Panthers continue to really do nothing. I'm guessing they're going the Miami Marlins route.

He's great in small doses. He does get VERY carried away sometimes.

Pierre McGuire cannot pronounce the name Daniel, which is weird

he's said Danielle at least 15 times when talking about Daniel Alfredsson

They need to concentrate on developing their young guns and stop handing out big contracts to guys like JovoCop. Markstrom is a stud in net.

the Avs should hire Claude Lemieux and Peter Forsberg to some front office jobs

even if they don't want them

or just hire Claude Lemieux to beat up Greg Sherman

WHY WOULD YOU GIVE GREG ZANON A THREE YEAR CONTRACT?

something called CTV is interviewing children about Daniel Alfredsson

oh wait I know CTV, it's what they televise(d?) Degrassi on

60 percent sure one of these writer guys is dead

Hahah yeah.

ughhhhhhhhh sportswriters are the worst

bitching about Nathan Horton wanting to play in Columbus because he doesn't like big cities

"Fuck this guy for wanting to play in a smaller place"

I can't wait to see that nutcase Patrick Roy behind the bench. I think his act could wear out quick in Colorado.

Columbus is going to be very good this year.

I'm excited to see what crazy shit he'll do

probably throw a VCR at at least one of the defensemen

Lol poor Semyon Varlemov. Roy is going to crush him.

How the fuck does Clarke McArthur get a no-movement clause

And it's adorable when he does :heart:

Everyone shitting all over the Clarkson deal. No one seems to realize that long contracts are kind of the norm nowadays.

With Semyon's lack of self confidence and Patrick Roy being a maniac I'm looking forward to a lot of J.S. Giguere this year

some dude just ran off the set of the Free Agent Frenzy show and is now hanging out with the reporters

The first year of the Avs is one of my favourite hockey rosters ever.

apparently he broke the Jerome Iginla trade

really need to start listening to names

Exactly how many true power forwards are there around who can score a bit, fight, hit and not an abortion in their own end? Lucic, Clowe, Stewart, Clarkson, Simmonds. That's. Really about it. The Leafs top 9 were small. Clarkson and Bolland are amazing pick ups.

I wrote about this in another forum: I wanted Bozak back. He's top 10 in face offs, players well with Kessel and is awesome on the pk.

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Bordeleau for Subban, obvs

Clarkson will be a frequent "Pierre McGuire MONSTER OF THE GAME!"

Flames re-signed McGrattan. Fuck are those two gonna have some fucking awesome scraps.

I do not know why the reporter's desk is so small, but I find it weird

The whole Luongo thing still baffles the shit out of me to this day. How could any organization be that flipping stupid?

Brandon Prust was clearly not enough last year. I felt bad for him against Boston and Toronto. He's as tough as nails, but he was all alone out there.

so excited to watch Bordy fight more this year, that guy is my favorite

and also Steve Downie will be around to make people mad and then fight him more

Lol ask Skippord about the Avs currently front office. He'll provide insight haha

It's cuz they swept us in 96. It's the curse of the Panthers.

FORMER FRONT OFFICE MERCIFULLY

Cody McLeod as well, although I wouldn't be surprised if that's who the Habs acquire. Downie and Bordy make McLeod obsolete.......although the Leafs will probably still dress Orr and McLaren with Clarkson so what do I know.

thus far I'm on board with Joe Sakic and Patrick Roy running things

I'd prefer if Greg Sherman got fired and roughed up a little bit though

Hahaha how do you trade a first round pick for friggen Semyon Varlemov and Chris Stewart, Kevin Shattenkirk for Erik Johnson. Just boggles the mind.

Cody McLeod is their secret goal scoring weapon

:'(

Greg Sherman is a stupid stupid stupid person

I even got the Erik Johnson trade at the time since Chris Stewart was apparently a problem and at the time they had a bunch of different Shattenkirk types

unfortunately he developed into being way more awesome than those guys

How does Edmonton give Andrew Ference a four year contract. This team just plain doesn't get it.

Ooooo WWE Vintage Collection: Cruiserweight addition is on. Time for Gertner to check out.

that Varlamov trade is mind blowing though

Hated that trade from the start. You don't deal power forwards.

Kidman, Rey and Ultimo Dragon vs Tajiri/AkioVSekoda to start. Bye for now.

Kidman and Ultimo Dragon are the best, I respect this choice

Stupid cat Belak just knocked over my carton of chocolate milk.

I can't wait until 8 months from now when the Avs foolishly trade Ryan O'Reilly instead of Paul Stastny and I have to kill myself

Supercalo, Lizmark jr, Chavo and Juventud vs La Parka, El Dandy, Psicosis and Silver King from Souled Out. Fuck I love Vintage Collection.

Lol the Isles never learn. Travis Hamonic signed to a 7 year 27 million contract. Could be a steal or another mess.

hate Supercalo so much

The Preds signing of Viktor Stalberg is going to be the under-rated move of the summer.

Was a huge Psychosis fan back in the day

wow Habs acquire George Parros for a 7th rounder

Psychosis is the best

*Mexicools run excepted

Only stache that can compete with mine

George Parros' mustache and Greg Zanon's beard should fight

Ultimo Dragon vs Dean Malenko at Starcade up next.

Throw in Mike Ricci's hair and make it a threeway dance.

who was more wasted in WWE: Ultimo Dragon or Psychosis?

Mike Ricci's hair would kill both of them with a single shot

I have a huge banner thing with the key players of the '96 Avs

Mike Ricci's hair is the best part

Vote GERTNER AND SKIPPORD AS KOTF

Happy that Scuderi is back with the Pens.

Oh well, was hoping Iginla stayed in Pittsburgh.

Just ran out of Cap Space. Cooke a casualty as well to the Wild.

Corndad and lodown be sure to vote Gertie in the KOTF. I'll represent the hockey forum well


Also pissed the Leafs didn't get Scuderi

Gertner, I haven't been home yet, but which Panther is now a Red Wing?

Stephen Weiss

really hoping Bordy fights Matt Cooke at some point this season now

Im excited.

A little surprised the Avs didn't resign Hejduk. Can't imagine him playing anywhere else.

Especially since they are pretty weak on the wing.

I think they know he'll retire and are going to let him announce it

would be weird if they just didn't resign him

Leafs rumoured to be in on Ryan Whitney..........please don't.

Good to finally see Fred the Fog get put into the HHOF

Think were gonna see some big trade coming up. Lots of teams have multiple rfa's to sign with zero cap space: St.Louis, Toronto.

my leafs have 10 mill to sign kadri, fraser, gunnerson, and franson and colborne. Somebody has gotta be moved.

Colborne already signed.

Fraser/Gunnerson filed for arbitration.

Leafs offered a 2 way deal. Might walk away from the deal.

Not the biggest Gunnerson fan. Haven't kept up on the signings the past few days. I doubt Colborne makes this team.

Throw 10 mil at Kadri, fuck the others.

A Panther in the HoF. YES!

Franson was pretty solid.

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KHL bound.

You should read Roenick's Twitter tirade over this. LOL

One loser putting down another

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Kovy's going to get paid.

I actually love it.

The NHL is far to much of a gong show with the way they run themselves. I hope this serves as a wake up call.

How many players have opted out now

3, 4?

ha!

Kovy gets to move back home, play his style of hockey and get paid more money. I don't see how I can fault him for that.

According to ESPN, none of the money left is guaranteed so the Devils can void it all except the cap hit once he retires. SBNation says the cap hit is around $250,000 per year until 2024/2025.

He actually did a huge favor to the Devils since had he retired a year or so later, the cap penalty would have been almost tripled its current value. Guess the previous lockout ended up souring whatever desire he had left to play in the NHL and decided playing in the KHL was a lot better than the money he dropped.

Devils lost their first round pick for next season due to cap circumventioon when they signed him. His contract made it impossible to sign Parise and Clarkson. They are much worse without him and they won't even have a pick to show for it.

Yeah it was pretty stupid of them to try and one up the NHL with that deal and paid for it with the fine and loss of a draft pick but they did have the choice of which year to forfeit.

Just so happens the GM was a bit of a moron for not picking 2012 when the 1st round pick was at #29. Might have been able to use 2013 had they not done a draft day trade for the pick leaving next year as the only option.

Yeah the timing was actually pretty terrible for the Devils. He totally hamstrung them this offseason.

1972 documentary about the 1972 WHA Quebec Nordiques

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Carcillo to the Kings.

I'm guessing Kyle Clifford is asking for a ton of money. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Rangers make a deal for Clifford. They have zero toughness, aside from Haley who isn't a good player.

Gunnerson signs for 3 years 9.15 cap hit. I can live with this.

Devils sign Jagr. Lol they are really trying to not suck and lose a lottery pick.

Been meaning to share these stories for a while. Does anybody remember Link Gaetz? He was an enforcer drafted in the 2nd round of the 1988 draft by the Minnesota North Stars to protect their first round pick: Mike Modano. Anyways, old Link has had an interesting hockey career and I thought I'd share some classic stories about Link, seen below, lol sporting two black eyes in his draft picture.

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On the day of the 1988 NHL Entry Draft, in which Gaetz was drafted in the 2nd round with the 40th pick overall by the Dallas Stars, legend has it that he entered the Montreal Forum in Montreal, Quebec sporting two black eyes and carrying a case of beer under each arm. On the most important day of his career, Gaetz felt two cases of beer to be the best pre-draft preparation; what a role model.



Link used to get the team's mail, and when the club's rookies would get mail, he would open their letters, read them and if there was any money in them, would pocket his findings. He burned his final bridge in Nashville when on his way to a team party he wasn't invited to, the car in front of him was driving slowly to prevent Link from entering; instinctively, Gaetz floored it, smashing the car in front of him and pushing it into the party.

Link then exited his vehicle, beat the driver unconscious and calmly walked into the party, leaving the scene of the accident he had just caused. When the unlucky driver came to, he called local police and Link was sent to jail.

From jail, Link phoned then coach Nick Fotiu to bail him out; angered by the incident, Fotiu told Gaetz to spend the night in jail. So the next morning when Link was released, he went to the team's practice facility, walked up and sucker-punched his coach in the face. Surprisingly, the team and league suspended Link for the remainder of the season.


In the 1994-95 season Later that year San Antonio was playing Dallas (Link two-handed Frank LaScala broke his arm, thats when Jeff Beaudin jumped in and fought Link.) That was the last game Link played in that league because they suspended him for the season. After that Link went and played a few games for Fresno and fought Gunnar 2x.(he kept following me from league to league LOL) 1996-1997 Link played in Madison (Unitied) Dave Schultz was the coach and Link played with Gunnar Kroseburg (the guy he beat up in Fresno). That year Link fought Mel Inglestead, Jason Disher of Thunder Bay, also Richie Walcott etc. Link sometimes used to show up to the rink drunk, Schultz was getting pissed off at Link, Finally one game from the bench he started stick swinging with a player on the other team, and guess what he got suspended the rest of the season. Thats when Madison traded for Richie Walcott because Link was done for the year. Then in 1997-1998 Link started off the season with the Anchorage Aces(WCHL) Anchorage had to put up a 40,000 dollar bond so Link could play in the league, and if he did anything stupid the team would loss the bond, and guess what 11 games into the season he gets in a fight, after the fight he won't stop, keeps trying to get at the guy so the ref jumps in to help, Link gets so pissed off that he bit the linesmen in the leg, they suspended him the rest of the season, and the Aces lost all that money!


January 19, 1999: Link was arrested in Huntsville, Texas on January 10th and charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest. His bond, which was raised from $10,000 to $100,000 after he taunted the arraigning judge and reportedly told him to "fu-- off," was later reduced to $5,000, but the last we heard, he was still in jail.


March 13, 2005: Link suits up but doesn't play in his final game. He is later suspended for the rest of the season. Not because of a fight, but because he wanted a hamburger. Apparently, this was the norm for Link and did the same thing while with the San Francisco Spiders.


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he flipped his car over in the parking lot of the coliseum (? Northstars arena) crawls out, goes in to participate in the team practice, doesn't say a fucking word about his car being upside down, like it never happened. When the cops came, he was trying to hide in the dressing room.

Also in Minnesota, another experience with having Link as a roomate. His roommate was in his bedroom fucking a girl. Link is drunk and begins pounding on the door and saying "I'll huff, and I'll puff...". Finally the door is kicked in and there stands link gaetz, bare ass naked holding a bottle of vodka (and probably his PP). What happened after that I don't know.

Four years ago, in Miramichi, New Brunswick, police found the battered form of a huge miner whom Gaetz had pummeled and tossed into a snowbank. A local who knew both assailant and assailed has this to say: "They were drinking and got into a car together, and the guy thought he could tell Link a thing or two. Well, I'll tell you what. If you're gonna shoot your mouth off with Link, you're gonna get it shut. That lad got his face dismembered. He looked like he was wearing a Halloween mask.


"Link got hold of a motorcycle and a pistol," Twist says. "The bike ran out of gas and he started walking. He passed a church, shot out the stained glass windows. He was disappointed because he was aiming for the bell." Result: arrest for carrying a firearm without a permit, conviction for disorderly conduct and three days in jail. Then there was the time when Twist's Peoria Rivermen hosted Gaetz's Kalamazoo Wings. Twist was heading home when he noticed a smashed TV in front of the Hotel Continental Regency and a hole in a fourth-floor window. Depending on whom you believe, Gaetz was either upset that he'd been thrown out of practice (the police version) or annoyed that his window wouldn't open

Incredible!!! This could be a good foundation for making another Goon film.

Except Doug Glatt was a sweetheart. The Missing Link was a complete dickhead.

Yeah, Doug The Thug Smith was a good guy and has given some great interviews