Miquel Beltran

http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20082009/GS010074.HTM For those who want the score board.

I have been thinking about it all the afternoon (US morning) and I wondered something The signing of Hossa may have a "gentleman agreement" of a longer term deal between Ken Holland and Marian Hossa that couldn´t be done because of next season RFAs and UFAs ( especially Zetterberg and Franzen) because they may have thought the same "cap scenario" that I did. The "evolution" of the salary has been the following. Year Cap Growth ( Respect the previous year) 05-06 39M$ --- 06-07 44M$ 12,8% 07-08 50,3M$ 14,3% 08-09 56,7M$ 12,7% What would be a correct estimate of the Salary Cap of the 2009-2010 Season ? If the cap growths about 12%, it will be about 63,5M$. a 6.8M$ extra space. Now, let´s asume that Flip is locked with a long term deal. So, as our beloved GM said that nobody will make more than Lidstrom, if Hank re-signs at the "Detroit Maximum" he would make 7.45 , a 4.8M$ raise ( It could be less, in our great organization you never know) the extra space will narrow from 6.8 to 2. If Franzen has a great season (something really possible playing on a line with Flip and Hossa) this 2M$ won´t be enough to retain all of them as everybody in this board is worried. Hudler will also need to be re-signed and would be the sure man out. If the cap raise is less than the 12%, all this worries could materialize into losing Hossa and Franzen or Hudler (or both). But I seriously believe that the cap will grow more than expected. Why ? - Correct me if I´m wrong, but the new HNIC deal kicks in the next season, this contract will push the league revenues higher. ( has anyone estimations about its impact in a future cap). -The league is more popular than it was the last two seasons. The Finals had higher viewers than anyone could expect. This bigger exposure should push the revenues higher. -Chicago, one of the biggest hockey markets in the U.S. has a really good on-ice product, his revenues should grow a lot. -Economic experts don´t expect a important drop on the Canadian Dollar, at least on the next year. And finally the question for all the experts on LGW, I´m only doing wishful thinking or the scenario of a cap around 68M$ ( around 20% increase) with the possibility of retaining everyone could be realistic ? P.S. It´s 4:00 am and English is not my first language, keep that in mind if my explanation is far from good. At least I hope I can make myself understandable.

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow, what a start os the summer for me.

:yowza: :yowza: :yowza: YES, Stanley is back

Good Luck, all my prayers are with you.

The score sheet says "match penalty" so at least will be one game.

Wings in 6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO WINGS

I asume that the user with Mac won´t be using windows media player.

Yes, but you will have to use a program called "VLC Media Player". http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html Execute the program, go to Open Network Stream, select "HTTP" option, and copy paste this : mms://a1729.l2168647534.c21686.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1729/21686/v0001/reflector:54953 That will work.

Bill McClement thinks that Sundin is going to the Ducks http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog.php?post_id=13339 If this happens we need Hossa , more D and another forward. GO WINGS

You got it. GO WINGS

Come on guys, let´s be optimistic , our goal per game average is about 3, we can win. GO WINGS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I forgot, for those of you who are in the U.S. the NHL Center Ice Online has a promotion and you can watch it free until the 4th of february. I f you have the game blacked out or you are from other country , you can crack it with "hotspotshield". This program makes the other websites "think" that you are in the U.S.A. http://www.anchorfree.com/downloads/hotspot-shield/

Yes, the yahoo feed is avaible. http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl Go here around game time and select "watch live". For those of you who are not in the U.S. you need to use a proxy or a program called "hotspotshield". The program way is easier. GO WINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!