Friday Morning Fly By: Your Mornings Weren't the Same Without My Snark

Look on the bright side – until he gets back in the game, his trade value is too low for Homer to move him.

Jagr’s current cap hit is less than JVR’s future cap hit, which is disheartening. It means we lose Jagr and gain nothing.

Jagr is technically a RW, JVR a left.

Overpaying young players with untapped potential is a league-wide epidemic. At least they didn’t sign him to a 15-year contract.

James Neal just scored 30 goals for the first time in his career and was awarded with a 5 million dollar contract through till 2018. That’s from a front office which is widely regarded as more than adept. JVR scored 7 goals in 11 games during last season’s playoffs. Obviously that doesn’t mean we’d expect 52 goals over 82 games, but would it be that much of a stretch to say there was a chance he’d hit 30? Surely more of a chance than Scott Hartnell being on pace for 40 goals?

The FO took a gamble. You could argue the odds were against them. But the gamble was that JVR would break out this season and elevate his value to above 4.2 million. It should be noted that the 4.2 million also includes some UFA years, so that ups the contract value.

There are also ‘intangibles’ which a lot of people will brush off: the Flyers just traded away the faces of their franchise and it was an important strategic move to lock in the ‘future faces’ from the PR perspective. Giroux and JVR were the faces. Giroux grasped it; but unfortunately JVR got the cam impingement early and from then on has gone through a concussion and foot injury.

John Leclair is going to be an excellent player for someone. Hopefully it’s the Canadiens.

/imagining the words of a Montreal fan from 93-94.

ehhhhh

I hope he stays here, but I think the loudest fans will always have a problem with him.

Don’t ruin it before it ever takes hold.

I thought he continued the positive trend of the second half of the season. He was early more often than not, covered more of the net when he went down, and “played desperate” as they say when he made an initial mistake, persevering through the entire play.

I’m looking for tells between whistles but it’s hard on TV. I have a hunch that when he’s calm and confident he sort of stands around and doesn’t do much, almost like Dryden except without leaning on his stick. He fidgets when he’s in trouble. But it’s barely a hunch.

The stats say you are wrong. 0.875 Sv% and 3.00 GAA isn’t great.

/baiting the statheads

You realize that you can just go have your victory orgy over here and still have fun, right?

you’re mistaking JVR pragmatism with JVR hate

I like the guy and am happy for the win. I just don’t think he’s the bee’s knees

I commented on that stuff and I like JVR. I definitely didn’t think he’d improve his shot rate from last year to this year by the amount he did. If anything I think I’m a bigger fan of JVR now than I was last year. I stand by the bad value adn unnecessary risk when the Flyers extended him.

“even my worst orgy was right on the money”

it generates story content. it helps keep the north vs. south controversy going, which is especially interesting given the Bettman role.

i agree, given the work in turning a huge ship like a hockey franchise (not to mention the buildings they play in) you’d want strong evidence that it was a 10-20 year trend with low risk of considerable reversal.

You sure can! It’s just not usually very smart.

Yes, you can. Anaheim has a situation with Justin Schultz that was covered here.

You can. When contracts are signed between March 1 and June 1 you get to pick whether it takes effect this season or next season; choosing to have it take effect now uses up the first year of the ELC just like it says in the article. They own his rights, he’s one of their Unsigned Draft Choices.

I’m with Ubi though, I’m dubious about the wisdom behind making the move.

I dont know much about ice skating, except that it’s an incredible feeling, but isn’t that what he gets for swinging wide into the area that wasn’t refinished and then trying to cut in right where the two areas meet?

I know that’s Devon Setoguchi without even clicking. That was so sad in so many ways.

I just dropped Couturier and felt really sad about it.

As Travis mentions Saskatoon is ranked 17th in metropolitan population. The TSN article says that they’re arguing the entire province will be a draw, and it’s true that Saskatoon’s metro area is only 1/4 of the provincial population whereas Winnipeg is 60% of Manitoba’s. Saskatchewan has 1m people in it and Manitoba 1.2m.

Saskatoon’s population has grown 9.8% in the last five years, probably because of the oil boom. It has the world’s largest potash reserve and its largest publicly traded uranium company with 25-30% of the world’s production. Prices of potash have skyrocketed in the last several years and the long-term trend is upward but I only did surface research. Uranium spiked a few years ago.

Regina, the second largest city in the province, is 150 miles away. Edmonton is 300 and Calgary about 350. If they’re expecting to draw fans from great distances they’d better pray that petrol prices don’t go through the roof and that the winters are mild..

It would seem to make more sense to stuff at least one more team each in Quebec and Ontario.

Ok well I’d give myself a grade of 85 in procrastination with this one.

eh, you’d be surprised

Spank bank material. Saw 12 year olds doing it at a Sixers game of the dancers.

At least she seems blissfully unaware.

Yessssssssssssssssss!

BOOOOOOSSSSHHHHH

I replaced him with Carl Hagelin. Lolz.

thanks for the link.

I wish Costas had cornered him better a few times, mostly on the matter of regular season fighting as a draw for the fanbase. Bettman seemed to be going there once when he said, in contrast to the relative absence of fighting in playoffs, “but over the course of an 82-game season” and then veered off. A bit later Costas suggested it was a marketing decision and Bettman responded with suppositions – “Some people say that taking fighting out will make others become fans” Costas should have asked what he thought, whether there is a consensus among owners and whether they had gathered any market research on the issue.

It was fun when Costas cited the NYT and Bettman started “The New York Times seems to have a fascination with this issue….which is great.” Nice recovery.

Bettman parried a lot which I think he sees as his job while the owners figure out how much they want to change things and the medical evidence develops/becomes more one-sided. I found myself less annoyed here than other times I’ve listened to him.

I’m going to the Sixers game tonight. I can barely contain myself.

HAHAHAHAHAHA, did he really say that?

Nhl.com had an unintentionally funny double-meaning headline earlier tonight

“Wilson Relieved”

Best line for me was “that guy”.

Hahahah that’s amazing

*be

Speechless. What the government should be doing is shutting down websites like Bleacher Report that allow stories like this to reach the public.