I too am puzzled by the Stortini signing, and it's a 2 year contract as well.   

I'll miss Kramer; I hope he does well with the peanut butter jar idea.

Pouring rain on Canada day in Ottawa: a tradition like no other. 

tjlincoln wrote:

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Stortini a thug, he takes the ever important fake fight role when he's called up to the Sens. He has a 2 way contract

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 Kramer replacement in Bingo.  Which is ironic considering Kramer was a fan favorite in Bingo, and Stortini is universally reviled in Bingo.

leafs got 3 players ands 2 picks back for kessel the vessel. got to admit, that's not bad for him.

kind of surprised habs would let Prust go. I thought they liked him a lot.

SensKat wrote:

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Kessel traded to the Penguins

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this really surprises me. i really thought he was untradeable.

Kardinal wrote:

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Condra's PK time can be filled by 9MM, Lazar or someone else.   I'm sad to see him go, but we have other LWs to give a chance to like Prince or Puempel. 

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 yep. Pageau showed last year he can be a premier pk guy. and so will lazar. Gryba was expendable, makes room for wideman.

Kardinal wrote:

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Condra's PK time can be filled by 9MM, Lazar or someone else.   I'm sad to see him go, but we have other LWs to give a chance to like Prince or Puempel. 

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 Condra is a RW, he was only playing LW because Puempel and MacA got hurt.

SensKat wrote:

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When are WE going to do something????

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 dont think they will. BM has been trying to create spots, not fill them.

Condra's PK time can be filled by 9MM, Lazar or someone else.   I'm sad to see him go, but we have other LWs to give a chance to like Prince or Puempel. 

Russell wrote:

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bright side: Condra gone means more ice time for pageau and Lazar. 

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 Considering he played on a line with them I don't see how this works.

I'm still standing by my prediction Lazar goes down to the A to get his offensive confidence back playing with Paul and Lindberg.

Buddy Robinson can take the 3rd line RW role and play on the PK.

Agent Orange wrote:

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Quick! Invest in as many Pittsburgh donut shops as possible!

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 like

As things stand at this second:

MacArthur - Turris - Stone

_______(1) - Zibanejad - Ryan

Michalek - Pageau - Lazar

_______(2) - Smith - Neil

Greening

Methot - Karlsson

Ceci - Wiercioch

Borowiecki - Cowen

Phillips

Anderson

Hammond

(presumably (1) is Hoffman, (2) is Chiasson, at least for now)

If GMBM can move Greening, that's fine, but I'm not interested in too much other tinkering.

If a team trades an RFA who's been qualified, does the qualifying offer go with the trade or does the new team have to start over?

Kardinal wrote:

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It's not even noon and the stupidity has already started:

 

NAS: sign Mike "Ratboy" Ribiero to 2yr/$7M contract.  

 

I'm sure Russell is as 'pleased' as I am.   (/sarcasm)

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 he's going to need it for lawyer fees.

bright side: Condra gone means more ice time for pageau and Lazar.