TheHitman

It's a way to sell your tickets electronically without having to meet up in person. Saves the hassle of say a craigslist meet up when re-selling. Only downside is that StubHub takes a cut of your sale so, there's that.

He'll sign with TB once the rights expire.

All Day I Dream About Sweaters

warm, cozy sweaters

hnnnnnnng

I'm pretty sure that's all it was supposed to be....just new style of and technology of material for the jerseys.  They weren't redesigning every single jersey.

Been like that for ever.  Usually two or three teams dominate for an entire decade, because they have the top players for that cycle.  It's a foregone conclusion which two teams are likely to meet in the Finals.  

I thought they looked fairly stoppable.  Especially when they didn't get a shot on net for 36 minutes.

Yeah every shot in the other 24 minutes ended up in the back of the net. 

They're unstoppable because their plethora of talent allows them to come through even when being completely and utterly neutralized for 90% of a game.

The Capitals should have swept the Penguins with the way that series looked from a neutral fans perspective. But the Penguins have got the perfect mesh of skill and grit on every line.

Just looked at it and I must agree  Hitman

@MikeBossy Just horrendous. This is a good rookie year too.

Oh, but to the OP- 

I'm not great with salary projections, but let's say it's a 3yr bridge for all those players:

Baer 2.8 - 3.25M,  Granny gets the same, Jake gets 1.75- 2M. Jake has a lot more to prove at this point 

If Baertschi (35) and Grandlund (32) have repeat seasons point wise, based on league comparables (age, position, points, games)

Granlund 3 years @ $2-$2.5M AAV

Comparable: Hyman (4x2.25)

Baertschi 4 years @ $4.0M AAV

Comparable: Boedker (4x4)

Virtanen, at this point is impossible to predict. Maybe close to Josh Anderson or Andreas Athanasiou. Not really any players that have had the same first 3 years.

I suspect Baertschi will get ~45 points this year. Granlund doesn't seem like he'll get the opportunities to score goals like he did last year with the Sedins.

all of them - last time they had boxes of them at every gate 

Do these Bobble Headed players have sticky bottoms, so fans can a fix them to their scooter steering wheels??

nope, no sticky bottom. You'll have to use duct tape. 

That's just the NHL working tirelessly in order to deliver you a better product. 

Just be thankful that they actually have a youtube channel now and you don't have to access their crappy website for highlights.

Thank you! 

No choice.  Play him until he can be dumped onto another team.  It's too soon to waive him.  His dead cap hit would last to long if he was waived this year or next.

the man clearly needs a raise

then he'll improve his game

I'm reminded of the following goodfellas movie scene whenever I think of Eriksson (whether he has a good or bad game):

Now the guy's got Paulie as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Paulie. Trouble with the bill? He can go to Paulie. Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy, he can call Paulie. But now the guy's gotta come up with Paulie's money every week, no matter what. Business bad? "**** you, pay me." Oh, you had a fire? "**** you, pay me." Place got hit by lightning, huh? "**** you, pay me." Also, Paulie could do anything. Especially run up bills on the joint's credit. And why not? Nobody's gonna pay for it anyway. And as soon as the deliveries are made in the front door, you move the stuff out the back and sell it at a discount. You take a two hundred dollar case of booze and you sell it for a hundred. It doesn't matter. It's all profit. And then finally, when there's nothing left, when you can't borrow another buck from the bank or buy another case of booze, you bust the joint out

Eriksson had a great game?  Loui says, I don't care, **** you pay me.

Eriksson had a bad game?  Loui says, I don't care, **** you pay me.

Team is in a tight cap crunch?  Loui says, I don't care, **** you pay me.

They ended in second place, one point behind Canada, in the qualifying round.  They just happened to choke hard in their first elimination game.  It also doesn't help that all of the vets keep saying "hell no" when asked to play.  They end up getting stuck with the young guys.  A player like Patrick Kane would come in handy.

They've done well recently at the U18 and U20 Worlds, but for some reason can't get their act together at the senior men's Worlds.

It depends. None of the US veterans bother to show up for the World Championships like Sabrefan said. That's on Team USA.

In the past few Olympics though they haven't selected their best talent. It worked out for them in Vancouver but not so much this past Olympics.

Their thinking has always been that if they take some meat and potatoes players to go along with a few stars they can challenge Canada better than if they went with their best talent. Last time that strategy failed miserably. I think they would have a much better team next year though.

McDiver vs Crybaby. Boring.......I'm just kidding.

I want to see a real rivalry in the Playoffs, there has not been a Finals that has been exciting to watch since the 2011 Finals. It is nice to see skill, speed, and goals, but it is entertaining to see hate, hits, some fights, with goals, skill, and some brawls for me.

Subban vs Ovi.  If you can't sell that fire your marketing dept.

And yeah, the Kunitz hit was dirty as hell.

We don't have anyone in this market that can story tell the way Brunt can. He's good. Real good.

First off, I strongly disagree with your view on Eller--in fact, I'd say he's become one of the best bargain deals in the league.  He brings a lot at only $3.5Mper--a perfect veteran 3C who can move up to a 2C in an emergency and his offence is still getting incrementally better. 

And if the Canucks (or anyone else) took on Orpik's salary, then they'd have the cap space to keep both Wilson and Carlson (re-signing Carlson from $4M to $7M would be and additional $3M, Wilson might warrant a raise from $1M or so).

If Wilson is to be traded, it will be for significant futures as I stated originally.

All that said, I think if we're patient with Virtanen, we'll have a player with similar attributes, minus the nasty Wilson brings.

@Undrafted What do you think the Caps would offer in a potential Orpik cap dump? Beck Malenstyn was a player the Canucks were looking at and hoping to pick if he reached the Jakub Stukel pick. Not sure the Capitals would give up a guy like that.

Honestly, I don't know much about the Caps farm or prospects, so I couldn't say--I just watch their games on a regular basis with my friends.  I rely on them to pass on news about organizational stuff and that name hasn't come up at all.

If I were to wildly guess what their GM might do, it'd likely be trying to convince one or both of Carlson and Wilson to take a hometown discount.  Carlson might bite if they give him the 8th year; Wilson might agree to a 1-yr deal with the assurance that he'd get paid the year after, once Orpik's deal is off the books.  Both players seem to genuinely want to stay with the organization.