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Does any1 really care why ........?

Love this one..

Maybe he will paste a Sister.....

"the hulking winger "

LOL

You...don't...want me to get...angry!

You...don't...want me to get...angry!

OtherOne81

Then you feel the wrath of his finishing move.

250 lbs of lard "big splashed" on top of you.

Lard covered twins. A strangely compelling thought .....

Probably is like all players......just wanted to play for Mike Keenan.

Let me see now! He was a bust in Flori-duh. Detroit cut him lose! Anaheim buys him out because he's a bust! He scored a total of 14 goals and 40 points per season over the last two years playing on stacked teams. But the Flames think he'll be their 30+ goal man?

Hmmm! If playing with Zeterberg and Datsiuk in Detroit, and Perry and Getzlaf in Anaheim didn't re-energize his scoring touch, how do they figure he will suddenly become a 30+ goal scoring machine playing with a bunch of muckers and plumbers in Calgary? Good luck, Cowtown!

So then the answer to the question is in fact...BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WOULD!!!

Only Keenan

I don't know about this deal! Calgary gets rid of all their skaters and scorers and loads up on muckers! They basically traded Nolan for one of Brian Burke's masterpieces here! Looks to me like Iron Mike is muscleing in on Sutter's domain as GM in Calgary! His finger prints are all over this one. This will definitely be a "Mike Keenan" type of team!

Keenan. Another Rogaine candidate that's despised.
Sharper minds know the details, but he dissed Yzerman big time
by leaving him off a team of elite players; but I forgot the venue.
Nahmey, help me out here.
Uh, when was that, and what game was...um, ...Oh, nevermind.

Most likley they were the only club that expressed interest. His early asking price was 4 million. I wonder who won in the negotiations?
bostongm | 07/08/08, 11:04 AM

I was thinking the same thing... to go from 4Mill. last year to less than 2 Mill for one year, you could say his stock has severly dropped (as it should). And why would the Flames bother? For the record, Calgary misses the playoffs next year.

this story has nothing to do with why, it just says he wanted too

I'd love to have my "stock drop" to the point where I was worth "only" $1,95 million a year.

In a nutshell, that is what is majorly wrong with the NHL and pro sports in general.

John Q. Public, the fool who pays to watch these guys gets the heave ho and is on UIC or standing in a bread line.

These guys run their course and "settle" for $2 million a year.

Things are so frelled up (Farscape reference) it is beyond belief.

i hate having this guy in our division, he always ends up coming back.

so get rid of tanguay, and sign bertuzzi? they should have gave alex more time, he can score if they want to put points up. I think teams in our conference are starting to move towards aggressive type players, instead of finesse? In other words, a more Eastern Conference style.

Tanguay isn't a Keenan kind of guy.....

$ 1.95 million is still too much for this guy.
I'd only have givin him a $1 million flat with bonuses and the potential to earn another $1 million if he moves his **** and plays like an nhl'er but I probably wouldn't have bothered with him in the first place.

"Todd is a proven scorer with the ability to play both wings"
But he didn't have the ability to play FOR the Wings

Detroit got him to push people over and then score in the aftermath. Instead he was just a space eater...GET OUT OF HANK'S WAY!!! Detroit knew they had to get tougher, but, as shown this year, you don't have to be big to be tough.

Thing about Bertuzzi is he's not really that tough. He's a big lummox for sure but not mean or ornery. If he gets a guy against the boards like he did to Chelios a few years back he can squash the ife out of them. Or his big bomb move on an unconcious Steve Moore (which to me was his only instance ever of goonery), driving his 250 lbs of goo through Moore into the ice below.

But he does not play big. Avery plays big and isn't. Put Avery's mind set in Bertuzzi's body and you'd have something.