General Hockey Talk - Injuries, signings, factoids + other news from around the league

SensGirl11 wrote:Did anyone hear about Toskala's .860 save percentage in pre-season? WTF is happening with him? Has he completely lost it or does he need a change of scenery with a good team playing in front of him? Brutal!

He was never all that good to begin with. He was overrated like countless prospects prior to going to Toronto, which is when he became on eof the most overrated players in the league.

Consistency is a word he's never known.

http://twitter.com/FlyersOnTheFly

Flyers sign Betts.

SpezDispenser wrote:http://twitter.com/FlyersOnTheFly

Flyers sign Betts.

The Flyers just became clear-cut Conference Champs.

shabbs wrote:

Hayden wrote:Who's starting in nets for the Caps tonight?

Was going to check goaliepost.com but I now see it's no longer free. You have to pay to register to see their goalie grid... which is gathered from scraping other free news sources from around the 'net.

F-that.

No one seems to know for sure who starts... some say Varlamov... some say Jose... we'll see.

I just found out that Vancouver will be away from home for the last 40 days of the season. Holy crap! Talk about crappy times in Vancouver. How can you possibly make a good push when you're away that much. I probably should have figured this out since the Olympics are there, but I thought they would work something out. another arena or something...

I had them pegged for making it far in the playoffs, maybe even the Finals. Now, I'm not so sure.

Check out capgeek.com's daily cap tracker...

http://www.capgeek.com/tracker/

Nice.

SensGirl11 wrote:I just found out that Vancouver will be away from home for the last 40 days of the season. Holy crap! Talk about crappy times in Vancouver. How can you possibly make a good push when you're away that much. I probably should have figured this out since the Olympics are there, but I thought they would work something out. another arena or something...

I had them pegged for making it far in the playoffs, maybe even the Finals. Now, I'm not so sure.

What? Their schedule doesn't reflect that....

3 of their last 6 games are at home.

I just saw that now. I was given wrong information.

February 2010
Date	Visitor	Home	Time (PT)	TV Network/Results
Tue, 2 Feb 2010	Canucks	Canadiens	4:30 PM	RDS, PPV
Thu, 4 Feb 2010	Canucks	Senators	4:30 PM	SNET-P
Sat, 6 Feb 2010	Canucks	Bruins	10:00 AM	SNET-P
Tue, 9 Feb 2010	Canucks	Lightning	4:30 PM	PPV
Thu, 11 Feb 2010	Canucks	Panthers	4:30 PM	SNET-P
Fri, 12 Feb 2010	Canucks	Blue Jackets	4:00 PM	PPV
Sun, 14 Feb 2010	Canucks	Wild	12:00 PM	CITY TV
March 2010
Date	Visitor	Home	Time (PT)	TV Network/Results
Tue, 2 Mar 2010	Canucks	Blue Jackets	4:00 PM	SNET-P
Wed, 3 Mar 2010	Canucks	Red Wings	4:30 PM	RIS, TSN(HD), NHLN-US
Fri, 5 Mar 2010	Canucks	Blackhawks	5:30 PM	RIS, SNET-P
Sun, 7 Mar 2010	Canucks	Predators	12:00 PM	SNET-P
Tue, 9 Mar 2010	Canucks	Avalanche	6:00 PM	SNET-P
Wed, 10 Mar 2010	Canucks	Coyotes	7:00 PM	TSN(HD)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010	Senators	Canucks	7:00 PM	CBC(HD)	Tickets
Sun, 14 Mar 2010	Flames	Canucks	7:00 PM	SNET-P	Tickets
Tue, 16 Mar 2010	Islanders	Canucks	7:00 PM	SNET-P	Tickets
Thu, 18 Mar 2010	Sharks	Canucks	7:00 PM	TSN(HD)	Tickets
Sat, 20 Mar 2010	Red Wings	Canucks	7:00 PM	CBC(HD)	Tickets
Tue, 23 Mar 2010	Canucks	Oilers	6:00 PM	SNET-P
Wed, 24 Mar 2010	Ducks	Canucks	7:00 PM	TSN(HD)	Tickets
Sat, 27 Mar 2010	Canucks	Sharks	7:00 PM	CBC(HD)
Tue, 30 Mar 2010	Coyotes	Canucks	7:00 PM	SNET-P	Tickets
April 2010
Date	Visitor	Home	Time (PT)	TV Network/Results
Thu, 1 Apr 2010	Canucks	Kings	7:30 PM	SNET-P
Fri, 2 Apr 2010	Canucks	Ducks	7:00 PM	SNET-P
Sun, 4 Apr 2010	Wild	Canucks	7:00 PM	PPV	Tickets
Tue, 6 Apr 2010	Avalanche	Canucks	7:00 PM	SNET-P	Tickets
Thu, 8 Apr 2010	Canucks	Sharks	7:30 PM	SNET-P
Sat, 10 Apr 2010	Flames	Canucks	7:00 PM	CBC(HD)	Tickets

shabbs wrote:Check out capgeek.com's daily cap tracker...

http://www.capgeek.com/tracker/

Nice.

We'll be able to add a 5.5 million dollar contract around the trade deadline.

shabbs wrote:Check out capgeek.com's daily cap tracker...

http://www.capgeek.com/tracker/

Nice.

Is the Max Contract column broken?

Still not great though, they have 14 away games in a row. I think I was told they are away for at least 20 days near the end of the season. Not great.

NHL minimum salary is, what, just under $500K? That's $6K per game. San Jose is 2 man games lost to injury from being over the cap. They *definitely* could use Schubie-doo to offset one of their other (2-way) contracts.

And we get to play them the day they get back home. Fantastico!

wprager wrote:

shabbs wrote:Check out capgeek.com's daily cap tracker...

http://www.capgeek.com/tracker/

Nice.

Is the Max Contract column broken?

It's working fine. The Sharks will be able to make a push for the Cup by adding a 24, 420$ player for their run!

SeawaySensFan wrote:

wprager wrote:

shabbs wrote:Check out capgeek.com's daily cap tracker...

http://www.capgeek.com/tracker/

Nice.

Is the Max Contract column broken?

It's working fine. The Sharks will be able to make a push for the Cup by adding a 24, 420$ player for their run!

You didn't understand me. What is the "max contract" showing? I assumed it was meant to show the highest contract on the team.

But I see, now, that it's the same as the cap space, which probably means the max they can put on a contract.

You know how many times a player has to go down and then be claimed on re-entry waivers to get a cap hit of $24K? A minimum of *five* times.

They can't afford Schubie-doo.

It's the max contract they can add on that given day. Which is why I checked out February. At the deadline, Ottawa can add a 5.5 million dollar player. San Jose, not so much.

Very cool utility.

Ah, thanks, that explains it.