Wake up chief, I've said twice first game next year. So I'm with Carcus on this one.
- 6628

Boss man....time has to be in DAYS .

But Dudley noted you predict 88 no more shifts this year

Just heard John Tavares talk about Nick Leddy and commented on his great hockey sense and poise. That can't be. Then he went out and compared him to Scott Niedermayer or however you spell it.

Then again, what does Tavares Know?

Johnny Oduya still the better choice...lol...

I bet Oduya seeing Leddy sign for his big deal, likely will expect a huge raise next year?

I know, I will always have sour grapes over this.
- TrueGrit

I don't envy any GM who had to face a situation like that one. Bottom line is who takes Oduya's final year of his contract while he's wearing a boot? The Hawks would have been lucky to find somebody who was willing to take him at half price, and even then, they still have to dump yet another contract to make it work. And we all know that nobody is taking Rozsival's final year, end of story.

We talked about this in another thread. The guys who were seemingly obviously tradable, how tradable were they in reality? Were there injuries that made other GMs balk at their price tags? Were the other GMs lowballing even worse on the other tradable players? I don't know the answer here.

Not agreeing or disagreeing with the decision to trade Leddy. My point has been to reconstruct a situation where Bowman had to deal Leddy. I think it is possible that this situation existed, though from my comfy GM armchair here, it's hard to know the real situation that existed. Stanley gets to see a different picture than any of us on here.

I don't know how Pokka is going to turn out, or the goalie prospect for that matter. If the goalie prospect gives them enough depth to give them the option of trading Crawford's salary, that's a plus, too. Bowman probably felt comfortable enough with the stable of D prospects to make the deal, also. TVR did look good before he went down, and his injury only exacerbates the anguish over the Leddy deal, especially because it forced Q to play Rozsival more often than would be advisable. And I think he was hoping that either Rundblad could pay off a lot better than has played out, or that one of the Rockford call-ups would be ready to step in and play well enough on the third pair if need be.

Put me down for out all season
- Colbyboy

57 Days: ehawk

58 Days: Dahawks8819

60 Days: molly

63 Days: Jaeckel, Vark37

64 Days: Gnosox1986

66 Days: Southernhawk, moots, Powerenforcer

68 Days: Paulish

70 Days: Hawk35

72 Days: Kentxo

74 Days: Beezer26

75 Days: SMU51

76 Days: Sgt1480

77 Days: Marlowe

79 Days: Lido Shuffle

80 Days: bhawk1s

83 Days: EKolb13, VaBeachBear

87 Days: StLBravesFan, BGKarras

88 Days: TheJerk

93 Days: wonthecup10

217 Days: Bogiedoc

228 Days: carcus

Rest of the season: Colbyboy

When I was a kid playing hockey everyone used to compare me to Ron Ellis and my illustrious career came to a grinding halt when I was unable to make a Jr. B team .... so what's your point?
- paulr

Didn't Bowman compare Hjalmarsson to Lidstrom?

New blog is up.

Poor Ronny Ellis eventually had a nervous breakdown from skating up and down the right wing like one of those men on an early version table top hockey game. That was the way the game was played back then, not too much offensive creativity except the superstars like Bobby Hull, Orr, Lafleur.

But Ellis did play a key role on 1972 Team Canada with Bobby Clarke and Paul Henderson.
- RickJ

Deninis Hull was the same way during his early days. Had the pleasure of meeting him once at an autograph signing. He was hilarious. Had a joke for everyone. He was at an local hardware store and the line snaked through the whole store, out the door and down the street.