, its not like they signed him for just this season and he would be the centrepiece to their team making a run

That would be awesome, and much more entertaining then the 2014 Sabres will be!