He is filing for bankruptcy with over $26M in liabilities, and has made about $34M so far in his career. That is a lot of overspending.....must have been the helicopter rides from BUF to Raptor games.
True story: I met his sister Vicki, who was Wayne's GF at the time, in Edmonton when I was 15-ish. She was singing in a band when I was out there for a school band competition.
where the hell are the leafs getting the cap space to sign all these players?
Not only the laffs. All these teams that are signing players to big contracts. And all we hear is that so many teams are up against the cap.
You live in a town with a team with absolutely no money so you're forgiven for not realizing there are other teams out there that will pay money for good players to try and win. You're team is more concerned w getting to a salary floor with contracts that have less money owed to the players than what the salary cap hit is. #MelnykOut
-- Edited by tjlincoln on Wednesday 14th of October 2020 10:20:10 PM
Dale Hawerchuk just lost his battle with cancer. Super sad. He was 57
The first NHL game I went to was in the 87-88 season at the Forum in LA and I saw Hawerchuk RandyCarlyle and our boy Paul MacLean play for the Jets. I had no idea who anyone was on the ice since they looked like NFL players on skates to me. This was the year before Gretzky got there.
I felt bad that the guy who crosschecked him to the face only got one game for putting another teams top player out of the game in a broad sense. But since it was Gallagher I got over that feeling