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    If he does get sent down and the team is obviously desparate enough to try to get rid of him, they should be responsible for half his salary. If he's not worth the contract, don't sign him to it. It's a great way to stop big market teams from sending away their expensive but useless players to small teams without having to pay a penalty.

    If you give away free puppies, you don't keep half the puppy. Teams should be able to negotiate trades where one picks up some of the cash if that's what it takes to get a deal done, but if a player is claimed off waivers, the waiving team should have no contractual obligations left once the player is claimed. That's common sense. It's not a "great way" to do anything.

     

    Except these aren't puppies, they're multi-million dollar contracts.

     

    I've explained it to you before. Only on reentry waivers does the waiving team pick up half the salary. If tomorrow, the Bruins decided to send down Zdeno Chara, he would have to clear waivers. If the Islanders claimed him, they are stuck with his entire price-tag. But if Chara cleared waivers and the Bruins called him back up, he would have to clear reentry waivers. If the Islanders claimed him then, they get him at half price.

     

    I don't see a problem with it, but then again, my team hasn't been crippled with waiver obligations. No team really has been.

     

    And the trades where teams throw in cash? I thought you hated big market teams. What's to stop the Rags from getting rid of a shitty contract by giving the player and the cash to pay for it for another team's good young prospect that they know they won't be able to afford? That's ok to you but not reentry waiver cost? Bullshit.

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    - Graphite Sticks: Though these things don't break as often as a wood stick, you can't feel the puck worth a damn. Because there's no give, you can't get the puck onto your stick as good as a wood one, and you have errant plays because of it. You want to know why guys can't hit the net, or catch a saucer pass? Problems right there.

     

    Yup, Bettman and Bettman alone is responsible for this. If he instituted a "WOODEN STICKS ONLY: FOR THE GOOD OF THE GAME" most players would have a big problem with it as they prefer composite sticks now.

     

    - Trades: When you can get a fourth rounder (Leafs) for a medically unclear player, let me know. Yes, yes, I know, Lafrentz of the NBA hasn't played in forever. But at least you are collecting insurance pay. The Leafs got a fourth for a guy who hasn't played, and there is a possibly would never play (I don't know if he has or hasn't), and there is no insurance.

     

    Yes, I do realize there are and were other players in that trade going to the Leafs, but for all intents and purposes, it was strickly the fourth rounder, the other guys were just there to make a smoke screen.

     

    The guy (Petiot) that the Leafs sent to Tampa has played for them. As for why the Leafs traded for an injured Kolzig and Heward? Who the fuck knows? I thought Burke always knows what he's doing.

     

    - Sloppy contract system: How exactly can you have a hard cap if you've got guarenteed contracts? The two can't co-exist. I feel bad for the teams that are signing these guys for like 8-9 million for multiple years and realize that you can NEVER get rid of these things. If a guy gets injuried, you are stuck with the bill. If they are permanently injured there is no insurance to recover for them.

     

    Actually there is insurance if they are permanently injured. The Bruins ran into this with Alexei Zhamnov when he destroyed his ankle. The contract appears on the cap but has no effect on it, since once Zhamnov was medically examined at the start of the 07-08 season, he was deemed unfit to play and his contract was paid by an insurance company. And you can still release players with buyouts and waivers.

     

    ...you don't know how much I was hoping DiPietro was done for when he went down the first time to make people realize how stupid this was. Then again, they did get stuck with DiPietro for 15 years, so I guess that's a good trade off.

     

    The DiPietro contract WAS stupid. Look who gave it out though. Wang couldn't find his dick in the dark. But compare that 15 year deal with Ovechkin's 15 year deal and tell me if Washington isn't happy they locked him up for his career?

     

    - Waiver system: There are no options down like in the MLB. In the NHL, unless its put into your contract, you need to put the player through waivers all the time. And guess what? You get shafted half the contract if he gets picked up.

     

    Only to send a player signed to a one-way contract to the minors do you have to place him on waivers. And that's to the player's advantage. If a guy isn't playing well for a team and the team tries to send him to the minors, he gets a chance to catch on with another team. If he does get sent down and the team is obviously desparate enough to try to get rid of him, they should be responsible for half his salary. If he's not worth the contract, don't sign him to it. It's a great way to stop big market teams from sending away their expensive but useless players to small teams without having to pay a penalty.

     

    - The lack of superstars/scoring: It used to be a time when you could look at a players goals, assists and point totals and go "ah, a superstar". Now if we can get more than one or two players cracking 50 goals, 80 assists, or 100 points, its a f'n miracle.

     

    Note, I say "superstar". I know there are stars in the league, but superstars? Like 5 at most. I'd add goalies wear too much, but I think everyone agrees on that one.

     

    Bettman and the BOG aren't doing anything to increase scoring? They've been talking about making the nets bigger for years. They added the new faceoff rule following a penalty this year. They eliminated the two-line pass.

     

    - OT/Point System: Seriously, if you are introducing a shootout, get rid of the OT during the regular season (real men win in 5 overtimes in the playoffs) and just let them fire away at the end of regulation. Just change the point totals to 3 per Win, 2 per Shootout Win, 1 per Shootout Loss, 0 per Loss. This way I also don't need to see nearly 70% of the league with .500 or better. Wins still count as wins, losses still count as damned losses. It would be like this 51-31 (14-3). Isn't that simple and lovely?

     

    Not really for me. I'm guessing the #'s in parentheses are the OT record? Add another column to the standings?

     

     

    Look, I'm not some kind of Bettman apologist. But people act like he literally sits in his office and draws up ways to ruin the league. Any rule changes are done by the Board of Governors. Bettman is hired by the owners of all 30 teams to make them money. Not to make the league more enjoyable. Not to make sure every fan is happy. He's hired to make the league owners more money.

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    The fiance was/is an avid bowler, being on a team when she was 11 with her brother and his friends. She still has about five personal bowling balls. We went out when I was still courting her early in our relationship and she fucking rolled me. Bad. Something like 213-75. I was actually proud that I got a 75. My lifetime high score was a 115 and it was on a night that everything went well. I stopped to get gas and in the middle of it, the station lost power so I got a tank of gas for free. The restaurant had a special on the food I wanted. We went bowling and I got a 115 and I ended up getting head because her parents were preoccupied with a waterbed leak.

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    I enjoyed seeing him have passion. He's kinda wooden normally, so I side with him on those goals.

     

    What's mind boggling is that they don't have replays in the AHL. You have to rely on their officiating which is worse than the NHL's.

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    I don't talk to half of my mom's family for things that were said/done when my grandmother died.

     

    Haven't talked to my dad in almost 9 years. Not sure if he's still alive.

     

    But the worst is my cousin who has had various substance abuse issues and lost more jobs than I've had in my life. The problem is that we were practically like brothers when we were younger and his mom (my aunt, obviously) still remembers all this. She tries to keep me in his life and vice versa despite that we are completely different now. I can't even have a ten minute conversation with him now but my aunt caused a big fucking to-do when she suggested that he come live with me when the better half and I move into our house next week. I politely declined, citing that we already have a roommate. She flipped her lid about how our roommate is a friend and my cousin is family, etc. Somehow I ended up the asshole to that side of the family because he's going to be stuck living with my aunt and uncle more. It's just fucking retarded.

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    The difference is that the Devils are getting hot, the Bruins have been ice cold since February.

     

    They definitely took advantage of their cupcake schedule earlier this year. Now that they're playing good/hungry teams, they can't win games. It's concerning.

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    Compared to the Scabs, the Bruins are the fucking Soviets. But all that gritty, sandpaper hearty grit gets nowhere when you can't score goals. Krejci has been doing a great Kovalev impression the last month or so. The scoring from the defensemen not named Chara has disappeared. They come out firing and just seem to lose interest as the game goes on. Lucic has been hurt for the last 3 months and can no longer assert himself in the games like he used to. It's a different team.

     

    I'm just too tired to break the team down. I'm going to bed.

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    Claude Julien Dave Lewis should be fired. This is fucking humiliating. They had the Kings on the ropes, down 2 heading into the third and they lose 3-2. I've seen it before. It's the same shit Dave Lewis was preaching.

     

    "Hey guys, we have a lead, let's stop forechecking, stop attacking and just go into a defensive shell."

    "Like a turtle?"

    "EXACTLY!"

     

    But hey, at least they get to play the fucking red hot Devils on sunday. Nothing like playing against Brodeur when he's doing well.

     

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    At this rate they'll be lucky to be like the Canadiens last year. Get the top seed, struggle against the #8 and get their asses handed to them in the second round. Great.

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    A magazine cover. A poster or a marquee. A shirt. Do you move about freely within the town you live in?

     

    I don't know what they look like or who they are either, but I could easily discern it from context. Don't play dumb, now.

    As a matter of fact, I don't move around freely in the town I live in. I drive to work, I drive home. I drive to the supermarket to get food. I drive to the gym. And that's about it.

     

    So do I, but I still look at the magazines in the check out area.

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