Showing posts with label vancouver cancuks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vancouver cancuks. Show all posts

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Iggy joins the 1000 point club

Congrats Iggy on getting 1000 points last night on April 1, 2011!

He is now only 1 goal away from hitting the 40 goal mark after an absolutely dreadful start to the season. As great as Iggy has been playing, I think that playing with Alex Tanguay all year long as really helped him. Hopefully he can continue pushing on if Tangs decides to leave in the offseason.

On a purely selfish note, I wanted him to get his 1000th point in Denver when I am there on Sunday so I could have seen it live and chanted IGGY IGGY IGGY. Oh well, beggars can't be choosers.

The Flames have increased their playoff chances to 0.8% according to NHLclubstats

http://www.sportsclubstats.com/NHL/Western/Northwest/Flames.html

What a roller coaster ride of a season.

So with the Flames pretty much out, I call upon FLAMES NATION to jointly take all your anger, sorrow, despair, hatred, and all negative emotions you feel after this season and direct it upon the Vancouver Canucks. Those little bitches can't win a Cup. If they do, the Vancouverites who have infested our great city will never let us hear the end of it.

"Oh, but I want Canada to get the cup" you say. Well I say "50% of all players are Canadian so it doesn't even matter, and we just won the most important Gold Medal Olympic game in the history of the entire universe. Vancouver probably has the LEAST amount of Canadians on their active roster anyways, so if you are truly patriotic, you will cheer AGAINST them.

Seriously, they can't. They got to lose. I don't care what round, I don't care against who, but I will be cheering like a mahf on Barry Bonds' steroids for the opposing team.

I'm not disrespecting Canucks are a team, since they are clearly very good. #1 goals scored, goals against, PP, top goaltender, already locked down presidents trophy when nobody in the west has even locked down a playoff spot; they have had a superb season.

Which makes it all the more fun if they get bounced in the first round.

Maybe I'm on crack like Theo though.

-Hal

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Lessons of Glen Sather: How to defy Mathematics

This is a very important post for canucks fans everywhere. with recent news that the neidermyer brothers are thinking of joining the canucks so they can be in the city for the 2010 olympics, we must understand the capology of the situation. my question that i will be asking is, will it be possible for the canucks to sign, the sedins, gaborik and the neidermyer brothers this off season?

currently the cap space is at 56 million. i know its the economic crisis, but i have a feeling the cap will increase again this year. lets assume that it goes up to 58 million. the canucks have 34 million allocated for next season on 15 players. usually you want around 23 players that means the canucks have 22 million to sign 8 players. the sedins, neidermyers and gaborik are 5 players. that leaves 3 other players on top of these to fill the void and lets assume we spend 2 million altogether on these 3 players. that leaves us with 20 million dollars to sign the big 5. is it possible?

slob neidermyer is currently making 2 million, but hes going to have to take a paycut if hes going to play in van. plus the only reason we want him is for his brother so he should understand that its only fair.

scott is currently making 6.75, so i think if he is signing a 1 year contract it would be good for him to take 7 million. we cant expect to pay him any less given the fact that we were willing to pay mats sundin 8.6 million for this season.

gaborik currently makes 6.3. i think he will fetch up to 8 million on the open market.

and the sedins will likely be available for 6 million each. the loss to chicago brings down their value because they have proven to be inconsistent playoff players throughout their history.

if we add that all up: 1+7+8+6+6=28

so unfortunately it does not look like i will be able to have my cake and eat it too. the canucks will likely have to skip out on gaborik, if they are going to land the brothers of sedin and neid's.

however, we could be like the flyers and bank on injuries in order to do well. everyone should know that gaborik and demitra will play 82 games, as a couple, 41 games each. they will likely both fake injuries to go on a gay cruise together at some point in the season. their injuruies (assuming they both only play half a season) would free up 6 million in cap space. all you would have to do is trade sami salo (3.5) for some draft picks and this situation will be doable. that would even leave 2 million dollars to spend on getting someone at the trade deadline.

the lineup for next year will be like this:

gaborik-kesler-demitra
sedin-sedin-burrows
bernier-raymond-grabner
hordichuk-johnson-slob neids

mitchell-scott neids
salo-edler
vaananen-o'brien

luongo-schneider

-hark