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I highly highly doubt an arbitrator only gives him 100K more than McArthur.
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Well, an arbitrator's not a "hockey guy"; he's not gonna look and say "Hey, I can't only give Blake Wheeler 100K more than Clarke ****ing MacArthur", he's just gonna look at the stats. However, I think he could make his case based on the average of the last two seasons, which they're allowed to take into consideration.

Also: this deal.

http://www.capgeek.com/players/display.php?id=829
 
Haha. OK. Someone made this look alike thread on another board, but I think I kinda see it, so I'll post here.

Poster thinks Dion looks like eerily like Tim Horton...

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Dion's got a weird hairline but other than that, yeah I can see the resemblance. Horton was probably the strongest defenceman in league history though.
 
I actually see some similarities in their style of play. Obviously Dion is more of an offensive guy, but the demeanour, toughness, etc.

And yeah, they didn't come much stronger than Tim Horton. There are stories of him breaking through doors, clearing whole bar rooms in brawls, and all sorts of craziness.
 
If I'm the Leafs I sit Luke down and just repeatedly show him images of Horton in his prime, Clockwork Orange-style, strapped in. Do it for hours a day. Timmy slamming opponents into the wall, using his reach and strength to break up plays. Then send him out onto the ice. :D
 
If I'm the Leafs I sit Luke down and just repeatedly show him images of Horton in his prime, Clockwork Orange-style, strapped in. Do it for hours a day. Timmy slamming opponents into the wall, using his reach and strength to break up plays. Then send him out onto the ice.
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How were Tim Horton's calves tho?
 
Horton had the calves of a Ugandan Lowland Gorilla but he had NO OBLIQUES. You can't be anything but a hack and chop arist without OBLIQUES. MARK MY WORDS.
 
Btw, about the MacArthur ruling - since the Thrashers walked away from the ruling, the award can't be used as a comparable in future arbitration deals. So Wheeler's agent can't go in and say "Well, MacArthur got..."

Any award issued by a Salary Arbitrator as to which a Club
exercised its walk-away rights pursuant to Section 12.10;
 
Ladd at $3.2 million would be in line with his track record, production, and obviously "intangibles" factor from the arbitrator's standpoint.
 
The Leafs dealt Stralman for our previous second rounder and Wayne Primeau. The second rounder was then used as part of the Leafs offer sheet to Kessel.
 
Stralman had 6G, 34Pts in 73 games for the BJ's last season, logging 4th highest TOI/G on the team (3rd highest among dmen), and had the most PP time on the team.

And he's only 23.
 
Stralman's end to end rush goal on Carey Price and the Habs is still one of the best goals I've ever seen by an NHL defenceman. He's got great offensive pedigree to his game. If he can ever figure out how to calm things down and make better decisions out there he could be one hell of a defenceman.
 
Paul Bissonnette closed his Twitter account after his calling Kovalchuk a communist yesterday didn't go over so well.

:( Darn.
 
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