Dale was up to his old tricks and thank goodness it was with former Hawks. Tomas Kopecky was due for a "slight" raise from his $1.2m ...maybe 1.7-2m for a 3rd to 4th line winger. Dale decides to cough up the dough and raise the ante to 3million. Really?! Is Florida that far under the cap or is Dale just being as stupid as he was in Chicago when he grabbed Campbell for 8 years 7.1 and Huet for 5 years at 5.2 when in actuality Huet was worth2-3 years at 1.5-2 million and Campbell was worth 4-5 years at 3 to 3.5million.
He hancuffed the Hawks last year where they had to have a useless "backup" plan of not necessarily having the best players on the ice, but the ones who made the least. Potulny, Pisani, Scott, Dowell, Bickell, Stalberg all under 1 million (Bickell and Stalberg above the league minimum of 500k)
I assume the Hawks will be handing Dale a big "Thank You" gift basket this week for uncuffing their hands and allowing them to go "shopping" this weekend as July 1st is this Friday. Hmmmmmmm, what to shop for?
1)....A nice healthy Brad Richards would be nice (as long as he isn't looking to be above 5.5 and 5 years. He's too injury prone).
2)Find a way to dump the newly acquired Olesz.... I don't know if he's useless or the 3.5 million he's making is for potential...for it certainly isn't for actual output.
3)How about a return of Madden, Eager or even Sopel. There is a use for all of them.
Face off artist, a little muscle that can agitate and skate and a shot block artist who would certainly be a good 6th defencemen...(with a pay cut, of course). Things lacking last year that they certainly could use as a return in their lineup.
4) I'm extremely interested in how Kyle Beach and Mark McNeill are going to perform in the summer camp.......We could use one of them.
5) I'm also interested in Shawn LaLonde. I've liked him from 2 years ago, and hope he can fill that 6yh or 7th defence slot.
6) My NEW favorite prospect is.....Jeremy Morin. He's young and has an enormous amount of talent. Yes, he's a small guy, but his heart is 3 times larger. I hope he makes the squad this year.
As you can see, Hawks fans now have time to dream, fantasize and come up with an enormous amount of scenarios for our 2011-12 team ...all thanks to Dale Tallon...............Again, Thanks Dale.
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