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Facedown · Post by **Facedown** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 4:28 pm

Jerome Iginla healthy scratch for Flames.
Mark Bartkowski (Bruins) and Alexander Khokhlachev (Providence Bruins) are healthy scratches tonight.
Hmmm.....

chungasrevenge · Post by **chungasrevenge** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 4:31 pm

Facedown wrote:Jerome Iginla healthy scratch for Flames.
Mark Bartkowski (Bruins) and Alexander Khokhlachev (Providence Bruins) are healthy scratches tonight.
Hmmm.....

Make room for the Chiarelli statue next to Orr.

WOLF · Post by **WOLF** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 5:09 pm

Facedown wrote:Jerome Iginla healthy scratch for Flames.
Mark Bartkowski (Bruins) and Alexander Khokhlachev (Providence Bruins) are healthy scratches tonight.
Hmmm.....

There would need to be more to the deal than that, no? Calgary was rumored to be asking two NHL ready prospects and a high draft pick. Are those two "NHL ready"?

EDIT: When will Habs learn NOT to go toe to toe with the Bruins? Particularly when they played in Pitt the night before. STUPID.

Royal Dudeness · Post by **Royal Dudeness** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:08 pm

chungasrevenge wrote:
Facedown wrote:Jerome Iginla healthy scratch for Flames.
Mark Bartkowski (Bruins) and Alexander Khokhlachev (Providence Bruins) are healthy scratches tonight.
Hmmm.....
Make room for the Chiarelli statue next to Orr.

Suck a big black cock!

jizzyjizim · Post by **jizzyjizim** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:18 am

alecjonsludge · Post by **alecjonsludge** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:40 am

Royal Dudeness wrote:
chungasrevenge wrote:
Facedown wrote:Jerome Iginla healthy scratch for Flames.
Mark Bartkowski (Bruins) and Alexander Khokhlachev (Providence Bruins) are healthy scratches tonight.
Hmmm.....
Make room for the Chiarelli statue next to Orr.
Suck a big black cock!

It's not a trade until Bob McKenzie says it's a trade. When he wasn't prepared to say much last night and even went as far as to warn his fellow TSN analysts that it wasn't a forgone conclusion, I knew the Bruins didn't have him.

AliceManson · Post by **AliceManson** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 4:03 am

chungasrevenge wrote:Holy fuck it looks like Iginla is a Bruin!

AliceManson · Post by **AliceManson** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 5:04 am

Jerome Iginla, Doug Murray, Brenden Morrow, the Penguins mean business.

WOLF · Post by **WOLF** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 5:08 am

Am I in the Twilight Zone? One minute the Habs are shitting the bed vs the Bruins, and the Bruins are about to steal Iginla from Calgary for nothing. Next thing I know, the Habs win 6-5 in a shootout and Iggy's a Pen. What a fucked up night!

Oh, and Jay Feaster is a crap GM. By holding onto his assets WAY too long, he completely devalued them, and got virtually nothing to help the Flames rebuild. Iginla, Kipper, et all should have been dealt last year, or prior to the season.

Pens are poised for a cup run, and if they don't win, they far from sold the farm. Fred Shero's boy is a pretty shrewd operator himself.

John Simon Ritchie · Post by **John Simon Ritchie** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 5:22 am

Yep...gotta hand it to The Pens.

chungasrevenge · Post by **chungasrevenge** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 6:06 am

WOLF · Post by **WOLF** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 6:37 am

chungasrevenge wrote:

That kinda sums up the Bruins night.

chungasrevenge · Post by **chungasrevenge** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 6:58 am

WOLF wrote:
chungasrevenge wrote:
That kinda sums up the Bruins night.

Up 4-2 on the Habs and Mckenzie is retweeting Aaron Ward's confirmation of Iginla to Boston for scrubs. Those were good times.

That #2 spot in the east is huge to be able to avoid the Pens. As of now it would be Rangers/Pens first round. The beast can be conquered.

NeverSurrender · Post by **NeverSurrender** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 9:58 am

My beloved Islanders have a chance to move into the 8th spot in the East with a win versus our bully, the Flyers.

Time to take the next step, boys.

Facedown · Post by **Facedown** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:10 am

According to Chiarelli, the deal was done with Calgary before the Bruins game last night. The players scratched were in the deal. Chiarelli then said things went "silent" which led him to believe something had changed.
Around 11:45 last night, Flames GM called Chiarelli to tell him that because of "players choice", Igilna was going to Pittsburgh instead.

John Simon Ritchie · Post by **John Simon Ritchie** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:23 am

NeverSurrender wrote:My beloved Islanders have a chance to move into the 8th spot in the East with a win versus our bully, the Flyers.

Time to take the next step, boys.

Against The Flyers, at this point, it's very likely.

WOLF · Post by **WOLF** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:56 am

Facedown wrote:According to Chiarelli, the deal was done with Calgary before the Bruins game last night. The players scratched were in the deal. Chiarelli then said things went "silent" which led him to believe something had changed.
Around 11:45 last night, Flames GM called Chiarelli to tell him that because of "players choice", Igilna was going to Pittsburgh instead.

Chiarelli is a whiny bitch. No need to hold a press conference for this. When a player has a no trade clause, there's no deal until said player waives the NTC. Iginla told Jay Feaster he'd rather go to Pittsburgh, implying he wouldn't waive the NTC to go to Boston. So basically the deal couldn't have been done, as Chiarelli says.

Also, Boston's deal included a CONDITIONAL first rounder, while Pittsburgh's 1st rounder had no such strings attached. So Pittsburgh also one-upped Boston. Move on.

Facedown · Post by **Facedown** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 1:11 pm

I think the press conference was for the fans that went to bed last night thinking there was a deal and woke up to find out there wasn't one.
If Iginla had no intention of signing with Boston, he should never have included them on a list he made of teams that he would waive it for.
Also, you can't say that Pittsburgh "one-upped" them when Iginla said he wanted to go to Pittsburgh.
There is a report that the Flames preferred the Bruins offer and that the pick, not positive about this, was NOT conditional.

WOLF · Post by **WOLF** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 1:59 pm

I'm guessing once Pitt acquired Morrow and Murray, it changed Iggy's mind regarding where he wanted to go.

The B's could very well get Iginla for nothing this off-season, as I don't see how the Pens can keep him and stay under the cap - unless he'll play for peanuts.

Soon enough everyone will. Learn exactly what went down. All I know is Feaster seems like an oaf. He surely thought Iggy would waive the NTC and then got surprised to learn he wouldn't.

Gibsonite · Post by **Gibsonite** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 2:00 pm

Facedown wrote:I think the press conference was for the fans that went to bed last night thinking there was a deal and woke up to find out there wasn't one.
If Iginla had no intention of signing with Boston, he should never have included them on a list he made of teams that he would waive it for.
Also, you can't say that Pittsburgh "one-upped" them when Iginla said he wanted to go to Pittsburgh.
There is a report that the Flames preferred the Bruins offer and that the pick, not positive about this, was NOT conditional.

Maybe memories of this had something to do with it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar3wD5wUIPY

pieceofme · Post by **pieceofme** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 4:50 pm

AliceManson wrote:
chungasrevenge wrote:Holy fuck it looks like Iginla is a Bruin!

I concur.

Fuck the Penguins are scary. As if they didn't have enough firepower.

John Simon Ritchie · Post by **John Simon Ritchie** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 7:28 pm

Goddamn...that was some uuuuugly hockey...on both sides of the puck.
Oh, and Flyers...Boooooooooo!!

jizzyjizim · Post by **jizzyjizim** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 6:55 am

John Simon Ritchie wrote:Goddamn...that was some uuuuugly hockey...on both sides of the puck.
Oh, and Flyers...Boooooooooo!!

hoping for Jones/Mackinnon or Droiun? Jones would be a great replacement for Pronger!

WhiteHouseSubsAC · Post by **WhiteHouseSubsAC** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 8:13 am

John Simon Ritchie wrote:Goddamn...that was some uuuuugly hockey...on both sides of the puck.
Oh, and Flyers...Boooooooooo!!

God the Flyers are awful. They need a change in culture. It's not 1975 anymore.

John Simon Ritchie · Post by **John Simon Ritchie** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 8:41 am

WhiteHouseSubsAC wrote:
John Simon Ritchie wrote:Goddamn...that was some uuuuugly hockey...on both sides of the puck.
Oh, and Flyers...Boooooooooo!!
God the Flyers are awful. They need a change in culture. It's not 1975 anymore.

Exactly. It's not the coach per se, or the team lineup (tho' that defense is weeeeak). It's the archaic way in which they approach the whole game.

pieceofme · Post by **pieceofme** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 4:25 pm

jizzyjizim wrote:
John Simon Ritchie wrote:Goddamn...that was some uuuuugly hockey...on both sides of the puck.
Oh, and Flyers...Boooooooooo!!
hoping for Jones/Mackinnon or Droiun? Jones would be a great replacement for Pronger!

Um excuse me.

I think Jones for the Panthers considering how shocking our defence has been.

jizzyjizim · Post by **jizzyjizim** » Sat Mar 30, 2013 4:25 am

pieceofme wrote:
jizzyjizim wrote:
John Simon Ritchie wrote:Goddamn...that was some uuuuugly hockey...on both sides of the puck.
Oh, and Flyers...Boooooooooo!!
hoping for Jones/Mackinnon or Droiun? Jones would be a great replacement for Pronger!
Um excuse me.

I think Jones for the Panthers considering how shocking our defence has been.

Honestly, I don't think there is a team out there that couldn't use Seth Jones on their blueline, but don't the Panthers have Erik Gudbranson coming up? I'm not 100% sure about that and a paring of Huberdeau and Drouin would be pretty scary don't ya think?

johnk5150 · Post by **johnk5150** » Sat Mar 30, 2013 7:31 am

The Ducks>my team

pieceofme · Post by **pieceofme** » Sat Mar 30, 2013 9:51 am

jizzyjizim wrote:
pieceofme wrote: Um excuse me.

I think Jones for the Panthers considering how shocking our defence has been.
Honestly, I don't think there is a team out there that couldn't use Seth Jones on their blueline, but don't the Panthers have Erik Gudbranson coming up? I'm not 100% sure about that and a paring of Huberdeau and Drouin would be pretty scary don't ya think?

Yeah we do have Erik Gubranson who has been looking promising. He was solid in the playoffs last year against the Devils.
We have a load of prospects coming up, but I believe most are forwards so Jones would probably be better than Drouin. Wouldn't complain if we got either of them though.

I believe the Panthers, Oilers and the Avs are the teams with the most and best prospects atm.

pieceofme · Post by **pieceofme** » Sat Mar 30, 2013 9:52 am

johnk5150 wrote:The Ducks>my team

I feel so sorry for you!

Try being 30th in the league with half your team missing.

Oh and the Ducks have looked solid in the regular season but remember who their coach is. I would back the Blackhawks if they met in the playoffs.

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