NHL 2013 - 2014 Season Thread

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Bruins give Rask a 8 year 56 million dollar deal. Gotta be nervous about the term.
 
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Ishad_sl said:
Bruins give Rask a 8 year 56 million dollar deal. Gotta be nervous about the term.
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If there is one thing that last few years have shown is that you shouldn't spend a lot on the goaltender position. Teams have been getting it done with cheaper than elite goaltending for awhile now.

Also Caps re-sign Karl Alzner to a 4 year, $2.8 million per year deal. I'm amazed it wasn't in the $3-3.5m a year range...and this goes into what would be 2 years of UFA money. He's never going to have the O numbers to really get paid, but he's your perfect 2D stay at home guy on our top pairing. Love it.
 
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Merrith_sl said:
If there is one thing that last few years have shown is that you shouldn't spend a lot on the goaltender position. Teams have been getting it done with cheaper than elite goaltending for awhile now.
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I get that they want to lock a very good goalie up for a very long time, but I completely agree that this is a bad idea. I can't believe how much he is getting paid.
 
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Merrith_sl said:
If there is one thing that last few years have shown is that you shouldn't spend a lot on the goaltender position. Teams have been getting it done with cheaper than elite goaltending for awhile now.
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There's just no need to lock up an "elite" goaltender anymore, because almost none seem to stay elite for more than a season or two. Take whatever random 6'2"+ guy you have in the minors wearing the giant fucking pads and blockers they allow now and cram that fucker in there. Hope it works, if not bring in the next 6'2"+ fucker and repeat.
 
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I thought the new CBA was supposed to end long ass contracts like that. Granted, it's not ~12 years..but 8 still seems unrealistic. Maybe they're ok if it's not blatantly front loaded like in previous years?
 
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8 is about in line with the other sports longest contracts. Problem was all the ridiculous prorating shit going on with contracts that were never intended to be fully lived up to I think. "Oh yeah, this 15 million bonus we're giving you today will just be stretched out over the next decade and a half officially"

Could be, and likely am, completely wrong here.
 
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Contracts for players already with the team are capped at 8 years, 7 years for players being signed by a new team. There's also a cap on variation between any two years, I don't recall exactly what it was. 25% maybe?
 
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Someone should have decked this fucker.
 
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Probably found that retiring is a good loophole in the CBA to go play in KHL.
 
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Grimmlokk_sl said:
There's just no need to lock up an "elite" goaltender anymore, because almost none seem to stay elite for more than a season or two. Take whatever random 6'2"+ guy you have in the minors wearing the giant fucking pads and blockers they allow now and cram that fucker in there. Hope it works, if not bring in the next 6'2"+ fucker and repeat.
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Exactly. Find a decent guy who can get hot for a couple series and build a strong team that can win the Cup.
 
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This is horseshit. The Devil are my east coast team and this pretty much ends it for them having had Clarkson depart as well. I can't believe he didn't at least announce this shit before the start of free agency. That money could have been used elsewhere. Kovi was one of my favorite players...not so much anymore.
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Yeah, because if there was one thing Kovalchuk was known for in his career, it was putting the team before himself...
 
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Yeah, because if there was one thing Kovalchuk was known for in his career, it was putting the team before himself...
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He was a dick, but I also think that he is extremely talented and I care more about that. I guess I just didn't think he was this much of a dick? Apparently I was wrong.

Apparently the money he gets is severely diminished now, though. I think he gets something like 300k every year for 12 years. I imagine the Devils will use this space for a lot of depth pick-up's.
 
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He was a dick, but I also think that he is extremely talented and I care more about that. I guess I just didn't think he was this much of a dick? Apparently I was wrong.
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heh, sorry to hear he fooled you. Word is he's going to SKA St. Petersburgh, which is owned by a friend of his, whose dad is one of the main oligarchs in Russia. He's supposedly going to be paid 15-20m a year.

err, not owned by a friend, the friend is head of marketing or some shit:http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-pu...210237775.html

Ilya Kovalchuk left $77 million on the table with the New Jersey Devils when he retired from the NHL on Thursday to return to Russia.

According to Pavel Lysenkov of SovSport, Kovalchuk will be making that money up as the premiere star of the KHL - and in short order.

Lysenkov reports that Kovalchuk will be joining SKA St. Petersburg of the KHL, the team for which he played during the NHL lockout. There's where he will "become the most-paid player in the world," according to SovSport.

How much? He speculates that if it was "a $15-20 million per year (at the taxation in 13%)" it would not be a surprise. (No word if that's on the KHL cap or some of it off the books.)

On top of that, Puck Daddy's Dmitry Chesnokov believes SKA could front-load the contract and pay Kovalchuk an enormous sum of money up front.

Keep in mind Alex Radulov - hardly the superstar Kovalchuk is - was making over $9 million per season with CSKA in the KHL.

Know this about Kovalchuk: His close friend is Roman Rotenberg, vice president of marketing at SKA St. Petersburg and the son of Boris Rotenberg, a friend of Vladamir Putin and a billionaire. The Rotenberg family recently bought Jokerit and Hartwall Arena in Finland.

So yeah, Kovy's getting paid.

Lysenkov writes that SKA wanted to announce the deal on Thursday, but the wheels didn't turn fast enough in the NHL for that to happen. SovSport was told back in January that SKA would do anything to bring Kovalchuk back to the KHL. There was even speculation that some Russian oligarchs were talking about buying a share in the Devils just to get Kovalchuk out of his deal and back in Russia.

Devils President Lou Lamoriello stressed that this was "not a decision" made by the Devils, but rather by the player.

The first time Kovalchuk presented the idea to the team was after the lockout ended - a lockout that saw Kovalchuk remain in Russia to play in the KHL All-Star Game. He hadn't mentioned it again until recently, and then the retirement announcement happened on Thursday.

There were strong rumors that he intended to remain in Russia after the lockout ended.
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Recapture is minimal, and it sucks for the devils that they lose a first rounder next year, but its probably better that they get rid of a 6.6 mil cap hit for a player that doesn't want to be there.
 
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Anyone have an idea when the new season dates will be released? I'm hoping to catch at least one Ducks game while I'm in anaheim but can't recall if the season will be going in oct/nov or not.
 
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Grimmlokk_sl said:
Historically the season SHOULD be starting in mid-late September I believe. Definitely by October/November though.
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Cool, thanks for that. I know we got to opening night when I was over in '08 for Blizzcon but couldn't remember if that was a late season start due to negotiation issues.
 
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