I’ve never heard them talk about the Ducks. But I find morning radio shows annoying.

I thought the same thing too…Though maybe the Ducks can trade for Pensblog Charlie so he and Psycho Mike can finally be together…

Yeah, if cap hits really is your currency. For Anaheim’s purposes, though — J. Blake is a $3M/yr player. I don’t anticipate us being near the cap ceiling again like Burke-days.

And I’d rather take J-Blake than give up a first-rounder. But yeah, unloading Giguere does have its price — that was always going to be true.

Certainly depends on asking price, but generally I’m not dead-set against re-signing any RFAs like you seem to be for Wiz.

Compared to the guys who actually are signed to contracts, Wisniewski is an All-Star.

if they would make Blake sit in Giguere’s chair anyway, with a baseball hat on.

Tomas-a-thon: NHL10 would never allow this deal to go through
JaredFromLondon: i just tried the giiggy for toskala and blake trade and the game laughed at me

and you’re exactly right about both sides being ecstatic about this deal due to the different needs.

It’s interesting to look at it from the perspective of cash – in super-hockey-rich Toronto, dollars barely even get looked at, only cap matters – and unloading Jason Blake’s hell-contract made me smile from ear-to-ear. He (and Mayers for that matter) were both considered untradable, as I imagine Giguere’s was as well.

Oh and taking Toskala from us was a solid. For us, all Jiggy needs to do is be slightly better than the NHL’s worst goaltender and this trade is considered a huge victory. Would have loved a pick back – but along with the Phaneuf trade it’s been a pretty good day.

I saw that headline over at Japers’ Rink. You see, what’s confusing is that legitimate SBN blogs (everyone except BoC) gets promoted by front page NHL.com exposure.

We don’t get those perks; we’re too hardcore or something. But I suspect that’s how it happened.

This trade makes me wonder if Burke is still being paid by the Ducks.

To be fair, I’ve read some Maple Leafs perspective and I can see some rationale as to why they feel like winners (you probably have to start with their assumption that both players they gave up are worse than garbage). Burke still acted for the Maple Leafs, but definitely from the BoC perspective he gave us an Obama-sized bailout for next season.

I don’t even know how I can think of Jason Blake as overpaid. In my mind, he’s making negative-$4M next year. :)

The team has always spent what was necessary.

Well, for one stretch of months it was a salary cap ceiling team, but I don’t anticipate that happening again in the next couple of years. I know what the face value of my Row B seats are, and I know that empty seats exist still — if the Ducks spend to the ceiling in the next two years, I don’t even know if Jason Blake will be a problem — that’s tons of money to improve the roster.

Until then, though, I can’t imagine why Anaheim wouldn’t care more about actual dollars — they will be paying that amount, not some mythical averaged-value whatever.

And I hate the notion that we’re talking about buyouts for anybody — that should be reserved for only the richest of teams in the direst of situations. If you think I hated the money we were paying Giguere to sit on the bench, you have no idea how much I hated the money we were paying Bertuzzi to play for some other team — still makes me fume at Burke.

If Blake were on the market at the end of this year, would you pay him $2 million per for two years? I wouldn’t.

That’s irrelevant — if Giguere were on the market, I wouldn’t drop $7M on him either.

What do you mean “intends to” “be” “competitive”?

Salary ceiling hasn’t been set, but yes — I do imagine that there will still be roster changes before next season, especially on defense. I don’t imagine that the Ducks will spend to whatever ceiling is set at any point this summer, no matter how much we whine about it. And I don’t know that our forwards are that far off from the set that upset a Presidents’ Trophy winner last spring — that somehow resembled a good team. Definitely the blueline needs work, though.

It took two convincing semi-retirements to spend to the ceiling in the past (and those were horrible months); you think the impetus is there for the Ducks to do it again?

It’s not irrelevant because if Jiggy gets bought out, we’re not dropping that amount of money on him.

No, we’re dropping $4M or so on him over the next two years to play cheaply on some other team — it’s worse than throwing money into thin air, because thin air can’t come back to beat you.

So your question becomes, is it better to save $2M over the next two years on Giguere’s last year, or better to save $2M (I’ll pretend your cap numbers matter) plus get a free Jason Blake? J-Blake would have to be pretty fucking terrible (and see my note above; I’m not believing that yet) for me not to take the free option.

I guess I’m getting a little lost — the money we’re paying Blake won’t be measured on the sunk cost we had paying Giguere? Our future expenses are less than they were two days ago in real money (Blake will make $6M over two years, Giggy would have made $7 over one), and that has to matter.

Yes, Blake’s not a guy we’d sign to that contract on the open market — no need to belabor that point. He’s a necessary swap of problems, but it’s better to have our problem devoted to the on-ice team than to watch it make sure the bench door stays closed.

The main problem with buyouts, as I see it, is they are awfully short-sighted. You may have made next year look a little brighter, but you’ve done it at the cost of competing as well the year afterwards. I’d rather not cloud that future hope if I can avoid it.

Joe Thornton an erotic massage (no happy ending)

you cant play with someones emotions like that man

They do call him "jumbo joe"? maybe u should reconsider..u might be missing out