CANADA DAY/NHL FREE AGENT FRENZY 09

[Dylflon]

Canada day is tomorrow and it is a time for celebration.

Many take to the streets of their home city, wearing their Canadian apparel or at least adhering to a colour code, to drink alcohol at their favourite establishments and to wave flags around, hoot, and high five one another.

Essentially it's the day where our whole country turns into some strange nation-wide frat party.

But Canada Day is important for another reason: it's the day that all the NHL teams are allowed to start making deals with free agents. Essentially a lot of moving and shaking will happen tomorrow.


So to our many board Canadians, here is a place to post your exploits while I post every bit of interesting NHL news that happens tomorrow.

[Bond]

http://rlv.zcache.com/i_heart_canada_hat-p148638767242612682uh2y_400.jpg

[Combine 017]

http://rlv.zcache.com/i_heart_canada_hat-p148638767242612682uh2y_400.jpg

And yet you wont come visit us.

[Typhoid]

I don't even have tentative plans for Canada day, god damnit.

[Seth]

ya, I'll probably be out in the wilderness pounding fence posts and getting tired. By the time work will be over I doubt I'll want to deal with any drunk Canada day exploits. But.....I always have weird encounters on Canada day so who knows, hurray for......national identity??

It's kinda one of those days that always reminds me about the girl who got away. Tragicomedy north of the 49 yep.
I hope my fellow Canucks have a great one.

[Combine 017]

Well thats rather disappointing. You should be drunk right now, like I am. It might not be Canada Day yet, but almost everyone has tomorrow off(except Swan[what a dork!]) so today is an excellent day to partly!

[Swan]

I must work tomorrow.



Hoorah for lifting things

[Professor S]

:canada:

[Teuthida]

Huzzah

[Professor S]

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/gallerypictures/832L.png

[Professor S]

Huzzah

I'm curious; is there a story behind that picture?

[Fox 6]

I Believe thats for Earls comic series, The Canadian Coalition.

[The Germanator]

So, the Canucks keep the Sedin twins for 5 more years. And the Flyers got Pronger a couple days ago...

[Fox 6]

Gillis cut it pretty close with the Sedins there

[The Germanator]

And Mattias Ohlund goes to the Lightning from the Canucks signing a 7-year deal.

[Fox 6]

he wasnt expected to come back to Van City tho.

[The Germanator]

Hossa gets a 12-year deal with the Hawks. Those 12 year deals are nuts.

[Typhoid]

12 years? Jesus.

The first thing I saw was Ohlund signing for 7 years with Tampa. I knew he wasn't coming back here because Gillis didn't want him, but my heart still sunk a little knowing that he'll be with another team now. He's played his whole career here, damnit!

And I mean, who do we have on defence now? Salo?
I can see the headlines now:

"Salo out for remainder of season with hurt feelings."


PS. That picture is definitely my facebook display now.

[Professor S]

If the NHL has a salary cap, then the 12 year deal is NOT a 12 year deal. Dependng on the salary cap structure, long deals can be used as a means of stretching high value contracts over time.

Example: Lets say the 12 year deal averages 2 mil a year, but it AVERAGES 2 mil a year (24 mil total). The deal may be front loaded for the first 3 years (5 mil a year, and the 9 mil stretched out over the last 9 years, decreasing year to year, with clauses allowing the team to release after a few years.

Meanwhile, if the salary cap works on averages, so the team only gets 2 mil counted against them each year, and not the 5 mil the player is really getting for the first three. This clears room from year to year for the team to work with.

The team gets the player, the player gets the money, and the commitment is minimal.

[Dylflon]

Gaborik goes to New York Rangers...God damnit. I was so sure the Canucks were going to sign him.

[Typhoid]

If the NHL has a salary cap, then the 12 year deal is NOT a 12 year deal. Dependng on the salary cap structure, long deals can be used as a means of stretching high value contracts over time.

Example: Lets say the 12 year deal averages 2 mil a year, but it AVERAGES 2 mil a year (24 mil total). The deal may be front loaded for the first 3 years (5 mil a year, and the 9 mil stretched out over the last 9 years, decreasing year to year, with clauses allowing the team to release after a few years.

Meanwhile, if the salary cap works on averages, so the team only gets 2 mil counted against them each year, and not the 5 mil the player is really getting for the first three. This clears room from year to year for the team to work with.

The team gets the player, the player gets the money, and the commitment is minimal.



Yes, there is a salary cap.
The deal can be loaded whichever way they agree upon. Frontloaded-baclkloaded-average.

The year length means how many seasons that player is under that contract.

If Player A signs for 5 years at 1 million a year, he will make 1 million every year, for 5 years. If he is traded to another team, he still makes 1 million until his 5 years is up.

I think Hossa signed at 63 mil for 12 years. I don't know how the deal was loaded, but nomatter how it is - he is under contract for the entire 12 years. There's no shirking it in the NHL.

[Ric]

Fukkin have a sweet Canada Day innit ;)

I love this time of year, festivals, Canada day, My birthday, then independance day, it's :cool:

I.O.W Festival - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=isle+of+wight+festival+2009&search_type=&aq=0