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Leaf Rumours

Please, the US dollar was 1.58 five years ago Canadian and they were spending WAY more money. These guys are DRIPPING in cheese.

MLSE, has some interest in a Cup, but not to the point of putting someone other than Hoglund on Sundins wing. THINK about that for a second.

I think I would have been snorting a ton of coke with that guy on my wing as well.
 
They had Mogilny on his wing.

Not sure how much more you can ask from MLSE - spend to the cap, hire good coaches, GMs, assistant GMs no matter the cost, expand scouting staff and give the team top notch facilities to attract free agents. All the things we've been whining about for years. Check, check, check and check.
 
Oh yeah, I'm sure they'll milk it for all its worth. Melt down the ice, put it in 5000 pucks, sell them for 50 bucks a pop like they did when the Gardens closed. Easiest quarter of a million bucks ever made.

They made $40,000 by cutting up the net Mats Sundin scored in for his 500th goal.
 
I find shit like that horrendously sad. Why wouldn't they do some useful, take the net and design some sort of Sundin exhibit for the ACC with the net, the stick, the puck, etc as centrepieces.

Such short sighted business practice.

Doing shit like they did just diminishes the brand.
 
PlayerToBeNamedLater said:
For only one more year though. He's a UFA after next season.

I don't see the Caps giving him 7-8 mill per season -- which is likely what he's going to demand.
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Cork said they can't afford him. His cap hit, (yes, only for another year) is only $6M. They CAN afford him, for at least another season. And that's why he won't be available this season. Besides, he's going to have a hard time getting 7-8M per season if he has another playoffs like this one. If he becomes available, it'll be next season, and quite frankly, this team should not pull a JFJ and pay a guy like Semin $8M to do nothing in the playoffs. I'd rather keep Kaberle.
 
Why are you assuming Semin will do nothing in the playoffs, fact is leafs havent made the playoffs in 6 years, we need all the help up front to get there. Semin is a 30-40 goal winger, who can help us reach the playoffs, I'd worry about just making the playoffs, before judging whether or not a guy can produce or go ice cold come spring time. Besides Semin is like what 22/23? He's going to get a lot better and hes not anywhere near his prime, by the time we contend he'll still be a valuable asset to have. Kaberle is on the backside of his prime, and has 3-4 good to great seasons left, after that he'll fall off sharply, I'd rather give up Kaberle now while he can fetch an elite sniper like Semin, that hold on to him, only to have be aging/useless out there when it comes time to contend. JMO
 
For what it's worth, according to 'Mike from Buffalo' over at hockeybuzz :sarcasm Darren Dreger said there is interest from Toronto in Kovalchuk. http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog/Mike-Augello/NOT-THIS-RUMOR-AGAIN/120/28711

I guess he said this while on with Watter's or something (haven't heard the audio). If it was just Watter's I would ignore it completely but Dreger has some semblance of respectability.

Maybe Burke is beating down on Kulemin so much so he can squeeze the ‘chuk in under the cap.

Meh, we’ll know soon enough – seems unlikely to me.
 
They cut up the net for 40k? No.................. And people wonder why the team is permanently CURSED?
 
This is the same Orginization that refuses to retire the numbrs of it's greats. They are just utterly clueless on how to honor and treasure greatness
 
Honouring numbers is a great way to do things. Soon Montreal is going to need 3 digit sweaters they've retired so many numbers.

And you're still a scumbag MNIJ never forget that.
 
I have a BlackHawks jacket from 1961 that was sold to me by a player who needed money. Turns out, it is the only one of its kind left on the market.

The creeps at the Hockey Hall of Fame tried to get me to sell it for 5k back in 97. I laughed at them. Giving it to my son, to give to his son. After the Hawks win, its probably worth a house in Guelph. NOT selling. Some things are NOT FOR SALE.

Maybe I should let Richard Peddie find out its value. He is good at that kind of thing.
 
hockeylover said:
Oh please, teams do stuff like that all the time. It's a net.
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It was a piece of indispensable Maple Leaf history. Sadly, one of the biggest highlights the franchise has had in 40 years.

To create and maintain the proper mystique that the franchise deserves, moments like that should be hallowed. Not used as an opportunity to make a quick buck as a collectors item.

There are numerous other avenues you can explore to make a limited quantity collectors item out of that moment, but destroying the net it was scored into....just classless in my opinion.

I don't think you'd ever see the Habs do something like this if it was a net Richard, Beliveau, etc scored their 500th into, the Yankees would turn Reggie Jackson's, Jeter's, etc bats into toothpicks and mount them on a plaque to commemorate a great moment.

It's just below the mystique that the franchise should carry. ****, it's one of the major reasons we don't carry the mystique that those franchises carry.
 
One thing I'll never forget about that night is how he scored it. You can't write an ending like that.
 
I don't think there are too many nets around honoring goals.

Sticks, pucks, maybe pieces of net, but its not like putting a net on display is something that is regularly done.

its a nice collectors item. Sure they make money off of it, but only because its something really cool for fans and collectors to have.

Its not like they threw his stick in a wood chipper and sold the scraps.
 
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