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New York Rangers proudly brought in star stud defenseman Zybenek Michalek who they'd been after since day 1 last year. The Rangers have quietly put together a solid core of defenseman. Call it a defense factory if you will now with the likes of Jovanovski/Michalek Hamrlik/Tallinder Morri...
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What type of team do you run?
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I hope that guys don't hack on other guys for the way they run their teams...because personally, I don't care....I am just curious about philosophy. What type of team do you run.....what is your management style? For me, and I think that Dave is the same....we don't like change for change sake. If we h...
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NYR makes move solifying payroll and roster
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The New York Rangers shipped out beloved Rod Brind'Amour, Christoph Schubert, 2nd 08 and two prospects for Justin Williams. The rational behind this deal is simple. Williams is a younger version of Brindamour and still a top line guy who can play rightwing which the Rangers were after. Brind'Am...
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Compliment thread
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Since people get upset when I criticize them I'll start a thread where we can all compliment eachother. Luke I like your eyes. Kirk I like your fingernails. This is so much fun and not homosexual at all...
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BRHL2 CODE OF CONDUCT
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http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=85830&p=3&topicID=13316886
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with with regards to compensation on signing a player like avery i dont have my own first so how would compensation be judge? the next atl 1st which would be in 09 or one of the three i currently have?
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Sabres Offseason Recap
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Posted up an article if you guys wanna check it out. Comments welcome here.
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11 teams need to get a third rated goaltender
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According to the rules, and to make the sim run, each organization needs at least three rated goaltenders. Some teams have anticipated the demand and have more than enough: Colorado has six, Minnesota and the Isles have five, several teams have four, but eleven teams don't have the required minimum...
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LA Taking Shape
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After bombing in the search for some forward help in the UFA market, the team realized they could look towards more defensive help and possibly move an incombent defenseman or two for that needed scoring help. The price for a solid defenseman seemed more reasonable than some of the deals forwards we...
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Nashville making the splash
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Nashville has been very quiet all summer.. almost too quiet for most gms in the league.. but that all unfolded this past week as GM Barbosa was busy on the phones making appropiate changes to the coming season.. "I looked at our roster in hand and since we were 1 mear point of making the playoffs las...
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Rule Change...
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I would like to propose that we change the rule around 2-way contracts and which players can be sent to the minor (for next season)... All these guys that are signing for $3M or $4M only to actually receive 10% of that on the farm is kind of ridiculous... There is no way in hell that some of these guys wou...
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Who signed where
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I understand that Eric will be updating tonight, but does anyone know who signed where as far as UFAs who signed last night go?
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Censorship
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If guys are allowed to criticize my trades and call me stupid for signing Avery I sure as hell should be allowed to comment on pretty much anything I want. I spent a while preparing a post in response to NYR's trade board thread just to have it deleted, and I am not happy with the censorship. If you don't wa...
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Capitals Add New Faces
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-Washington DC The Capitals have stayed fairly quiet in free agency as expected, with hardly any restricted players to go after and most of the unrestricted players seeing huge paydays go their way. The plan all along for the Capitals was to remain quiet and try to pickup a couple of lower key players,...
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Bruins make 2 deals, acquire new franchise goalie
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The Boston Bruins held a press conference tonight to announce two trades done as the team looks towards season 2. In a minor deal with the Blues teh team dealt Travis Roche and Tyler Spurgeon to St Louis in exchange for Martin Gelinas. Gelinas adds depth to the teams wings and can play a variety of roles f...
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Ottaw changes the face of the franchise
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Ottawa- After a disappointing loss in the playoffs GM Rob Botham decided he needed to make major changes to the Ottawa Senators, and while Alfredsson and Kozlov have already been brought in the right before the draft the Senators still weren't happy, so gone are players like Ryan Miller, Scott Gomez...
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Bidding on your own RFA
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Are teams allowed to bid on their own RFA? I know TOR bid 3 million on Avery to ensure that if anyone else signs him the compensation will be at least a 1st rounder. Sounds shady. Steve
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cover page story of the southeast division
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should be posted soon -- Edited by Islanders GM at 02:07, 2007-08-26
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Big Stars In Vancouver!!!
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One week after UFA began Vancouver landed the big names they wanted too this offseason. The team is now in position to make the postseason and with a few trades during the season can compete for the cup. Vancouver signed Jaromir jagr to a 2 year deal with a total of 27 million due. 6 million in signing bonu...
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The Bridgeport Tigers
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The Bridgeport Tigers 2007-08 Line Formations In a bid to compete for the minor league championship this coming season several players were brought in via trade and UFA. The following formations are made to start the season: LeClair - Turgeon - Samsonov Big John might be slow and poor in the scoring...
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UFA Roenick completes the NY Islanders roster to start 07/08
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The New York Islanders 2007-08 Line Formations The season will open with the following group for Ted Nolan to coach: Forwards: Sanderson - Fedorov - Guerin Geoff has wheels with decent stickhandling and some passing ability. Speedy Sergei will control the puck and not pass as much as he should no...
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Roster Edits
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You'll notice we are cleaning up the rosters, some guys who have spelling issues in there names have disappeared to prospect lists, we're getting that fixed, as well as some positional changes, I will announce when we're done the original wipe through, than any adjustments will be welcome to be ment...
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Pitts officially out of UFA
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Not that we did not try, but the escalating prices in FA have way outpriced the Penguins at this time and it basically leaves our team in real trouble for a couple of seasons. No miracle finish this year i am afraid ,unless something severe can be done. Mortgaging the future to get there though is not an op...
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Tampa adds Mats Sundin
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The Tampa Bay Lightning announced the signing of Mats Sundin today to a 3-year deal worth 8.6M per year as well as an astonishing 12.9M in signing bonus. The Lightning want to compete again this year and felt they had to add a big name like Mats to be the favourites in the East. As of now the forward lins for...
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Buffalo Bolsters Blueline
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Friday, Aug 24th The Buffalo News The Buffalo Sabres only made one significant signing this UFA period, and for good reason. With the astronomical prices, they opted to address the majority of the holes in the lineup via player swapping. However with millions of cap room left, don't put it past th...
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Classifieds
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Who wants money? Looking for 2 jobs fulfilled: 1 - Free Agency Article. Once FA is done. A recap. Of all the signings or maybe someone wants to do a top 10. But once FA is wrapped up. Needs to be written in a professional manner. I likely won't do one, and neither will Kirk so that leaves 28 of you. 2 - New Logo....
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St Louis Completes Forward Lines
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Finally St Louis has completed it's forward lines, despite trying it's best to fill it out with a trade, they turned to the free agency pool, and they've found their man in Mark Recchi. However, their job is still not done as they are still looking for a starting goaltender. However, with the signing of...
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Minors Commish
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If anyone is interested in becoming the minor league commish (and hence part of the administration of the league). Please fire me an email. I can give you some additional insight as to what we have planned and we can ideally come together on some sort of schedule. For anyone wanting to get their feet we...
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Cap vs UFA question
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team x puts offer in on a FA, in meantime makes a trade putting them closer to cap than before they made the offer. does offer for FA get voided as it will put team over the cap restrictions?
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Colorado CO-GM
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The Colorado Avalanche have been holding back on spending money this UFA period due to the fact that they have signed Free Agent Co-GM Jamie 'Bones' Simpson (currently under contract with the Die Hard Hockey Leagues Detriot Red Wings) Jamie comes to the BRHL2 with a plethra of experience and will be t...
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Coyotes Defense/Goaltending Set.
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With the recent signings of Bret Hedican and Ed Belfour the Coyotes defense pairings and goaltending lineup for this season seem to be set now. They look as follows: Sydor(75)-Hedican(74) Corvo(73)-Markov(73) Zidlicky(71)-Backman(73) Nummelin(70) Belfour(77) Weekes(70) Price(TBD) The 8...
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UFA Update/Extension on Deadline?
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Anyone know whether the deadline for 8pm UFA's is going to be extended? Because teams don't know if the UFA's with earlier deadlines signed with them, it would be difficult to make offers on the 8pm deadline UFA's (due to lack of cap space if you consider that the other players you had made offers to wi...
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LA continues non UFA acquisitions
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Realizing the team wasn't going to be able to fill their roster up via UFA, LA went out and acquired another piece to the puzzle last night, winger Martin Erat. Erat had a career season last year and should see more playing time in Nashville with the departures of Hartnell and Kariya. Erat can play eit...
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the Isles after 6 ufa signings and 2 trades
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Yashin moves off Long Island and Lang moves back to Nassau county, three UFAs garner starting positions while three more signings are sent to the farm. Sanderson brings great speed, good puck control and some secondary offense to the third line alongside fellow 2-year UFA signing Perreault, whos...
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LA Acquires Jovocop
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In a move showing the price of UFA's was getting a bit crazy for even a cap room rich club in LA, the Kings acquired some times stud defenseman Ed Jovanovski. Jovo cop brings a new 5 year deal to the team which is the stability the team was looking for in a player. Eddie didn't have the best season in the NHL...
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Trade Etiquite
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This happened to me tonight, but in order to not offend anyone I am for the time being going to keep names out of this... Here is the scenario, I welcome opinions. Team A PM's Team B and offers a deal to Team B Team B PM's Team A with the following reply: "send a copy to eric at the league email NOW, i need...
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Ducks Cut Off Talks with a Number of Free Agents
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We are now several days into free agency and the first free agents have now signed with their new clubs. One team however that seemed all but certain to be big players in the free agent frenzy has all but back out of the signing game. Anaheim Ducks GM, Rob Ives, has said that the team has cut off talks with a...
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Lidstrom not signed yet?
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I thought SJ got him last night? did someone up the offer?
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Free Agency Underway
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Free Agency has begun. Expect an update in an hour. If you'd like to negotiate with your recently created prospects, and haven't done so already, please send your offers in. Please consult the rules for contract specifics. (I was planning on taking care of it last week, but had to go away for a few da...
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