NHL Free Agent Frenzy 2013 - Melnyk's Budget Edition

Hoags wrote:

wprager wrote:
Don't look now, but the Islanders are doing pretty well.

They finally made the playoffs and once they move to Brooklyn they will have more money and more appeal to sign FAs.

Meanwhile we're still Ottawa with a broke owner.  We can probably expect offer sheets coming out way if teams know we're piss poor.

lol here we go again

No way to spin it now...we really Cussed up, and it's cuz Melnyk is unwilling or unable to spend $$$. He needs to go, yesterday.

Hoags wrote:

wprager wrote:
Don't look now, but the Islanders are doing pretty well.

They finally made the playoffs and once they move to Brooklyn they will have more money and more appeal to sign FAs.

Meanwhile we're still Ottawa with a broke owner.  We can probably expect offer sheets coming out way if teams know we're piss poor.

Even Nabokov has warmed up to playing there already/ Re-signed with them for 3.25m

tim1_2 wrote:No way to spin it now...we really Cussed up, and it's cuz Melnyk is unwilling or unable to spend $$$.  He needs to go, yesterday.

Right.

Stalberg and Cullen rumoured to NSH.

tim1_2 wrote:No way to spin it now...we really Cussed up, and it's cuz Melnyk is unwilling or unable to spend $$$.  He needs to go, yesterday.

Why? He spend that money on MacArthur, so we had the money. What the hell is happening?

Toronto actually needs to sign some D men at this point because their blueline is going to be awful as is.

6 mil x 7 years for Clarkson... that's A LOT Of cash, lol. They must really be counting on Kadri to be a legit #1 guy going into next year.

SpezDispenser wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:No way to spin it now...we really Cussed up, and it's cuz Melnyk is unwilling or unable to spend $$$.  He needs to go, yesterday.

Why?  He spend that money on MacArthur, so we had the money.  What the hell is happening?

If we "had" the money where is the money that should have been spent on Alfie? MacArthur is cheaper than Alfie so that should theoretically leave about 7 million to spend.   

SeawaySensFan wrote:Stalberg and Cullen rumoured to NSH.

Now confirmed by Bob McKenzie.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:No way to spin it now...we really Cussed up, and it's cuz Melnyk is unwilling or unable to spend $$$.  He needs to go, yesterday.

Why?  He spend that money on MacArthur, so we had the money.  What the hell is happening?

If we "had" the money where is the money that should have been spent on Alfie? MacArthur is cheaper than Alfie so that should theoretically leave about 7 million to spend.   

It's possible that Alfie wanted to go play with his friends for his last year. I'm not certain that Murray wasn't able to pony up. I'm not saying that isn't what happened, but we don't know for sure.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:Stalberg and Cullen rumoured to NSH.

Now confirmed by Bob McKenzie.

Stalberg 4 year $12M to NSH.

Spezza's a free agent in two seasons. Negotiations there should be hilarious.

tim1_2 wrote:Ottawa is still very much a good team, it just sucks knowning that our broke Donkey moronic owner is now standing in our way of true greatness.  He needs to go.

Alfie is gone. Let's move along. Are we a better team with McArthur over Alfie? From a leadership p.o.v. no; but others will step in to fill the void. From an offense point of view? McArthur has 41 goals in the last two full NHL seasons -- same as Alfie. And who knows, his numbers could improve playing on a better team.

I'm not ready to say we are a better team with McArthur replacing Alfredsson, but we *are* a better team with McArthur replacing the void left by Alfredsson retiring.

Yeah, that's it. Just think of this as Alfredsson retiring, but instead of Regin stepping up to take those minutes, we have McArthur.

Still need the young players to step up this year -- need 15-20 goals from the likes of Zibanejad, Silfverberg, Pageau, Conacher. We could still have a team with 6 players scoring 20 (McArthur, Zibanejad, Silfverberg, Pageau, Conacher, Karlsson) and two others with 30 (Spezza, Michalek). That's 240 goals. Add in 15-20 for the remaining D, another 20 from the likes of Neil, Greening, Smith, Condra and we are getting close to 280. A pipe dream? Perhaps.

tim1_2 wrote:Bozak 5yrs $21M.

Numbers aren't all that different from McArthur's. And he's never scored 20 while McArthur's done it twice.

spader wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:No way to spin it now...we really Cussed up, and it's cuz Melnyk is unwilling or unable to spend $$$.  He needs to go, yesterday.

Why?  He spend that money on MacArthur, so we had the money.  What the hell is happening?

If we "had" the money where is the money that should have been spent on Alfie? MacArthur is cheaper than Alfie so that should theoretically leave about 7 million to spend.   

It's possible that Alfie wanted to go play with his friends for his last year. I'm not certain that Murray wasn't able to pony up. I'm not saying that isn't what happened, but we don't know for sure.

That's what beer leagues and the Olympics are for.

$5.25M x 7 yrs for Wendel Clarkson.

tim1_2 wrote:Spezza's a free agent in two seasons.  Negotiations there should be hilarious.

Ownership situation needs to be cleared up before then.