Just think of the cap space!

Ando · Guru

Just think of the cap space!

Andy · Veteran Member

According to TSN's salary tracker, New Jersy has 43.48 Million tied up already and they have not signed Gionta or Gomez.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/feature/?fid=2704&hubname=

JohnM · Guru

I too have confidence in the upcoming season.

We don't even need spectacular goaltending, just steady and solid. Our defence core has grown together and will do much better this year. The lack of a #2 center and possibly #1 center if Saku doesn't come back should be our biggest concern.

If Ribs can show some hard work, I expect to have a 70+ point season out of him. He won't have the distractions of Theo and Dags around and can concentrate on hockey.

Let's hope BG can work a little magic and tinker with the lineup enough to have what we need come playoff time next year. Just remember if it wasn't for Williams taking out Koivu with a high stick we would have had much higher hopes going into the upcoming season.

Ando · Guru

Yeah...NJ made their bed and will soon have to lay in it!

...and it would be a shame if Gainey had to trade a 4th and 5th rounder for both!

(And-o has a feeling about later this week (Thursday'ish...call it a hunch!!!)

Diehardhabsfan · Veteran Member

then trade abby for zetterberg

just a thought

Jay1982 · Guru

Ando, I think you, and everyone else on this board knows where I stand!!! I believe that not giving into this shopping spree has benefited the habs!

Peart_2112 · Veteran Member

It has been pretty well reported that the Devils were going to have to make a decision....sign Elias and Langenbrunner which backs them up against the cap and then end up having to dump some salary and it looks like it's going to be Gionta and Gomez or both. I think the Habs are sitting in a pretty good position right now to still make a couple of key acquisitions over the summer if not sooner and I am willing to give Gainey the benefit of the doubt and see how things play out over the summer.

macneil · Guru

and-o im impressed , you the optimist ? well i agree we will be better this season but we still need to address the 2nd line center ,or first line center from your perspective lol.i think our d is serviceable and i dont think bob will do anything back there , why sign bou and striet if he was going to grab another dman , unless he drops 1 of the others . i like our team if we can get a better center(lang for kovy)and deal the unwanted , we will be fine .

beakermania · Senior Member

Allright, fess up guys, who hacked into And-Os user name????

I like the optimism And-O and I agree with you, I seriously doubt that BG is done, he is just waiting for the right move, the one where he doesn't overpay for an overrated bum. Today is thursday, so maybe today is the day?? But if not there is still lots of time before training camp starts.

I really think we are gonna see a trade as opposed to a UFA.

Figaro · Guru

You can only eat so much before you have to take a dump - look for some fatcat GMs running to the mens' room and Gainey waiting by the door with the key. "I can let you in, but it will cost you."

beakermania · Senior Member

And-O was right. Gainey finally signed someone today (thursday).

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=170681&hubname=

Too bad on who it is though.

macneil · Guru

by the way gainey is overpaying our own rfa's we may be in cap trouble ourselves , 1mil for begin, 1.8 for bou-bou, 1.9 for ribs , 600 thou. for striet , we still have to sign ryder , higgins and komo . i hope we have some money left to feed these players. were at 32.5 mill with 17 players sign the above 3 and a backup and were over 40 mil , no new blood this year people unless we trade for them and all we have to offer is aebisher and zed .

Saku Koivu $4.75 million
Alexei Kovalev $4.5 million
Cristobal Huet Two year deal for $5.75 million $3 million
Craig Rivet $2.47 million
Sheldon Souray $2.432 million
Radek Bonk $2.394 million
Andrei Markov $2 million
Richard Zednik $1.976 million
Mike Ribeiro One-year-deal $1.9 million
Francis Bouillon Three year deal, pays $1.875M each year $1.875 million
Mathieu Dandenault $1.7 million
Andrei Kastsitsyn $801,800
Steve Begin $646,000
Garth Murray $575,000
Aaron Downey $475,000
Tomas Plekanec $450,000
Mark Streit Undisclosed