Wednesday Caps Clips

Thanks – I popped it into the post.

Does voting for Vancouver make me a bad person? I love that logo.

Oh, heh, should have gone further, since Holik’s deal is atrocious. I never even knew that deal existed.

Caps-Jagr of course comes in too.

My bad – I was Russian, err, rushin’ this morning. I’ll change it.

I can’t think of Redden now without thinking of Down Goes Brown Amazon.com Wade Redden ad.

I wonder how long an adult writing for a blog will allow himself to be referred to as “Intern.”

Google cache that shiz, yo!

Color me unimpressed.

The final no-brainer move Washington appears poised to make this fall is with the promotion of Mathieu Perreault to fill a major hole.

Even guys who have spent much of their career in the NHL haven’t been able to center a second line, and there is no proof yet that Matty can either.

So if we don’t know if Perreault can fill the major hole, how is this a no-brainer move?

Some guys who bear relatively modest numbers in hockey’s second-best league make the jump and just catch lightning in the proverbial bottle. They play bigger in the big league than numbers alone would seem to indicate they should. That sure seems like what happened in 2009-10 with Matty.

If Perreault’s 9 points in 21 NHL games really was “bigger than his AHL numbers would seem to indicate” that Perreault should be able to do at the NHL level, then there’s no way he should even be sniffing the 2C. 9 in 21 projects out to 34 points. I don’t think we’d be very happy with a 34 point second line center. I’d like my 2C to be doing at least better than a point every two games. (Of course, Perreault’s AHL numbers actually suggest he may have more upside — Perreault had 50 points in 56 regular season games with Hershey, and more importantly, 19 points in 21 playoff games.)

Perreault might be the answer, he might not. But at least look at his actual stats before crowning him a no-brainer.

The game is actually tomorrow night. Today they get out their sticks and play a little golf.

Other Caps playing in hockey tourneys this week: Tomas Fleischmann is playing with Jagr, Kaberle, Plekanec, and a bunch of the Czech all-stars today, Nicky/Foppa/Naslund have two more Icebreakers games, and Dmitri Orlov and Geno Kuznetsov are playing for Team Russia in a friendly three-game tournament with France. Dima got a helper in his game yesterday.

I’m hoping I’ll be able to find some pix of Flash’s game. On the plus side, I guess that means he didn’t get another blood clot!

Yup. Wanted that guy bad.

I swear, that passage is from the lost books of the Lord of the Rings.

It was a beautiful goal. I watched both games between USA-Småkronorna and he had a great tournament. I will definitely make the trip to Gävle a couple of times this season to watch him play.

Just thinking about what he will be able to do with those hands and that hockey sense when he fills out some more makes me drool. He weights in at 165 lbs (if that) and the way he handled playoff hockey against man while weighting practically nothing..
Sigh.

If we include management in there, I am surprised Jim Rutherford isn’t there. He seems to be just as much of the Canes image as most recent players who have gone through there have been.

Good to see an honourable mention for Dineen though,

no gordie howe?

which begs the question, can one person be on two team’s mount puckmores? for example, mark messier…

Can’t argue with Francis or Wesley… they were keys to the franchise. Brindy is a good choice too. Would have taken Dineen over Staal.

The only way I see the League getting around the 60-day language is if they noted their objections within the 60-day window and said that their investigation would be ongoing.

But it’s a douchey move on the League’s part to go that route.

according to Wysh’s recent entry, that is correct.

According to the collective bargaining agreement, here’s the skinny on de-registering a standard player contract from Section 11.6 (assuming this is the applicable section):
(b) Subsequent Challenge and/or De-Registration of SPCs.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 11.6, an approved and registered SPC may be subject to subsequent challenge and/or de-registration by the League: (i) in the case of a Circumvention relating to either the Club Upper Limit or the Maximum Player Salary, within sixty (60) days from the date upon which the facts of the Circumvention became known or reasonably should have been known to the NHL, or (ii) in the case of a challenge pursuant to (i) or (ii) below, within fourteen (14) days from the date upon which the SPC was approved by the NHL.

however, there is also this

Boston Bruins: Boston Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli issued a statement Tuesday about Marc Savard’s seven-year contract that was signed in December 2009 and ends with him making $525,000 in each of the last two years of that deal. From the Bruins:
“We are cooperating fully with the League in its investigation of the Marc Savard contract extension. The League informed us upon their registration of the contract on December 1, 2009 that they would be investigating the circumstances surrounding this contract. From that point on, they commenced their investigation and it has been ongoing since then. On August 4th, I met with two League appointed lawyers as part of the investigation. We will continue to cooperate with the League in any future investigative proceedings if necessary and we will have no further comment on the matter at this time.”
Aug. 4, of course, being the start of the Kovalchuk arbitration hearing. How convenient. DJ Bean of WEEI wonders how long the Bruins have known that the Savard deal could be spiked — and if they’d be OK with that occurring.

It’s interesting, a lot of the Leafs fans I’ve seen think it’s too soon for him.

Pouring one out for what might have been.

what did they do, engrave it back in March?

Story is now up.

Seriously, wow. A hoax made a lot of sense.

Another conference where we can bang our heads against the wall over the stupid questions they let through.