Free Agency Day(s)

[NTP66]

Staal is at the tail end of his career.

[FistOfCaufield]

Source of the post relatively non-physical 15g 30pt guy

This has never happened in his career.

Last year he was 12g-36pts... close enough, and that includes the amazing Anaheim run that he had.

I did say "more of a ... than a ..." in reference to my original thoughts/hopes when we first got him.

He was hurt for games last year, not only that but he spent 40 some of those games in probably one of the biggest offensive holes in the NHL (aka the Pittsburgh Penguins) where generational talents put up horrible offensive numbers.

[mikey]

Brian Campbell 1 yr, $2 mil with Chicago...what a deal.

[FistOfCaufield]

Anyone going to comment on Backus for 5 years at 6mil a year? That seems... excessive to me.

[NTP66]

Weise confirmed to Philly, 4-years @ $2m per.

[NTP66]

Anyone going to comment on Backus for 5 years at 6mil a year? That seems... excessive to me.

Completely agree.

@mikey, that's so 4 pages ago.

[mikey]

Liles is one year for a deuce with Boston.

[mikey]

Carter Hutton to St. Louis two years...for all you fantasy players...Jake Allen is this year's Petr Mrazek...God status. Allen could really be a star...

[NTP66]

Chimera to NYI. 2 years @ $2.25m per.

[crusherstasiak]

Eric Staal now makes less than Brandon Sutter. That's funny to me for some reason.

...while the massively overrated 32 yr old Dave Backes gets 6 million a year. Are these GM's not nuts?

[Craig]

Good thing minnesota got rid of vsnek...they needed staal.

[mikey]

Chris Stewart, somehow, gets another contract...2 yrs, $2.3 million

[mikey]

Chad Johnson, former Penguin, to Calgary for a year...

[Craig]

Eric Staal now makes less than Brandon Sutter. That's funny to me for some reason.

...while the massively overrated 32 yr old Dave Backes gets 6 million a year. Are these GM's not nuts?

Who overrates backes? I would guess most casual fans of east coast teams dont even know who he is

[mikey]

Lovejoy 3 yrs to NJ

[crusherstasiak]

REV to the Devils

[mikey]

Tom Gilbert to LA for $1.4 mil

[Dickie Dunn]

Rev. Lovejoy to the Devil.

[FistOfCaufield]

Not really interested in Milan Lucic's thoughts on hockey, It reminds me of that old SNL skit about Frankenstein, Tonto, and Tarzan.

[NTP66]

I wonder what Shero gave him.

[mikey]

Alex Stalock to Min, 1 yr, two-way at $650K...

[darkstar57]

Glad to see chimera off the caps, that will kill their depth some

[FistOfCaufield]

Good lord NHL Network, save the caveman talk for a few hours later.

[mikey]

Jake Allen extension 4 x $4.35 mil.

[crusherstasiak]

Eric Staal now makes less than Brandon Sutter. That's funny to me for some reason.

...while the massively overrated 32 yr old Dave Backes gets 6 million a year. Are these GM's not nuts?

Who overrates backes? I would guess most casual fans of east coast teams dont even know who he is

Has two 30 goal seasons and for all his supposed defensive prowess his 'team' has consistently failed to get it done. He's not elite. ^ million...I'm thinking that's elite's bottom end price. Cripes, Stammer is only making 2.5 more than this guy.

How's that for a defense of my position