Senators to make announcement today at 9:30 am

PKC wrote:I'm hearing that they are going to be extending Bryan Murray's contract. Although I wouldn't be surprised if the wily old bastard swung a massive trade, like had been rumoured a little while ago that the Sens were working on something "huge."

Good call here too.

Michallica wrote:Happy to have Bryan Murray aboard for next year. Strange that its only a 1 year extension though. I wonder if Murray will retire after next year

murray will never retire!

Murray has offered Volchenkov a new contract apparently. Volchenkov will decide soon.

SpezDispenser wrote:Murray has offered Volchenkov a new contract apparently. Volchenkov will decide soon.

i really dont see why this is so hard move picard campoli cheechoo and voila cap space

sens4win wrote:

Michallica wrote:Happy to have Bryan Murray aboard for next year. Strange that its only a 1 year extension though. I wonder if Murray will retire after next year

murray will never retire!

Really...you want him to retire? What has he really done that warrants him stepping away. He didn't destroy the team like Gainey or Burke did.

It could be worse, we could have chose to hire Gauthier again...oh the days of the "1 cookie per person" signs..

Loved them.

sens4win wrote:i really dont see why this is so hard move picard campoli cheechoo and voila cap space

It's not just about cap space. Let me put it this way: if you were a millionaire, would you pay $60000 for a $40000 car? No, of course not. Even if we have the cap space, doesn't mean we should use it all up on the first thing that comes around.

sens4win wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Murray has offered Volchenkov a new contract apparently. Volchenkov will decide soon.

i really dont see why this is so hard move picard campoli cheechoo and voila cap space

It's not that, it's the $$ of Volchenkov. Anything over 4 and it's an overpayment - and you still have to treat it that way, you can't just pay whatever or the Sens will be in deep Dung later.

Devo wrote:[
Really...you want him to retire? What has he really done that warrants him stepping away. He didn't destroy the team like Gainey or Burke did.

It could be worse, we could have chose to hire Gauthier again...oh the days of the "1 cookie per person" signs..

Loved them.

I don't want him to retire at all. It's good to know that Tim will be taking over when he leaves because these are real hockey minds. They make the odd misstep, but they're really stellar overall.

sens4win wrote:

Michallica wrote:Happy to have Bryan Murray aboard for next year. Strange that its only a 1 year extension though. I wonder if Murray will retire after next year

murray will never retire!

Hahha well if he retires, I'm guessing Tim Murray will take over. there there

SpezDispenser wrote:Murray has offered Volchenkov a new contract apparently. Volchenkov will decide soon.

I hope he agrees and that is a nice cap friendly number.

SensFan71 wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Murray has offered Volchenkov a new contract apparently. Volchenkov will decide soon.

I hope he agrees and that is a nice cap friendly number.

I wonder what he offered...3.5?

Michallica wrote:

sens4win wrote:

Michallica wrote:Happy to have Bryan Murray aboard for next year. Strange that its only a 1 year extension though. I wonder if Murray will retire after next year

murray will never retire!

Hahha well if he retires, I'm guessing Tim Murray will take over. there there

thats not to bad

SpezDispenser wrote:Murray has offered Volchenkov a new contract apparently. Volchenkov will decide soon.

Oooo. May I ask "source?"

SpezDispenser wrote:

SensFan71 wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Murray has offered Volchenkov a new contract apparently. Volchenkov will decide soon.

I hope he agrees and that is a nice cap friendly number.

I wonder what he offered...3.5?

without Volchenkov last night we would have lost he blocked so many ovie shots, and was able to keep him to the outside, anyone know what were going to do if this guy leaves ?

rooneypoo wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Murray has offered Volchenkov a new contract apparently. Volchenkov will decide soon.

Oooo. May I ask "source?"

From his presser this morning as reported by the Team.

rooneypoo wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Murray has offered Volchenkov a new contract apparently. Volchenkov will decide soon.

Oooo. May I ask "source?"

This article. Of course, its by our good friend Boo-Boo, so make of it what you will.

Hmm Senschirp reporting that Lee has been called up to replace Campoli.

sens4win wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Murray has offered Volchenkov a new contract apparently. Volchenkov will decide soon.

i really dont see why this is so hard move picard campoli cheechoo and voila cap space

Because moving players of that caliber is really hard. Like, scoring from 200-feet away from the goal kinda hard. It happens (see: Toskala, Vesa), but just not everyday. Cheechoo's contract in particular is an anchor that no one's going to take off our hands, so stop dreaming about that one.

Plus, you need someone to play in place of Picard and Campoli, and they're going to cost at least as much what those two are earning now (which is just a pinch over the league minimum). I don't know about you, but I don't want to try going it with 5 D next year.

And voila, that's why figuring out how to squeeze Volchenkov's raise into our salary cap structure is so difficult.