I’m pretty sure I read Larry Pleau misses Matt Walker in there. not sure, my translater doesn’t handle “golden parachutte guy with two people doing his job” language

Nice little “fuck you” by the Blues there. For the record, I don’t have a dog in this fight, but has anyone else noticed that when the front office makes a good move it’s JD, but when the make a shitty one it’s LP? Odd huh?

I think Louie was more a JD call than a Pleau call.

This was a brilliant article B-Rad. Very well done. I am just amazed you got a picture of Phyllis’s computer. She’s very particular about who gets to see it.

Better sign your good young players to long term contracts, prior to them becoming RFAs. Some GMs will always be looking for a short-cut to get better, when they should be looking to improve through the draft and signing lower priced unrestricted free agents. I see a lot of teams being up against the salary cap, by mortgaging the future by signing long term deals with overpriced players. It’s not easy clearing salary space by getting another team to make a trade to take on your dead weight player making 5 or 6 Mil/YR. Unless they give you a future high draft pick, why would any team want to take on your over-priced bagage. Other option is to buy-out contracts. I just saw Chicago bought out Curtis Brown to clear some cap space. Why does Chicago have two goalies making an average of 6M/YR each? Because who in their right mind would want to pick up Khabibulin’s 6,750,000 Mil/YR contract for next year. Hey Atlanta would probably take him in a trade if Chicago also gave them their next three #1 picks. Chicago probably stuck with buying out Khabibulin’s contract too.

“I think [an offer sheet] it’s a tool certainly a team is entitled to use. My issue here is this is the second time this year in my opinion Edmonton have offered a grossly inflated salary for a player, and it impacts on all 30 teams and I think it’s an act of desperation by a general manager who is fighting to keep his job.” — Brian Burke, GM, Anaheim Ducks

I ran this little quote through the GM Translator. It printed:

I wan’t a cookie.

I was proud are team stuck up for itself and gave a big fuck you to Vancouver. The best part being that Vancouver can’t sign Steve to a little multi-year deal like they would have wanted and furthermore, they can’t extend him till January HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Fuck you Vancouver.

Let this be a lesson to the Blues. Never squabble during the season about shit players like RJ when a talented one needs resigning. Then I realized the Blues are so stacked with young talent infiltrating the organization that they sometimes hope and pray Lowe will over pay for a Backes to the point the Blues will get a lot of picks out of it. Or more than likely they were talking figures when Backes ended up getting married and going on a honeymoon. Both figuring a fair deal would be done when suddenly as Backes is pile driving his new wife his agent calls with the good news.

I hope he didn’t answer the phone at that very moment, Chris D.

Who’s to say that it was a fuck you to Vancouver? Is it not possible the Blues had legitimate interest in Bernier? Maybe JD tried to trade for Bernier with Buffalo, maybe even San Jose before that, but it didn’t work out. Now I don’t mean to say that telling vancouver to fuck off isn’t a part of it, but i don’t know that its the main or only reason.

While in Buffalo, Steve Bernier was Fudgie the dim-slow-French-Canadien-Whale. Buy one get one free on Tuesday.

More than you wanted to pay Backes, for sure, but he still has a bigger upside than Bernier. Thank god Dougie went to the Isles. Shanahan is still out there, better than Rechi and Nolan. Kariya needs to produce more. Walt quietly got 27 goals last year. team is in a good position, if the young guys play and produce, 2nd and 3rd year guys produce, team says " see, we didnt need to do anything, we are fine. If they dont, they can say they are " still developing". Win Win for mngmnt

“We could not care less about Bernier. We know you’re going to match the contract. This is a message to all the Kevin Lowe wannabes out there who know we’ll have a fair number of unrestricted free agents in coming seasons. And when we have a guy come up, we’re going to send a copy of our press release to every team in the league to send a message not to fuck with our guys. Vancouver, we even made it a one-year deal so we can do this all over again 12 months from now.”

shouldn’t be “a fair number of restricted free agents”

People are missing an important point of this thread: Brad Lee finds and uses the greatest G-rated images the Internet has to offer!

(I like to guess what terms he Googled to find them — this one was pretty easy: ’teletype’)

Not surprisingly when “FUCK DETROIT” was entered, it spit out “FUCK DETROIT”

Love the picture, I posted it over at Thrashers Talons with a link. I may need to employ the GM Translator a few times this upcoming season.

Hey Falconer, we will definitely let you borrow the machine. It’s a handy-dandy device that’s fun for the whole family.

And if you want to re-register for comments, feel free to link your site from your screen name.

OK. I’m going to add you to my “blogs that make me laugh section” -loved the “adultery” post-not too often you see that in a hockey blog. The “"Mrs. Janney” comment was priceless.

Welcome Falconer! I don’t like the Thrashers but hey, it is all in good fun.

The Canucks signed Ryan Johnson and tried to sign Backes, and the Blues “tried to sign” Bernier, and now they evened it up by signing free agent defenseman Mike Weaver

http://blues.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=368168