Wednesday links: Trying to make Western Canada our b---- edition

by averagejoe on Dec 23, 2009 5:00 AM CST Comment 13 comments

Let's sweep Western Canada.

Blues news

Blues vs. Flames tonight. Can the Blues complete the Western Canadian sweep? [CBS Sports]
The Flames are trying to stay in the playoff hunt. [Toronto Sun]
Keith Tkachuk talks. [Medford Transcript]
The Blues are no longer in the Central Division cellar. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
Devan Dubnyk, the goalie the Blues dominated, didn't have the best game Monday night. [Edmonton Sun]
Looks at Team USA in the World Juniors. [Hockey's Future]
Bob Boyes, father of Brad Boyes, talks about watching his son play at the World Juniors. [CBC Sports]
Alex Pietrangelo scores to help Canada beat Finland in a juniors tuneup. [The Globe and Mail]

Hockey news

Your results from last night. [Yahoo! Sports]
A day before the Christmas Break, the NHL has a full schedule. [Yahoo! Sports]
Chris Pronger says the Flyers need to have fun. [Broad Street Hockey]
Edmonton's problem isn't scoring — we saw that first-hand. [The Copper and Blue]
You know, I may be wrong, but I think the best way to get more power play chances is not to whine about how your team is not getting calls. Refs LOVE being told they're missing things. [TSN]
Ilya Kovalchuck and the Atlanta Thrashers are still talking about a new deal, but talks aren't going well. [TSN]
A look at NHL records that probably won't be broken. [TSN]

Other links

Theses people were annoying in 2009. [Yep Yep]
It must suck to look like a cartoon character. [Man o Fest]

Video

Doug wants more Alec Baldwin. I will oblige.

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Yeahhhhhhh, Make Western Canada our Bittttcccchchhhhhh!

Whatever it takes?

by JoMilla on Dec 23, 2009 7:50 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Nice to see Petro

scored in the exhibition game at World Jrs.
I wonder if any Blues players went. Kelly and Panger said they were both going.
I assume coaches went.
Nice story on Boyes by Boyes. Didn’t I see another story by him a wk or so ago?
We could recruit him and have to fathers posting their insight.
OR, maybe find a Mom and get her side of it!!

by luvhockey on Dec 23, 2009 8:02 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

No Hockey Moms Please.

Sarah Palin ruined that.

Whatever it takes?

by JoMilla on Dec 23, 2009 8:06 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

and legace's career

ZING!!!!!!!!

Pujols takes out "I" in BIG and "A" in MAC, previously considered to be an unyielding, consonant threat

by DESTROYER on Dec 23, 2009 8:25 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

The Kovy thing...

… is because he’s asking for the max for like 12 years without a depreciating contract deal. That’s great and everything, but just because the Thrashers have a lot of cap space doesn’t meant that they will in the future – we have to have the money to re-sign Bogosian, Kane, Little, et al in the future. Waddell basically told Kovy either you get the max and a butt ton of $500,000 players around you, or you deal, take like $9 mil, and actually get a team that can win – like this year’s. I think it’s his agent who is being an ass about this.

Frankly, though, with the craptabulous way he’s been playing recently, no one’ll want to pay him max (not like anyone else can afford to but Phoenix or something) – and a lot of Thrashers fans would be ok losing him. He’s a liability defensively, and he’s cost us a few games here recently. Don’t know if it’s his foot still, but if it is, his playing time shouldn’t’ve gone up when he came back.

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Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.

by hildymac on Dec 23, 2009 8:31 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

id take him

in a heartbeat hes one of my favorite players around the NHL

Pujols takes out "I" in BIG and "A" in MAC, previously considered to be an unyielding, consonant threat

by DESTROYER on Dec 23, 2009 8:48 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Fan ta Kovalchuk if he can’t take one for the team.

I don’t know how the poor bastard could possibly live on a measly $9 million (insert “rolling eyes” icon here)…

Have fun working for the Russian Mafia over in the KHL, Kovy.

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by Tomorrows Blues on Dec 23, 2009 10:42 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Well, that...

… and his wife’s expecting kid #3. I really think he stays put just for that – to not disrupt stuff. He just built the world’s biggest mansion down in Buckhead, anyway. He’ll find some way to cope. I mean, who else can afford to offer him $9 mil a year who doesn’t suck? The Isles? He’s probably staying put.

But if he keeps playing the way that he’s been playing, Destroyer, you can have him until he gets his head out of his ass, then we want him back. :)

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Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.

by hildymac on Dec 23, 2009 12:04 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

No player is worth 20% of the payroll

If any player “thinks” he’s worth that, he can go fuck himself and his piece of shit agent can sit in the corner and watch said “self fucking”.

No player will last through a 12 year deal and not depreciate. The human body can’t handle that.

I hate this shit.

North Co! North Co! North Co!

by Answer Man on Dec 23, 2009 12:19 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

i would probably say

its his agent angling for leverage. every interview I have ever read on kovy seems like hes a pretty nice guy. I mean business is business, but 9mil sounds like an agent number. and honestly if he want Ovy money and years he needs to be as good or better then Ovy. Ilya is pretty good and what averages 85-90 pts a year? he needs to be looking at datsyuk or zetterberg for a better model of contracts. and yes hildy id take 80-90 pts a year just not for 9 mil, for 9 mil he needs to be averaging about 25 pts more a year

Pujols takes out "I" in BIG and "A" in MAC, previously considered to be an unyielding, consonant threat

by DESTROYER on Dec 23, 2009 12:23 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

That's pretty much what Grossman's doing.

The problem is that we’d be ok with 9 mil, but right now he’s going for 11 or so, and I’m sorry – I love Kovy, but Ovie’s worth more. He is a nice guy, though, and I think he’d like to stay here – he’s pretty shy, and I think that he likes the complete lack of attention and privacy somewhere like Atlanta brings.

Reporter: There`s a "stamp out the Beatles movement" underway in Detroit. What are you going to do about it?

Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.

by hildymac on Dec 23, 2009 12:58 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs