http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdCrZfTkG1c...feature=related

boring.

rofl

congrats.

Congrats on another win.

Ho hum...whatever.

Congrats Bob.

I'm thinking Bob's had that pic cued up for a month.

Congrats Big M's.

I totally agree!

congrats Bob, well deserved, your team is clearly the class of the AHL.

but let me know if your looking to rebuild coming off such a poor year where you barely got by the semi's, maybe I got something you could use.

Nah, just did a quick google images search and it came up perfectly for the occasion.



I will basically be selling off some assets for cap reasons. Which assets I don't know yet and I'm not going to rush into anything until the NHL schedule comes out but if you're a team with extra money to either take on contracts or trade cash then we can talk. This is something that I anticipate having to do every year since it's impossible to keep all my players with their increasing salaries which is how things are supposed to work.

This is my situation heading into the 2011 Draft

Free Agents To Sign

Carlo Colaiacovo STL D FA $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 3 Year Signing
Steven Kampfer BOS D FA $0.50 $0.50 $0.50 3 Year Signing
Toni Lydman ANA D FA $1.00 1 Year Signing
Mark Letestu PIT F FA $0.25 1 Year Signing
Nathan Horton BOS F FA $4.50 $4.50 $4.50 3 Year Signing
Vincent Lecavalier TBL F FA $3.25 $3.75 $4.25 3 Year Signing

Players Already Signed

Lubomir Visnovsky ANA D 1 $5.50 --- --- ---
Ryan Whitney EDM D 1 $4.25 --- --- ---
Dustin Byfuglien ATL D 2 $5.00 $5.75 -- --
Mike Green WSH D 2 $4.25 $5.25 --- ---
Jay Bouwmeester CGY D 4 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00
Jonathan Ericsson DET D 4 $0.75 $0.75 $0.75 $0.75
Tobias Enstrom ATL D 4 $2.25 $2.50 $2.75 $3.25
Jeff Carter PHI F 1 $2.50 --- -- --
Brad Richards DAL F 1 $5.50 --- -- --
Dany Heatley SJS F 1 $7.75 --- --- ---
Scott Hartnell PHI F 1 $2.50 --- --- ---
Brooks Laich WSH F 3 $2.50 $2.50 $2.50 --
Chad LaRose CAR F 3 $0.50 $0.50 $0.50 ---
Ryan Kesler VAN F 3 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 ---
Dan Sexton ANA F 4 $0.50 $0.50 $0.50 $0.50
Henrik Zetterberg DET F 4 $1.75 $2.00 $2.25 $2.50
Jonathan Toews CHI F 4 $4.50 $5.00 $5.50 $6.25
Goalies-A Phoenix PHX G 3 $0.75 $0.75 $0.75 ---
Goalies-B Washington WSH G 3 $0.75 $0.75 $0.75 ---

Farm Team

Emerson Etem ANH F ml $2.00 --- ---
Matt Gilroy NYR D ml $2.00 --- ---
Matt Taormina NJD D ml $1.00 --- ---
Mathieu Carle MTL D ml $0.50 --- ---
Sami Vatanen ANH D ml $0.50 --- ---
Tyson Barrie COL D ml $0.50 --- ---
Matt Duchene COL F ml $3.00 --- ---
Alexander Burmistrov ATL F ml $2.50 -- --
Greg McKegg TOR F ml $1.50 --- ---
Kirill Petrov NYI F ml $1.50 --- ---
Teemu Pulkkinen DET F ml $1.00 --- ---
Anton Rodin VAN F ml $0.50 --- ---
Brad Marchand BOS F ml $0.50 --- ---
Mitch Wahl CGY F ml $0.50 --- ---
Oscar Moller LAK F ml $0.50 --- ---

Players To Be Dropped

Alexander Vasynov NJD F ml $2.00 --- ---
Simon Bertilsson PHI D ml $0.50 --- ---
Ryan Smyth LAK F FA $6.75 $6.75 $6.75

TOTAL MONEY SPENT $64 ON 23 SKATERS AND 2 GOALIES
TOTAL MONEY AVAILABLE $67
$3 TO SPEND ON 1 SET OF GOALIES

so who thinks this was an unfair trade for Swackers now ?

This trade helped me win in 2010 but Swackers just made Giroux their Franchise Player

I recall asking for Giroux a couple of times in my first few months in the AHL, but getting nowhere. I just didnt have the assets to trade.
I couldnt even get Bowman!



From the AHL site:


Arp-Mapleleafpoker
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:48 pm
WOW, nice trade guys. I feel like Bob overpaid, but I can see how every asset he gave up in this deal is almost redundant on his team. Love those assets, sooo jealous.
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Steelheads receive

1. Underdogs 1st Round Pick in 2012
2. Shortstackers 3rd Round Pick in 2012

Big M's receive

1. Brandon Saad - F - Chicago - Farm
2. Cody Eakin - F - Washington - Farm
3. Justin Schultz - D - Anaheim - Farm

Big M's picks from the 2011 Draft.

26th Brandon Saad - Chi - F
40th Nikita Kucherov - TAM - F
41st Tom Kuhnhackl - Pit - F
46th Cody Eakin - Wsh - F
60th Roman Josi - Nsh - D
64th Ryan Sproul - Det - D
66th Justin Schultz - Ana - D
80th Connor Murphy - Phx - D

Congratulations to Big M's farm hands Emerson Etem and Greg McKegg who were named Player of the Week in the Western Hockey League and Ontario Hockey League last week.

chrismpetersChris Peters
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Brandon Saad tallied 4 goals and an assist tonight for Saginaw in a 5-2 win over Brampton. #Blackhawks