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Holland On The Wings
by Paul on 06/27/07 at 07:32 AM ET
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Wings GM Ken Holland was just on WDFN radio in Detroit… Holland mentioned how scary it would be right now if Datsyuk would be a UFA.
He is confident Hasek will sign and claims Wings will have between $11-$13 million to spend. Wants to get Schneider signed and continues to talk to Bertuzzi’s agent.
Regarding Bertuzzi, said he could sign a 1yr contract with bonuses because he was on IR last year. Wings doctors tell Holland his back is 100%, but he basically missed a year of hockey. Wings feel he can be a 80 point man.
Holland was asked about Nashville, said everyone wants to see them stay. Not good for the league if they move.
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Kenny can sign whoever he wants as long as he makes DAMN SURE! that he has the cash available in 2009 to resign Zetterberg.
Posted by arcane_caf from NoVa - Outside D.C. on 06/27/07 at 01:26 PM ET
here is a quick look at the cap situation to come -if- the players vote it to be 50.9 million. The Wings currently sit at 32.53 million giving a difference of 18.37. Minus 2 million cap room for deadline deals gives us 16.37. Lets assume Kenny has his Hasek (beer) goggles on and gives Hasek 2.5 plus last years incentives, is a 3.35 cap hit taking us down to 13.02. Bert resigns at a 3.5 rate (this is a high estimation) we are now at 9.52. Minus Chelios’ bonus’ from last year of an estimated 850,000 - 8.67. Now assuming Schnieder walks the wings could pick up Ryan Smyth at an estimated 6 million which leaves 2.67. Hudler resigns as a restricted free agent at 650,000 leaves us roughly 2.02. So its safe to assume the wings will have between 1.5 to 2.5 to sign a defensmen. Which puts us in the Markov, Boynton, Poti, DeVries range. Here is a projected lineup.
Holmstrom / Datsyuk / Zetterberg
Bertuzzi / Filppula / Smyth
Cleary / Draper / Kopecky
Hudler / Franzen / Grigorenko
extras… Maltby / Samuelsson
Lidstrom / Lilja
Kronwall / Free Agent
Chelios / Lebda
Quincey / Meech / Kindl / Ericsson
Hasek / Osgood.
Posted by Jdunc from Flint, MI on 06/27/07 at 02:57 PM ET
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How exactly would Nashville moving be bad for the league?
As it stands you have a very good team that gets a lot of money from the league revenue sharing program yet still consistently posts a loss anyway.
So how would it be bad if it moved to a city that would support it to the point where it would not need revenue sharing, or even if it did, it at least would not be consistently posting a loss?
Posted by Tim on 06/27/07 at 12:11 PM ET