Rich

Hutch would be eligible to expansion if he is in the AHL or NHL. The question is would he be picked off waivers and if so who would you sign to expose. Personally, I don't see much benefit to bringing Comrie up this year. Both he and Helle need starts and playing time. This team isn't going anywhere this year.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/business/red-solo-cup-inventor-robert-hulseman-dies-at-age-84-1.3221143

Not CFL news but an interesting read on former Bison David Onyemata with the Saints this year. http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/sports/saints/article_c7d3aa16-cdde-11e6-805d-4b9e611e55e7.html

I suspect this is Maurice trying to minimize the amount of time Hutch sits between games with the Christmas break. Would still rather see Helle play. Thought he looked really sharp last game. Would like to see him play to carry forward and build off of that.

What I mean is, Vegas will have a tonne of open cap space, and I don't think the league wants them acquiring contracts like Arizona has when they traded for Datsyuk and Bolland, where the salary is being paid by insurance or retirement, and the trade was really for Arizona's cap space. So they don't want a team saying pick this contract we don't want for cap relief and we will give you a draft pick / prospect on top of that for your troubles. I suspect this isn't to help teams with injuries, but to close a loop hole in the expansion draft they want to close for good in the next CBA. Which is why it says "deemed by the league" Edit: Also, are you saying you hope Myers injury is career ending so we don't have to protect him? If we/the team don't want him that bad, why not just not protect him?

I suspect that exemption is to stop drafting players who will never play again like the trades some teams have been making to trade away LTIR contracts to teams with the cap space. However, if Myers doesn't come back this season and we get some insight on his injury, maybe the Jets expose Myers gambling on Vegas to not take a player with a questionable future.

Gonna be interesting to see what Chicago has planned in the off season to fit this under the cap.

Why would LA even return Chevy's call for this trade offer?

I'm gonna lock it. A new one can be started if desired.

https://www.capfriendly.com/players/brendan-lemieux He was signed July 3, 2015. His contract slid last year because he went down to junior. This year he is with the Moose, so this will be the 1st year of his ELC.

Look here for Scheifele: https://www.capfriendly.com/players/mark-scheifele At the bottom, Contract History section (to see his first contract). all ELC's are 3 years, but Scheif has 5 years on that ELC, the first 2 have ENTRY-LEVEL-SLIDE under NHL salary. It also shows his signed date as Oct 5, 2011 but the contract didn't start counting till 2013. Adam Lowry: https://www.capfriendly.com/players/adam-lowry He signed April 16, 2013. The 9 games with the Ice Caps you see in that year were because of an amateur tryout he signed http://www.stjohnsicecaps.com/article/icecaps-sign-adam-lowry-to-ato/ which he was able to spin into a pro contract Lowry was drafted same year as Sheif. So why would they wait on Lowry ? My guess is Lowry was a 3rd round draft pick and they were not sure he would really develop into an NHL player. Him signing the ATO with the Ice Caps would support that they wanted to see his development in Junior and up close before committing a contract to him. Josh Morrissey: https://www.capfriendly.com/players/joshua-morrissey Signed Oct 9, 2013. Had two years of slides. His contract started counting in 2015. I won't pretend I'm an NHL GM and know all the reasons they pick to choose when to sign a player and when not to. But 1st round draft picks from Juniors are usually signed pretty early (NCAA picks can't sign until they come to the AHL or NHL because of NCAA rules), with little risk as the contract will slide until they play in the A or make the team. You would hope as a 1st round pick, the player is at least a lock to have a spot on the Minor league team at some point. I actually found it more strange that Stanley, being a first round pick, was signed after his first training camp. But assuming he is going to play for the Moose once he is done playing in Junior, there really is no difference to him signing now or later other then getting some bonus / signing cash in his pocket.

If we took this argument on all topics, there would be no discussion on this board. We don't impact personnel decisions on the football side of things, yet it is widely talked about.

A player can't play games in the NHL or AHL unless they are signed. How would you know how much to pay them? This is where the 10 game rule comes in to play. As long as they play less then 10 games in a season, then go back to Juniors, the contract still slides. Lets a team look at a player for a bit before deciding if they are ready. This for sure happened with Scheifele. Can't recall Lowry Are you looking at press releases when Scheif and Lowry signed or first contract years on the salary sites? Because the "slide" will make it look like they signed later then they did There is really no difference in Stanley signing now or in a year from now other then he is now a signed asset Edit: Deleted a whole bunch of crap in this thread (must have missed a few pages when I read this morning). Some relevant info was intertwined within all the drunken hate and insults for the Christmas season and I wasn't going to edit through it all, so the 38 post pissing match was deleted....

How does one explain the other? 18 and 19 year old players playing in juniors have their contracts slide until they start playing in the AHL or NHL. Meaning Stanley will still be on a 3 year ELC after this year. No year of his signed contract will be used up. It is just asset management to get him under contract. Doesn't mean he will be in the pros any time soon.

That's some pretty decent company to be in.

A Colorado reporter calls Winnipeg's weather a death sentence. http://globalnews.ca/news/3136243/colorado-avalanche-reporter-calls-winnipegs-weather-a-death-sentence/

If you read the last part of the link, it typically gives you a pretty good indication of what the link is about. In this case: bombers-re-sign-long-snapper-chad-rempel

It wasn't the droid I was looking for.

Any word on Friesen?

This seems to be a trend in pro football in general, including the NFL. http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-shrinking-shelf-life-of-nfl-players-1456694959

Sure, but I would say the thread should be renamed to spoilers at that point... I was thinking more on the rumours to the lead up.

Just a reminder ... the "eye" button in the toolbar can be used to post text as a spoiler which will give people the option to open it and look or not.

Apparently he had a heart attack while playing hockey with his son.

I watched season 1 but couldn't get into season 2 at all. I'm curious how Netflix attributes a $200M loss to a specific series when all of their earnings are subscription based for their entire catalogue and not ad revenue or box office revenue for a specific franchise.