Iron Crotch

Clitsome is a UFA? :thumbsup:

He is a +22 in the playoffs, which leads the league by a wide margin. Personally, I'd take all the proven playoff performers we can get provided the price is right.

How about Nathan Horton for $6 million or so? He is from Welland, I think. Is only 28 too.

Perhaps I should have typed "TIC" after my comment. :D

I hope Streit re-signs with the Isles in 3 weeks. ;)

About time the NHL realizes/admits there is no viable way for anyone to make money in Glendale... there will be plenty of bidders if they let the team move.

We're not dead yet! Money goal by Richards.

... I find defensive 1-0 games to be kind of boring.

As someone who is rapidly hurtling toward divorce, my advice to all not-yet-married SabresSpacers is: DO NOT marry someone who hates hockey! ;)

Ever try a FiberOne bar? ...They should probably just rename them FartOne bars.

Happy birthday, Gemini(s)!

Doc uses the phrase "rubbed out" a bit too often.

Pittsburgh looked like an undisciplined mess at times in this one.

Yeah, it is well known that publicly financed stadiums are almost universally a bad deal from a purely economic perspective. Typically a team will either own the arena (e.g. Boston, LA, Ottawa, etc.) in which case they get a piece of all (including non-hockey) building operational income (e.g. concessions, parking, building rental, concerts, etc.) or will lease the arena from the municipality that built it (e.g. St. Louis, Nashville, Phoenix, Minnesota, etc.) for a fee that is usually either several million $ per year or a predefined percentage of revenue. A sweet lease deal gives the team a piece of non-hockey operations (e.g. New Jersey, Carolina). A really sweet deal ala what Nashville has gives the team a substantial lease discount plus non-hockey operations. Nashville only pays $1.5 mil. per year lease (Davidson county subsidizes the additional $7million+) and takes in over $7 million per year on arena revenues even though they don't own the arena (they "manage" it). I don't know how all of the NHL leases are structured, but the only municipality that I know of that overtly pays a team to play there is Winnipeg (part of attracting a team back). I agree that teams often get sweetheart deals from cities to play there, but this new Coyotes deal seems above-and-beyond that. Since moving to the desert in 1996, the Coyotes have lost $15-35 million each and every year.... Glendale ran a $35 million deficit in FY 2013... yet Glendale is willing to pay a team ~$15million per year of taxpayer money to play there? And the league will dump an additional $85 million "loan" on the owners? And both will do so with the knowledge that the team has never even come close to breaking even? Maybe I'm missing something but how do any of the investing parties realistically expect to make their money back?

Bend over Glendale, AZ taxpayers... bend over NHL... prospective Coyotes deal: http://www.forbes.co...-funded-by-nhl/ No wonder Glendale's bond rating is plummeting. IMHO, keeping the team in Arizona isn't worth all of this.

The title goes to Halifax with a 6-4 win. MacKinnon was clearly the best player on the ice tonight.

End of 2 with Halifax up 3-2. So far the game and the top prospects are living up to the hype. BTW - I still like Nick Petan as a highly skilled, undersized player. He is projected as a late-first, early-second round pick.

Exciting final. Redemption for Bayern after last year's loss to Chelsea.

Too much text for me to read... but, welcome!

Ugh. Anyone but Marchand.

Seeing Terror, Decapitated, and Lamb of God in Nashville on Saturday. I'm probably getting too old for shows like this... ...but I don't care!

This is exactly what I have in the right shoulder (luckily I'm left handed) - a SLAP tear. I also have what my doctor describes to be a "frayed" rotator cuff. The cortizone shots do wonders in that they remove the swelling and the movement is more-or-less normal afterwards. Certain things I can never do again (e.g. incline bench press), you have to do the PT shoulder exercises religiously as you mentioned, and you have to stick to relatively modest weights on all upper-body lifts. But, surgery isn't always mandatory... or at least can be delayed indefinitely until more damage is done.

Portland Center Nicolas Petan is an interesting prospect. He is tiny, but he led the WHL in scoring (120 points in 71 games) and was a ridiculous +68. He seems to have come out of nowhere. One season wonder? Did his linemates make him look better than he really is? It'll be interesting to see where he is drafted.

Might not be a bad move for the Ducks, but they're in "cap jail" next season. They'd have to move out some players (definitely Hiller) to take on Miller's salary. BTW - I think Dustin Brown is my favorite player in the entire league. That guy is built for playoff hockey.

######. Leafs fans might burn down the city.