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Archive for February, 2011
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Monday, February 28th, 2011Evening Lines
Monday, February 28th, 2011Great moves by dale today. We have so much flexibility moving forward. He can finally bring in his kind of players. Its a new day here!
love george richard’s tweets. He just doesn’t get it He probably spends too much time in the adt club and not enough time doing his homework
-Michael Yormark, President, COO of the Florida Panthers via his twitter account.
Quick Trade Deadline Analysis
Monday, February 28th, 2011Every year after the trade deadline I like to pick the team that made the biggest positive and negative change to their team on both the long and short term. The trade deadline moves started earlier in February than they have in recent years past. For the sake of this post, I will assume the trade deadline refers to the entire month of February.
Biggest Long Term Improvement: Toronto Maple Leafs Toronto acquired a lot of young potential. Likely some of it will pay off in the future. It is hard to predict exactly which players will go on to be key parts of a Toronto core. Acquired was former first round draft picks Joe Colborne (Boston first rounder 2008), Jake Gardiner (Anaheim first rounder 2008), Philadelphia’s 2011 first round draft pick and Boston’s 2011 first round draft pick. It is unclear that they should be trading for first round picks given that they traded two first round picks to acquire Phil Kessel last summer. This doesn’t show a coherent plan in the way things are being run. Trading away younger players like Kris Versteeg for first round draft picks signifies a rebuild that is only now beginning and should take several years to complete. Nevertheless, it is quite likely that this group of first round draft picks will produce some core players in the future. The problem here is that future is many years away.
VanCanucks: CanucksTV goes one-on-one with @imacVanSun to talk Trade Deadline analysis: http://bit.ly/ewUweM #NHL #NHLTrade #Canucks
Monday, February 28th, 2011VanCanucks: CanucksTV goes one-on-one with @imacVanSun to talk Trade Deadline analysis: http://bit.ly/ewUweM #NHL #NHLTrade #Canucks
Red Wings-Kings live blog: bad ice, dangerous opponent
Monday, February 28th, 2011The Detroit Red Wings will face off against the Los Angeles Kings shortly (10:30 PM EST, FSD/FS West/WXYT/NHL Network) minus Johan Franzen and Brian Rafalski (there’s an actual Kings lineup update in there, too), and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. As far as I’m concerned, the ice at the Staples Center is nothing less than dangerous at times, surpassing the slush at the ACC in Toronto and the rinks in Phoenix, Miami, New York and Anaheim as the worst surface of gravel pretending to be ice in the NHL.
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The Canucks at the Deadline
Monday, February 28th, 2011
Gillis at the Deadline:
This wasn’t Mike Gillis’ first trade deadline as an NHL GM, but it was certainly his most revealing. In 2009, Gillis stood pat – Sundin had been his big midseason acquisition and Gillis was still restocking a feeder system left atrophied by the Burke/Nonis regime. (*) In 2010, Gillis had more pieces to play with; early in the day he moved disgruntled former client Mathieu Schneider, and swapped AHLers with St. Louis. In his biggest splash of the day – the word “splash” being applied generously in this case – Gillis exchanged a third rounder with Jim Rutherford for Andrew Alberts right at the deadline. Though it’s a small sample size, there is a pattern that corroborates two things Gillis often reiterates to fans and the media – he prefers not to make large deals at the trade deadline, though he is comfortable waiting to the last minute, or as he ironically call it: “working to a deadline.”
VanCanucks: @VivienElle @johnathonwilson @antoniotiangco We’re on it. Thanks for the heads up!
Monday, February 28th, 2011VanCanucks: @VivienElle @johnathonwilson @antoniotiangco We’re on it. Thanks for the heads up!
Trade Deadline Day Started Slowly But Gained A Little Momentum At The End
Monday, February 28th, 2011from Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail,
For the better part of six hours, the question of the day revolved around the big Rostislav Klesla-for-Scottie Upshall swap. A winning or losing proposition for the Phoenix Coyotes?
Yes, it was that grim – for fans watching the NHL trade deadline shows unfold on TV and for TV analysts waiting for something to analyze.
Thankfully, just as the 3 p.m. (Eastern) deadline approached, the NHL trading game heated up enough to get semi-interesting, with the Pittsburgh Penguins’ primary rivals, the Washington Capitals, making two moves designed to put their mystifyingly average season back on the rails.
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Monday, February 28th, 2011VanCanucks: Congrats to @glassedpickles! You’ve won the Luongo signed Team Canada jersey by checking in to RA & leaving your Gold Medal memory!
Another Rebuild In Florida
Monday, February 28th, 2011from David Shoalts of the Globe and Mail,
“We look forward to having another successful draft and then being very aggressive in the free-agent market this summer,” Tallon said. “So it’s going to be hot and heavy here in July.”
Well, maybe.
The big question now is even if the team owners allow Tallon to spend more than the salary-cap floor, how will his summer plans turn out? But an even bigger question faces this franchise next fall – will 10 consecutive seasons out of the playoffs so burn out an already weak fan base that it will yawn at yet another in a seemingly endless series of rebuilds, the response the shallow-pocketed owners can least afford?