Comments on: Straka status remains a mystery

By: True Fans Bleed RW&B

True Fans Bleed RW&B — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:24:32 +0000

What did Liles get?

By: Beer Me!

Beer Me! — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:03:35 +0000

”...while Roberts agreed to terms on a one year contract that pays him a base salary of $1.25 million plus $10,000 for every game that he plays in the 2008-09 NHL regular season. So if Roberts were to play in all 82 games, he would earn $820,000 in bonuses, which could make his total income for the season $2.07 million.”

At least the new CBA forces GM’s to be creative.

By: Beer Me!

Beer Me! — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:00:54 +0000

vogs – it all depends on what you want your team to look like, how you want them to respond to your staff, the players around them, etc.

Bloggers seem to think that Avery will get his $4mil offers from teams that have already expressed interest. I guess we’ll find out tomorrow. But it won’t hurt slats to wait. Avery wasn’t signing for his offer, so slats will let the market dictate what Avery’s worth is. If the $4mil offers come, then you were going to pay it to him anyway.

And to answer your question about the pp… it’s going to look the same. dreadful. It can’t be much worse, right?

By: vogs

vogs — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:42:37 +0000

Beer Me!

$4.5 million for Malone? Not worth it to me. Avery worth $3.5 million, yes I think he is.

By: vogs

vogs — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:41:24 +0000

UFA’s

The more time goes by the more it seems the Rangers are letting go of the past it seems.

I don’t know why Slats would hold his cards in Avery’s case, because I doubt there is a huge market for him, only a select few teams. It seems the Rangers and Jagr are going to use this one-year/ two-year reason as why the Captain isn’t coming back.

Add Straka, Malik and Rozival to the list and it looks as if the 2008-2009 Rangers are going to be a much younger and hopefully hungrier team night in and night out.

I would add players like Hagman, Ryder, Chimera, Gratton and hope Callahan, Dawes and Prucha will put the puck in the net for us. I still think Sather has got to get a finisher for Gomez.

I mean at this point, what’s our PP look like?

By: Beer Me!

Beer Me! — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:53:46 +0000

So Malone’s deal was $31.5/7yrs. Not bad at all. $4.5 cap hit.

Visnovsky to EDM for Stoll & Matt Green is only gonna help LA. Visnovsky sucks. I say this cause I had him on my fantasy team last year, drafted him actually. He started with a bunch of assts, then proceeded to be somewhere around -15 by xmas. Screw that guy.

And apparently Lou over in the swamp is going to make a run at Hossa too.

By: Beer Me!

Beer Me! — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:46:56 +0000

After further review, I’m glad we won’t be signing (or have traded) for Liles too. I don’t watch too many COL games, but his height being listed at 5’10” is apparently ‘generous’. We’re small enough as it is.

By: UKRanger

UKRanger — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:11:43 +0000

Apparently Rolston sent text messages to Minn. newspapers saying he was “going to the 1st July” so whether he will sign with TB remains to be seen. I really like the idea of Rolston with Gomer for a couple of seasons until Cherepanov is ready for a top line slot on Broadway.

My opinion is Malone got $1m per too much and Liles $1.5m too much – i’m glad we didn’t waste money on them. Lets hope we don’t have to overpay for a Commodore/Orpik/Streit/Hainsey combination on our blueline.

By: matt

matt — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:41:24 +0000

brian rolston’s rights traded to tampa bay for a conditional draft pick, busy night

By: MikeA

MikeA — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:41:04 +0000

Good Lilles is overrated and soft. This will hopefully open the doors for Hainsey and Orpik/Commodore.