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the bruins must be licking there chops at what our possible first line could be. a little to small for me. having grown up in new york and watched gomez he's soft this could be trouble.

this is what i do not get ppl are worried about ONE team we play 8 times a year woopie our team wasnt exactly big on our first line either when we were giving an whooping on the bruins for how many seasons? think of it this way our first line is a scoring threat with a lot of speed i have heard gomez being able to bring the puck up the ice very very quickly so even if the bruins do catch the guy with the puck theirs a certainty that a penalty will be called. Strength isn't everything but i do agree with you that we are small and need size down the middle. Maybe plecs won't be returning and we are grabbing a bigger center in antropov? hes cheap but hes big and im almost certain the 5.2m hes looking for he aint gonna get. so enough with the "oh god we are going to get clobbered by the big bad bruins their so big and strong" they had ONE good season we have beaten them in so many seasons so keep your chin up dude things will fall into the place and lets bash BG for getting hal gill lol

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this is what i do not get ppl are worried about ONE team we play 8 times a year woopie our team wasnt exactly big on our first line either when we were giving an whooping on the bruins for how many seasons? think of it this way our first line is a scoring threat with a lot of speed i have heard gomez being able to bring the puck up the ice very very quickly so even if the bruins do catch the guy with the puck theirs a certainty that a penalty will be called. Strength isn't everything but i do agree with you that we are small and need size down the middle. Maybe plecs won't be returning and we are grabbing a bigger center in antropov? hes cheap but hes big and im almost certain the 5.2m hes looking for he aint gonna get. so enough with the "oh god we are going to get clobbered by the big bad bruins their so big and strong" they had ONE good season we have beaten them in so many seasons so keep your chin up dude things will fall into the place and lets bash BG for getting hal gill lol

relax using one team that handeled us to make a point about how small we will be, one team, there are many out there that will shut down our size and we will be forced to live off the PP again and hope the back line holds up. Not just focusing on the bruins, but they are in our confrence and may have to be seen to reach the prize 8 games or not

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um..... I'm a little worried...

Cammalleri - 5'9" 185lb

Gomez - 5'11" 220lb

Gionta - 5'7" 175lb

We're even smaller and softer up front than before ,if that's possible. I like the Camm. signing.Gomez trade we got fleeced,and gionta signing is a joke

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Actually, today proves exactly why Gainey was at fault the past five years.

Every day for the past three years, I've heard on this forum that poor Bob Gainey can't sign big names. It's not his fault. It's the city, the weather, the taxes, the language barrier, the fans, the summer roadwork, the preponderance of festivals, etc. etc. But lookie here -- when push came to shove and he had no choice but to sign players because he let half our team hit free agency at the same time, surprise! He succeeded (with Cammalleri, at least).

So the next time someone says Gainey's hands are tied, I will respond only with a facepalm image of some kind.

Very very good point.

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We're even smaller and softer up front than before ,if that's possible. I like the Camm. signing.Gomez trade we got fleeced,and gionta signing is a joke

I wouldn't say that we're any softer up front, I would say in terms of toughness it's relatively the same, but I will admit that Koivu probably had more heart than any of the players we picked up today. But I wouldn't say that we got fleeced on the Gomez trade, you need to give up something to get something and as for Gionta I wouldn't call it a joke, he was very successful with Gomez in New Jersey. Another thing too is that everyone just automatically assumes that our 1st line will be Cammalleri, Gomez and Gionta I'll admit it's possible and very likely Gomez and Gionta will be together but ultimately it depends on what Martin sees in training camp. I still do have some worry about our size but in the past we have been succesful by playing fast paced game, that's how we beat the Bruins night night out and when we got away from that style this past year we got nowhere against them.

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I wouldn't say that we're any softer up front, I would say in terms of toughness it's relatively the same, but I will admit that Koivu probably had more heart than any of the players we picked up today. But I wouldn't say that we got fleeced on the Gomez trade, you need to give up something to get something and as for Gionta I wouldn't call it a joke, he was very successful with Gomez in New Jersey. Another thing too is that everyone just automatically assumes that our 1st line will be Cammalleri, Gomez and Gionta I'll admit it's possible and very likely Gomez and Gionta will be together but ultimately it depends on what Martin sees in training camp. I still do have some worry about our size but in the past we have been succesful by playing fast paced game, that's how we beat the Bruins night night out and when we got away from that style this past year we got nowhere against them.

so taking on a 40 mill over 5 year contract and giving up what amounts to 2 number ones in higgens and a promising mcdonugh for a 29 year old soft center who has scored less than 20 goals his last 2 years is a good deal. did you see who the rangers signed with that money? WE GOT FLEECED

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so taking on a 40 mill over 5 year contract and giving up what amounts to 2 number ones in higgens and a promising mcdonugh for a 29 year old soft center who has scored less than 20 goals his last 2 years is a good deal. did you see who the rangers signed with that money? WE GOT FLEECED

But Gomez and Gionta lit it up together 5 years ago.I'm being sarcastic of course.Gomez was a salary dump,and Sather found a mark in BG. Gomez' numbers are basically the same as koivu's except he makes $3m more . I'd rather have Kovy or Tang instead of Gionta. His production has gone down the last few years.. How are we going to compete with Philly,TO,Bost etc. with all these smurfs.

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so taking on a 40 mill over 5 year contract and giving up what amounts to 2 number ones in higgens and a promising mcdonugh for a 29 year old soft center who has scored less than 20 goals his last 2 years is a good deal. did you see who the rangers signed with that money? WE GOT FLEECED

I can't read this without laughing im sorry but gaborik? injury prone played around 20 games last season and is being paid 7.5m a season for 5 years and has only hit the 80 point mark once in his career? we might have got a bit fleeced on the deal for gomez but the rangers made another mistake signing a huge contract to gaborik in my eyes watch gaboriks groin get hurt again and hes on the IR only after 20 games or so.

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I can't read this without laughing im sorry but gaborik? injury prone played around 20 games last season and is being paid 7.5m a season for 5 years and has only hit the 80 point mark once in his career? we might have got a bit fleeced on the deal for gomez but the rangers made another mistake signing a huge contract to gaborik in my eyes watch gaboriks groin get hurt again and hes on the IR only after 20 games or so.

according to nhl numbers we have almost 10.5 left.

If we traded hammer for picks, we would be left with 16 mil.

Could we then sign Beauchemin, Tanguay, kovy for under 12 mil and have 4 mil to sign our rfas?

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I can't read this without laughing im sorry but gaborik? injury prone played around 20 games last season and is being paid 7.5m a season for 5 years and has only hit the 80 point mark once in his career? we might have got a bit fleeced on the deal for gomez but the rangers made another mistake signing a huge contract to gaborik in my eyes watch gaboriks groin get hurt again and hes on the IR only after 20 games or so.

your right maybe i should have worded that better did you see who the rangers had the money to sign

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according to nhl numbers we have almost 10.5 left.

If we traded hammer for picks, we would be left with 16 mil.

Could we then sign Beauchemin, Tanguay, kovy for under 12 mil and have 4 mil to sign our rfas?

I do not see a point in resigning tanguay we have our play maker in gomez now weather you like it or not hes here to stay.Paying tanguay 5m+ to play second line duties makes no sense.I also don't think we have 10.5m left in cap space...something around like 7-8m.We have to resign the RFA's that we need and im guessing kovy is waiting for that also so BG can send a offer that is not 4m but will probably take a pay cut since he says he wants to stay in montreal so bad. As for koivu id like to see him back but a part of me also says hes done in montreal we are trying to change the face of the franchise and i am afraid it starts with koivu even tho he is the heart and soul of this team but drastic changes must be made coming off such a bad season. As for beauchimin its a tough call if hes asking for above 4m we hang up the phone but something tells me if we do get beauchemin the hal gill signings wouldn't make sense.

markov - beauchamin

hamrlik - gorges

spacek - webber

or spacek can play with hamrlik and gorges with webber. but who knows bob is crazy this off season who knows what he will do.

Oh forgot don't we have to resign plecs? so yeah maybe koivu has room to come back who knows.

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I really don't think that the moves we are making are really doing us any good. We got SWEPT by the ***** bruins because of Price. We all know that goaltending is the ONLY position that matters so untill we address that issue we will be just like any other team which is unacceptable.

yeah its too bad the whole team played poorly yes that includes our defencemen so dont be throwing price under the bus just yet. yes i know price is not our savior or anything but hes a good young goalie that had a bad season just like every other player on the habs team last season.

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