2010 NHL off-season and draft thread

For all you budding capologists, here's a pretty good site:

http://www.capgeek.com/

 

I hate that site. I've been trying to get it to tell me it'll all be okay for the Blackhawks for two weeks, but it keeps telling me they are boned.

 

That's okay. You didn't really think they'd win another Cup in the next 49 years, did you? ;D

 

This, courtesy of the very funny Leafs blogger, Down Goes Brown.

 

You listen to everything but realistically no. The only real possibility I could see happening is if the Oilers privately settle on Seguin and then can get an extra pick or prospect out of Boston, as it is obvious who the Bruins favour. I don't think they've made much a secret of it.

It is far more likely that the Oilers buy back into the middle of the first round to get a defenceman (Pysyk maybe?) using their second and possibly Cogliano or some assortment like that.

 

With rumours about Jason Spezza asking for a trade, a "Save Spezza" rally was organized on Parliament Hill and attracted......15 people.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Save-Spezza-rally-draws-enough-fans-to-fill-row-;_ylt=Ao0Wr.iy38RkGQ3xeAnctd5_ppJ4?urn=nhl,249881#comments

"Probably a bad sign when you have less fans turn up to support you then your jersey number."

 

Typical Sens fans, don't know anything about hockey, bunch of bandwagon fans and will only support the team when they're winning.

God I hate them so much....this is a fucking joke. Sorry for the bad language.

 

TSN's Draft Ranking. As always, pretty comprehensive. Congrats

http://www.tsn.ca/draftcentre/feature/?id=24944

#1 Hall, #2 Seguin

 

I agree with this, Hall is the better player and will have the better career.

 

Kinda off topic, but caught Bobby Holik on NHL Live today.

I'll confess I'd never heard the man before, but he was insightful, funny and very opinionated. Asserted that if Johnny Mac is going to succeed, Lou and Marty have to get out of the dark ages.

Seems to me Lou is pretty set in his ways.

Anyway, thought maybe this would prompt some chat. I'm curious what some of the takes might be.

 

Lou could very easily be this generation's Punch Imlach, who won four Cups in six years and believed he was the only reason why.

Yeah, Imlach built a great dynasty. Too bad it only won four Cups when it could have, should have won six or seven in the '60s alone, then kept winning into and through the '70s.

As for Lou, his most recent Cup is getting smaller and smaller in the rearview mirror.

 

I always hated Imlach for his treatement of Mahovlich. Fucking clown couldn't even pronounce his name correctly