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[TheMazz]

It's little things like this that I hope change once Lou retires.

Why not let fans in? Show the young kids some support? What harm could it do? You'd have maybe 1000 people tops turn out

I agree. It was more enjoyable during the days of South Mountain Arena.

[ThreeCups]

I agree. It was more enjoyable during the days of South Mountain Arena.

I refer to the South Mountain days at the "glory years". Practices open to the public, we were a legit Stanley Cup contender from late 90's-mid 2000's...

I need the practices to be open again! Maybe one day...

[Neb00rs]

I'm sorry, the South Mountain days were fun but imo so demeaning for a prestigious NHL team.

[CarpathianForest]

Okay, back to Semin. Anything.....?

[ghdi]

Okay, back to Semin. Anything.....?

Rumors about the Pens offering 2 years, 10 million. Other rumors of him signing tomorrow with Pittsburgh. Nothing completely believable, but seems to be a little smoke around this particular rumor.

His agent was asked about this rumor today and said "Im not commenting".

[CarpathianForest]

Rumors about the Pens offering 2 years, 10 million. Other rumors of him signing tomorrow with Pittsburgh. Nothing completely believable, but seems to be a little smoke around this particular rumor.

His agent was asked about this rumor today and said "Im not commenting".

That sucks if indeed that is the best offer out there. If Lou won't top that then he's going senile.

[ghdi]

That sucks if indeed that is the best offer out there. If Lou won't top that then he's going senile.

Well then there was this:

"Semin told me today there is no timeline on his decision where he will sign; wouldn't confirm the clubs that made offers."

"As some asked re: the 3 year $30m reported offer to Semin from the KHL - false on both the term and the money."

Chesnokov also says that the reason for the hold up is that Semin wants a longer term deal than what he has been offered.

Thats from Chesnokov. No one's saying sh!t.

Edited by ghdi, 09 July 2012 - 04:40 PM.

[Neb00rs]

3 years/17.5-18 would be the contract I would most favor for Semin.

[CarpathianForest]

Well if Semin wants a long term deal then the offers from the other clubs must have been real sh!tty. The only reason I can think that Semin would go for 2 years at 10 mil is because he really wants to play with Malkin and "Dead Wood" Crosby.

[ghdi]

3 years/17.5-18 would be the contract I would most favor for Semin.

Id go up to 4 if we can do the deal without an NTC.

[CarpathianForest]

3 years/17.5-18 would be the contract I would most favor for Semin.

I think that's what Lou will offer Sykora.

[Neb00rs]

[CarpathianForest]

Bottom line: I think Lou is going to do jack and sh!t. I remember that when Rafalski and Gomez split after 06-07 we replaced them with Zubrus who is good. However, we went out and got Arron Asham, Vishnevski and (no disrespect)Karel Rachunek.
Surprisingly that 07-08 squad was good, but is an example of Lou's tendency to replace big losses with small fixes.

[Daniel]

Bottom line: I think Lou is going to do jack and sh!t. I remember that when Rafalski and Gomez split after 06-07 we replaced them with Zubrus who is good. However, we went out and got Arron Asham, Vishnevski and (no disrespect)Karel Rachunek.
Surprisingly that 07-08 squad was good, but is an example of Lou's tendency to replace big losses with small fixes.

Who should he have gotten in that year?

[CarpathianForest]

Who should he have gotten in that year?

Let's see:

Scott Hannan
Radek Dvorak
cory Sarich
Michael Nylander
Roman Hamrlik
Todd bertuzzi
Michael Handzus
Ken Klee(always a plus)
Eric Belanger
Ruslan Fedotenko
Mike Comrie
Sheldon Souray
Andy Sutton
Brent Sopel
Adam Hall

Edited by CarpathianForest, 09 July 2012 - 05:03 PM.

[Triumph]

I can't access the 07-08 options from the memory drive in my brain, but I'm sure their were better ideas out there than Arron Asham and Vitaly Vishnevski.

What does one thing have to do with the other? Yeah, the Devils lost Gomez and Rafalski. But their depth players were fvcking terrible the previous two years. Asham was pretty bad for NJ, but he had been a decent depth player before that and has been a decent depth guy since - a 4th liner who can play occasionally on the 3rd line and will get 10 goals a year.

Vishnevski wasn't good, and that's a case of Lou valuing tools over performance, but he was sent packing after a year - wasn't a big deal.

[CarpathianForest]

What does one thing have to do with the other? Yeah, the Devils lost Gomez and Rafalski. But their depth players were fvcking terrible the previous two years. Asham was pretty bad for NJ, but he had been a decent depth player before that and has been a decent depth guy since - a 4th liner who can play occasionally on the 3rd line and will get 10 goals a year.

Vishnevski wasn't good, and that's a case of Lou valuing tools over performance, but he was sent packing after a year - wasn't a big deal.

So you're saying that Lou's plan to replace two big pieces on the roster with "depth" players was a reasonable move.

[SterioDesign]

for all we know maybe Semin doesnt want to play here... so lets not get our hopes up... it's already a super sh!tty offseason, lets not make it worst

low expectations is key to happyness

[CarpathianForest]

for all we know maybe Semin doesnt want to play here... so lets not get our hopes up... it's already a super sh!tty offseason, lets not make it worst

low expectations is key to happyness

Well it is Lou's m.o. to replace big holes with small pieces. Maybe we can stick Patrick Rissmiller on our first line.

[Triumph]

So you're saying that Lou's plan to replace two big pieces on the roster with "depth" players was a reasonable move.

I'm saying that you don't have any idea what you're talking about, and I think that you're probably intentionally trolling, and I don't have any idea why. But assuming this isn't one of the times you're being insincere just to do it:

No. Vishnevski played 3rd pair minutes. Rachunek, if anything, was an attempt at a low cost Rafalski replacement, but Rachunek played against weak competition - he did rather well doing so though, not sure why he fell out of favor. Then I remember the coach and the consonant that Rachunek's name ends with.

In general, replacing players with free agents is a terrible solution. Free agents are normally a bad buy, and they're especially a bad buy when you're off panicking because you lost a top player.