News and Notes Part 13: Waddell has bought a house in Raleigh

[tarheelhockey]

I have it on good authority that this is the house Waddell bought:

 

[carolinacanuck]

If it comes to that, it would depend on who he was being traded to, so of course he could refuse. It was a clause he negotiated into his contract and well within his right to do so.

If the Canes are still in the hunt (or on the bubble) by the deadline, he won't likely be moved anyhow.

well, i'm hoping if he gets approached to consider waiving, he'll respond with a list of teams he'd be willing to move to.

 

[Ole Gil]

You can't reward hockey writers tossing feces at that wall with tons of attention if you want hockey writers to be better hockey writers.

 

[NotOpie]

If the Canes are out of it by TDL then Eric, being the competitor that he is will most likely waive his NTC, especially if the teams aren't close on salary negotiations. He'll want to have another shot at the Cup....no matter whether it's a long shot or not, he'll still want to reach for the brass ring.

I think it will be a moot point as I think we'll have re-signed him by that point and/or we'll be close enough to a bubble team that we'll need him to stay competitive. You don't have to like it, but it's my opinion and I'm sticking with it.

 

[Ole Gil]

If the Canes are out of it by TDL then Eric, being the competitor that he is will most likely waive his NTC, especially if the teams aren't close on salary negotiations. He'll want to have another shot at the Cup....no matter whether it's a long shot or not, he'll still want to reach for the brass ring.

I think it will be a moot point as I think we'll have re-signed him by that point and/or we'll be close enough to a bubble team that we'll need him to stay competitive. You don't have to like it, but it's my opinion and I'm sticking with it.

The likelihood of him not wanting to sign AND not wanting to be traded to a contender seems really really low.

Seems like things will work themselves out, as long as he stays healthy.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Well, here's McKenzie's take (from Spockrock on the main board).

@NicholsOnHockey: McKenzie on Eric Staal: "He didn't ask for $9 million. He hasn't asked for anything yet. There have been no numbers exchanged." #Canes

 

[What the Faulk]

^ Stop, you're getting in the way of people patting themselves on the back based on nothing

 

[Caniac4ever]

TSN quiz during intermission... was a little surprised with Jeff O'neill. The question was if Quebec City would get a team by expansion or relocation. His answer was that they would get one by relocation because if Florida and Carolina can't fill up their buildings they don't have any business having a team. Jeff is a world class dork as a commentator, but it still surprised me with all of his history here.

 

[Novacane]

Well, here's McKenzie's take (from Spockrock on the main board).

But Eric is a big bad overrated meanie who wants out of Carolina

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

TSN quiz during intermission... was a little surprised with Jeff O'neill. The question was if Quebec City would get a team by expansion or relocation. His answer was that they would get one by relocation because if Florida and Carolina can't fill up their buildings they don't have any business having a team. Jeff is a world class dork as a commentator, but it still surprised me with all of his history here.

Meh, he's firing for effect. Only way for some of these guys to get talked about is to say stuff like that.

 

[carolinacanuck]

Meh, he's firing for effect. Only way for some of these guys to get talked about is to say stuff like that.

i guess the canucks are on the relocation list now too because they don't sell out their building anymore either.



build a winner and they will come.

 

[garnetpalmetto]

Meh, he's firing for effect. Only way for some of these guys to get talked about is to say stuff like that.

IIRC, O'Neill made some other dismissive comment about Carolina within the last year. It really makes me wonder what happened behind the scenes as it seems less like "firing for effect" and more like "full-on grudge."

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

IIRC, O'Neill made some other dismissive comment about Carolina within the last year. It really makes me wonder what happened behind the scenes as it seems less like "firing for effect" and more like "full-on grudge."

Maybe, but didn't he come into camp a few years ago (08 or 09 I think) on a camp invite, or something like that? Seems odd that he'd have a grudge and yet come back for that. In fairness, a year or two ago he ripped WPG as a hockey market as well saying nobody wants to sign/stay there. I still think he's just saying things to get an audience.

 

[garnetpalmetto]

Maybe, but didn't he come into camp a few years ago (08 or 09 I think) on a camp invite, or something like that? Seems odd that he'd have a grudge and yet come back for that. In fairness, a year or two ago he ripped WPG as a hockey market as well saying nobody wants to sign/stay there. I still think he's just saying things to get an audience.

He did have that tryout in 2008, but 7 years is a long time. I found the comments he made on Leafs Lunch, heavily implying that the Canes were a bush league franchise:

O'Neill: Dude, have you not heard the pig story?

Ferraro: A pig? No.

O'Neill: Our mascot was a pig.

Marek: *Laughs*

Ferraro: Why was he a pig?

O'Neill: Dude, he's called Stormy the Pig. He's the mascot for the Hurricanes and I didn't know about him but when I was out there taping my stick once again in front of the locker room and they were going to debut the pig, like it was his big debut and he was hiding in the zamboni under the roof and the guy comes on the mike and goes "Come on out, pig! Come on out!" And I'm like, "Alright, the pig's coming out."

Marek & Watters: *Laughs*

O'Neill: And he doesn't come out. And then it's like "Alright, piggy. Come on out, piggy." And the pig still doesn't come out."

Watters: Smart pig.

O'Neill: This is the kind of circus it was where I didn't think I was in the NHL. The pig's got the big, giant pig head on and he's trapped in the zamboni and he's breathing in the gas and then the ambulance ends up on the ice and the pig head guy is getting on a, what is it called, the thing that...

Watters & Marek: *Laughs*

Marek: ...The stretcher

O'Neill: ...The stretcher. The pig head guy is on the stretcher and he's going in the ambulance and I'm looking at this saying "I don't even know what...like...I grew up with like Toronto Maple Leafs stuff." The pig is having a serious issue in the zamboni and he's gotta be...my Uncle Ted sent me a picture that he found in the paper and he's like...he wrote me a letter and he said "I enjoyed my trip down to Carolina" and there was a cutout from the paper of a guy in a giant pig head on a stretcher."

Watters: Wow.

O'Neill: Man, I tell you, that was something, buddy.

Ferraro: You know what? There is nowhere to go from that story.

Marek & Watters: *Laughs*

O'Neill: No! We'll let you go man.

Ferraro: Seriously, that is brilliant.

O'Neill: Come on out, piggy. Come on out.

http://www2.tsn.ca/bardown/Story.aspx?O-Dog's+Tales:+The+Pig&id=514887

Between the overdone hick accent and the story itself I get the feeling that now that O'Neill is an Ontario-based sports reporter tied in with the Leafs organization he's made his heel turn and screw the organization that he spent most of his career with and who was open to helping him stage his abortive comeback.

 

[Zezima]

my favorite childhood player

 

[AD Skinner]

my favorite childhood player

I still have a red O'Neill jersey I wear when I make it to games. I have come to terms with the fact that he's kind of a jerk, but that was part of what made him fun to watch. I think he's one of the last players of an era that could still treat the NHL like a nationwide booze cruise and still succeed (as someone much more eloquent than me once put it). Now there's so much more focus on preparation, diet, off-ice conditioning, etc., no one can get by on having good hands and being a jerk.

 

[Joe McGrath]

He did have that tryout in 2008, but 7 years is a long time. I found the comments he made on Leafs Lunch, heavily implying that the Canes were a bush league franchise:



http://www2.tsn.ca/bardown/Story.aspx?O-Dog's+Tales:+The+Pig&id=514887

Between the overdone hick accent and the story itself I get the feeling that now that O'Neill is an Ontario-based sports reporter tied in with the Leafs organization he's made his heel turn and screw the organization that he spent most of his career with and who was open to helping him stage his abortive comeback.

Didn't that happen in Greensboro? If so, there's no denying the time there wasn't exactly up to NHL standards.

 

[carolinacanuck]

o'neill sounds like a ****

he was on canucks radio back in april i think and he told the hosts to have their person call him 4 seconds before they come on air because he didn't wanna have to listen to them jibber and jabber on all day while he waited his turn.

kinda sounded like shtick, but still...he's definitely found his meathead persona.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

That was a worse heel turn than when Seth Rollins turned on the Shield

 

[Ole Gil]

TSN quiz during intermission... was a little surprised with Jeff O'neill. The question was if Quebec City would get a team by expansion or relocation. His answer was that they would get one by relocation because if Florida and Carolina can't fill up their buildings they don't have any business having a team. Jeff is a world class dork as a commentator, but it still surprised me with all of his history here.

Roenick and Milbury are the road map for Jeff Oneill's post hockey career. He's got a few old war stories, and the willingness to act the inflammatory fool.

The pig story is the war story which I enjoyed, the Carolina is going to relocate is the inflammatory fool which is designed for as many sites as possible to throw up "Ex-Cane says Canes to relocate. Click here to see/hear/read it!"

 

[RodTheBawd]

The timing of his trade to the Leafs is poetic justice. Guy got what he wanted and deserved... no Cup. ****ing slob.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

The timing of his trade to the Leafs is poetic justice. Guy got what he wanted and deserved... no Cup. ****ing slob.

Pretty much this

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

see if he responds:

 

[What the Faulk]

Man he got so fat

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

Man he got so fat

alcohol and cheeseburgers catch up to you when you stop being a professional athlete it seems