Confirmed with Link: Hawks acquire Versteeg

[Sharp1024*]

Sign Iginla while trading away Versteeg? that makes no sense. That would be stupid.

Versteeg is a good guy and still liked by the team. You won't get much better players for 2.2 a year

True. Knee jerk reaction.

 

[Blackhawks]

For whatever reason people cant stop talking about Steeger, as we all remember the famous "They call him Versteeg" thread when he came in as a rookie which which got up in the 100's of pages of material and now that he is back all Hawks fans spend their energy on whether negative or positive whatever the guy does it seems to be always news.

 

[Sharp1024*]

Soooo true.

He needs to get his flow back.

 

[Bubba88]

love that picture

 

[Oh_so_saad]

Trade Versteeg for whatever you can get. Sign Jerome Iginila.

if we sign ignila we wont be winning anymore cups. he is cursed

 

[Callidusblackhawk]

if we sign ignila we wont be winning anymore cups. he is cursed

People said that about Hossa and Iginla's last two years are pretty similar to what Hossa went through.

 

[hisgirlfriday]

We shouldn't sign Iginla because we're all stocked up at Top 6 right wing and Iginla isn't a good fit for the Blackhawks, not because of any imagined curse.

Getting back on the topic of Steeger... apparently he is the one responsible for the new warmup music at the UC for the playoffs.
http://blackhawks.nhl.com/club/blogpost.htm?id=29424

 

[madgoat33]

iginla right now is nothing like hossa was when we signed him(or now for that matter). He's a semi-washed up RW who will probably end up getting paid more than he's worth.

 

[Hawkaholic]

iginla right now is nothing like hossa was when we signed him(or now for that matter). He's a semi-washed up RW who will probably end up getting paid more than he's worth.

He ended up getting paid more than he was worth this past year, so yeah, he probably will again.

 

[hisgirlfriday]

iginla right now is nothing like hossa was when we signed him(or now for that matter). He's a semi-washed up RW who will probably end up getting paid more than he's worth.

Well at 1.8 mill he was actually UNDERpaid. Still finished with 30 goals, 60 points in regular season and has been a top ten right winger (at least in points) this playoffs through 2 rounds.

 

[Hawkaholic]

Well at 1.8 mill he was actually UNDERpaid. Still finished with 30 goals, 60 points in regular season and has been a top ten right winger (at least in points) this playoffs through 2 rounds.

He accounted for 6mil against the cap, not 1.8.

And now, the Bruins lose 4.5mil next year because they had him.
He was greatly overpaid.

 

[hisgirlfriday]

He accounted for 6mil against the cap, not 1.8.

And now, the Bruins lose 4.5mil next year because they had him.
He was greatly overpaid.

Ahh was just looking at salary and not the bonuses. In that case, it was a bad deal and feels like a move made by a team that thought their window closed in 2014.

 

[Bubba88]

we don't need a guy like Iggy nor do we have the Cap Space for him

 

[vegasvic]

People said that about Hossa and Iginla's last two years are pretty similar to what Hossa went through.

...and we need a new old guy for Toews to hand next years cup to