Ward for Williams straight up, we'll fax you guys the paperwork...
Gonna retroactively accept this offer.
Ward for Williams straight up, we'll fax you guys the paperwork...
that was a three-way trade with us getting grit machine erik cole. o'sullivan didn't play for us until two seasons later when we signed him as a FA.5 year old thread bump. Lol!
Justin Williams for Patrick O'Sullivan......still boggles the mind to this day. Yes JWill had injury issues, but he was exactly the type of player we needed....pest, gritty, skilled, etc.
that was a three-way trade with us getting grit machine erik cole. o'sullivan didn't play for us until two seasons later when we signed him as a FA.
oh and it's great to see that i was right yet again.
But somewhere along the way your shift key stopped working...
that was a three-way trade with us getting grit machine erik cole. o'sullivan didn't play for us until two seasons later when we signed him as a FA.
oh and it's great to see that i was right yet again.
But somewhere along the way your shift key stopped working...
Best days behind him? Williams will outscore every forward on our roster next season outside of Staal.
Lol. "Williams may never get back to the old Williams." What do you think now, Vagrant?
Man, nothing like old threads to make us all look like the morons we are.
--hank
Comparing playing for Lavi in the two post lockout years to playing Kings hockey in recent years is not really apples to apples. Carolina scored 3.49 per game in 05/06. Kings scored 2.42 this year.
Similarly with 'difference maker', he was 2nd only to Kopitar in scoring for the Kings the three seasons prior to this, and 3rd this season. He is flourishing in that system, even if it's not in the pretty 'league leaders' style of high scoring hockey. He's been a key scoring piece for the past 4 years.
I think the Canes did the right thing at the time. You couldn't wager that 1) the injuries were just a fluke, and not a result of Williams being injury prone, and 2) that he'd show no long term effects.
But they were wrong on both accounts. Fairly similar inaccurate judgments were made with Cole and Whitney when not resigning them. And the wrong call made with Ruutu. Not a great track record for the front office when it comes to guessing on this front.
They didnt make an inaccurate judgement with Cole. In years 2 and 3 of the contract he signed his line read 122-25-17-42 and a -23. Seems like a pretty good decision to me.
Chuck, great to see ya back, but i wouldnt full time.... Read only and the occasional reply and rant suits me fine.. Hope you are well!