DickieDunn

Only the players and fans will be bombed in Vegas

Lucic and Dustin Brown, both for 2 years too many

7 years is the issue there

You guys do realize there are bars, hookers, and often casinos in other NHL cities, right?

$2 mil isn't that much with a cap of over $70 mil

Because that's a terrible contract

Do not want. I'd rather have a 4th line of Tangradi, Nosek, and Pulk, and I do t think any of them are NHL players.

Vegas Cash Grab. Either every seat will be sold and less than half used, or less than half will be sold at all. Large portion of the permanent population works nights and/or has better things to spend money on. Horrible idea.

I doubt there's that much difference.

Only after they kicked the Brits' teeth in, with the help of the French.

Wilson was brought in to help the business side. His knowledge of hockey, or lack thereof, has little if anything to do with his duties.

He also said he wouldn't trade for rentals and then did. It might not be Holland , but someone is pushing The Streak

They shouldn't have to because you say so and want to ignore reality. Got it. Not trading the contract is essentially admitting tgatvthey can't get anyone decent and there's a good chance they're going to miss the playoffs. I don't see that happening.

The Streak is too important to ownership and/or Holland to not move the contract and bring someone in. Eating the hit would essentially be giving up on a shot at winning.

If that's the case then why do these deals always include something else for the team taking the dead money?

Because you're overestimating the need/want to take a contract like that, and underestimating the need for a team to get rid of one. It's basic economics.

Come up with about $100 million over the next 10 years and maybe they'll do it.

Seriously. Blashill seems to want to be Babcock Jr. and it doesn't work.

Best player ever. Gretzky scored more, but Howe could do it all and didn't have the benefit of playing in the 80s when it seemed lime half the league couId score 30 or 40 goals a year.

Top pair D, power forward, new coach

Helm is a good checking line player. He's a bad scoring line player.

No cap vs. cap.

Define "3rd line." Is it your third best line? Your checking shut down D line? Helm isn't big enough to play like Abdelkader, and can't pass, shoot, or stick handle well enough to be productive in any other role. That's not a $3 mil player. Blashcock wants his check line to play safe, boring hockey. That's why you get guys like Miller and Glendening on cheap short term deals and when you get a kid who shows he can do that job effectively, you let the vet go. A $3 mil player doing that is a waste of cap space.

Paying a check line player $3 mil is dumb. Speed is useless if that's all you have, otherwise Rico Fata would have been a star. Miller or a similar player at $1 mil is more valuable than Helm at 3 just because they could use that extea money to improve another area.

Nosek is too slow, and the others you're talking about haven't proven anything. Bring a couple of them in as reserves and let them force Miller out of the lineup. As long as he gets around $1 mil, sending him down wouldn't be an issue if need be.