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I couldn't care less how much he makes, it is either going in his pocket, or the owners anyways, so it makes no difference to me which rich person gets richer

perh perd

Lidstrom-Cleary Zetterberg Datsyuk-Weiss-Zetterberg Lidstrom-Alfie-Kronwall Lidstrom-Datsyuk-Lidstrom Lidstrom-Dekeyser Dekeyse-Lidstrom Lebda-Lilja

what if it was actually some crazy marketing scheme to play this off as botched spelling, to make this email go viral in order to promote hockey in nashville and get people interested. If it was, i actually applaud the effort. but it's probably not and they are probably just terds

Rask indeed it was in the first one for sure, not %100 about the second, he has some slick hands though. a few nice goals on Marty, rask, MAF (not as impressive imo) but a lot of highlights against good teams. I am now imaging what he can/will do between mule and alfie. I am thinking possible career year for mule and weiss, and a damn good one for alfie. I hope that line is as dangerous as i picture it in my head

maybe, only if they move the signs... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCZNjdfhDDQ

Watching Weiss highlights is getting me all gitty and excited for October 1, can't wait for his career year that should be a good one with the linemates he will have. He really does have some serious skill, watch this video and try to tell me otherwise. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al1iM42J4Fc

Per MLive, pretty good read Pretty encouraging on the good side, still has some work to do but a cannon of a shot and a screaming one-timer, are both things we could really use.

Hopefully he will play again. I am as Holland puts it, "cautiously optimistic"

Ya, his agent whispered all the right things in his ear and he believed him. They ended being all the wrong things. I'm honestly surprised he hasn't fired him yet, should have taken one of the offers given to him, shot himself in the foot.

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No one is arguing that franzen has a better shot, I get what your saying but obviously Cleary isn't nearly as talented and won't have the same scoring percentage

I'll take ten

Lol that ould be funny. If only we had the cap space

Weiss because if he turns out to be what we hope we will have two legit scoring lines. If ends up another flip we are back at square one

If you could lock him up at a 4 mil cap hit when he hits ufa that would be a great deal. Like I said he is currently a steal I didn't read through your whole post as I am at work. Currently franzen is worth his cap hit. In a few years if he is not then we can revisit this, we have no way of knowing how he will play in a few years. His regular season production has not dropped as of yet

Subtracting Johan's first two seasons, his average (per 80 games) would be 57 points or .7125 ppg, that is right on par with what he gets in 80 games I will subtract Z's first two seasons as well, to be fair (although they were pretty stellar for just jumping into the nhl) and his average is 1.019 ppg which averages out to 81.5 points per 80 games. that is basically a ppg pace, so I would say both players averages, are pretty darn close to what they produce year by year I was talking more Kronwall's career not just this year, he could be much better defensively, either way he definitely is a steal. Furthermore, what fans expect, and what the people who sign Franzens cheque expect are totally different.

Filppula never quite lived up to his potential, much like the franzen argument, which was exactly why I used it as an argument, same with Huds. ou can't say no one underachieves as much as franzen, then try to erase the evidence you're wrong... Kronwall could get more, but he underachieves defensively, everyone knows that. Filppula DID play up to his cap hit, till he demanded more, Huds screwed us over, and left to go over seas, also ended up Demanding more money then we were willing to pay. Point is Franzen plays well enough to earn his paychecks, and that is all that matters, sure I would love to have him score more, but he is earning his keep. It is like hiring an accountant to handle 50 accounts, but getting angry when he only handles 50 accounts...

Moulson is currently a steal, but he will be upcoming on ufa status, and will net at least 5 mil. his cap hit is low because he was an rfa same with Ladd I don't know much about kunitz, but based on his numbers, he is a fair value Ryders goals and points bounce around year to year, and his numbers aren't very consistent anymoore, seems like he has a good year for every 2-3 sub-par ones Cole has been inconsistent point-wise over the last few years. also seems to be injured a lot. bottom line Franzen puts up 25-30 goals every year, for a $4mil cap hit, which is a great cap hit for what you get. Just because there are others getting similar deals doesn't make his deal somehow worse. Are you saying a $4mil cap hit is too much for a 25+ goal scorer? cause if you are, then something is wrong? .

filppula (now gone) was a bigger underachiever. Hudler, also gone. kronwall, smith (only one season, but it wasn't great, he should get much better though, he has a ton of potential)

it WILL be cleary, and he WILL be in the top 6

also the thing that always gets me is the response "well he plays up to his cap hit now but..." but nothing, he is currently producing sufficiently for his cap hit. end of story, we can revisit said argument when he stops producing up to his cap hit i.e. when he is 38

I watch every wings game, I see when 93 "floats" and all that jazz. Unfortunately so does about %90 of the nhl, i can pull video from the nhl vault of lots of star players floating around quite a few games this year. Great example, the video of Ovie.

Poor Brunner, negotiated his way out of the nhl...

this is absolutely %110 encouraging news, I can't wait to see helm score 1 breakaway goal on 43 attempts this year