Spanning the Globe- Recent Aquisition Rumors

[guinevere]

Bored, lonely and avoiding the ginger snaps, she spans the globe looking for acquisition rumors for your reading pleasure.... :cool:

Reports are reporting the Anahiem Mighty Ducks close to signing forward Sergei Federov.

And Leafs with offensive rearguard Oleg Tverdovsky.

The Star reports, Sergei Federov close to signing a 5 year deal worth 40million with the Mighty Ducks.

The Lightning have also contacted the agent of Greg DeVries to see his interest in coming to Tampa Bay.

Newsday, reports the New York Islanders working on the phone with the agent of Slava Kozlov.

The Leafs are also reported very interested in Oleg Tverdovsky to a year year contract under 3million.

Wish one of these had our name written on it....

Guin

[nccanes]

Bored too (avoiding a milky way bar), I'm spanning my brain for a pithy comeback....

-Reports from Raleigh are that while tickets sales would increase, the collective minds at lgc.com don't want Fedorov

-Yeah, I don't think the Leafs are gonna offer Tverdosky much more than the Canes, but maybe he's one of those that wanna be a leaf

-We still don't want Fedorov

-Actually Chris Dingman played in a golf tourney with DeVries (former teammate) and told him that Tampa was nice place to live and play

-drawing a blank for a Isles/Kozlov comeback

-See previous Leaf/Tverdosky comment - I think we're in the mix too

-JR has a meet-n-greet with Don Meehan on Tuesday, agent for Vasicek, Tverdovsky, and de Vries

:kiss: ;)

[guinevere]

And a brief reply as the Godiva ice cream has joined the call...http://websmileys.bei.t-online.de/div188.gif

Though ticket sales would increase if we obtained Federov- they would have to due to the need for widening the players entrance to accommodate Fed's head...

Tverdovsky wouldn't fit into our organization. We have enough trouble spelling Slovoda.

De Vries wouldn't want to play in Tampa. Too close to a "mickey mouse" operation.

Kozlov- in the words of the great Tripp Tracy--- "I got nothin"http://fool.exler.ru/sm/str.gif

Guin

[nccanes]

This is fun Guin - I guess we are bored.

And a breif reply as the Godiva ice cream has joined the call...


Damn, I might have to go out for some ice cream. :eek:

Widening the players entrance to the ice might impede on that "Dancing Girl's" seats, depriving us of a standard Jumbotron classic. We can't have that.

Does anyone have a phonetic guide to Tverdovsky's name. Just in case.

Yes, the mickey mouse operation, still hasn't figured out a way to sign Vaclav Prospal, their points leader and rather popular player.

[guinevere]

totally off topic but, hell its my topic....http://websmileys.bei.t-online.de/div189.gif

Widening the players entrance to the ice might impede on that "Dancing Girl's" seats, depriving us of a standard Jumbotron classic. We can't have that.


I sat behind her last season. You're talking about "Dancin Queen" right? http://websmileys.bei.t-online.de/party102.gifThe girl has absolutely no musicality. I kept wanting to wap her in the head with my thunderstick.

Guin

[nccanes]

totally off topic but, hell its my topic....http://websmileys.bei.t-online.de/div189.gif


Stop with the Ice Cream! :p


I sat behind her last season. You're talking about "Dancin Queen" right? http://websmileys.bei.t-online.de/party102.gifThe girl has absolutely no musicality. I kept wanting to wap her in the head with my thunderstick.


Ah yes, the Dancin Queen - got her moniker wrong.

In any event, we can't have RBC renovations taking place just to fit Fedorov into the building. I mean he may think he's the center of the universe http://websmileys.bei.t-online.de/div128.gif, but we all know that isn't true.

[guinevere]

Back on topic... De Vries made 1,375,000 last season and is looking for 3.5 mil per season with a four year deal. i guess that's why JR ruled him out - darn it) but Tverdovsky was making over 3 mil per year already so how can JR even think of him? I'm so confused. http://www.jordysworld.de/emoticons/conf43.gif

Guin

[nccanes]

Back on topic... De Vries made 1,375,000 last season and is looking for 3.5 mil per season with a four year deal. i guess that's why JR ruled him out - darn it) but Tverdovsky was making over 3 mil per year already so how can JR even think of him? I'm so confused. http://www.jordysworld.de/emoticons/conf43.gif

Guin

I think the expectation is that Tverdovsky will sign for less than the 3 mil.

This from the Star-Ledger when the Devils declined to qualify him:

General manager Lou Lamoriello, who unsuccessfully shopped Tverdovsky around at the NHL Entry Draft, said yesterday he did not make a qualifying offer of $3.96 million necessary to keep the rights to the Group 2 free agent. Consequently, Tverdovsky is free to sign with any NHL team.


"That was not real easy," Lamoriello said. "I believe where his salary is at, I don't think the return would make it the right thing to do. We are not going to actively try to sign Olie unless his salary was very low, but I don't think that will happen."

Tverdovsky got the news in Moscow.

"I woke him up in the middle of the night," agent Don Meehan said. "It's (the Devils') right and privilege under the (collective bargaining agreement). He's at a high (salary) level. They had to make a business decision. Now we'll look to the market. We have our work to do, but he's a good player."

[SouthernHockeyChick]

LMAO at this thread! Wish I'd been here....but I was out eating ice cream! ;) :p

[Canesluver]

I sat behind her last season. You're talking about "Dancin Queen" right?

I sat behind her once, too, when SHC and hubbie "snuck" me into the premier seats. I threw popcorn at the back of her head! :D

Ice cream? Who said ice cream? :spin:

[Stormbringer]

I sat behind her last season. You're talking about "Dancin Queen" right? http://websmileys.bei.t-online.de/party102.gifThe girl has absolutely no musicality. I kept wanting to wap her in the head with my thunderstick.


Ah yes, the Dancin Queen - got her moniker wrong.

In any event, we can't have RBC renovations taking place just to fit Fedorov into the building. I mean he may think he's the center of the universe http://websmileys.bei.t-online.de/div128.gif, but we all know that isn't true.

http://www.smilies.okipages.com/s/otn/realhappy/xxrotflmao.gif

Great, now I can't get ABBA's "Dancing Queen" out of my head... :crazy: :eek2: ;)

Regardless of that, good stuff ladies... :D

[talkingcanes]

Excellent thread and a hearty well done to all who have participated :spin: I can never hear too much about how
little we want Mr. Fedorov ;) Oh, and the ice cream sounds
really good too :D

[Kat]

Man, you guys were bored today, weren't you? :spin:

-Kat

[guinevere]

Man, you guys were bored today, weren't you

If you can't say anything nice :p ... come sit by me..
;)
Guin

[nccanes]

BTW, I never did get any ice cream. :p I may have to remedy that today!

Anyway, I think being a Leafs fan right now may be almost as bad as being a Ducks fan. Players clamoring to become Leafs and Pat Quinn vacationing in Vancouver.

Wannabe Leaf shut out
Chilly attitude to Nieuwendyk is perplexing
By STEVE SIMMONS, TORONTO SUN

Joe Nieuwendyk has won three Stanley Cups on three different teams and an Olympic gold medal in Salt Lake City and all he wants to do is play for the Maple Leafs. All he wants is to bring a championship home, to where he grew up, where he played his ball hockey, where he used to take shots on a driveway and pretend to be Darryl Sittler.

Except they don't seem to want him.

And if they do, they sure have a funny way of showing it.

Nieuwendyk, a free agent as of last Tuesday, has told his agent, Rick Curran, to explore all possibilities of signing with Toronto before even looking to any other NHL teams. He has talked about playing a lesser role, if need be. He has talked about taking a pay cut. He's made those concessions without even beginning the negotiating process.

And the Maple Leafs' response to date has basically been: "Don't call us, we'll call you."

He is devastated, frustrated, and just a little bit stunned.

And dealing with the Leafs doesn't make it any easier.

Pat Quinn, who claimed internally to have an interest in Nieuwendyk, has gone to Vancouver for his regular summer vacation as the only general manager in the NHL working part-time. If you call the Leafs looking for Quinn and are trying to get some business done, your calls are forwarded to Mike Penny, Quinn's trusted if unspectacular assistant.

Now here it gets interesting.

If you ask Penny about Nieuwendyk, he'll tell he has to take care of his defensive needs before he can even think about where or if Nieuwendyk might fit in.

Try at centre, where he is a better faceoff man than anyone the Leafs have. Try on the second line. You can have a first line of Mats Sundin, Nik Antropov and Alexander Mogilny. Not too shabby. And Nieuwendyk can centre Gary Roberts and Owen Nolan.

There is still enough game left in Nieuwendyk where he can be a difference maker. If only the Leafs would give him the opportunity at age 36.

But so far, there have been no conversations at all.

And Nieuwendyk, who grew up in the area, is close friends with Roberts, whom he won a Cup with in Calgary, and always wanted to play here, isn't alone. Bryan Marchment has already publicly played his cards expressing an interest in the Leafs. Glen Wesley wants to return next season. Adam Graves wants to play for the Leafs.

And despite their advanced ages, all of them could help this team. Nieuwendyk was a major player in the New Jersey playoff wins heading to the finals. Wesley was the Leafs best defenceman in the playoffs. Marchment, should he sign today, would be no worse than the Leafs third defenceman. Graves is a character guy whose best days are behind him, as a fill-in he would be fine.

This is not a case of ready-for-retirement players going through the motions in their final years. These are passionate people who care, desperately want to be here, and can't get so much as a response from the Leafs.

The Wesley situation is curious. He wants to re-sign in Toronto and keeps being told he is being held up by the qualifying offer made to Robert Svehla. The truth is, Wesley was a far better player than Svehla when it mattered most.

Normally, he would want a two-year contract but because the assumption is there will be no hockey in 2004-2005 because of the lockout, he is instead asking for a third-year with options.

If he signed a two-year contract and only played one of those years, he would only earn one season of salary. Again, for reasons unexplained, the Leafs basically have stopped negotiating with him.

Now factor this in: When the Leafs acquired Wesley at the trade deadline, Penny wasn't sure it was the deal to make. He wasn't a fan. That may say much about his ability to assess talent.

But he is out there representing the Leafs now with Quinn gone west and free agents knocking at their door.

One other typical Toronto concern the Leafs have about Nieuwendyk is his relationship with Roberts. There is a feeling within the Leafs upper echelon that Roberts has too much power in the dressing room. Bringing in Nieuwendyk would increase, not decrease, Roberts apparent power base. And rather than embrace the added leadership, the Leafs philosophy is the opposite.

At the end of the day, too many of the Leafs decisions are politically based rather than hockey related. The Leafs should be welcoming a player as accomplished as Joe Nieuwendyk rather than shutting him out.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

I just don't get why everyone seems to want to play in Toronto.....and for Pat Quinn for pete's sake! I know they grew up Leafs fans, and it's "Canada's team" (as if the other Canadian teams don't exist), and it's supposed to be Hockey-City and all that. But still! The real fans can't even get tickets, Pat Quinn is an ass (IMO), they haven't played for the Cup in most of our life-times, Pat Quinn is an ass, they WHINE more than any team on the planet, Pat Quinn is an ass, they make a mockery of the sport of hockey with their school-yard antics, Pat Quinn is an ass....I just don't get it! :roll:

(This is of course all just my opinion....if you like the Leafs good for you.)

[Turbulence]

I guess it's all about the history...but the Leafs seem as stuck-up of a history-rich team as the Yankees or Lakers (If you like either I'm sorry, but it's true!)

I don't see any particular facination with the leafs other than the fact that the team name is old. I'd rather play for Lada Togliatti....

[Jeff O Rocks]

Damn you....damn ALL of you.......now I have to have ice cream...and a Milky Way..and even some freakin ginger snaps..and I don't even like them!! :roll:

Love the ice cream comment SHC!! You are queen of the "snappy come backs"!! ;)

[Jillsdad]

One main difference between the yankees and the Leafs Turby is the fact that the Yankees have won many championships in our lifetimes whereas the leafs haven't. Also Joe Torre is not an ass(even though Steinbrenner is) and most of the players are likeable. The Leafs of the other hand have Mr. Whiney as a coach(he is an ass) and they have players on their team such as Marcy *ucker and Tie domi. Big difference between the Leafs and Yanks. I agree with you on the Lakers, especially after the Kobe incident this weekend.