ballard to get #4?

This is exactly what I mean. I'm aware that Lu's contract is mostly safe but seriously, all this garbage is just stupid. It isn't as if the long contracts create an uneven playing field...everyone is welcome to do it. It's just that some owners don't spend to the cap ceiling and they're usually the ones in shitty hockey markets that lose money every year. Bettman should be more focused on moving those teams where people will appreciate them.

And player salaries are higher now than before the lockout. If anything, it's the NHL's fault that they didn't look at stuff like this more closely.

Circumvention is more like if they paid Louie $1 a year and then paid him through another company for endorsement deals his $6m a year. Something like that. All the long contracts that are currently signed...I'd call that "creative use of CBA mechanics".

Yep, also

Malhotra #27
Schroeder #40
Torres #13
B.Sweatt #42
Tambellini #10

source: Canucks roster page

sigh i just hope there's not another lockout/strike.

and i wish #10 was retired.

Anyone check out the new Canucks team store yet? A lot of cheap stuff but not too much selections (compared to the one at GM.. err Rogers Arena) as expected.

so whos going to the sedin signing? ill pay someone or can offer something else if they can get my jersey signed for me :) :D

#2 will always be Ohlund for me.

http://i52.tinypic.com/2j5f78z.jpg

I miss ohlund :(
sucks he went to tampa

yeah, i was very happy to see him in attendance during the playoffs. show's he still cares about the welfare of this team.

I didn't notice he watched our playoff games. Does he live in Van during the off season?

really wished he could be here when we win the cup

My mom (a 60-year old woman) once saw Ohlund in real life and she said he was massive. :lol

i'm not sure about him living here, but they showed him in the audience during one of the broadcasted games.

hahaha met an Ohlund looklike at UBC today. I came out of the hospital with a cast on my thumb and he happened to come out on crunches

I ran into Ohlund at the Van airport when I was coming back from Sweden a couple years ago. His family was on the same flight as mine and he was there to meet/pick them up. Yes, he's huge lol. I wanted to say hi but didn't want to bother him.

I've met Ohlund before. That dude is massive. The Canucks often said that he was the strongest and fittest on the team.

I'm going to line up at 3PM with my buddy. No joke, LOL.

I met and took a pic with him 9 years ago when I was in grade 11 at save-ons. I can take him on.


Just kidding he'd pound my face in.

wooo..Canucks will be playing in ATL this season.

I guess I'll go visit my friend and watch the game there for cheap. haha:D

the battles he had with Iginla were one to remember.

might have been in 07 when we started the season against the Flames. He lays a monsterous hit on Iginla in our own zone. Iginla goes ballistic and starts hitting everything in his path which eventually draws a penalty to himself. Loved it

whats there to do in ATL

get shot

Saw Ohlund @ Joe Fortes when I worked there.

Too bad he couldn't have jumped on the ice and showed people how it's done.
lol, Canucks needed as much help as they could get with all the injuries during the playoffs.

if true, the pens have way too many centers. Staal or Comrie to play wing most likely