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The new and improved Cliff Ronning? I can hope!

I have a sinking feeling that Jimbo is going to make a few signings and trades this offseason that will hamstring the canucks for years to come. I hope I'm wrong.

Seriously, 8 million per year over 5 years for a player that wouldn't currently be a top-pairing defenseman on most contenders and who is likely to decline each year of the contract? That's crazy.

Hmm? He "cracked" the Canucks lineup the season before last as a regular, so I don't quite understand your post.

If there is a team at the deadline desperate to trade for a center like Sutter and willing to overpay in futures, the canucks should move him. This is not the canucks year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRy_73ivcms

That caphit doesn't include the salaries of Russia's 12 KHL players, some of whom make quite a lot.

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This is the most worrying developing story: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/11/japan.nuclear/

Don't be ridiculous. Only two skaters in nhl history have played at age 44 or higher: Howe and Chelios. There is absolutely no chance that Kovalchuk plays out his contract; especially as he makes just 7 million over the last 7 years of the contract and 95 million over the first 10 years. You bring up the other long-term contracts similar to Kovalchuk's. Perhaps they too should have been rejected by the league (even though they were much more realistic than Kovalchuk's) but the fact that they weren't doesn't mean that Kovalchuk's shouldn't either. Should Hitler have been allowed to occupy Poland and takeover the rest of Europe without resistance because shortsighted rulers had allowed him too much leeway previously in Austria and Czechoslovakia? Of course not. It is a slippery slope, but Bettman should be applauded for finaly taking a stand.