grabo not an impact player
- big_dion

Career defined by 2 successful seasons.........

Geezus Murphy bettman wants an expansion team in Seattle...expansion? un (frank)ing believable
- JIMI-JAMES

yeah.. they need to balance out the conferenaces.. and seattle i have been saying a long while now

they'll feed from BC similar to how buffalo does ontario

that or the peg.. but it will cost the jets more i would think

nobody wants to live there
- Dozzer

exactly.

lol - jets will suck.

calgary (grabo) would be #1C.

Geezus Murphy bettman wants an expansion team in Seattle...expansion? un (frank)ing believable
- JIMI-JAMES

I thought that's where they were planning on putting the Coyotes in 5 years when that new lease inevitably fails.

If he wants a 32 team league, he better be sure Phoenix, Florida, Tampa Bay, and Carolina are all viable long term markets.

My feeling is that the next commissioner will be the one who has to deal with his mess. I think we're due for some contraction soon from Bettman's over-reaching.

Career defined by 2 successful seasons.........
- Mr_Smokey

Career defined by one poopty half season

Career defined by 2 successful seasons.........
- Mr_Smokey

how many successful seasons has bozak had than?

how about lupul? JVR?

funny, grabo has more points than both of them in the last 3 years.

Career defined by one poopty half season
- UsernameUnknown

Original comment was impact player, not a bad half a season.. try to keep up bud...

Career defined by one poopty half season
- UsernameUnknown

career aint over yet, id bet a 2 week pay check grabo will come back with a vegeance.

how many successful seasons has bozak had than?

how about lupul? JVR?

funny, grabo has more points than both of them in the last 3 years.
- big_dion

You need to understand a very simple principle.

Now that he's no longer playing for *insert favorite team name here*, he sucks.

It's just how it goes.

how many successful seasons has bozak had than?

how about lupul? JVR?

funny, grabo has more points than both of them in the last 3 years.
- big_dion

To me, an "impact player" is a top sixer who can be effective on a playoff team.

When Grabo was putting up points, it was on a bottom-feeding team. Lots of mediocre players manage to do that with inflated ice time.

For the first time in a long time, we're starting to accumulate some depth in the organization and that showed Grabo to be pretty ineffective.

To me, an "impact player" is a top sixer who can be effective on a playoff team.

When Grabo was putting up points, it was on a bottom-feeding team. Lots of mediocre players manage to do that with inflated ice time.

For the first time in a long time, we're starting to accumulate some depth in the organization and that showed Grabo to be pretty ineffective.
- Leeman4Gilmour

As I've been going back and forth here, my counter is I don't think Grabo had inflated ice time amigo. If anything, Bozak was stealing much of that precious ice time.

Geezus Murphy bettman wants an expansion team in Seattle...expansion? un (frank)ing believable
- JIMI-JAMES

They want the expansion $$
once they get 2 new teams then the weaker sisters can move to Quebec and the GTA

how many successful seasons has bozak had than?

how about lupul? JVR?

funny, grabo has more points than both of them in the last 3 years.
- big_dion

Again, I used the word impact originally. Lupul has been more impactful to this team than Grabovski, please please don't argue this.

JVR, yes and plays a different position and fills a big need and is under a long term very reasonable contract and is an "asset"

Bozak, well no he has never been impactful so you got one there.

career aint over yet, id bet a 2 week pay check grabo will come back with a vegeance.
- big_dion

Lol the first two years after we got him from MTL, he scored more points against them than any other team.

Can't wait until he does that to us and then some.

career aint over yet, id bet a 2 week pay check grabo will come back with a vegeance.
- big_dion

He'll get just as many points as Bozak.
And if he gets 5 less while playing 2nd line minutes with second line wingers, he'd still be better

damn my eye are heavy and want to close for a while.

Two days until the start of the non-compliance buyout period, August 2nd to 4th.

Does this JML is on his way out?

we could beat this for days and hours on all angles, everyone will have their own view. thats how it works.

gbov will be missed by those who liked him, and those who didnt, well obviously they wont miss him. simple as that.

lets just hope the decision made by carlyle to remove grabovski from the team was the right one, because it was his decision. Nonis was beside burke when they signed gbov the year before for 5.5 @ 5...so he obviously had some input.

carlyle removed the A from grabo before game 1. why? nobody knows, he gave it to mcclemment and macarthur...why? nobody knows.

it was pretty obvious from day one that carlyle wasnt fond of grabovski.

exactly.

lol - jets will suck.

calgary (grabo) would be #1C.
- big_dion

for a few seconds I tough you were talking about the NFL Jets ....

i understand why they bought out grabo.. but honestly? i would of let bozak walk.. play grabo one more year and see if kadri becomes ready for full time 1st line work.


- Dozzer

I was also more than prepared to see Bozak walk.

career aint over yet, id bet a 2 week pay check grabo will come back with a vegeance.
- big_dion

... and eat up the leafs when he's playing for Washington.

Two days until the start of the non-compliance buyout period, August 2nd to 4th.

Does this JML is on his way out?
- zazzle

Geeze, just what we need, MORE commitment in the future to bought out players...

Would we not have a cap hit for like 6 years of Liles? Yeesh.

I already won the Internet.
- robin_steele264

do I get an assist?

They want the expansion $$
once they get 2 new teams then the weaker sisters can move to Quebec and the GTA
- senstroll

this will bring them mucho $$$$$ so I don't see them moving a team in to Markham unless it's an expansion team

To me, an "impact player" is a top sixer who can be effective on a playoff team.

When Grabo was putting up points, it was on a bottom-feeding team. Lots of mediocre players manage to do that with inflated ice time.

For the first time in a long time, we're starting to accumulate some depth in the organization and that showed Grabo to be pretty ineffective.
- Leeman4Gilmour

Grabo would absolutely have gotten more points than Bozak if they were swapped for the year.

this isn't even debatable.

Not gonna argue about the decision to buy him out, or why they never put him with Kessel, but he absolutely would have been effective in an offensive situation.