If a club is going to give 4 -1st rounders it only makes sense if they are already a solid playoff team and..

I can see taking the risk on Weber considering his age and position he plays.

I don't see how Nashville can't match the offers sheet, if it is only $10 mill more over 14 yrs.... but this might not be over so quickly.
- Al

They are banking that Nash can't pay $28 million to Weber w/in the next year. Read meltzers blog.... its a really strong write up.


#Preds Weber offer sheet from #Flyers. 1st 4 yrs 1M salary+13M sb; yrs 5-6 4M sal+ 8Msb; yrs 7-10 6M sal; year 11 3M sal; last 3 yrs 1M sal -- Nick Kypreos (@RealKyper)

One word: TAMPON.

That is all.
- EKolb13

Yup we got LA's mike kitchen

In the year 1850.....

Jan 5th - California Exchange opens
Jan 18th - British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims
Jan 20th - Investigator, 1st ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England
Jan 22nd - Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif
Jan 26th - 1st German-language daily newspaper in US published, NYC
Jan 29th - Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate
Feb 5th - Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, NY
Feb 12th - Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300
Feb 18th - California Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties
Feb 28th - The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Mar 5th - The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
Mar 7th - Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
Mar 11th - Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)
Mar 12th - 1st US $20 gold piece issued
Mar 16th - Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published
Mar 18th - Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo
Mar 29th - Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die
Mar 31st - US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%))
Apr 1st - SF County government established
American Statesman Daniel Webster Apr 4th - City of Los Angeles incorporated
Apr 15th - City of San Francisco incorporated
Apr 25th - Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices
May 1st - John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor
May 11th - Work starts on 1st brick building in SF
May 27th - Mormon Temple in Nauvoo Illinois destroyed by tornado
Jun 4th - Empire Engine Company No 1 organized
Jun 4th - Self deodorizing fertilizer patented in England
Jun 6th - Levi Strauss make his 1st pair of blue jeans
Jun 14th - Fire destroys part of SF
Jun 17th - Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die)
Jun 19th - Swedish/Norwegian crown prince Charles weds Dutch princess Wilhelmina
Jun 29th - British ex-premier sir Robert Peel falls off his horse
Jun 29th - Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece.
Jul 1st - At least 626 ships lie at anchor around SF Bay
British Prime Minister Robert Peel Jul 2nd - Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus
Jul 7th - Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia
Jul 10th - Millard Fillmore sworn-in as president of US (replacing Taylor)
Jul 12th - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts establishment of Provincial States
Jul 14th - 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
Jul 15th - John Wisden bowls all 10 South batsmen, North v South at Lord's
Jul 17th - Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
Jul 19th - Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die)
Jul 23rd - 17th Postmaster General: Nathan K Hall of NY takes office
Jul 25th - Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River)
Aug 23rd - 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass
Aug 28th - Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar Germany
Aug 30th - Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
Aug 31st - California pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets
Sep 9th - California becomes 31st state
Composer Richard Wagner Sep 9th - Territories of New Mexico & Utah created
Sep 9th - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
Sep 11th - "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert
Sep 17th - Great fire in San Francisco
Sep 18th - Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850
Sep 20th - Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue
Sep 24th - Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierarchy in England
Sep 28th - US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment
Oct 12th - 1st women's medical school (Women's Medical College of Penns), opens
Oct 17th - Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized
Nov 6th - 1st Hawaiian fire engine
Nov 6th - Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (SF Bay) reserved for military use
Nov 19th - Lord Tennyson becomes British poet laureate
Nov 29th - The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, signed in Olomouc means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to Austrian Empire, which took over the leadership of German Confederation.
Dec 16th - History of New Zealand: The Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton.
Dec 20th - Hawaiian post office established
Dec 27th - Hawaiian Fire Dept established
Dec 28th - Rangoon Burma, destroyed by fire

Yup we got LA's mike kitchen
- southernhawk

100 percent absolutely correct. WTF ?? Im so disappointed.

100 percent absolutely correct. WTF ?? Im so disappointed.
- mrpaulish

Well that helps explain EK's response.. Know nothing about the guy, and now I kinda of wish I didn't.. Please hold while I down this bottle of Basil.

100 percent absolutely correct. WTF ?? Im so disappointed.
- mrpaulish

I know man....i just wanna go punch babies. .........not really but it still sux

The timing of this plays right into Bowman's hands for his speech at the Convention.

McD introduces him as the smartest GM in hockey because he locked up Brent Seabrook at under $6M per year, who everybody knows is as good or better than Shea Weber. Now teams are destroying themselves trying to acquire or retain Weber who has never won anything.

Isn't it great to have a GM like Stanbow? Long live the Bowmans!
- RickJ

It's what the organ-I-zation is selling.

Well that helps explain EK's response.. Know nothing about the guy, and now I kinda of wish I didn't.. Please hold while I down this bottle of Basil.
- victorymc98

I think that's a cop out. Flyers haven't had their own 1st round pick for 3 straight seasons until this draft. What they do well is scout and get undrafted free agents like read, bobrovsky, hovinen, kessell. They also trade proven talent for developed prospects (I.e. take less gambles at the draft and let other teams farm the talent). I Always hear the hawks have a young core and think... they do? Philly doesn't have a 'core' per say..... but if they did they are much younger. Many weren't even drafted by Philly.

Giroux 24
Voracek 22
Simmonds 23
B Schenn 20
Coututier 19
Read 26



L Schenn 22
Meszaros 26
Grossmann 27
Coburn 27
- moylander

They do.

Avg age of the guys you've tagged as Philly's core 23.6

Bolland-26
Hossa-33
Sharp-30
Kane-23
Toews-23
Shaw-21

Hammer-25
Keith-29
Seabs-27
Leddy-21

Avg age 25.8. That's still pretty young. You may disagree with Leddy and Shaw being identified as "core" players but I include them in the mix as guys they are potentially building around.

It's what the organ-I-zation is selling.
- EKolb13

I think that's a cop out. Flyers haven't had their own 1st round pick for 3 straight seasons until this draft. What they do well is scout and get undrafted free agents like read, bobrovsky, hovinen, kessell. They also trade proven talent for developed prospects (I.e. take less gambles at the draft and let other teams farm the talent). I Always hear the hawks have a young core and think... they do? Philly doesn't have a 'core' per say..... but if they did they are much younger. Many weren't even drafted by Philly.

Giroux 24
Voracek 22
Simmonds 23
B Schenn 20
Coututier 19
Read 26



L Schenn 22
Meszaros 26
Grossmann 27
Coburn 27
- moylander

They do.

Avg age of the guys you've tagged as Philly's core 23.6

Bolland-26
Hossa-33
Sharp-30
Kane-23
Toews-23
Shaw-21

Hammer-25
Keith-29
Seabs-27
Leddy-21

Avg age 25.8. That's still pretty young. You may disagree with Leddy and Shaw being identified as "core" players but I include them in the mix as guys they are potentially building around.

Well that helps explain EK's response.. Know nothing about the guy, and now I kinda of wish I didn't.. Please hold while I down this bottle of Basil.
- victorymc98

Check your PM's...

I know man....i just wanna go punch babies. .........not really but it still sux
- southernhawk

Haha , I was more thinking about driving my car close to the bus stops curb and wetting the pedestrians...

It's what the organ-I-zation is selling.
- EKolb13

That's a big (frank)ing pile of poop

- mrpaulish

I'm going to get a lot of mileage out of that image.

That's a big (frank)ing pile of poop
- southernhawk

Exactly. It sums it all up without using words.

So is today the day Stan makes a move before the convention ....whats the odds....

So is today the day Stan makes a move before the convention ....whats the odds....
- southernhawk

2%

So is today the day Stan makes a move before the convention ....whats the odds....
- southernhawk

I don't think there is one.

Go back and read RickJ's post. That might be the angle they use. Or at least one of the angles they use.

So is today the day Stan makes a move before the convention ....whats the odds....
- southernhawk

Brendan Morrison?

If Bowman is not listening to Ogi and talking to Col about Statsney, what about an offer sheet to Ryan O'Reilly?
- powerenforcer

Unfortunately I'm sure they woulld match. Unless it was Weber-like. Even though I have mentioned O'Reilly all summer. I don't think he is worth that

Check your PM's...
- EKolb13

Thank you.. Not had coffee yet.. that's my excuse for getting that fastball down the middle..

2%
- mrpaulish

You're a little high..

They are banking that Nash can't pay $28 million to Weber w/in the next year. Read meltzers blog.... its a really strong write up.


#Preds Weber offer sheet from #Flyers. 1st 4 yrs 1M salary+13M sb; yrs 5-6 4M sal+ 8Msb; yrs 7-10 6M sal; year 11 3M sal; last 3 yrs 1M sal -- Nick Kypreos (@RealKyper)
- moylander

The front end money will be the only reason Nash won't match....And they might not have the $$.

I wrote awhile ago...Preds put themselves into a corner by hesitating...primarily due to ownership issues.

They locked up Rinne and should have resigned either or both Weber/Suter to longer term deals sooner..

Similar to what the Hawks did with Toews, Kane and Keith.

Now Preds put themselves into a position to lose 2 of 3 key players...and also lose a ton of tix sales as well.

The front end money will be the only reason Nash won't match....And they might not have the $$.

I wrote awhile ago...Preds put themselves into a corner by hesitating...primarily due to ownership issues.

They locked up Rinne and should have resigned either or both Weber/Suter to longer term deals sooner..

Similar to what the Hawks did with Toews, Kane and Keith.

Now Preds put themselves into a position to lose 2 of 3 key players...and also lose a ton of tix sales as well.
- Al

That's assuming those 2 key players (Suter and Weber) wanted to stay in Nashville. If they wanted out there was nothing Poile could do.