A Lot of buzz is going on in between games out West. From one Elliote Friedman, earlier today...
Henrik Zetterberg, Marian Hossa, Johan Franzen and Jiri Hudler (restricted) are all up, and Zetterberg is testing the Red Wings’ limits. (They gave Hossa a one-year deal equal to Nicklas Lidstrom’s $7.45 million, and a 10-year, $75 million offer to Zetterberg has apparently been rejected (CBC Sports)."
You already know this. Either you obsessively refresh your three, permanently opened tabs of Khan/Malik/MacLeod Red Wing blogs for 12 straight hours like I do, or you got a panicked text from one of your buddies saying that Hank turned down a deal comparable to Hossa's and Lidstrom's. Either way you felt a little nervous. But no need to fear:
"Red Wings center Henrik Zetterberg denied a report by CBC's Elliote Friedman claiming that he has turned down a 10-year, $75 million contract offer from the club. "No, it's not (accurate). Usually I don't want to comment on that but that's not true,'' Zetterberg said Thursday. "I haven't turned down an offer of $75 million" (Khan)."
I flipped the fuck out when I first heard his. Which is typical for me. Sad, embarrasing, but typical. I should know that there's something fishy sounding about a 10-year offer coming from Ken Holland. 10 years is a long ass time, and something that would downright shock me if it were true. The cap is unpredictable. Anything economically-related at this point is unpredictable. 10 years in Red Wing language roughly translates to "You're out of your fucking mind." So in retrospect it was an overreaction to take this tiny "alledged" piece of news and make it the most horrific part of my 2009 so far, but I didn't surprise myself either. Moving on.
Red Wings 4-3 Ducks
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Henrik Zetterberg, Marian Hossa, Johan Franzen and Jiri Hudler (restricted) are all up, and Zetterberg is testing the Red Wings’ limits. (They gave Hossa a one-year deal equal to Nicklas Lidstrom’s $7.45 million, and a 10-year, $75 million offer to Zetterberg has apparently been rejected (CBC Sports)."
You already know this. Either you obsessively refresh your three, permanently opened tabs of Khan/Malik/MacLeod Red Wing blogs for 12 straight hours like I do, or you got a panicked text from one of your buddies saying that Hank turned down a deal comparable to Hossa's and Lidstrom's. Either way you felt a little nervous. But no need to fear:
"Red Wings center Henrik Zetterberg denied a report by CBC's Elliote Friedman claiming that he has turned down a 10-year, $75 million contract offer from the club. "No, it's not (accurate). Usually I don't want to comment on that but that's not true,'' Zetterberg said Thursday. "I haven't turned down an offer of $75 million" (Khan)."
I flipped the fuck out when I first heard his. Which is typical for me. Sad, embarrasing, but typical. I should know that there's something fishy sounding about a 10-year offer coming from Ken Holland. 10 years is a long ass time, and something that would downright shock me if it were true. The cap is unpredictable. Anything economically-related at this point is unpredictable. 10 years in Red Wing language roughly translates to "You're out of your fucking mind." So in retrospect it was an overreaction to take this tiny "alledged" piece of news and make it the most horrific part of my 2009 so far, but I didn't surprise myself either. Moving on.
Red Wings 4-3 Ducks
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- Dan Cleary completely shat on Scott Niedermayer. Then he about broke his stick whipping a wrister past Giguere. Awesome shot. He has all of the tools to rack up points and probably would if he played for just about any other team, where he would actually see power play time. Did you know he's 3rd on the team behind Datsyuk and Hossa in even-stregnth points per 60 minutes? Ahead of Zetterberg and Franzen (who see about a minute and a half-per-game more ice time?)
- The Hudler goal looked sweet. While I like seeing Pav humiliate defenders just as much as the next guy, I equally like a good slapshot goal. Mainly because I think it takes some stones to pull it off. Huds caught a lucky break on the dump in, but if just grips and rips and completely misses, he's a total fuck up. Of his 17 goals, 4 of them have come via the slapper.
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