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Ok, mimimum salary for Derek, as expected. Now we are set at ~45 million, so that's the room still to operate.

I've heard that if you send a player down trough waivers, his salary is not counted againt the cap. And that's what they are gonna do with Kasparaitis. Their defence is set without him.

So, according To post from HFBoards, Ritola is going to stay in Griffins and not returning to Sweden. Any news about Ryno if he's making the same decision?

Hahaha for Burke, he just f***ed himself signing that god damn Bertuzzi. I'd take Penner at anyday comparing to Bert for the same price.

Who the fûck was it?

Every finnish spectator from that match have said that Foppa was just awesome, player from another planet. Sign him.

Is Meech signed, or is he still RFA?

Grigorenko played at practice game for Salavat Yulaev against slovakian team Skalica. Salavat won 3-1, Grigs didn't score at the game, but scored at the practise shootout at the game's end.

I really like to see Schneider replacing Niedermayer's 32 minutes at the playoffs and Bertuzzi shining like Selanne.

Let those greedy Russians go. Those kind of Russians (not all of them, but many of them) just don't get what word teamplay means. Always they are thinking only themselves. Let's get Foote at the deadline and we are fine.

The system is what it is right now, and you'll have to live with that. Just look what Ken Holland and the Wings management are doing. Be patient and make the contracts far before the guys are coming RFA's. That's the right and only way to avoid these offer sheets and that's the winning way to build your team. The Detroit Red Wings management is the absolutely best example how to live in this new cap world. Having winning team year after year and chance to the Cup. Last year it was really close, but the injuries on defence worn us out. Nice job Burke, you build good team and won a cup and I aprreciate that. But you didn't look enough long to the future and now you are screwed. There's no reason for whining, the situation is just Burke's fault, not anyone else.

I don't believe in that even though Selanne has started practising few weeks ago in Finland. Homer - Datsyuk - Selanne Cleary - Zetterberg - Sammy Franzen - Filppula - Hudler/Kopecky/Grigorenko Maltby - Draper - Drake I think there still is an escape plan for Burke. He can match Penner and keep Niedermayer one year around, but will lose Selanne. They have 48,25 on the cap right now with Niedermayer and matching Penner will put them up to 52,5 million. Then they would trade Todd Marchant's 2,5 million somewhere for a pack of bucks and also trade Bryzgalov with his 1,2 millions somewhere. Then get Bobby Ryan up with his 850k salary and some 500k 2nd goalie. After these savings their cap would be 50,2 million. Still quite little room, but under it. And the team would be: Kunitz - McDonald - Bertuzzi Penner - Getzlaf - Perry Moen - PÃ¥hlsson - Ryan May - Niedermayer - Parros Pronger - Schneider Niedermayer - Beauchemin Huskins - O'Donnell (Hnidy) Giguere 2nd goalie They'd be short only on offence.

They still can trade him away to get rid of his contract, if Scotty wants to continue his career. Let's trade Nieds for Lillja! Lidström - Niedermayer Kronwall - Rafalski Lebda - Chelios

But there's no Hudler, Gigorenko and Drake, so does that mean anything?

Ok, Lets get Himelfarb off the list. If somebody has some other nfo about some signings or some guy is totally missing from my list, please inform me. I'll keep this topic up during the whole season. I think Ryno and Ritola would be better to stay, cause the offence is quite short without them. But I understand if they go back to Sweden for a year, and come back at next year.

For league minimum, he's worth of it.

Patty Roy's Statue of Liberty.

Columbus. That team sucks already and they haven't strengthen them at all.

Agree. And get Foote at the deadline.

Griffins signing...

Foppa would be ok. Hopefully he gets himself healthy. Forsberg - Zetterberg - Samuelsson Cleary - Datsyuk - Holmström Franzen - Filppula - Hudler/Kopecky/Grigorenko Drake - Draper - Maltby

Nice panic movement from Lowe.

Nice panic movement from Lowe. :D

Wings will be the secure 1st seed. Then Nashville, chicago and St. Louis are the next, hard to say in which order. Columbus is the secure jumbo of the Central and the Western conf.

There's that 4 million to spend that leaves 2 million free space for injuries and deadline deals. I just have a feeling that Yashin is coming here. That physical defenseman will come at deadline (Foote). Filppula - Zetterberg - Samuelsson Cleary - Datsyuk - Holmstrom Franzen - Yashin - Hudler/Grigorenko/Kopecky Drake - Draper - Maltby Lidstrom - Foote Lilja - Rafalski Kronwall - Chelios (Lebda) Hasek Osgood PP: Yashin - Homer - Datsyuk Lidström - Rafalski Filppula - Cleary - Zetterberg Samuelsson - Kronwall