HockeyBuzz Hotstove: Which players should teams avoid in free agency?

Please no Alzner JB.

Haha Tanner.....could you at least put a LITTLE effort in. Just a smidge.

Love this one - It's the best - just blowtorching guys

Well done James...well done.

HockeyBuzz Hotstove: Which players should teams avoid in free agency?
- ToddCordellVAN

Girardi would be fine as a 3rd pair D-man on the cheap. He just can't okay 17-20 minutes a night anymore.

Oilers already made the biggest mistake...

Edit: I guess I should have actually read the "blog" first

Girardi would be fine as a 3rd pair D-man on the cheap. He just can't okay 17-20 minutes a night anymore.
- tomburton99

He shouldn't play 17-20 seconds a night Tom

Glad to see I wasn't the only one mystified with all the Hainsey love in the playoffs. He was a good story and glad he got a deep playoff run, but he looked slow, not particularly physical, not particularly offensive. He should be being looked at as a 6 or 7 by someone with injury problems already (Edmonton) or sure to have them (Pitt).

If you could just played 17-20 seconds a night perhaps Limda wouldn't have left you

Am I crazy or do I remember Tanner singing Alzner's praises throughout this past year?

I agree though that team's should avoid him. He's gonna get paid $5 million when he should realistically be getting $3 million.

Is it just me or is (almost) every d-man in the league completely terrible and not fit to be even on the 3rd pairing? Or so it would seem pundits and fanboys would like us to believe.

Having said that, the Penguins somehow managed to win the Cup with a bunch of defencemen who (apparently) couldn't even hack it in an industrial beer league.

Is it just me or is (almost) every d-man in the league completely terrible and not fit to be even on the 3rd pairing? Or so it would seem pundits and fanboys would like us to believe.

Having said that, the Penguins somehow managed to win the Cup with a bunch of defencemen who (apparently) couldn't even hack it in an industrial beer league.
- mjones242

Crazy stuff can happen when you have pretty good goaltending and some amazing star forwards....

Is it just me or is (almost) every d-man in the league completely terrible and not fit to be even on the 3rd pairing? Or so it would seem pundits and fanboys would like us to believe.

Having said that, the Penguins somehow managed to win the Cup with a bunch of defencemen who (apparently) couldn't even hack it in an industrial beer league.
- mjones242

Come on now, that's only because the league wanted the Pens to win, so that argument is void lol

Am I crazy or do I remember Tanner singing Alzner's praises throughout this past year?

I agree though that team's should avoid him. He's gonna get paid $5 million when he should realistically be getting $3 million.
- Rinosaur

Pretty sure you're thinking of someone else, he was praising Schmidt, Orlov, Niskanen, and Shatty all year, not sure he said anything, good or bad, about Alzner.

Pretty sure you're thinking of someone else, he was praising Schmidt, Orlov, Niskanen, and Shatty all year, not sure he said anything, good or bad, about Alzner.
- Girouxsalem90

Ok. I can't keep track of his inconsistencies.

Am I crazy or do I remember Tanner singing Alzner's praises throughout this past year?

I agree though that team's should avoid him. He's gonna get paid $5 million when he should realistically be getting $3 million.
- Rinosaur

You are crazy

Come on now, that's only because the league wanted the Pens to win, so that argument is void lol
- Rinosaur

come on now, youre smarter than that

I love when nerds state NHL players shouldn't even be in the league

He shouldn't play 17-20 seconds a night Tom
- eichiefs9

I know. I was gonna say he needs to play like 12 minutes a night. Missed a word in my original statement. Whatever.

If you could just played 17-20 seconds a night perhaps Limda wouldn't have left you
- MiloslavHorava

Acctually it was his nightly 17-20 second performances that made her leave.

I love when nerds state NHL players shouldn't even be in the league


- annoyed

What about a jock like myself?