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NHL Offseason 2012
Scott:
Sounds like the Wild got Parise and Suter...wow
Jeff:
So, so happy right now. Can't believe they pulled off snagging both! :)
And, with PMB and backs contracts up next year, we'll have $10-13 mil to add pieces next year ...
Morgbug:
I'm excited for you guys in the short term, but holy crap does that tie up cap space for a really, really long time. If the talk about the new CBA having a lower cap is true, then you better win quick. Gonna be tough to play against you guys when we move into that division. Hopefully now you can actually sell out your arena rather than having 3000-4000 Canadians show up. :P
Still, nice to see guys going 'home' to play. Maybe we can get Zajac next year and then pick up Toews after 2015-16.
As a general comment I'm quite floored by what a lot of guys are getting this summer in terms of contract dollars. No disrespect to Minnesota at all, but I don't see either of those guys being worth 7.5 million per year. I don't see Olli Jokinen at 4.5 either. This is hockey and all but ten teams lost money last year. That's not good.
Jeff:
--- Quote from: Morgbug on July 4, 2012, 09:06 PM ---If the talk about the new CBA having a lower cap is true, then you better win quick.
--- End quote ---
Tying up a lot of money and second guessing it what we do here (see also: Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau, etc) so I'm no stranger to that. Yeah, a much lower cap could hurt us, but we have so much up-and-coming talent that it might not kill us outright. Maybe it will. Dunno I guess.
Either way, it's damn exciting. Exciting to think that MN is a viable option for FAs, now or in the future. This kind of stuff would NEVER happen in the NBA, where they run from the cold. It hardly ever happens in the NFL without a trade-and-sign type thing. The idea that these guys could have picked Motown and/or Crosby and picked us just gives me warm fuzzies all over.
Defintely drinking a healthy cup of Wild kool-aid today, totally buying what they are selling and not worrying about tomorrow. What's the worst that could happen? Not making the playoffs? I'm Minnesotan, I'm used to that. :-X
Jeff:
As a result of the Parise/Suter induced hockey-mania in these parts, we've had record numbers at our development camp scrimmages. It's like people are so happy with the team's FA signings, they are doing anything they can to show off thier Wild pride. We had 6500+ at the past Thursday night scrimmage and 7500+ at the scrimmage today.
And you can count me among those hockey-mad folks. I took the opportunity to take Kellan (age 2) to watch some free hockey today. I don't think he'd make it through a 2 hour game, but a one-hour scrimmage was right up his alley. He is a totally hockey-mad two-year old. He sat and watched the draft with me and also watched a lot of the playoffs with me too. He had so much fun watching and was cheering for those kids like they were super-stars. Here's a couple pics from our day.
Happy to be there...
Really happy to have a bucket of popcorn he didn't have to share with his brothers...
We also used the scrimmage to scope out our new season ticket seats:
Yeah, I said "new season ticket" - I broke down and bought season tickets myself this year instead of just joining in a pool with others. I figure my family will be good for moving quite a few of the games, so I shouldn't be stuck with a ton of games. Now, the next step is to make sure the players and owners don't **** everything up and ruin this fall for me. >:(
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