Dick In a Post! KovaLOLchuk E-mail
Written by The Caterer   
Thursday, 22 July 2010 08:20

Yes! It's another installment of Dick In A Post where we relentlessly mock the hilarious things that have happened in the NHL since, well, sometime. We don't do this frequently enough to have an exact time. But yes. Fun! Click on the title to read the whole thing!

1. Kovalchuk signs for 17 years and an absurd amount of money!

You know- when I saw this I remember thinking "How hilarious would it be if the NHL voided the contract and he ended up signing with LA since the Devils couldn't make it work any other way?" My answer- very. And we're halfway there! Screw you New Jersey!

2. Simon Gagne is traded to the Lightning...

...in a move that absolutely did not surprise me after seeing Paul Holmgren trade for Andrej Mez-Zorro (that's his name, right?).

Anyways, this smacks of the Darryl Sutter style of getting players- make sure they're the defensemen type. Oh and overpaid/not very good. Seriously though- the average cap hit of a Flyers D-Man is $3.19M. And that's with Bartulis, the 8th defenseman who's only earning $600,000. Without? $3.56M. As a point of comparison, the average of the Flames top 7 D is $2.7M. Granted, that's sans White and plus Staios, but it won't change enough to be comparable to the Flyers.

3. Clarke MacArthur is awarded an absurd amount in salary arbitration.

I'm not sure what's happening in player value this off-season. On the one hand, guys like Frolov and Stempniak are still unsigned, indicating clubs don't want to pay all that much for them. On the other, guys like Clarke MacArthur are getting ridiculous amounts in arbitration that teams don't want to play. We're talking $2.4M for 16-19-35.

The good thing? Well, it means the Oilers are going to be bending over for the Brule arbitration hearing. The bad thing? Well, there's this player named Ian White on the Flames, and he's up for salary arbitration...

4. In shocking news, nothing happened in the Flames world.

Seriously though, aside from depth signings, nothing. has. happened. Look at all the Flames blogs. It's dead. I'm pumping out moralistic crap stories about nothing. That's not necessarily a bad thing as it means, well, I don't really know anymore. But I'm going to go hibernate until late September.



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