There will be no moves it seems, here are our lines going into 06/07:

Saku Koivu  4,750,000.00 C1
Christopher Higgins 673,000.00 LW1
Micheal Ryder  2,500,000.00 RW1
  
Mike Ribeiro  1,900,000.00 C2
Richard Zednik  1,976,000.00 LW2
Alexei Kovalev  4,500,000.00 RW2
  
Tomas Plekanec  450,000.00 C3
Andrei Kostitsyn 801,800.00 LW3
Alexander Perezhogin 673,000.00 RW3
  
Radek Bonk  2,394,000.00 C4
Garth Murray  575,000.00 LW4
Steve Begin  646,000.00 RW4
  
Andrei Markov  2,000,000.00 LD1
Mike Komisarek  673,000.00 RD1
  
Sheldon Souray  2,432,000.00 LD2
Craig Rivet  2,470,000.00 RD2
  
Francis Bouillon 1,875,000.00 LD3
Mathieu Dandenault 1,700,000.00 RD3

Cristobal Huet   3,000,000.00 G1
David Abeisher  2,000,000.00 G2

   37,988,800.00 

Johnny- unless I am missing something we are at 38 million with a 44 million cap..what happened to this huge amount of cap room everyone talked about on here and were so excited about? 6 mill does not buy you alot of free agents in this day and age. Or in Gainey's case, does not buy you any free agents.

-- Edited by barry33 at 13:41, 2006-07-10

JohnM wrote:

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With all the raises going around it has eaten all the cap space we had... :(

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Nice  And- O, would you say, as you did with Julien before he got canned, that this is Streeeeeeike one for Gainey? Our cap money is gone. This same cap money that you raved about and were wetting your pants about in another post. Or will Gainey continue to be known as Teflon Bob?

-- Edited by barry33 at 14:31, 2006-07-10

barry33 wrote:

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Sympatico/MSN Sports reports the same:http://sports.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/Home/ContentPosting.aspx?feedname=CBC-SPORTS-V2&newsitemid=nhlsignings&showbyline=True

barry33 wrote:

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...And- O, would you say, as you did with Julien before he got canned, that this is Streeeeeeike one for Gainey? Our cap money is gone. This same cap money that you raved about and were wetting your pants about in another post. Or will Gainey continue to be known as Teflon Bob?

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And-o...howww you say???...no speake ze english!!!  LOL!

Seriously though Barry33.....And-o is a little considered about the inflation factor that took a huge chunk out of our cap space as well.....but And-o assumed that Bob would need to clear some cap room anyway via the trade route.

Having said this...And-o is not yet prepared to deliver Bob-o strike one.....although And-o has warned the 'dug-out' about the dirty accounting practices!!!

P.S. CJ deserved each and every 'strike' against him...And-o was more than fair!  Rest assured...Bob will be accountable to the fans this season!!!

Ando wrote:

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barry33 wrote: ...And- O, would you say, as you did with Julien before he got canned, that this is Streeeeeeike one for Gainey? Our cap money is gone. This same cap money that you raved about and were wetting your pants about in another post. Or will Gainey continue to be known as Teflon Bob? And-o...howww you say???...no speake ze english!!!  LOL! Seriously though Barry33.....And-o is a little considered about the inflation factor that took a huge chunk out of our cap space as well.....but And-o assumed that Bob would need to clear some cap room anyway via the trade route. Having said this...And-o is not yet prepared to deliver Bob-o strike one.....although And-o has warned the 'dug-out' about the dirty accounting practices!!! P.S. CJ deserved each and every 'strike' against him...And-o was more than fair!  Rest assured...Bob will be accountable to the fans this season!!!

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barry33 wonders if And-O would be so forgiving and leniant if Gainey were not a habs legend. barry33 thinsk that Gainey gets cut alot of slack by And-O because of this

barry33 wrote:

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...barry33 wonders if And-O would be so forgiving and leniant if Gainey were not a habs legend. barry33 thinsk that Gainey gets cut alot of slack by And-O because of this...

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And-o and Bob-o originate from the same town...we drank the same water!  Thus, Bob-o enjoys 'home-ice advantage' of sorts where And-o is concerned. 

However, make no mistake, blood is thicker than water...and Bob-o is not too far off of being in And-o's bomb sites.....afterall, it was Saku's contract that got the OVER-inflationary ball rolling...plus the foolish 'no trade' clause...which is a big hairy monster in the closet if ever there was one!

beakermania wrote:

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  Where are you getting the numbers?? Some of the numbers are off.  IE Huet is being paid 3,000,000. but only counts 2.875 against the cap as his cap number is his total contract value/years, not his pay per year.  Not sure on all the other numbers too. 5.75/2 = 2.875

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Nope, for Huet, he is being paid 3M for 06/07 and 2.75M for 07/08.

beakermania wrote:

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JohnM wrote: beakermania wrote:   Where are you getting the numbers?? Some of the numbers are off.  IE Huet is being paid 3,000,000. but only counts 2.875 against the cap as his cap number is his total contract value/years, not his pay per year.  Not sure on all the other numbers too. 5.75/2 = 2.875 Nope, for Huet, he is being paid 3M for 06/07 and 2.75M for 07/08. I know that, but you cannot avoid the cap by paying a player more in one year over another.  His real money figure for this year may be 3million, but his cap hit is only 2.85 done with my math earlier.  07/08 his real money will be 2.75 but the cap hit will be 2.85 again. Cap hits are determined by Value of Contract / years on contract.  This was put in place so teams could not backload contracts assuming the cap would increase every year.  At the same time Huet's front loaded contract (and all others) is subject to the same rules.

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Irregardless Beak,we do not have this huge cap windfall that many thought. Given the fact that we do not have many tradeable players (at least ones that Gainey wants to part with) to get RFA's and not a huge amount of cash for UFA's (not that anyone wants to play here anyway), it is looking like our awesome one/two center punch of Koivu and Ribiero are intact for another year.