NHL 2011-2012 Season

[The Craw]

I wouldn't worry about the Wild. They are the only team that can magically turn 40 goal scorers into 20 goal scorers. Go Wild???

 

[KitFisto]

Other teams in the southeast get better while the Caps let their second leading goal scored walk and add nothing. McPhee's latest presser he says "We have a good team and like where we are".......LOL

I guess he's hoping for last in the division and his termination this coming season. This guys arrogance can only be matched by Obama.

 

[woozie0]

Both Suter & Parise gets $98 million dollars for 13 years? Wow.... Over freakin paid by Minnesota.

I guess it will be colorado & minnesota battling out the NW division title. The Canucks & Flames are in trouble.

The Nucks still look like contenders...they haven't had any huge changes to the team, just Salo right?

All big UFAs are overpaid... so lets stop using that tag, like we're surprised or disappointed. It's not a coincidence that every UFA contract is like this. It's just part of the game. Great for the players. Sucky for the teams, but if a team wants to win badly enough and thinks that UFA can make that team much better, they'll pony up the dough.

So true. GMs have been spending like drunken sailors and salaries are bloated...it's happened all over again.

 

[woozie0]

I wouldn't worry about the Wild. They are the only team that can magically turn 40 goal scorers into 20 goal scorers. Go Wild???

Hopefully Heatley finds a way to tear that team apart from the inside.

 

[Eli26]

I actually see the Minnesota Wild becoming a Cup contender. Here's why...

They have a good core, excluding Ryan Suter and Zach Parise, that was in sole position of first place in the entire league, 30 games in. I don't care where they finished in the standings. That is still positive. It shows potential. Adding a huge dman and forward like those two will solidify that core. It makes them that much stronger, and improves the culture from within. Players play better when they are in a belief that a team is working really hard on putting a winner out on the ice. I think Chuck Fletcher proved that with his draft picks and signing the two biggest free agents this Summer.

There is no way they suffocate a team of scoring goals with that much offensive potential. A line of Parise-Koivu-Heatley, is most effective when they are asked to do, what they do best. Attack the opposition. Shoot. Be creative... time spent in the opposition's end. The three will create space, some speed, and room for goals to go in. I do believe Parise will be a nice compliment to Heater and Koivu. He's one of the hardest working players in the game, who will now be playing in front of his family and friends.

Lest we forget Tom Gilbert was added to their D. He's a quality blueliner capable of playing on the primary or secondary PP. This team is going places!

Then there is their very deep prospect pool that begins with Mikael Grandlund, Zack Phillips, Charlie Coyle, Mathew Dumba, Jonas Brodin, Matt Hackett, Johan Gustafsson, and Darcy Kuemper. How can you not be excited about this team's future? I am!

 

[Eli26]

By Cup contender, I don't see it happening this upcoming Fall.... Even though we got teased in the first two months of last season.... no I think once a few of their high-end prospects graduate with the big club, filling out the roster and its few holes, you'll see a very dangerous Minnesota team. Give it two years and you'll start seeing some pretty amazing things happen. Three, and I wouldn't be shocked if we see them becoming a beast in the West.

 

[Eli26]

Rumour has it that the Pittsburgh Penguins are making a play at either Rick Nash or Bobby Ryan. Ray Shero is in the hunt for a winger for Sidney Crosby, and won't be happy until he finds him that complimentary line mate. Here's the thing, getting either one would cost the team dearly. Yes, they have the cap space, but is it worth trading important future assets away to obtain either one? Not sure I like that. Simple solution, stay the UFA route. Unless they trade one of their defenseman prospects, and again, not sure if I like that. Scott Howson also wants a King's Random for Nash. The Carolina Hurricanes pulled out, because he kept gunning for Jeff Skinner as a return. This is not fantasy hockey Scott! Lets see, deal Nash, who is a huge cap hit against your team, for a kid who is 8-years younger, who is happy, on the cheap (in comparison), and has the upside to become better than Nash, who is unhappy... Which also explains his regression. Yeah, not going to happen... so yeah, I don't like that. Then there is Bobby Ryan... yeah. UFA route Pittsburgh.

The UFA option is promising. There are still some decent forwards available. Shane Doan and Alexander Semin, ring a bell? Love Semin's upside more of the two, but liken Doan's veteran leadership skills and willingness to work it out through a season, over Semin's skill-set. Semin is lazy, and also wants a long-term contract. Doan maybe older, but at least you know what you're getting from the guy, game-in and game-out.

 

[Deeznutz6]

Rumour has it that the Pittsburgh Penguins are making a play at either Rick Nash or Bobby Ryan. Ray Shero is in the hunt for a winger for Sidney Crosby, and won't be happy until he finds him that complimentary line mate. Here's the thing, getting either one would cost the team dearly. Yes, they have the cap space, but is it worth trading important future assets away to obtain either one? Not sure I like that. Simple solution, stay the UFA route. Unless they trade one of their defenseman prospects, and again, not sure if I like that. Scott Howson also wants a King's Random for Nash. The Carolina Hurricanes pulled out, because he kept gunning for Jeff Skinner as a return. This is not fantasy hockey Scott! Lets see, deal Nash, who is a huge cap hit against your team, for a kid who is 8-years younger, who is happy, on the cheap (in comparison), and has the upside to become better than Nash, who is unhappy... Which also explains his regression. Yeah, not going to happen... so yeah, I don't like that. Then there is Bobby Ryan... yeah. UFA route Pittsburgh.

The UFA option is promising. There are still some decent forwards available. Shane Doan and Alexander Semin, ring a bell? Love Semin's upside more of the two, but liken Doan's veteran leadership skills and willingness to work it out through a season, over Semin's skill-set. Semin is lazy, and also wants a long-term contract. Doan maybe older, but at least you know what you're getting from the guy, game-in and game-out.

Heard Neal's name being tossed around in the Nash deal, dont like that at all

 

[Eli26]

Heard Neal's name being tossed around in the Nash deal, dont like that at all

Ugh, who said this?

 

[Valfar]

Bah!, ____ Pittsburgh..Nash and Ryan to Toronto and Luongo.

 

[Eli26]

Bah!, ____ Pittsburgh..Nash and Ryan to Toronto and Luongo.

Luongo will not go to Toronto. He does not want to play in a heavy hockey market that will tear him out at every corner. He has... we all have learned this from Vancouver.

 

[Valfar]

Yea, i know..he would prefer going back to Florida where his family are living.

Burke already could have landed Luongo but, its too much of a gamble to give up assets in other areas of your team just to fill one position, which again like a potential Nash deal could hurt your team(doubt it would hurt Pittsburgh though).. but,a Luongo trade more so if you have to give up enough for a proven goalie who is struggling.

 

[The Ringer]

Toronto is a heavy hockey market?

 

[Valfar]

Toronto is a heavy hockey market?

The largest for sure, yup.

Most of the top Canadian superstars today and from yester years are from Ontario, Toronto is the hockey hot bed of Ontario and all of Canada.

 

[Deeznutz6]

Toronto is a heavy hockey market?

Its also a heavy market for ____ty franchises

 

[bumblebee]

The largest for sure, yup.

Most of the top Canadian superstars today and from yester years are from Ontario, Toronto is the hockey hot bed of Ontario and all of Canada.

Not laughing at your post, just......Canadian superstars....is this the WWE you speak of!?



Superstars!!!

 

[Valfar]

Not laughing at your post, just......Canadian superstars....is this the WWE you speak of!?



Superstars!!!

 

[Eli26]

haha Wrestling's the Goon. Like he even knew what hockey was, because those wrasslers sure don't know what real wrestling is.

 

[Valfar]

So it looks like Semin will be signing a one year deal with Pitt, they are going to be dangerous again next year if they can get decent goaltending.

 

[KitFisto]

Eat a ____ Semin. You lazy turd.