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Too bad Ottawa couldn't help us out.

Milt/Edwards/Armstrong was pretty sweet.

So any word on the Carter suspension appeal?

Lawless is Shakespeare compared to Pederson.

To be fair, with his bonus, Nichols makes what $250,000 and Willy is at 400,000. Anybody else suspect that Burris/Harris make a combined $650,000? Perhaps we're all overreacting.

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Those are two good addition for the Als. Any word on Carter? At this point, he'll be suspended for a game in 2050.

About as bad.

For the record, didn't start this to dump on Willy or to advocate cutting him, was more curious about the financials.

Heard him calling a game against Calgary. Calgary has it at the 2. No call because he and his partner are chatting followed by and Calgary scores a td. No mention of who (Messam) or how (run). I get that Bob Irving is the best but have heard the crew out of Hamilton and Ottawa to name two and they are light years ahead.

Pederson is a terrible play by play guy (have heard him on Sirus).

In the Sun today, Friessen had a column speculating on Nicholl's contract and Willy's. Essentially he stated that Nicholls has a potential $100,000 bonus and was wondering if the Bombers could afford to pay it and stay under the cap. My questions were: 1. How much of Willy's deal is based on bonuses? I mean if he has $100,000 in bonuses, the contracts essentially cancel each other out. If its say $25,000, that's only a 75k difference not 100k. 2. If a player is on the 6 game IR, their contract does not count against the SMS, correct? Thus for example, how much have we saved having Jeff Keeping on it for the entire year so far? Same question for the likely 6 games Neufeld is on. Do we save enough between the two to make up the bonus. For examkple, Keeping will be on for at least half the season. If he makes 80 k, that's a savings of 40k. Neufeld makes about 140k according to reports. 6 games would save 47k. Add the two together and that's 87k.

I'd suggest that the DL has benefited from more time together.

Hurl's deal was for $120,000 plus a bonus of $1000 per game started. So we likely save $18,000 on that this year.

Interesting what the differences between the bonuses for Willy and Nicholas are and how much they balance out in terms of our cap. Also wonder how much we've saved with Keeping being on the 6 game all season and Neufeld potentially on there for one third to half the season. Darvin Adams too.

iii) One goaltender who is under contract in 2017-18 or will be a restricted free agent at the expiration of his current contract immediately prior to 2017-18. If the club elects to make a restricted free agent goaltender available in order to meet this requirement, that goaltender must have received his qualifying offer prior to the submission of the club's protected list. From the primer on NHL.Com No statement on how many games at goalie has to play. Hutch can be sent down.

I assume the assumption is McDuffie as the speed guy, Adams as the physical receiver who wins jump balls and Mayo as a more all around guy, Kolhert as the safety valve and Denmark as the leader. It makes sense on paper but the lack of experience/production thus far has me worried.

Good point. Matty is like 7000th in Fantasy though, so what does he know? I mean I'm top 212. Denmark/Kolhert/Mayo/Adams/McDuffie makes me a tad nervous to be honest. Lots of upside with the last three but potentially a high bust rate.

McDuffie doesn't excite me, seems like a poor man's Ted Ginn, speed to burn but no hands. So does this mean we're keeping to import backers as DIs?

Nope.

I thought Leibl was the best part of the show. Westwood is brutal, do no get what they see in him?

Anybody else surprised they took off Frederick and not Roberts? Roberts seems to be targeted and taken advantage of more.

Would love to see Dressler back this week. Posey and Macho aren't getting back in I suspect.

Makes sense. Wondered if that is what you meant. U of M does need tougher admission standards and I say that as an alum.

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