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You better buy yourself a nice buttplug with some of that cap space because you're gonna take it hard with those goalies you have.

ohhhh yeah. the plan is to draft tavares... it'll make the rectal pain more bearable I think.

BTW...it's nice to see a team with Kansas City in the name, even if it is fantasy.



You just need to replace the indian Native American with a saluting soldier (reserves...get it?!?) and you'll have a sweet logo.

Brampton Battalion Style!

How have you not mentioned how you acquired a free quarter in cap space?

You bastard

I'm sorry.

today I acquired jeff tambellini for $3 in cap, then traded him away for $3.25.

some say I should have held on, while others say I am a genius and cleared some cap up for 08/09.

just acquired petr prucha for $1. he's signed for $.75 over the next 4 seasons. now we just have to root for a trade or he's totally headed to russia after this year.

more trading.

gave up:
$6 08/09
$7 09/10
$7 10/11

for:
bryan berard (rfa, re-signed for .25 over five years)
nell's 1st in 2009, likely 10th-15th overall

I should probably have more regard for cap, but I don't... really, I just couldn't resist that bryan berard!

oh yeah, I have $8.50 left to sign 17 players.

I am 110% intrigued on how you are going to work this. I feel I have issues with only $50.75 in cap this year.

quarter players, man.

Gotta admit, I'm a little confused by the huge outlay for a guy who isn't even signed to be in the NHL next season...

I realize that the pick is the centerpiece, but signing him to a 5 year deal before he signs a new NHL deal...I don't get it.

it's one quarter per season. $1.25 over five years. if there is ANY chance he can get a steady role with an NHL team, it's a fine gamble imo.

Seems like it would have made more sense to hold his signing until the deadline, in case he signs with a Russian team between now and then.

listen, a lot of things woulda made sense if I had thought longer about them. I could have had nigel dawes in the deal and simply overlooked it.

I'm currently working on a trade proposal for you: $1 over the next four seasons in exchange for you publicly praising every move I make in that timespan.

$.50 per season and the praise will start with this deal right here.

Frolik will see time this year.

please keep me updated. I'm not planning on calling him up until he looks to hit the 40-50 point plateau.


I'll run it by nell.

UPDATE!

new farm team players drafted, in this order:

Pat White VAN F
James Neal DAL F
T.J. Galiardi COL F
Simon Hjalmarsson STL F
Colin Long PHO F

all thoughts and opinions are welcome

I also acquired mike van ryn for a pittance recently.

If I had to guess, I'd say he's getting moved within the next year and a half.

I hope so. He's not doin' anything in florida, that's for sure...

the net effect of today's transactions...

I gave up:
$1.5 of salary cap space in 09/10
The Kansas City Reserves 2010, Round 3 Draft Pick
The Kansas City Reserves 2010, Round 4 Draft Pick
The Kansas City Reserves 2010, Round 5 Draft Pick

I acquired:
Morrison, Brendan (ANA) - $1.50, 3 years
The Lost Cause 2010, Round 1 Draft Pick
$3.5 of salary cap space in 08/09

forgot to mention... hidden cost in the above trades? adam's team is a little stronger with kariya, thus devaluing his 2009 first...

That is a much better deal for you. You are lucky my wireless would work for 2 minutes at a time last night and I couldnt stay on long enough to work out a Kariya trade.

I would have preferred to work with you and zach, but I guess it doesn't matter. saved me some research time, riiiight?

I just realized that I have 10 top 30 picks in the next 2 years... yeah, I'm less unhappy about losing my cap...

I picked some people in the expansion draft. opinions welcome. the name in parenthesis is the person I stole from!

3. strategy - fehr, eric (nell)
4. strategy - nilsson, robert (nell MAXED OUT)
9. strategy - macarthur, clarke (duane)
10. strategy - eaves, patrick (duane)
15. strategy - murray, glen (arp)
16. strategy - kozlov, vyacheslav (arp cool to the MAX)
21. strategy - metropolit, glen (biatch)
22. strategy - schubert, christoph (john)
27. strategy - paetsch, nathan (adam suckit)

two of these names will probably be gone soon.

hey, shop around! who you movin' and what do you want? I got some interest in a couple of those names.

just moved kozlov and schubert for a 5th rounder. I don't know who else I want to ship off, but I'll let you know if I need to clear some cap.

updated the OP. I have three unsigned guys. haven't heard anything on glen murray or bryan berard, obviously no news is not good news for me...

I'm pretty confident that parrish will sign with the preds once it's announced that a-rad doesn't give a shit about the IIHF's rules.

Murray will sign somewhere for sure.

well, I know I said I wouldn't bump this again, but I am interested in what the florida guys think of me trading milan lucic for michal repik.

also, I'm so excited for the season to begin...

other pickups in the auction:
Backes, David 3.25 RFA
Comeau, Blake 2.25 RFA
Pouliot, Benoit 2.75 RFA
Clarkson, David 0.25 RFA
Bochenski, Brandon 0.25 RFA
Brouwer, Troy 0.25 RFA
Sullivan, Steve 0.5 RFA
Klein, Kevin .75 RFA
O'Brien, Shane .25 RFA

all comments welcome.

Lucic for Repik straight up?
Could be highway robbery, Repik will score more than Lucic at their respective high points, and I think Repik will sustain it for a bit longer. I'm unfamiliar with your system of contracts but if based off of performance or whatnot you'll end up paying more for him.

What's he up to these days?

He signed a two way deal with Tampa, also known as the Land of 1000 Forwards.

Repik is at least a year away from sticking in the NHL. He is a good player, but I personally value young players that have already shown something in the NHL. I love Repik and it hurts to see him go. Either way I love having Giants on my team.

I also already have Olesz, but that didn't factor into my trade that much.

that's the nice thing about the trade. repik is a farm player, so I can call him up at any time in the next five years and the very most I could possibly pay is a 40% raise on his 50c entry level deal. my team sucks for the next few years, so it's cheaper and gives me more flexibility. rich needs to stock his roster and basically is getting lucic for cheaper than if he had been at the auction and bid against me.

can you imagine the looks we got at a greek restaurant in kansas? I'm so excited for training camp to open...

Mojo has never looked better. <grin>

that's actually a jersey dale picked out on ebay! and it's clearly WAY too small to use with the jersey me and serge are supposed to be cooking up.

bryan berard got a powerplay assist tonight. who's laughing now, adam?

Anytime you want to take me up on that bet, just say the word.

51 regular season NHL points scored by Bryan Berard before the end of the 09-10 NHL regular season. You name the stakes up to $50. I say nay.

that's a pass, big guy. if he's still playing in the NHL in five years, I'll consider it a godsend.

I'm doing the FCHL 09/10 finances for all of the franchises. I currently have you re-signing one player: mclean. am I wrong?

If McLean gets resigned next year it will either be because I'm a genius and got a guy for extremely cheap who had a monster year, or because I'm an idiot and all of my prospects suck so bad that none of them are worth bringing up to take his spot.

Whether or not the defensemen get reupped depends on their season this year, but I'm up against the cap already for next year so resigning those big contracts would be tough. We'll see.

well, unless there are a bunch of obviously idiotic free agent re-signings, the prices at the next auction won't be very far off from how they were this year. have a look for yourself.

Yeah, I think next year will be when guys start looking to their farms to replace lost talent though, so it may not be as insane as this year was.

To date, there's only been two farm callups in the history of the league, Patrick Kane and Cory Murphy. We'll see at least 10 more by this time next year, I'm guessing.

well, if people have no use for their cap, I'll gladly collect it up for picks!

Also, I think I'd sooner resign Arnason than McLean, he's a good scorer in a bad situation in Colorado, and he'll probably get traded at some point to a team that has more use for him. Now that Sakic is officially back he'll probably be pretty worthlesss as an Av. When Sakic was out last year Arnason was scoring at about a 50 point pace, pretty good for a guy I'm paying a quarter.