Bannedforlife

Ummm, because we didn't win the cup this year? Remember how mad people were whenever a blogger suggested we might not be the favorites after winning the cup?

This is so right on.

So..... Who do you guys like for the 2011 draft?

Sounds great. I just have one question. How the hell do you pronounce his name??? Pull-kick-in-in?

Any info on Jarnkrok?

Is Kabanov still there?

Yea, unfortunately they were too busy drafting a future #1 defenceman... BTW I couldn't help but be annoyed watching Florida have fun with all those picks. I think Kenny dropped the ball with Leino, Quincey, Lebda, etc and we should have more picks this year and last year. Bummer. Hopefully they pull off some steals tomorrow

If Dallas doesnt take Fowler or Gormley, I'd seriously start putting together a pitch for Florida's 15th. I would love to have either of those guys

I thought i read somewhere that Columbus was open to trading their number 4 pick. I wonder what it would take...

It is technically possible, I demonstrated how in post #29.

What is supposed to come out and say? "Despite the fact that yesterday we traded a key contributor to our first Stanley Cup in half a century, our cap situation is still completely f***ed. Please, someone come save us before the league is forced to step in and clean up our mess for us."

I know its stupid to even think about because it can't happen, but if we were able to get him without giving up Hudler, Filppula or Cleary, we would be able to roll the 3 best scoring lines in the league. (We would also have to make Draper go away in this little fantasy...) 2010-11 DETROIT RED WINGS CAPGEEK.COM CAP CALCULATOR FORWARDS Henrik Zetterberg ($6.083m) / Pavel Datsyuk ($6.700m) / Tomas Holmstrom ($1.875m) Johan Franzen ($3.955m) / * Marc Savard ($4.007m) / Todd Bertuzzi ($1.938m) Daniel Cleary ($2.800m) / Valtteri Filppula ($3.000m) / Jiri Hudler ($2.875m) * Darren Helm ($0.659m) / * Justin Abdelkader ($0.935m) / * Patrick Eaves ($0.550m) * Drew Miller ($0.578m) DEFENSEMEN Nicklas Lidstrom ($6.200m) / Niklas Kronwall ($3.000m) Brad Stuart ($3.750m) / Brian Rafalski ($6.000m) Jonathan Ericsson ($0.900m) / Jakub Kindl ($0.883m) Doug Janik ($0.512m) GOALTENDERS Jimmy Howard ($0.717m) / Chris Osgood ($1.417m) CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (these totals are compiled using the bonus cushion) ROSTER: 22; CAP:$59.4m; PAYROLL: $59.334m; CAP ROOM: $0.066m BONUSES: $0.000m

Im actually pretty glad Howard didn't win the Calder. I doubt we would have been able to afford him if he had.

I missed it. Can I get a final rundown of the winners?

That would be awesome if this somehow turned out to be the end of Eklund's "career". He's been tolerated for far too long now.

Youre forgetting Reasoner's 1.15 mil salary and Toews' 1.5 mil bonus. They're actually about 4.485 mil under the cap with 9 players to sign. Still some work to do. I will say that their forward core is still looking mighty studly though.

I say we trade down to Chicago for the 24th and 30th pick and get McIlrath AND Kabanov. Everybody wins

Whoever takes Thomas from Boston is doing them a huge favor. They aren't going to get a Setoguchi or Carter.

I can tell there are going to be a lot of disappointed Red Wings fans come draft day.

Awesome! Now we can sign Maltby to a slight raise and just enjoy the rest of the summer!

I'd rather we find another Lidstrom than another Yzerman...

A thesaurus is a reference book that lists words together with their synonyms. It would be helpful when attempting to describe the same thing 10 different ways. Like a big hockey hit, for instance. I hope that you found this information helpful. Or valuable, invaluable, beneficial, contributive, useful, suitable, practical, applicable, constructive, important...

Or the KHL

Someone definitely broke out the thesaurus when they made that compilation

All of them. Kenny is going to tell Bettman to f*** off, completely ignore the cap and sign all of the free agents on the market. We will then record the first perfect season in the history of the NHL. Great thread by the way