avalanche owns

though since im like 5 miles from the san jose shark arena ... i`ll route for them too rock:

w000t NHL is back

Sharks & Kings > Many

Red Wings > God

the truth

oops, you're right Nyck. A lil' typo there with the date. Will edit original post.

beer: biggrin:

http://tsn.ca/nhl/feature.asp?fid=6926

Reconstructed salaries for all teams.

rofl @ bruins with 3 guys total.

wings will buy out hatcher and mccarty, maybe one more.

datysuk, zetterberg, Stevie Y will all be back.

We've got 12 guys.

And Detroit already has 32 mill booked up. Calgary has 13.

philly has 33million. It's good to see that they still have those players.


Restricted Free Agents: Patrick Sharp, Dennis Seidenberg, Robert Esche, Simon Gagne, Kim Johnsson, Branko Radivojevic, Radovan Somik.

there are some good players on that list (Esche, Gagne, Johnsson)

that means you ahve 5 mill to sign the rest of your players.

eh, they don't give a shit about anyone else. If worse comes to worse, they'll bring up a bunch of dudes from the Phantoms for like $250,000 each. happy:

Restricted Free Agents: Jarome Iginla , Miikka Kiprusoff kthx.

Say 3 million on kipper and 5 or 6 max in iginla, thats 9 mill + 13 mill = 22 mill in a 38 mill cap. 16 mill to sign everyone else. Payroll in 2004 for calgary was even under the cap put in place now. I think we were at 35 mill or so. And that was before the 24% rollback. I think Calgary is in pretty good shape.

no doubt beer:

so what's the scoop with the red line and all of this? Something about no icing? Did i hear right?

No touch icing.

They have in the the CHL and WHL. Once the puck passes the goal line, the play is blown dead. THat means there is no race to the puck and no one gets hurt in the corner. I'm reminded of Ryan smith who was racing for an iced puck and got tripped up and broke his leg a couple years ago.

No red line might be implemented. THis would be like intl hockey. Means tehre would be no two line pass anymore.

There will be tag up offsides which is good IMO.

There are going to be a TON of rule changes because everyone thinks hockey is boring. Especially most Americans.

The NHL wants to change a bunch of things to make it more exciting so more people will watch.

Another thing that will definetly happen is smaller goalie pads. Thats for sure.

I personally don't find anything wrong with the product on ice. I could watch pretty much any game between any two teams, but thats because i'm a hardcore hockey fan.

what's the point of the no touch icing? Is it soley for players' safety? Because you think the NHL would want to continue the action for long as possible. no touch icing means more play stopping.

Its faster in the long run. As soon as the puck touches the line, the whistle is blown and a faceoff can take place. With the players having to touch the puck, that means they have to skate down the length of the ice to get it.

I've seen it work in the WHL. I think they've always had no touch icing. I had season tickets last year. I like it. You ice the puck, thats the end of it. I'd probably say its primarly for player safety. I mean, you have guys that are worth 5 mill skating super fast into boards to grab a puck. I remember iginla getting hurt a little from chasing one down. It would suck for the game if he went down with an injury, or anyone else of his profile.

interesting. I can't wait for the season to start.

Not looking forward to the Messed nets, Goalie pad changes. The 4 on 4 overtime then the 3 on 3 overtime then a shootout. I think most of these overtime changes are to force the more Defensive teams (that use the trap) to play offensively. I don't think its going to be the NHL we all know and love.

it will be a better product...actually draw more attention at some point and then improve the existence of the nhl you love..guess what they played with smaller pads back in the day and it didnt hurt the game then.

I mean fucking goalies are like walls now, every fucking goal is just a scrum in front of the net, a fluke shot, or actually faking the goalie out.

no one has scored from a shot from the angle in 10 years because of the couch seats that goalies where now.

I don't think their doing anything with the nets, are they?

One rule change that I think will go through that I think is stupid is goalies aren't allowed to handle the puck behind their net. Thats fucking gay.