Eklundi väittää "varmasti toteutuvan" E5-huhun tasolla, että Dave Tallon saa GM:n paikalta kenkää ja tilalle tulee Stan Bowman.
Kaipa tuossa Hossa kaupassa jo jollakin tavalla tallottiin Tallonin varpaille. Mehän emme tiedä kaikkea mitä kulissien takana onkaan tapahtunut.
Oli sitten eripuraa tai ei, niin Business is Business!
Chicago insiders say it wasn’t GM Dale Tallon’s fault that qualifying offers to the club’s restricted free agents got bungled, leaving the likes of Kris Versteeg (a former Bruins draft pick) and Cam Barker potential unrestricted free agents (pending a grievance filed by the Players Association). The offers, though mailed on time, didn’t reach all recipients by the June 30 deadline. Why? According to one source who has regular dealings with the Chicago front office, club president John McDonough had a hand in delaying the mailing of the offers. Meanwhile, Tallon offered himself up for the blame. “Why not,’’ he told the Chicago media. “The buck stops here. I can take the heat.’’ Ultimately, the snafu led to sweet deals for Versteeg and Barker, each of whom landed three-year pacts of a little more than $3 million per season. Wonder if McDonough ever met Haywood Sullivan? . . .
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Hmph. Itse en pidä yhtään näistä Front office jutuista mitä kuulee, Front Officesta ei pitäisi perus fanille kuulua mitään muuta kun GM:n ääni ja joskus omistajien.
Tuosta Sharpin kauppaamisesta sen verran että mikäli mies kaupataan Torontoon on mun pettymys aivan helkutillinen siinä mielessä että Torontolla on hyvin vähän annettavaa meidän suuntaan ellei kaupassa siihen suuntaan mene Sharp ja Campbell ja takaisin päin Kaberle, balansoidaan tuo treidi sitten miten vain.
Buffy on enemmän Burkemainen pelaaja, ja niin on kai Brouwerkin joten Sharp kuullostaa tavallaan aika oudolta huhun kohteelta.
Buffyn ja Sharpin contracteissa on muuten "vain" 1.1 milliä välissä.
..Still, I think Dale, like his friend Dudley, is a builder at the end of the day, and not a manager.
And that said, this might, might, have been the right move at the right time.
His alleged replacement, Stan Bowman, seems to be a good guy as well. He has the bloodlines (obviously) and has a personal story of courage of his own (battling a serious and life-threatening blood disease). And the younger Bowman is a numbers guy, which is what the Hawks need in spades right now. 'Building' is less important now than managing and restocking, something Scotty Bowman knows all too well from his years in Detroit..
..Third, McDonough did not, as was widely reported elsewhere, force Tallon to sign Marian Hossa, much less Brian Campbell or Cristobal Huet. Further, those decisions were not made in a vacuum by Tallon..
Olympialaisten vuoksi n. 10 vieraspelin Circus kiertuetta ei enää ole. Hyvä näin!Otteluohjelma!