06-20-2014, 10:41 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Austria, NOT Australia
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given that it's a pretty weak UFA class, I'm sure he'll find another sweet lunatic deal somewhere, just like Lecavalier did last year.
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06-20-2014, 10:42 AM
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#22
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I bet he goes back to Dallas.
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06-20-2014, 10:43 AM
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#23
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary
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Nick Kypreos@RealKyper4 mins
Because #NHL teams cannot buyout a #NHL signing bonus, #Rangers Richards will also receive 8M over the next 3 yrs from New York.
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06-20-2014, 10:44 AM
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#24
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: PEI
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Brad will not be a big UFA this year, but he is far from done. I would guess he gets a 1 or 2 year deal for $2.5M
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06-20-2014, 10:45 AM
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#25
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Da_Chief
I bet he goes back to Dallas.
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He hated the travel there. I don't know if that changes with their move to the Central Division.
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06-20-2014, 10:45 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Vancouver, B.C
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Looks like we dodged a bullet big time but still have to wonder if he would have had a better fate playing inbetween Tangs and Iggy.
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06-20-2014, 10:46 AM
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I have no idea where he might end up. On the surface, he is still putting up points at a decent enough clip to get a contract, but he slipped down the line up as the playoffs went along.
I wouldn't be too surprised if he ended up on a team like Columbus, maybe even Ottawa depending on what they get back for Spezza. Doesn't seem to me like there is going to be a lot of demand for his services at this stage of his career.
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06-20-2014, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by King Theo
Brad will not be a big UFA this year, but he is far from done. I would guess he gets a 1 or 2 year deal for $2.5M
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He'll get Vinny like deal. No way he signs for 2.5 imho.
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06-20-2014, 10:51 AM
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#29
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: PEI
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Originally Posted by Da_Chief
He'll get Vinny like deal. No way he signs for 2.5 imho.
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His deal was 5 years at $4.5M? That is way to much.
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06-20-2014, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by bluloc
Looks like we dodged a bullet big time but still have to wonder if he would have had a better fate playing inbetween Tangs and Iggy.
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He may have put up ten or twenty more points, we still would have finished 9th, and if anything we'd be further behind than we are today.
In theory.
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06-20-2014, 10:56 AM
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#31
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Not sure how much he helped really. I mean he was a moving part of the team but he wasn't much of a factor outside of a small handful of games and was pretty awful in some of the key games in the finals.
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That is setting a really high standard.
He was a top-6 forward in a team that played 25 playoff games... and came back against Crosby/Malkin and the Penguins being down 3-1 with Richards scoring the winning goal in a 2-1 road game 7.
If you are basing the buyout on his ho-hum playoff performance then Crosby should have been bought out as well.
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06-20-2014, 10:58 AM
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#32
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First Line Centre
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Remember this?
MCKENZIE: FLAMES HAVE MADE A LEGITIMATE OFFER FOR RICHARDS 7/2/2011
Flames general manager Jay Feaster was the GM of the Lightning when Richards was there and there's no question that Feaster put together a package that had Richards thinking very long and hard about the option of maybe going to the Flames. The deal is believed to be in the same sort of financial neighbourhood as the Rangers' offer - maybe up around nine years at $64 million.
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06-20-2014, 10:58 AM
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#34
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: The Void between Darkness and Light
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Bullet Dodged.
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06-20-2014, 11:06 AM
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#35
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easily could have been calgary that other fans were laughing at... count ourselves lucky were are in the western prairies and not the east coast...
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06-20-2014, 11:07 AM
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I believe in the Jays.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by King Theo
Brad will not be a big UFA this year, but he is far from done. I would guess he gets a 1 or 2 year deal for $2.5M
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That's a tad low... I'd guess that it'll be more in the 3-3.5 range. In any event he won't be holding court in a pub with 20 teams waiting in line to pitch him like last time.
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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
easily could have been calgary that other fans were laughing at... count ourselves lucky were are in the western prairies and not the east coast...
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Easily could have been 2/3rds of the league. Hard to fathom that he was once so coveted... everybody that didn't have an internal budget below the cap ceiling wanted Brad Richards.
Last edited by Parallex; 06-20-2014 at 11:11 AM.
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06-20-2014, 11:08 AM
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Learning Phaneufs skating style
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Quote:
Originally Posted by united
Remember this?
The deal is believed to be in the same sort of financial neighbourhood as the Rangers' offer - maybe up around nine years at $64 million.[/I]
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The scary thing is in subsequent STH meetings Ken King says the Flames offer was actually higher than what the media had reported.
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06-20-2014, 11:10 AM
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#38
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: PEI
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Parallex
That's a tad low... I'd guess that it'll be more in the 3-3.5 range. In any event he won't be holding court in a pub with 20 teams waiting in line to pitch him like last time.
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Good old Islanders know where to do business.
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06-20-2014, 11:10 AM
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#39
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Couldn't of happened to a more deserving guy. Loses in the final. Then gets bought out a week later.
I wish these compliance buyouts never existed. I would have loved to watch the Rags eat those contracts.
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