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If it's a tight squeeze, spit on it! - NyI

He's a middling AHL player who had the good fortune of a drunk arbitrator. - The Squanto re: Tim Kennedy

Now if there was any way we could pry Backes away from them!.... dddrrroooooollllllll

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Good pickup for Tampa. They could be a force to be reckoned with in the post-season.

Wow, I don't remember teams being so active before the deadline like this before.

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I wouldn't have minded getting Brewer. Books kid will most likely be an NHL'er, so not an awful trade. Still think TB won this one.

Agreed

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"Call a cop he robbed Delmore blind!!!"
Rick Jeanerette after Marty Biron's diving save back in 2000.

"I'm going to go to the spa and have a hot tub and massage and relax," Miller said. "That's it, and it's back to work tomorrow." Ryan Miller after clinching the North East division.

Unfortunately what they are doing, is driving up the value of some of the trash around the league, and making stars like Richards, Iginla, etc virtually impossible to trade due to the high asking price.

Examples being:

Kaberle for a 1st and solid prospect (in my mind should have been a solid prospect and a 3rd)
Fisher for a 1st and potentially 3rd
Kelly for a 2nd (how the fuck is 30 points worth a 2nd round pick?)
Brewer for a Solid Prospect (Brock Beukeboom) and a 2nd (basically fetched a high 2nd and high 3rd.)

To put it in perspective, Brian Campbell if he were being moved at the deadline would have brought way more than Kaberle; think something like a 1st, 2nd, Prospect, Veteran 4th liner.

Very expensive to be a buyer this year...and the Rangers haven't even done anything retarded yet.

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"She's like plan C after an 18 pack"

Squanto 7/27/2010

In that case sell what we can....

Timmy for a first, player, prospect
Rivet for a first and prospect
Stafford for first and Stamkos....


lol... ok im done...

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Connolly would probably fetch a 1st, or a 2nd and a prospect.
Montador would probably fetch a 2nd.
None of our other UFAs would fetch a stick.

Or in Lalime's case, a beach ball.

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Girgensons for captain. Team Keep Nick DesLauriers forever.

@TJLuckman550

My mom works at a hotel downtown and told me when she was checking out the Blues today, they learned about Brewer getting traded. After the game they flew out, but left Brewer behind. He had to check out by himself without the team... Harsh, man.

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hockey Night in Buffalo