Add Brain Gionta to the top line with Gomez and Calamari.
5 years, $25M.
According to Eklund (I know, I know), the Habs have about $7M* left to sign Pleks, Dagger, CHips and Tenderness, for the following roster:
Gionta-Gomez-Calamari
Big Tits-Pleks-Little Tits/Dagger
Patches-Laps-Tenderness
Metro-CHips-Laraque/Stewart
Markov-Gill
Hamr-Jaro 2.0
Georges-O'Byrne/Weber
TFS
Jaro 1.0
Doesn't seem like there is a lot of dough for Kovy or Tanguay or Saks or Lang. Doesn't look like a Cup winning roster, either.
*Editor's note: ok it's still me. I looked again and remembered why I'm not an accountant. It's more like $12M, so plenty of room to sign Kovy at $4.5 and maybe Lang for cheap. So how about this forward lineup:
Gionta-Gomez-Kovy
Big Tits-Lang-Calamari
Patches-Pleks-Dagger/Tenderness
Stewart-Chips/Metro-Laraque
Panger we need to have meetings or something
ReplyDeleteI don't particularly like that line up now that i see it like that. hmmm
Trades coming?
ReplyDeleteFirst thing that jumps out to me: Gionta and Markov are both 30; Hamr, Spacek, and Metro are all 35. Everyone else is under 30.
ReplyDeleteThat's a helluva young roster.
WV: "bullys", I kid you not. Brian Burke's team goal?
don't forget we also have a real coach now. not Cup winning but they should be fun to watch.
ReplyDeleteSSHF: Hockey Clubs are hard, Fight Clubs are easy.
ReplyDeleteDoucharek, "toronto was the best fit".
ReplyDeleteGo fuck yourself you fucking douchebag.
huh: this looks like a complete rebuild. it appears martin's getting the team he wants. not sure how tanguay and kovy fit into this emerging picture (leaving aside whether there's even enough money for either of them), or whether they'd even want to.
ReplyDeleteFUCK YOU DOUCHAREK
ReplyDeleteMaybe we won't be NJ's multi-game bitch next year.
ReplyDelete@ Anon
ReplyDeleteOh, I know. The Leafs are going to be hilariously bad this year, especially if they trade away Kaberle.
@ Damion
Both Kovy and Tanguay can play D (I never thought I'd see Kovy on the PK, but he was brilliant at it), so I think they'd fit it just fine. I really hope we find room to sign both of them, but I'm not optimistic. I just want ONE of them, not some random outsider.
Man, if O'Byrne and Gill ever got angry...
No Koivu = No heart & soul.
ReplyDeleteWho will be captain now, Sarah Palin's boy toy?
Fuck everyone who wanted Saku gone. Looks like they're getting their wish, bunch of fucking ingrates.
On something of a more lighthearted note, I've constructed a picture of what I'm pretty sure our first line will look like in action.
ReplyDeleteGionta - Gomez - Calamari
(I think that's Koivu in the background as well, not sure how that happened)
I agree about the whole Saku thing, I hope he goes to Anaheim and rips shit up with Selanne. I wish Babs would trade Plekanec somewhere and re-sign Saku for second line duties.
ReplyDeleteSo Gainey has said his work is done. Anyone else think he just picked names from a hat until he hit the cap (no pun intended), so he could enjoy the rest of his summer?
ReplyDeleteCaptain? Yikes... I don't see any leadership on this team right now. Markov 'C', Laps, Hamr, Gorges, Gionta possible 'A's?
I'll miss Saku too, but he's better off signing with a team with at least an outside chance at the cup the next couple of years.
ReplyDeleteIf we trade zombieturtlePleks, which I hope we do, it best be for a large centre in return.
@ L Dude
ReplyDeleteOr a good defenseman. Spacek and Hamr are both aging 2nd-pairing guys, and Gill is a pylon. It's "A Winger for Koivu" all over again - "A Non-Retarded Partner for Markie"
So apparently Kovy might be off to LA? If he's not here, I want him in the West, because fuck my life if we have to play against a line of Fedotenko-Malkin-Kovalev.
First line mk.2
ReplyDeleteNow with no Koivu and, no clear candidate for the C.
I really dislike that second lineup, mostly because it has Kovy in it.
ReplyDeleteNow if we re-signed Tanguay instead, and Koivu instead of Lang, that would be terrific. I'm sure Koivu can be had for around 2M for 4 years, or thereabouts. He's worth that money and he should stay in this organization. Fuck this new fashion of saying he should go play for a team that has a chance. That's BS. He should stay here and help this team win something. Finish (no pun intended) what you've started man.
I don't really like Pleks as a third center, because that position really isn't suited for him. Or he's not suited for it, whichever. Pleks will never be a defensive shutdown guy and it's pointless to try and make him one. He's an offensive guy that has the potential to turn into a Briere without the injuries. If he doesn't pan out as such, fine, throw him overboard. But don't try to convert him to something he's not.
The rest of those lines are fine, I guess... fuck that first line (officially named the GGC line, or the hispanic line) is small. And fast. It'll be either very exciting or very violent in a wrong way.
Instead of hispanic line, how about the border line? A bit of racism makes everything better!
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ReplyDelete+1 internets to you
NHL.com reporting that Kovy has signed for 2 years at 4.5/yr. I guess we have a captain for next year?
For all the talk of Kovy being inconsistent, the guy has scored over 20 goals in 12 of his 16 NHL seasons, and of his 4 off-seasons, 1 was shortened by lockout, and 1 by injury.
Nevermind, apparently that's been refuted.
ReplyDeleteI guess we'll have to wait 'til tomorrow for more excitement.
it's team united nations!! at some point this season the following ethnics will all be on the ice together as the xenophobic pure langes gag........... gomez (spanish), gionta (italian), cammaleri (italian-jewish), sissy spacek (czech), markov (russian), and price (native-canadian).
ReplyDeletegotta love it. now who will be the captain of this ship??
So what are the new nicknames?
ReplyDeleteJaro 2.0 and Calamari.
What about Gionta, Gill and Gomez?
Why didn't they offer Tanguay 25M for 5 years instead of Gionta?
ReplyDeleteDoesn't make sense.
Unless Demers is right and Tanguay refused to play in the playoffs despite being fit.
Komi: I'm sure he went to TO because Burke is GM of the US Olympic Team.
lots of changes,,but are we any better?
ReplyDeleteLots of speed up front,,but we had that last year.
Lots of skill but still small..same as last year.
Marginal defense-same as last year.
Hal Gill,,believe me, he'll be booed out of Mtl by March,,he's big and he sucks.
no way, Martin will have them all buying into the system. he made Lance Pitlick look good in Ottawa.
ReplyDeleteThere is actually no money left to sign Kovy. There was 13M left before Gionta (who has not been that productive for the past two years).
ReplyDeleteThis is not good.
On paper we are a fairly poor team, and have no cap space to improve in March.
Most importantly, we have no leadership and we are small.
Next year is going to suck.
So Sather, the worst GM in the world, exchanged Gomez for Gaborik, Higgins and two prospects.
ReplyDeleteFuck me.
The Leafs on the other hand, are going to suck even more than last year! Who do they have?
Don't feel like arguing with pessimists again, so I'll suggest another name for our new first. How about the seafood line? It's either calamari, or shrimps.
ReplyDeleteThis team'll be fine, folks.
ReplyDeletehaha the seafood line sounds good to me
ReplyDeleteThe sky is falling already?
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to all the shit talk coming from Leaf Land when Komosarek made the all star team?
"Add Brain Gionta to the top line with Gomez and Calamari."
ReplyDeleteWhy? Is he the brains of the operation?