YOU'RE PAYING JORDAN STAAL $10,344.83 (US) PER POINT: THE NHL 2012-2013 THREAD (INCLUDING LOCKOUT TALK, STANLEY CUP CHAMPION LOS ANGELES KINGS HANGOVER AND OFFSEASON SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

irrelevant is the point. the devils won the 'eastern conference championship' (hope you have a t-shirt for that btw) without dressing the guy once in the playoffs.

― mookieproof, Friday, July 13, 2012 7:23 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I do actually. You see they were actually playing hockey at the same time the Red Wings were playing golf, or whatever the golf equivalent is in Russia, or Estonia or wherever those pajama wearing pussies come from.

currently no russians or estonians on the wings roster fyi

devils currently w/ 3 players born in the soviet union so maybe ask them what they do in the offseason instead of golf (if they're not too busy polishing their eastern conference championship rings)

"or wherever those pajama wearing pussies come from"

does that include places like Czechloslovakia, Sweden, and West Germany, where Devils players come from?

yeah, and wherever kris draper came from as well

kris draper and his surgically reconstructed face

...with more stanley cups than the entire colorado rockies franchise

http://torchlakeviews.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/d-banners-everywhere.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ehv4xepJw

No banner got hung up in Detroit after this particular series

Great look wearing your helment that way, Kozlov!

so what you're saying is it doesn't matter what uniform, player, nationality, or championship is under discussion, you're just obsessed with hating the Detroit Red Wings

you're originally from Chicago, right?

No actually i was born in West Germany.

But i grew up in Chicago after my father got out of the Army. Which fostered a Red Wings hatred from an early age.

it shows!

It's nothing personal. I'm sure we all have a team we loathe.

http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/2012/7/19/3169390/shea-weber-offer-sheet-philadelphia-flyers-nashville-predators

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and here i thought we'd all colluded agreed not to poach restricted free agents

helps 4 everyone:

http://deadspin.com/5927347/shea-webers-massive-flyers-offer-sheet-is-a-cba+beating-masterpiece

so does nashville have to match the exact terms of philly's contract offer? or just the total compensation?

i've always been surprised by teams' reticence to do this -- lundqvist could have been had a few years ago and i'm not sure how the rangers could have matched with gomez/drury and/or redden on the payroll.

even now i'd be willing to take evander kane off winnipeg's hands for a handful of draft picks

exact terms

gotta take the picks if you're poile, then, i would think

i guess losing two defensemen isn't exactly blowing up your team -- they still have a good goalie and ugly sweaters -- but it's too bad. i'm sure their coach/homunculus will find a way.

Yeah the whole frontloaded bonus thing is p brilliant

Ilya Bryzgalov is still your goaltender. your 2012-2013...

i didn't even know you could do straight-up cash payments bonuses like that in the nhl

was it weber or suter who put one through the twine?

though the contract sounds smoove and he's certainly an upgrade from the flyers' prongerless defense, i guess i'm still not sure about such a long contract -- even if he retires at 35 having made all the money. guy is a star but he's not a superstar.

tbf i hate the flyers and am looking for any bright side, tho

"tbf i hate the flyers and am looking for any bright side, tho"

Ilya Bryzgalov is still your goaltender. your 2012-2013...

― Grimy Little Pimp (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:31 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

true, but didn't help me (enough) this year

Well Andre-Fleury was your goaltender...

lol the preds matched

i mean, i'm glad, but jeez

saw a dude (in nyc) wearing a dubinsky rangers sweater today, rip

semin to carolina for one year/$7m

overpay but 1 year is hard to complain about in a land of 100 year indentured contracts

great move for carolina imo -- especially with the kind of money being thrown at other, crappier ppl.

all coaches are sutters (a good portion of them literally) who think all players have to play like sutters. there's a role for a guy as talented as semin as long as you don't demand he be something he isn't.

i'd certainly have given him that for a year as a penguin, but he's not a bylsma player.

doc emrick is doing the water polo coverage for nbc!

canes fans are talkin like this move is totally ultimate but idk

http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/11/2012/08/henrik.jpg

How did you spend your lockout?

seriously fuck this league and owners so much if they do this BS again

I just got a new MTU Huskies sweater, I will go back to following college hockey if I have to

pretty impressive that nhl owners can sign sidney crosby and zach parise and shea weber and ryan suter to decade-long $100m contracts two months before locking them out for lack of money

last time bettman explicitly said that the new cba would allow owners to cut ticket prices, which was a necessity in these tough times. needless to say, they're up 40% since then

heard a rumor that the dodgers made a waiver claim on scott gomez

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9ubwkRWfA1qe1x8qo1_500.jpg

caps fans, summed up in one photo

Last night, news broke that the Montreal Canadiens might be in violation of the Quebec provincial labour board and that their players might legally not be allowed to be locked out next weekend. Today, defenseman Josh Gorges said that if the players win in this dispute, Canadiens players will be paid while the rest of the League is locked out.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=404989

loooooooong article on the lockout that sorta proves there are no winners, I'm still working my way through it

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Team owners = pieces of shit

imo

Elliotte Friedman ‏@FriedgeHNIC
$200 million worth of contracts signed in last 48 hours.

The Kontinental Hockey League has reached an agreement with the US sports TV channel ESPN to broadcast games in the 2012/2013 KHL Championship. The games will be shown on the ESPN3 channel in the United States, Territories of the United States, and also in Great Britain....

During the first decade of October, the channel will broadcast five KHL games. The planned schedule includes:

Dynamo Moscow vs Ak Bars on Oct. 3rd;
Lev vs SKA on Oct. 6th;
Slovan vs Dynamo Moscow on Oct. 7th;
CSKA vs SKA on Oct. 8th;
Lev vs Dynamo Moscow on Oct. 9th.

Is this NHL Schadenfreude wrt ESPN? I might be using Schadenfreude wrong in this instance but I feel like there's a german word for this...

eh, it's just a web stream