ok so. the canucks are 1.8 million over the salary cap. plus sami salo and alex burrows who make a combined 3.5 million can not go on injured reserved until after the first game of the season. so the canucks have to do something tricky to bring their roster down by 1.8 million in the meantime before the first game of the season. this is what they will do:
They will waive goalie cory schneider and forward mason raymond. reason being is that both are rfa's and can not be claimed off waivers by other teams. this will free up 3.4 million in cap space. then they will be replaced by cody hodgson and goalie eddie lack who combined make 1 million dollars.
boom!!!!we just saved 2.4 million in caps space. we will play one game without mason raymond which will suck, but at least cody hodgson will have a chance to play in the nhl for one game before the gets sent down to manitoba. And we have to prey to god that roberto luongo's sore groin doesnt act up and we have to put in eddie lack because he is not ready for play yet. then after the first game we will send eddie lack and hodgson down to the ahl and call up raymond and schneider who never really left but were watching the game from the pressbox all along.
Mike Gillis you are a genius! and so are u hark for figuring out his plan.
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Friday, June 27, 2008
The Todd Bertuzzi Sweepstakes
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Yet another moment that Brian Burke looks like a fool. Today it was announced that Todd Bertuzzi has been place on waivers so the ducks will not have to pay his 4 million dollars for the upcoming seasons. what teams could potentially be interested in this star?
Toronto-Typically Toronto would be the obvious choice. They are one of the few organizations that always seem to be willing to sign 'past-their-prime' players. However with recent buyouts to many mistakes from the past, Toronto has probably smartened up, and will not sign big bert.
Vancouver- If the canucks resign naslund, bringing bert back might be a good idea. You could reunite the pairing and make them a deadly second line to the Sedin's. You could also replace morrison with Kesler as their center, to make them more defensively sound (which has always been Big Bert's shortcoming).
Really though, the list of potential cities that bertuzzi could end up in is endless. Mike Keenan has already made a stupid trade for him once before. Wouldn't it be great if he urged sutter to sign the big bruiser?
-Hark
Yet another moment that Brian Burke looks like a fool. Today it was announced that Todd Bertuzzi has been place on waivers so the ducks will not have to pay his 4 million dollars for the upcoming seasons. what teams could potentially be interested in this star?
Toronto-Typically Toronto would be the obvious choice. They are one of the few organizations that always seem to be willing to sign 'past-their-prime' players. However with recent buyouts to many mistakes from the past, Toronto has probably smartened up, and will not sign big bert.
Vancouver- If the canucks resign naslund, bringing bert back might be a good idea. You could reunite the pairing and make them a deadly second line to the Sedin's. You could also replace morrison with Kesler as their center, to make them more defensively sound (which has always been Big Bert's shortcoming).
Really though, the list of potential cities that bertuzzi could end up in is endless. Mike Keenan has already made a stupid trade for him once before. Wouldn't it be great if he urged sutter to sign the big bruiser?
-Hark
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