Comments on: Wings Will Need Help to Stay Near the Top

By: tacitus

tacitus — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:58:51 +0000

ur right, you know more then Ken Holland, Jim Nill and Scotty Bowman

By: krk181

krk181 — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:44:04 +0000

im not saying anything about how much he makes im saying that in the new nhl he sucks hes not fit for the new nhl is what i am saying they can use the money lang got and spend it on someone else that can produce those numbers and whos not lazy and dosent take bad penalties because they cant skate

By: krk181

krk181 — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:40:43 +0000

why because those players you get dont mean anything when they score 1 or 2 goals and your penalty killing unit gives up 3 or 4 goals

By: tacitus

tacitus — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:20:25 +0000

im still loyal to maltby and draper. especially Maltby for 833k per year

By: tacitus

tacitus — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:17:03 +0000

thank god you dont run the redwings, they were 2 injured defencemen away from the cup finals and you turn a great defence corps into a buncha kids.

Lidstrom Schneider
Kronwall Markov
Lebda Chelios
Lilja

keep that core atleat till quincey and meech are not on 2 way deals. I never saw the point of blowing up a team that finishes 1st in the conference then goes to the final 4 of the playoffs. And its not like Anaheim out played them to beat them, Wings consistantly out played Anaheim but were ousted. Btw according to nhlnumbers.com lebda and kopecky are on 1 way deals. Id keep everybody but Calder and Bertuzzi unless Bertuzzi signs for 3 mil tops. Even still the fans couldnt support their team in the playoffs i wouldnt be rewarding them for that.

By: tacitus

tacitus — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:34:37 +0000

here i did some fact checking to show the fact the wings can afford Markov and Schneider

Datsyuk 6.700
Zetterberg 2.65
Draper 2.128
Holmstrom 2.250
Maltby 0.833
Samuelsson 1.200
Franzen 0.942
Cleary 0.663
Filpula .733
Kopecky 0.700
Hudler RFA

Lidstrom 7.600
Lilja 1.000
Kronwall 3.000
Lebda 0.650
Quincey 0.520

Osgood 0.850

So thats 10 forwards 5 defence and a goalie signed for a cap hit of 32.419
Which meanc Chelios can be signed for the same 1.150, then you can offer Markov a raise and give him 3 give schneider a raise and offer him 3.7 offer hasek a raise up to 2.7, quality Hudler for 1.0 and you have 11 forwards 8 d and 2 goalies signed, at 43.969 which is under last seasons cap. So whatever it goes up to is what you offer the other 2 forwards. So once again it goes to show ya if you actually read what teams payrolls are and do some reasearch that half the people here have no clue what they are talking about.

And Lang at 2 mil would make him 9th highest paid guy on the team, i dunno, that seems fair to me cuz ur not gonna get better for 2 mil

By: tacitus

tacitus — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 02:18:27 +0000

if the cap stayed at 44 mil they could keep schneider at 3.3 and Markov at 2.5, if the cap goes up to 48 mill they can definitly keep both. If you wish i can grab salary numbers from nhlnumbers. And everybody knocking Lang. Mark my words, he gets 2 mil atleast when hes UFA especially if handzus gets the 4 he wants. If anybody has watched UFA over the past 2 years then you would realize a players worth and what he gets are very different numbers. Kubina worth 2 mil tops gets a crazy contract. plus to mil is not alot for a second line player who gets 50-60 pts, u all act like 2 mil is some crazy number.

By: CaptainAvery

CaptainAvery — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:33:55 +0000

Forget Souray Gainey go for the veteran Mathieu Schneider. A strong puck moving powerplay quarterback at 2-3 years 4.5 mill. Good deal for Schneider and a good replacement for Souray. Anyone that posts negative knows exactly where to go!

By: wingsfan13

wingsfan13 — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:55:45 +0000

yeah but why not get players who can do things besides only penalty kill. maltby had like 3 goals this year? give me a break.

By: krk181

krk181 — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:14:02 +0000

maltby and draper are useless though and it was stupid to resign at least maltby for a couple years. all they do is penalty kill. that is it. other than that were not to bad off

im not trying to bash you or anything but penalty killing is a big part of the new nhl because of all the bad penalties being called and to have the 2 best penalty killers in the league on your team is very stupid