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  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    Dr. Delight wrote:
    Big loss.

    INJURY NEWS: Flyers GM Paul Holmgren on (D) Andrej Meszaros: "Andrej had successful surgery this morning to repair a torn right achilles tendon. The surgery was performed by Dr. Steve Raikin at Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia. Andrej was injured last week during summer training in Slovakia. Andrej will be out indefinitely."

    :fp:

    that blows
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  • neilybabes86
    neilybabes86 Posts: 16,057
    Dr. Delight wrote:
    Big loss.

    INJURY NEWS: Flyers GM Paul Holmgren on (D) Andrej Meszaros: "Andrej had successful surgery this morning to repair a torn right achilles tendon. The surgery was performed by Dr. Steve Raikin at Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia. Andrej was injured last week during summer training in Slovakia. Andrej will be out indefinitely."


    hate to see that


    you guys are dangerously thin on defense
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  • Dr. Delight
    Dr. Delight Posts: 11,210
    Well theres another $4M or so to be put on LTIR.

    Pronger gone, Carle and now Mez.
    Thats a lot of experience lost on the blue line.
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  • neilybabes86
    neilybabes86 Posts: 16,057
    you guys might have to get held hostage for any decent d-man
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  • jamminpearls
    jamminpearls Posts: 7,078
    Yandle???
    Go Birds!!!!
  • jamminpearls
    jamminpearls Posts: 7,078
    Danny B back to Buffalo????
    Go Birds!!!!
  • Dr. Delight
    Dr. Delight Posts: 11,210
    jamminpearls wrote:
    Danny B back to Buffalo????
    Why?
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  • fife
    fife Posts: 3,327
    so another guy gone for a while.

    http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=403040

    this is just getting messed up
  • 81
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    fife wrote:
    so another guy gone for a while.

    http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=403040

    this is just getting messed up

    not much of a loss
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  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,363
    81 wrote:
    fife wrote:
    so another guy gone for a while.

    http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=403040

    this is just getting messed up

    not much of a loss

    Just not much depth on the blue line is all.
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  • 81
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    true....but he didn't much last year. i'd rather see a young guy come up than Lilja out there.
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  • Dr. Delight
    Dr. Delight Posts: 11,210
    Wayne Simmonds extended:

    TSNBobMcKenzie: Wayne Simmonds has agreed to 6 year extension with PHI. Not sure on precise AAV but hearing it's around $4M per year.
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  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,363
    Dr. Delight wrote:
    Wayne Simmonds extended:

    TSNBobMcKenzie: Wayne Simmonds has agreed to 6 year extension with PHI. Not sure on precise AAV but hearing it's around $4M per year.

    Awesome!

    Hard to think of a guy that was more quickly embraced by the Flyers fan base.
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  • The Fixer
    The Fixer Posts: 12,837
    Johnny Abruzzo wrote:
    Dr. Delight wrote:
    Wayne Simmonds extended:

    TSNBobMcKenzie: Wayne Simmonds has agreed to 6 year extension with PHI. Not sure on precise AAV but hearing it's around $4M per year.

    Awesome!

    Hard to think of a guy that was more quickly embraced by the Flyers fan base.

    yeah, I like simmonds. glad they locked him up.

    all this lockout talk is annoying. with all the injuries on the blue line a delayed start to the season probably wouldn't be a bad thing.
  • neilybabes86
    neilybabes86 Posts: 16,057
    hope he can play defense

    although their isn't gonna be a season regardless
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  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    neilybabes86 wrote:
    although their isn't gonna be a season regardless

    i think there will be some sort of season...maybe not a full season, but a season none the less
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  • jamminpearls
    jamminpearls Posts: 7,078
    3.84-3.97mill is a very good price for Simmonds,good job Homer!!!!
    Go Birds!!!!
  • Dr. Delight
    Dr. Delight Posts: 11,210
    jamminpearls wrote:
    3.84-3.97mill is a very good price for Simmonds,good job Homer!!!!
    It will be even less once the salary rollback occurs in the new CBA. Then it will prob settle around $3M/per.
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  • Dr. Delight
    Dr. Delight Posts: 11,210
    There are some scary possibilities to be forthcoming in the new CBA: Such as,

    The NHLPA’s proposal contains a three-year term for a new CBA with an option for a fourth year. Notably, the proposal contains a measure which would result in the players receiving a reduced proportion of HRR (hockey-related revenue) resulting in increased revenue sharing which could be as much as $250 million per year, assuming the financial growth of the NHL continues at the pace in which it has grown since 2005. This, Fehr and the NHLPA proposes, will create a “more stable industry” in the NHL.

    As Jeff Marek of Sportsnet wisely notes, this concession by the players will end up pitting the owners against one another. Instead of this being a wholesale issue of “players versus owners”, the players are essentially saying, “We’ll back out of this debate and proverbially ‘take one for the team’. Now that there is going to be more money in the pool, you owners need to sit down and discuss amongst yourselves how that revenue is going to be split up.” As one might imagine, big market clubs are none-too-enthusiastic about footing the bill for player salaries on small market clubs.

    Put bluntly, it would mean that the Flyers would end up helping a team like the Predators pay for Shea Weber’s $110 million contract.


    Regarding the salary cap–another contentious issue–Fehr stated to reporters that a “hard” salary cap would remain in place with “a couple small exceptions”. John Shannon of Sportsnet has announced that part of the NHLPA proposal includes the option for teams to “trade” cap space. While unspecific on exactly what this means, the impression I get is that, for example, Team X can trade $2 million in cap space to Team Y for a player or players. Team Y would then be in a position to exceed the salary cap by $2 million while Team X acquires the players and has their salary cap reduced by $2 million. The amount of money in the pool would be the same; it would simply be redistributed differently. This may also explain what Fehr meant by there being a “hard” cap with “a couple small exceptions”.

    Larry Brooks of the New York Post clarified the issue of “trading cap space”. He explains that teams will be allowed to go as high as $4 million above the salary cap ceiling and $4 million below the cap floor. Furthermore, the proposal contains provisions for additional draft picks given to smaller market teams to do with as they please (develop, trade, “sell” for cap space) :evil: .Yeah, lets help the small market teams some more. UNREAL. The NHLPA has also proposed a limit on non-player spending on teams.
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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,853
    I have a problem with the Networks who won the "bid" for the US broadcast rights to the NHL funding one of its teams. Seems like a windfall from everyone and a conflict of interest.

    Without revenue sharing, the league cannot sustain itself. There are about 6 teams who make a lot of money mostly due to their media market. Fan support does not mean all that much. There are teams who can sell out every game, but cant get out of the red unless they make it to the Conference Finals. We cant go back to 6 teams bidding on every star player, while the other markets get an assortment of scrubs and hopefully make a run every 5, 10 years or so. It is great when every team has a collection of stars and we dont see a $140 million dollar payroll vs a $35 million dollar payroll. Not only that, people in growing markets that cant afford good players will lose interest.
    Half the league (at least) would fall into obscurity or disband completely.

    It has worked in the NFL and helped grow that league to mammoth proportions. There is an emphasis on developing and keeping good players, while complimenting them with the right FAs. Its a lot better than just a race to outspend everyone else and remind us what is wrong with sports.


    The best way I can see it, is revenue sharing, grow all 30 teams, increase the TV footprint and corporate involvement. That way the bottom teams will be more and more profitable. They would also be more attractive to wealthy owners adding to the stability of the league, innovation, quality of facilities, etc.

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