Comments on: Hensick up, Richardson down, Sakic…???

By: Dario

Dario — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:26:27 +0000

Thomas,

Who are the great captain in the NHL right now?

We have already debated the various mertis of Sakic and his ability to be a good if not great captain. However, assuming your premise has merit, I would like to know who these kick ass captains are right now.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:57:32 +0000

I honestly don’t know why you have a blog in the first place, when all you do is regurgitate what you read in DPO and RMN, or talk about how X player looks like Y movie star.

I honestly don’t know why Thomas DOESN’T have a blog. Trolling comment threads just to disagree with and then furiously insult and belittle other people has to get old after a while.

(And I actually used the italics tag correctly. I am a genius.)

By: James

James — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:16:58 +0000

Lets trade Sakic for a 7th rounder! he sucks! What has the guy brought to the Avs in his career?

By: Draft Dodger

Draft Dodger — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:02:26 +0000

I actually got more hits from you guys going back and forth today than I did when Mirtle linked to me!

No need to apologize to me, btw. It’s interesting.

By: jibblescribbits

jibblescribbits — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:15:28 +0000

I apologize to DD for turning his comments into the Jibbles vs O’Thomas Factor. I will refrain from (effectively) baiting him into a raving lunatic from now on. He may still become one, but it won’t be because of me

(Sorry last time I promise)

By: jibblescribbits

jibblescribbits — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:25:53 +0000

Then I clicked the link and laughed out loud.

That was the point

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:08:04 +0000

No, I don’t read your blog. I clicked the link yesterday to see if it was what I thought it would be. I thought that if I read your blog, I might actually have mistaken your level of hockey knowledge and maybe I wouldn’t be so offended at your arrogance and ignorance. I had you pictured as someone who would compare X player to Y movie star, and I thought that reading your blog would disspell that thought.

Then I clicked the link and laughed out loud.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:05:10 +0000

By the way, you might want to actually read the CBA instead of pretending that you know what the hell you’re talking about.

Hensick is 22 years old (by the guidelines of the CBA), and as such, he earns an accrued season by playing one NHL or MINOR LEAGUE game, which he has already done. It doesn’t matter if the Avs dress him for one game, sixty games, or send him back to the AHL without ever dressing - he’s still got an accrued season.

As a matter of fact, given that he is 22 years old and must play 80 games before his first contract ends after turning 25 or else he becomes a Group 6 free agent, IT WOULD BE IN COLORADO’S BEST INTEREST TO PLAY HIM MORE THAN NINE GAMES.

As for restricted free agency, he’s already halfway there, because of his age when he signed his first SPC and given that he already has one accrued season. So that doesn’t matter at all.

What’s funny about this whole thing is that I know exactly where you got this. There is a rule where a player who was drafted from major junior and signed to an NHL deal can only play nine games before his NHL team has to decide whether to send him back to his junior team or keep him in the NHL for the entire year (because if he’s still CHL-eligible, he cannot play in the AHL).

Idiots on various messageboards have been taking that to mean that any rookie can only play nine games before they earn an accrued season. Not true.

So this all ties in with what I said before. You just regurgitate what you read, instead of actually thinking for yourself and doing the fucking research. Yet, you have the nerve to insult others for having the noodle to do their own research, think for themselves, and actually have a fucking backrground in the game.

By: Mike @ MHH

Mike @ MHH — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:54:37 +0000

Would Q really promote Son of Stastny and leave The Duke and the Missing H-Link on the second with Henssssssssssssssssick or Arny the Wilting Man? Just promote the entire second line to the first and slide Hensick in with Smythy and Wolski. It’s not like teams are playing the Sakic line like it’s the 1st line on the road anyway. Lets just call the 2nd line what it is, the first line…

By: jibblescribbits

jibblescribbits — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:53:25 +0000

Alright Thomas reads my blog.