Rich

Going to be all about Scheifele and Trouba this off season.

Yes there is obviously something going on with Pardy as he has been sent down, but this is quite the stretch on Maurice's quote on Pardy. What he said was that the NHL wasn't rec hockey and not every player is going to get equal ice time because they all pay to play. He implied Pardy isn't playing well enough to get equal time in the NHL. That is not calling him a rec league player.

I wonder if Florida was a team on Ladd's list.

It isn't about what posters think he is actually worth, it only matters what TB thinks he is worth and what they will hold out for. I agree, I would rather walk away from the trade then overpay which is why I don't think we trade for him. I would give Chicago's 1st, Petan and maybe someone like Roslivic, but would prefer the 3rd piece be a different prospect. Not sure TB takes that.

I don't believe that would be enough for Drouin. Harkins is a 2nd round pick, Burmi is a former 1st round whose ceiling is 3rd line on a playoff team, and Stafford is an ageing vet with a year left on his contract. Drouin would take a minimum of an Ehlers / Connor / Morrissey type prospect + maybe a pick depending which of those it is and maybe a throw in like Stafford to help now with the playoff run. Drouin was a 3rd overall pick, and while there is question on his character right now, TB holds are the cards and they aren't going to take 50 cents on the dollar.

I think your missing the point here and with your ridiculous reply in the Marco Dano thread. No one has said Ladd should have been traded for an ageing vet. I even said I was fine with the Ladd trade given where we are in the standings. I also have no problem with not signing Ladd for what he wanted. The comment that Atomic made is that we are a worse team today then we were two days ago. That is absolutely true. Looking at the team again next year, I think there is a good chance you are going to see much of the same as this year. If we have to add another 2 -3 rookies, I would be shocked to see it turn out much different. It isn't fun paying $100+ a game to watch this team play right now. I'm not really looking forward to doing it again next year. Funny thing is the Jets also just sent out the email looking for deposits for the playoffs (although it did said credit cards won't be charged until a playoff spot is confirmed, they are just looking for commitments so they know if they have to sell the playoff tickets). I get that they have to do it because we aren't technically eliminated yet, but that is a brutal email with the team's record and play this year. This is more about the macro direction of the team, not the specifics of Ladd. If we are going to always be one of the younger teams amongst the lowest payroll, I wonder how long the shine of this team will stay on. By the time Scheifele, Trouba, and Ehlers hit their late 20's, are we going to have to move them out as well to "make way for the youth".

There is a pretty good correlation between the average age of a team and where they currently sit in the standings (younger = lower). The other problem with getting all these young players around the same time is that they will all also be coming up for big contracts around the same time, and it is unlikely to be able to afford them all. Unless the plan is to hope that you can get / identify 6 - 8 true core players like Chicago has out of all the prospects, sign them and trade the rest, then maybe that works, but we are a ways out from seeing that. Getting the feeling that fans are generally underwhelmed with the return on Ladd. Before the trade deadline a lot of people were talking about how we had to get something for Ladd and something for Buff or it would be devastating and a huge fail on the organization. I always argued there was value in keeping a player if it meant a playoff run, especially for getting playoff experience for younger players. Now of course it made sense to trade Ladd because we weren't getting into the playoffs and all of this is purely hypothetical, but now that we've seen the return for Ladd, does it really make that big of a difference in the future of this organization? If Ladd was unsigned and we were heading into the playoffs, would you rather keep Ladd or get the pick and Dano? I'd rather have kept Ladd. Agree with Atomic. People love to criticize the players on this team when they see them play every day. Depending on the day and poster, Enstrom, Myers, Stafford, Stuart, Thorburn are all the favourite whipping boys. But future pick and prospects are all fantastic. The truth is most of them will turn into the equivalents or be lucky to have the career of the favourite whipping boys.

Fronk spent most of the year with the Moose, but was just sent down to the ECHL affiliate (Tulsa Oilers) earlier this week.

Looks like it is Halischuk. Petan stays with the Moose.

They estimate that urban centres take up only 2.7% of the land (excluding oceans and Antarctica). Chances of something like this hitting where it matters is pretty low.

Yes, which is why this was in the original article:

When the Jets moved to Phoenix, the old Jets logo became property of the NHL. When True North bought the Thrashers, they also bought the rights to the old logo. I'm pretty sure the heritage jersey will either be the logo the Jets had when they left or the old WHA logo. No way it is the Thrashers logo. True North would sell a ton of old Jets Jerseys. They'd be lucky if they sold 10 Thrashers jerseys.

I think he means for next year, they better pay someone in UFA for the $4.5M to get an experienced player in the lineup. Not to replace Ladd with a rookie.

That is a crazy amount of money. Even crazier for a 36 year old athlete. http://www.tsn.ca/sources-bautista-s-demand-is-five-years-150m-1.442180

http://www.hockeysfuture.com/prospects/nick-schmaltz/ Hockey's future rates him as a 7.5 with a probability of success of C.

Rumour is he wants in the ballpark of Toews and Patrick Kane .. around $10M

I don't know if its the way they did his hair or the greying they added to it, but when I see Ben Affleck, I actually think George Clooney, and that is a bad Batman history to resurrect. I think it is the shot 33 seconds into that youtube video above that does it.

Teams aren't as likely to trade for Stafford, Perreault and Thorburn as they aren't rentals and it means they need cap room next year and beyond. The salary ramifications make the trade much more complicated to make. There is a reason it is rare to see trades for these types of players at the deadline. Man does it get tiring reading the constant posts about trading the whole team this year. If you trade all the vets and replace them with picks and rookies next year, guess what? The team is going to suck again next year and the cycle will return where everyone wants to trade every ageing player again. Picks and prospects are nice but they don't payoff until 2 - 4 years down the road.

Roster bonuses were put in to avoid teams bringing a player to training camp, even if they knew he wasn't going to make the team, only to cut him at the end of it knowing full well it would be harder for another team to pick him up at that time of the year. By putting a roster bonus at the beginning of the year, the team is committing to the player to be there throughout the season. Yes, it sucks to get cut, but at least with a roster bonus, if the date of it is done properly (hello Muamba), there is a good chance you can get signed with another team. Can't see the agents and players giving these up so easily.

So by this logic, There is no issue with TBURGESS using his own name. He just needs to change the number. Personal preference, but I wouldn't put my own name on a jersey, but I have no issue with people who do. I do find as I get older, I find it tougher and tougher to put the name of a current Bomber on my jersey. Not sure if it is because it seems weird when they are all now younger then me, or because there is no "long term" player to spend that kind of money on. Last Bomber jersey I bought was Muamba in his rookie season. Since he left, I've been wearing a retro Walby. No idea who I would get if I were to buy a new one.

Any professional organization should have a QA process that reviews changes like this on their website before they are released to the public. Unless of course the schedule the web people were given was flawed to begin with, then your QA process is kind of meaningless.

What is weird is his NMC didn't kick in until this season started. They could have traded him last off season.

Not a fan of it either. The new formatting makes it very difficult to highlight to copy and paste the details of the schedule. The formatting separates everything too much to really compare and look at a global view of it. It is similar to the new NHL.com. I think they wanted to format the websites in such a way that it presents well on both mobile and desktop. Unfortunately, that makes the desktop experience poorer.