GDT: Free agency 2014 Part III - We got older, bring on the walkers

[Ceremony]

Should just have signed McClement to a seven year deal two years ago and avoided all of this.

 

[TheStranger]

Fact of the Day:Winchester is the NHL player from closest to my home town. He's from Long Sault, Ontario which is about 15 minutes from my hometown of Williamsburg, Ontario. Also, about 20 minutes away is Winchester which I find funny. All of these are towns of about 300 people

(And all about an hour south of ottawa)

 

[Avs71]

Flyers fans sure turned on Downie quick. They're kicking him pretty hard on their board.

 

[Freudian]

Flyers fans sure turned on Downie quick. They're kicking him pretty hard on their board.

The sane ones realize he most likely played through not only one but two concussions for them. He's not nearly as bad a player as he was for them second half. He looked to be playing in a haze.

 

[Avs71]

The sane ones realize he most likely played through not only one but two concussions for them. He's not nearly as bad a player as he was for them second half. He looked to be playing in a haze.

That's what you have to love and hate about Downie. He doesn't know when to say enough.

So much experience.

 

[hockeyfish]

That's what you have to love and hate about Downie. He doesn't know when to say enough.

So much experience.

Holy crap, William H. Macy, Rob Schneider, and... crap, I can't remember the actors name.

Edit, Rob Corddry, that's who I'm thinking of. Tell me I'm not right!

 

[Foppa2118]

defensive: yes, offensive is another story

Offensive? You're mistaken on that, sir.

How do you guys figure? Are you only looking at stats from last year?

Winchester

2013/14 - 52gms - 9g 9a - 18pts
2012/13 - 5gms - 0g 3a - 3pts (Finland)
2011/12 - 32gms - 2g 6a - 8pts
2010/11 - 72gms - 4g 9a - 13pts
2009/10 - 52gms - 2g 11a - 13pts
2008/09 - 76gms - 3g 15a - 18pts

McClement

2013/14 - 81gms - 4g 6a - 10pts
2012/13 - 48gms - 8g 9a - 17pts
2011/12 - 80gms - 10g 7a - 17pts
2010/11 - 80gms - 7g 13a - 20pts
2009/10 - 82gms -11g 18a - 29pts
2008/09 - 82gms - 12g 14a - 26pts
2007/08 - 81gms - 8g 28a - 36pts
2006/07 - 67gms - 6g 21a - 27pts


They're essentially the same age, and apart from last year where McClement was playing for Carlyle, and Winchester was super motivated to have a career year and stay in the NHL, it's not even close. Take out last year, and Jay's lowest point total is only one point away from Winchester's career year last season.

Winchester will be fine for us on the 4th line, because it's just the 4th line, but he's not better than McClement.

 

[Avalanche]

Fact of the Day:Winchester is the NHL player from closest to my home town. He's from Long Sault, Ontario which is about 15 minutes from my hometown of Williamsburg, Ontario. Also, about 20 minutes away is Winchester which I find funny. All of these are towns of about 300 people

(And all about an hour south of ottawa)

I'm in Cornwall, I think he lives in Summerstown (aka where all the rich people live) now. I've seen pics on his twitter of him by his dock and I've spent the last 3 summers going up and down the St Lawrence in Summerstown for work. I think I have a pretty good idea which house is his. I'm gonna rig up an Avs flag to the boat for my drivebys

 

[InjuredChoker]

Bryan Nikkel ‏@Bryan_Nikkel 12 t
@BizNasty2point0 @mirtle Who is top of this list? http://www.extraskater.com/players/standard?sit=all&type=rate&ufa=True&pos=F&sort=sh_pct&min_gp=25 … Not just a face puncher...someone needs to give Nasty a contract.

Paul Bissonnette ‏@BizNasty2point0 11 t
If you're not first you're last @Bryan_Nikkel.

 

[Over the Pants Landy]

Pierre LeBrun ‏@Real_ESPNLeBrun 2m
Also hearing Vladimir Sobotka has signed with Omsk of the KHL.

 

[Cousin Eddie]

Great news for Duchene!

 

[Avs71]

Wow, Blues fans must be pissed.

 

[Pokecheque]

Wow, Blues fans must be pissed.

Doubt they're too miffed--the team still has plenty of depth down the middle: Backes, Stastny , Berglund, Lapierre, and Lehtera pretty much form the center corps. And Ott can play center if they're really in a pinch.

Surprised SOB took a job abroad. He was playing big minutes for St. Loo last season, guess negotiations went nowhere fast.

 

[Over the Pants Landy]

Yikes, dodged that bullet.

Anthrax Jones @AnthraxJones

Brooks Orpik just said on Madden's show that the last two teams he was considering were Washington and Colorado, and the money was similar

 

[Avsboy]

Yikes, dodged that bullet.

Anthrax Jones @AnthraxJones

Brooks Orpik just said on Madden's show that the last two teams he was considering were Washington and Colorado, and the money was similar

ok NOW I'm starting to doubt management's sanity

 

[Avs71]

Does money refer to the total amount of the offer? Because he could mean the year by year salary was close, but maybe the term wasn't the same.

 

[tigervixxxen]

Does money refer to the total amount of the offer? Because he could mean the year by year salary was close, but maybe the term wasn't the same.

I'd like to find the show and hear the direct quote myself. Things get lost a lot in twitter translation.

 

[AslanRH]

So much experience.

 

[Bubba Thudd]

That's what you have to love and hate about Downie. He doesn't know when to say enough.

So much experience.

Every time I see those pics, I think to myself, "Those are caricatures, right?" Right?

 

[Hennessy]

Every time I see those pics, I think to myself, "Those are caricatures, right?" Right?

Yes. Every athlete in their mid-to-late 30's looks much worse than me in my boozing-smoking 40's.

Except for Briere. He's just an ugly, short man.

 

[shadow1]

Losing Vladimir Sobotka is a HUGE blow to St. Louis.

It's hard to quantify his value to them relative to Colorado, but it's definitely worse than if Jamie McGinn, for example, bolted to the KHL.

A lot of the depth Stastny created for St. Louis by bumping Sobotka down to the third line is gone. Steve Ott, a role player, is the replacement.