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ok, Fiddler also signed for $1.1 in phoenix, I think he would've looked nice here for $1.1m. I am stll hoping for Travis Moen, but as for the salaries going around he ain't gonna come here for $1.25m.... Still here's my wish list for now: Moen - $1.25 Yelle - $1.10 Then you still have room for Abby to come up and down to help Meech out with injuries.... I would like to see Tanguay here, but much like with Hossa, we don't have the Cap space... BTW, Steve Sullivan 2 years $7.5 million? There is a LOT of overpayment going on, BUT there are teams getting better while we are (again) standing still (so far.) Chicago got better.... Toronto, better... Montreal, better... Columbus, a little better... St. Louis, has a much better goalie than Legace now, so improved they did... Philly, better... Detroit and Pitts are getting passed up by the competition...

I am telling you, they should try to get Tanguay here for $3million. Then sign Yelle if he'll fit...

if Bettman has his way, yes it will be Chicago Washington and I mentioned this a while ago while argueing with a pens fan about their dynansty hopes...

$2.0 million for hudler is too much cap space.... period. If he has the potential, he is only 25, give him a 10 year front loaded deal that averages out at $1.0million per season. But a cap hit of $2.0m is WAAAAAY too much for this team at the time. I wouldn't mind the 10 year deal for a minimal cap hit tho...

Oh, now you did it! They are gonna come yell at you and tell you how they won in 2008 with no Lappy type player. Of course Drake doesn't count apparently. They are going to tell youhow hudler is god and he is worth $3.0m on our team. I 'd rather see if Tanguay would come here for $3.0m before Hudler.... ...we lost out on a great deal with Lappy, not that he was my first choice, but $1.1m is an awesome deal for him and he would've looked good in Detroit for that contract...

well the good news is, for the most part, the guys most of us would like to see here are still available. The onlyones that are gone are Lappy & Orr. Moen is still there, Neil, Fiddler, etc... that being said Holland will give Hudler a huge raise and we'll be done. And that will spell our demise. Does anyone know what Havlat wants? We can give him 10 years...

you got to remember, Holland is going to give 90% of our cap space to Hudler, he is our savior ya know? $1.1 for Lappy is great! No word whether he was interested in Detroit, but we could've afforded that for sure. But, lets give Hudler $3 million, so he can choke (worse than Hossa) in the playoffs...

We kinda knew we were going to lose most if not ALL of our free agents, so not too surprising, but I certainly hope Holland picks a couple of guys up. AndI don't mean Hudler & Sammy! If Wings go into next season without adding a couple of UFA from outside the organization, we lose. Hawks will now be the #1 in the central....

Tampa looks pretty goodnow too, with Ohlund, walker and oh yea, Hedman...

Well, if this does have Bowman written all over it (Waaay overpaymen for Kopy) but that is gonna cost you guys Hudler. If Kopecky gets $1.2 on a contender, what does Hudler get? Maybe Bowman will sign him up too, at $3.5? Bowman DOES love himself some Hudler....

It seems everywhere Burkie goes, he is always trying to "steal" players from the Wings and players the Wings show interest in. This being the latest, although I kow Kenny wouldn't offer Orr $1m, that would be about as dumb as Hudler getting $2m from Kenny! Anyhow, obviously Burkie wants to take any player that the Wings are interested in, so Holland should just mention just a bunch of sucky names and watch Burkie scoop them all up at outrageous salaries a really "rebuild" Toronto. Hey maybe Holland should offer Hudler $3m so Burkie will step in a give him $4m! I sure would love to have Toronto's 1st and 3rd rounders for next year, since the won't be in the playoffs it's bound to be a top 10! - guys, just joking with the Hudler crap, I know there is a lot of man-love on here so I will stop...

YA! that means there is still a chance.... that we'll rid ourselves of Hudler!

All Hail Hudler! Hail! Hail! Hail!

Yes, it does, but who cares right? Because we all know that Hudler is God and deserves $3.0m, when we were only going to offer Hossa $4.0m.... Hudler can stay, for $1.2m... anything else is NOT overpaying him, but missusing our cap. He needs to give a hometown discount to stay so we can ice the best possible team this season, not so we can sign a $400,000 Joe UFA to skate on the 4th line... PLUS only have Meech as the 13th forward AND the 7th defensman. Yeah, that's depth for ya! Meech is your only savior for ALL injuries because you cannot call anyone up for $250,000..... Yea, lets give Huder $2.5m of our $3.3m.....

Man florida can get some good players, but the fail to build the team around them: Bouwmeester, Luongo, Jovonowski, Jokinen, Bure(s), Kozlov to name a few.... maybe they should fold up shop, along with Phoenix...

Another Hossa is gone thread? Maybe the Hudler lovers can turn this into a "Lets give 90% of our cap space to Jiri" thread as well. Thanks for the effort Hossa, good luck whereever you go! Just say "NO" to Hudler

...and if Holland gives Hudler most of his available cap, then maybe he isn't the genius we all thought he was...

And that is STILL wasting your cap space. You got one guy filling both the 13th and 7th positions. And you have the UFA making $500,000, so now you only have $150,000 left. Lets see, Meech is filing in for an injured d-man and now Holmstrom goes down (like he has the past three seasons) now what? Yeah, you now have 11 forwards again, and no room to bring someone up. I am not debating whether or not Hudler is worth the $2.5m, I believe I started a thread showing how he is worth $3m or more, but with our limted cap space, it would be stupid to give him most of it. I don't make the rules on the compensation, that part sucks, but what else are you going to do? You cannot sink the rest of your cap space into one guy and expect to be healthy for the playoffs another long run in the playoffs. At least leave room to call someone up if needed to fill in for injuries... ie. Abby at $850,000... and I suspect the amount of intelligence you have if you think the Wings can go all the way again with only having Meech backing everyone up...

Well, thats all fine, but I guess my point is, if the likes of Hossa was willing to take an almost 35% paycut to stay here, maybe Hudler should consider it as well, so maybe we can have about $2 million to sign Professor X and maybe a minimum wager (Orr) for a 13th forward and keep Meech just on D. My point is, Hudler has to take a discount if some manhy Superstars did and were willing to. And what if someone does offer Hudler $3.0 million?

doesn't matter, even at the same salary, there won't be enough money to fill out the forward units. LET HUDLER WALK... Again, if he wants to play at the same pay, fine, if h wants a raise, adios! AND GOD FORBID HOLLAND MATCHES A $2.5 MILLION OFFER!!!

Dude, you still only have 11 forwards.... Leino re-signs at his same salary? Dude, I don't know what your man-love is for Hudler, but let it go... plus you cannot evn bring up Abby, because you only have $600,000 left...

Problem is, if you match a $2.5 million offer for Hudler, you aren't getting Leino OR Abby up here. And yo uare short 2 forwards. Can't play with 10 forwards, face it, if Huds wants a raise, we'll see him somewhere else...

So just who do you suggest he trades in order to keep Hudler?

Amen to all the Hudler posts! Sure he's worth more than $2.5, but not with our cap! He needs to either sign for $1.1 or get a long term Zetterberg deal that pays him $2.5 but cap hit is $1.0.... Plus a second round pick for Hudler, because of our cap situation, is golden. Besides look what we did with 2 senconds rounders this year....

Sorry, The Mule just beat me to posting it. You can delete mine....