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NHL 2011: What the Boston Bruins Could Do with $14 Million LOL something is brewing...

I'd like to see Stamkos play here, however, Savard would have to retire if he's not making any progress on recovering from his concussion which free's up $7M...few prospects and maybe a draft pick or 2. We have more than the reported $8.7M in cap space...team president Cam Neely and GM Peter Chiarelli could wheel and deal for him while Tampa s***s all over it's self trying to match the offer. To many GM's are scared s***less to pull off such a bold move...that's the message between the lines. Call me crazy but it beats watching players pass right by you with out the GM taking a second look or settling for a Commodore 64 lol Just saying...

I don't see Vinny's being waived and I don't see them tinkering with his contract, all that stuff you mentioned above is a pipe dream (wishful thinking)...their old GM has hand cuffed Stevie Y...no getting around it. Who ever makes and offer sheet Tampa has to match it or risk seeing him walk and Tampa doesn't have the money to match a high dollar contract from someone else. Tampa isn't going to do what the Devils did for Ilya Kovalchuk or anything close to that. I say an offer is being worked out at this moment, it will get done at night while we are asleep, and we'll wake up to see Stamkos with another team in the East. There is to many odd things going on with what Stevie Y is saying to the media and the resent signings.

LMAO I want what your smoking. It will never happen...Kenny doesn't have the money along with players or draft picks to pull it off.

I don't see him going to a "bottom feeder"...he'll go to a Cup contending team and he'll stay in the East. I could be wrong, however, I say he walks and stays in the East.

With the Lightning signing Ryan Shannon and Stevie Y saying his roster is set...I just don't see Stamkos staying with the bolts. Vinny has a cap hit of $7.7M from 2009-2010 until 2019-2020. Tampa has $15.4M in cap space and $3.2M in Bonuses...there is no way Tampa can meet any offer sheet and not violate the 2005 CBA rules or front load it w/o the NHL looking at it...not a snowballs chance in hell. I say he walks.

Tardif will fit in just fine in our system and I'm sure he'll bring the physical grinding game with him. The west is known for playing a finesse style of game while the east plays a more physical street hockey type of game. We saw the physical style from the Bruins ware down the non-durable Vancouver Schmucks and render the Sedin sisters useless.

Exelby = insurance.

**STAMKOS UPDATE** Well the Flyers are at it again... you can't turn your back for a second. Stamkos could become a member of the Flyer's lets hope not. The Flyers will put a trade offer together for Tampa Bay...they feel they cannot sign him. Stamkos still has not signed as of late Monday night. Tampa has offered Stamkos a five-year deal for $37.5 million, a cap hit of $7.5 million per season. Flyers GM Paul Holmgren said he fully expects Stamkos to resign with the Lightning. But with that said, the Flyers are prepared to make a trade proposal in the unlikely event he couldn't come to terms.

Signing bonuses aren't apart of the salary, your mixing apples with oranges, but what ever...

2005 NHL CBA This might help...

Ehrhoff's deal is fine...the back end of his deal is over the NHL min. MINIMUM PLAYER SALARY The minimum NHL player salary in 2005-06 and 2006-07 will be $450,000; $475,000 in 2007-08 and 2008-09; $500,000 in 2009-10 and 2010-11, and $525,000 in 2011-12 (to the extent the CBA is extended by the Union). http://www.capgeek.com/players/display.php?id=121 You can inflate the SB's (Signing Bonus) by years and dollars to the AVV (Average Value) but isn't actually part of the salary...so the AVV makes the cap.

Max Talbot contract with Flyers violates NHL CBA http://twitter.com/#...719589504499712 LOL I called it right...just a matter of time when a front loaded contract will catch someones eye. Can you say RE-STRUCTURE??!!

Preds trade Lombardi, Franson Posted on July 3, 2011 by JOSH COOPER, The TennesseanFacebookTwitterEmailShareDavid Poile sounded upbeat Sunday morning. Earlier, Poile traded forward Matthew Lombardi and defenseman Cody Franson to Toronto for defenseman Brett Lebda and forward Robert Slaney. Lebda played 41 games with the Leafs last season and had four points. Slaney has yet to play a game in the NHL. Lombardi was signed last summer to be Nashville's first-line center, but never played due to a concussion suffered in the second game of the season. Franson played 80 games last year. Poile touted the trade as giving Nashville flexibility to move forward in its offseason goals. He said Lombardi's concussion and the uncertainty about his status made it difficult for the Predators to formulate a plan. "We lived with that last year, and it kind of paralyzed us," Poile said. "That’s why we made the deal. We never like to give up a young player in a homegrown talent like Cody Franson, but you have to give up something to put ourselves in the position to improve, which is what we are committed to do from now until training camp." The move could be considered somewhat of a salary dump. Slaney has one year left on his two-way contract, which pays him $600,000 at the NHL level and $65,000 at the AHL level. Lebda is set to make $1.4 million next season -- the final year of his contract. Lombardi had two years at $3.5 million per season left on his deal, and Franson had one year at $800,000 left on his contract. "We still have to fill in a couple of holes, and I’m committed to doing that. But I really feel good to what we’ve done this point, to change our club and give us more options," Poile said. "Our payroll is going to be more than it was last year."

PredsNHL Nashville Predators #Preds have acquired Brett Lebda and Robert Slaney from the Toronto Maple Leafs. Instant Analysis: http://bit.ly/k8uKzc JoshuaCooper JoshuaCooper #preds insider: predators trade franson and lombardi for slaney and lebda http://bit.ly/ipzLid HUGE downgrade for Nashville. They wont be spelling playoffs.

After a good night sleep I'm going to use the New Jersey Devils & Kovalchuck contract issue last season to explain a point. A year ago, the NHL used the lack of specific language on long-term contracts to say the Devils/Kovalchuk violated the spirit of he CBA. In putting in the Kovalchuk amendment, the NHL actually lost power in that area. It can say nothing about deals like Richards', Erhoff. The NHL gave the agents/players/teams exact guidelines and they're being used quite effectively to keep down cap hits on long-term deals. Remember when it was being portrayed as if the NHL was forcefully taking power away from the NHLPA? The Devils did get the 2nd Kovalchuk contract approved out of it, which was a positive because otherwise he might not be a Devil right now. But, overall, the NHL and the Devils both came out as losers from what transpired last summer in the Kovalchuk saga. The Devils were harshly penalized. The league lost power. Kovalchuk and the NHLPA membership came out as winners. The NHLPA almost hurt the Devils as much as the NHL did. It lost an arbitration case it probably should not have and it sold the Devils down the river by agreeing to let the NHL penalize them and giving up the right to appeal that. The NHLPA protected its membership by getting NHL to agree to not to take away cap space from Devils. But Devils still lost picks, $ 3mil. That said, the NHL will certainly try to fix this again in the next CBA negotiations, coming soon.

So in his new contract they spread the SB over more years which would take more off the base salary hence why the Salary and Cap hit are millions apart. Come CBA time it's gonna be a mess and another lock out because the greedy are just getting greedier again. This is why Richards has the $8M guarantee but no part of his AVV base. If they lock out in 2012-2013...he was smart. You can inflate the SB's by years and dollars to the AVV but isn't actually part of the salary...so the AVV makes the cap. The higher the cap goes teams like Florida won't exist in a few years. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but would go against everything uncle Gary has been pushing for for so many years.

Brad Richards, Christian Ehrhoff Prove Circumvention Still An Issue In NHL They are circumventing their own system....that's gonna come back and boot them in the ass in a few years....

Stamkos is to young to be holding out for big money...sign a 2-3 year contract...4.5 per...Score 50 two of those three years then you are a franchise type kid...right now you are a young budding talent. Your first year was a dud, and showing signs...but if you want Vinny type money...you need to prove that you deserve it...at this point in his career, I don't even think Vinny is worth that much money anymore...

I agree nobody is with $10M, however, it appears that the old GM thought that. The more I thought about Stamkos being a UFA I decided to look at players contracts and BAM Vinny takes up a s*** load or $$$ and years.

Reason why Stevie Y hasn't done and offer sheet for Stamkos...old GM inked him to a freaking huge deal back in 2008. Gm before Stevie Y locked up Vinny. "Lecavalier signed an 11-year contract extension worth $85 million, the details of which surfaced on Saturday. The deal, which averages $7.72 million per season as the salary cap hit, was signed on Friday and submitted to the league office. The extension will kick in at the start of the 2009-10 season and carry through the end of the 2019-20 season, just before Lecavalier's 40th birthday. According to TSN television in Canada, the deal will pay Lecavalier $10 million per season in salary and bonuses for the first six seasons, before dropping to $8.5 million in 2016-2017, $4 million in 2017-2018, $1.5 million in 2018-2019 and $1 million in 2019-2020. The front-loaded deal allows for a more friendly salary cap number for the length of the contract." Front loading contracts is what got GM's in trouble the last time... *correction - old GM inked Vinny Lecavalier to this huge 11 year deal back in 2008*.

This will define Stevie Y as a GM, however, can't match what you may not have. Just saying....

Also remember this...if we go into a lockout come 2012-2013 Richards is guaranteed $8M no matter what. So who is laughing while they skip to the bank...hope he isn't sucking on a lollipop that day LMFAO!

Brad Richards salary break down by the numbers year by year: YR1 $12M...YR2 $12M...YR3 $9M...YR4 $8.5M...YR5 $7M...YR6 $1M...YR7 $1M... YR8 $1M. $10M SB + $2M the first year...$8M SB + $4M salary the second.

$6.5 million is a lot of money to pay someone at the end of a 9 year contract. All of these high contracts is what got them into trouble in the first place, hope this move to Winnipeg pays off. Because there was a lot of mediocre talent signed into high contracts. Then again....he'll retire before the contract is done because of either another concussion or injury. Good luck to the NYR for wasting money and not getting a Cup either.