Confirmed with Link: Staal back on one year deal

[SoupNazi]

f***ing Zdeno Chara is out there.
Swing for the fences.

I hope you're kidding that you'd prefer a 44 year old defenseman, but I know you're not. Wow.

 

[better Red than Dead]

No, I'm actually hoping they'll give us much more than Marc Staal gave us.

Who cares about "fitting" this locker room. The Red Wings should be trying to get people in who shake this locker room up.
Our .429 point percentage was the 2nd worst this team had since the 85-86 season.

We need Staal to preserve the locker room culture?
Come on.

f***ing Zdeno Chara is out there.
Swing for the fences.

Chars is going to want to play here, why? He doesn’t need the money, so you think he’d be interested in moving his family here to play on the 3rd pairing at minimum salary to mentor players? That’s a lot to assume

 

[Lil Sebastian Cossa]

Looks to me like it’s 2 million o’clock

 

[Ricelund]

f***ing Zdeno Chara is out there.
Swing for the fences.

Why would Chara sign with Detroit? How much do you think it would take to bring him to Detroit?

If it took $5 million, would you complain that he's overpaid and it's a troubling "trend"?

 

[SoupNazi]

Why would Chara sign with Detroit? How much do you think it would take to bring him to Detroit?

If it took $5 million, would you complain that he's overpaid and it's a troubling "trend"?

He wouldn't sign here, and to answer the $5 million question, yes.

 

[MBH]

MBH seems to be under the assumption that older players with families who no longer need the money would line up to take a pittance of money to play here. And not to play here to win a championship but to play on the 3rd pairing in a mentoring role, while moving their families here for that one year. While giving you the same production and chemistry that Marc Staal gave. That’s a lot to assume

It;s not a lot to assume.

You assume that magically - when the cap runs dry for the good teams - all the veteran NHLers looking for contracts are going to thumb their nose at Detroit and instead go to the American Hockey League or Europe.

that's a lot to assume.

 

[Lil Sebastian Cossa]

f***ing Zdeno Chara and his 10 points in about 1000 minutes in 20-22 is out there… we should shoot for the moon!

He would be way better than Marc Staal and his 10 points in about 1000 minutes in 20-21.

 

[jkutswings]

Mark
Belongs
Here.

Sometimes
Having
Older guys help the
Up and coming players
Leads to
Development gains that are priceless.

Revenue is not an issue.
Even the cap is in good shape.
Learn to
Accept that on the
Xylophone of life, there are many ways to make good music.

 

[SoupNazi]

Mark
Belongs
Here.

Sometimes
Having
Older guys help the
Up and coming players
Leads to
Development gains that are priceless.

Revenue is not an issue.
Even the cap is in good shape.
Learn to
Accept that on the
Xylophone of life, there are many ways to make good music.

Well played sir. Well played, indeed.

 

[Ghost of Ethan Hunt]

Mark
Belongs
Here.

Sometimes
Having
Older guys help the
Up and coming players
Leads to
Development gains that are priceless.

Revenue is not an issue.
Even the cap is in good shape.
Learn to
Accept that on the
Xylophone of life, there are many ways to make good music.

Excellent Haiku form.

Now the respondee must counter in Interpretive Dance or lose the final round

(Hey, I don't make the rules)

 

[better Red than Dead]

It;s not a lot to assume.

You assume that magically - when the cap runs dry for the good teams - all the veteran NHLers looking for contracts are going to thumb their nose at Detroit and instead go to the American Hockey League or Europe.

that's a lot to assume.

They could just retire, in fact many of them just might, then what?

 

[MBH]

Why would Chara sign with Detroit? How much do you think it would take to bring him to Detroit?

If it took $5 million, would you complain that he's overpaid and it's a troubling "trend"?

Where do you think he signs?
Chara made $1.5M last year.
Maybe he takes that in Detroit. Maybe he's sweetalked into mentoring Seider.
Maybe $2M gets him to Detroit. But I take Chara at his age over Staal.

Maybe not.
But I'd give it a shot.

Defend Staal's $2M and NMC if you want.
But I don't think that was a reality-driven market-based decision.

It's strange that you guys are going balls to the wall to fight the obvious criticism here and drag this thing out.

 

[SoupNazi]

Where do you think he signs?
Chara made $1.5M last year.
Maybe he takes that in Detroit. Maybe he's sweetalked into mentoring Seider.
Maybe $2M gets him to Detroit. But I take Chara at his age over Staal.

Maybe not.
But I'd give it a shot.

Defend Staal's $2M and NMC if you want.
But I don't think that was a reality-driven market-based decision.

It's strange that you guys are going balls to the wall to fight the obvious criticism here and drag this thing out.

The criticism may be obvious, but we aren't the ones dragging this out.

Why would a 44-year-old Chara come to Detroit? You still haven't answered that. And for that matter, does he have anything left in the tank? Doubtful.

 

[Lil Sebastian Cossa]

Where do you think he signs?
Chara made $1.5M last year.
Maybe he takes that in Detroit. Maybe he's sweetalked into mentoring Seider.
Maybe $2M gets him to Detroit. But I take Chara at his age over Staal.

Maybe not.
But I'd give it a shot.

Defend Staal's $2M and NMC if you want.
But I don't think that was a reality-driven market-based decision.

It's strange that you guys are going balls to the wall to fight the obvious criticism here and drag this thing out.

The market gave Patrik Nemeth 3x2.25 or so.

The market is about to give Zach Hyman 6 million and 5 million to Blake Coleman.

 

[SoupNazi]

The market gave Patrik Nemeth 3x2.25 or so.

The market is about to give Zach Hyman 6 million and 5 million to Blake Coleman.

Get out of here with your facts.

 

[Gniwder]

Where do you think he signs?
Chara made $1.5M last year.
Maybe he takes that in Detroit. Maybe he's sweetalked into mentoring Seider.
Maybe $2M gets him to Detroit. But I take Chara at his age over Staal.

Maybe not.
But I'd give it a shot.

Defend Staal's $2M and NMC if you want.
But I don't think that was a reality-driven market-based decision.

It's strange that you guys are going balls to the wall to fight the obvious criticism here and drag this thing out.

Staal is too slow for the NHL.

Want someone even slower.

OK.

 

[SirloinUB]

Mark Staal had a solid season. I'm not sure why he wouldn't be worth 2 million. Its a fine contract. Nothing to celebrate and nothing to complain about.

 

[Gniwder]

Mark Staal had a solid season. I'm not sure why he wouldn't be worth 2 million. Its a fine contract. Nothing to celebrate and nothing to complain about.

I'm throwing a f'ing party!

Yeah, seriously. 9 pages with basically one guy whining about it.

 

[Bench]

Who cares about "fitting" this locker room.

You genuinely don't know anything about team sports and the dynamics of the room. Like at all. You make that abundantly clear the more you talk about it and the character of the players you covet.

And no, your weekends in rec league ball hockey are not the same, champ.

 

[Bench]

Mark
Belongs
Here.

Sometimes
Having
Older guys help the
Up and coming players
Leads to
Development gains that are priceless.

Revenue is not an issue.
Even the cap is in good shape.
Learn to
Accept that on the
Xylophone of life, there are many ways to make good music.

I wish we had a thread where we could post the best comments of the forum because damn dude.

 

[Ghost of Ethan Hunt]

I wish we had a thread where we could post the best comments of the forum because damn dude.

Call it: "Best of" HFB HOF Archive.

or something to that effect. Hey, I'm sure I've had a few in 20+ yrs here.

 

[OgeeOgelthorpe]

You genuinely don't know anything about team sports and the dynamics of the room. Like at all. You make that abundantly clear the more you talk about it and the character of the players you covet.

And no, your weekends in rec league ball hockey are not the same, champ.

 

[OgeeOgelthorpe]

I wish we had a thread where we could post the best comments of the forum because damn dude.

We need one stickied at the top of the forum.
Also when I next get bored at work I might make a thread that descibes the DRW board slang and acronyms, such as what going "full Bench" means, etc.

 

[Ghost of Ethan Hunt]

We need one stickied at the top of the forum.
Also when I next get bored at work I might make a thread that descibes the DRW board slang and acronyms, such as what going "full Bench" means, etc.

Haha! In anticipation of this, I"ve printed out the Entire Urban Dictionary & Thesaurus (all volumes) for Easy Reference


Condensed into a travel size. (patent pending)...now I too can speak Tik-Tak, Java, C#, Zillenial etc.

 

[Lil Sebastian Cossa]

You genuinely don't know anything about team sports and the dynamics of the room. Like at all. You make that abundantly clear the more you talk about it and the character of the players you covet.

And no, your weekends in rec league ball hockey are not the same, champ.

god damn.

Mark
Belongs
Here.

Sometimes
Having
Older guys help the
Up and coming players
Leads to
Development gains that are priceless.

Revenue is not an issue.
Even the cap is in good shape.
Learn to
Accept that on the
Xylophone of life, there are many ways to make good music.

I’ve said it before but god damn. This is some Rick Mahorn work down in the paint.