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UFA Day Notes – Was The Early Talk Worth It?
Today is the start of free agency, but you wouldn’t know it. Teams have been able to do what everyone knew they were doing, talk to players and agents before the official start of the signing period. There is no way in hell a player would agree to a multi-year deal with a salary that…
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Thin Air: Commitment to Winning-ish
– Interesting article from Mark Masters of TSN (which I found via Kukla’s Korner) about Alex Semin. The basics are that Semin isn’t acting like the stoic coach-killer enigma he was widely reported to be. He’s contributing and seems to be… happy. Is that possible? Sure it is. Could it be that, considering the steady…
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Draft Day Decisions
Like the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica, I had a plan. Unlike the Cylons, it didn’t involve wiping out an entire species, but hey, if it happened, then whatever. I was going to be prepared for the first round of the draft. I picked up the draft issue of The Hockey News at the airport for…