imho not overpaying for gonchar next year is going to be good for the pens in the long run, cause hes not going to get younger and less injury prone imho..

WTF
Nassau coliseum is so ****ty that even the laws of physics refuses to acknowledge it.

I don't think the Caps can win the Cup with 2010 Theodore.

Theodore staying in playoff mode

I agree

Player signed, FA's listed after:

Crosby
Malkin
Staal
Kunitz
Dupuis
Talbot
Kennedy
Rupp
Adams
Godard
-----
Fedotenko (UFA)
Cooke (UFA)
Ponikarovsky (UFA)

Orpik
Letang
Goligoski
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Gonchar (UFA)
Eaton (UFA)
McKee (UFA)
Leopold (UFA)

Fleury
-----
Johnson (UFA)

$44.508m total (14 players signed)
~$1.6m/player (assuming a cap of around $57.5m, with 8 more players to be added)

Not a terrible looking situation for Pittsburgh, but like T said probably similar to this year with the stars having to do a lot of heavy lifting.

Have they said they aren't bringing Gonchar back? I imagine they could try, but it'd start to get real tight. Any prospects that could make the jump would help out a lot wrt to the cap, especially on defense. I imagine they'll have another min-earner as the backup goalie, unless they have a prospect there.

Might get lucky and have the usual free agents lining up to play with those centers at a slight discount, but then again they might just end up with the Satan's & Sykora's of the world.

Wonder if at some point they'll consider the idea of dealing Malkin to give them more breathing room. Two players making $8.7m is always going to make it tough to add good wingers (plus a $4m 3rd liner, and a $5m goalie), short of drafting and developing cheaper options.

that was quick, but obvs. spot on keeeeeevvvvvvvvvinnnn!!!

deslauries out before the 1st is over imho

Caps have lost the edge...Theo has hit wall...

FREE VARLAMOV

I wouldn't worry, they've already clinched 1st in the conference, and just about the league. Probably in cruise control right now. I might worry about goaltending, but that's about it. Unless a team like Philadelphia falls to the #8 spot, then I might get concerned. Habs might be a tricky matchup too, now that they're getting healthy. If they can get some goaltending from one of those guys, who knows?

Wings on their way to the 5th spot.... woot woot.

And the stream I'm watching for the Wings game is super LOL. Whenever the Wings score, the dude plays a banjo celebration... that **** is ****ed up yo, he's probably part of Hutaree.

lol more banjo.... he's not awful either, but anyone from Michigan playing the banjo with a southern accent is probably someone in the KKK from Howell.

Roloson lost his stick, so he tried to steal Jokinen's.

hmmmmm..... so the Caps scored twice pretty easily in the last 5 minutes......

What's Rask's trade value

Andrew Raycroft

Phil Kessel

why oh why can't toronto win a home game? nj-bos is tied 0-0 and atl-tor 2-1

rangers up 3-2 on the island

Oh god, Prospal just dropped the "Safe is death" bomb

Yeah that sounds about right

wow detroit playing for 10 minutes in the oilers zone without scoring one

Viktor Stålberg ftw.

Nik Antropov ftl.

Mathieu Perreault gives the Caps a 1-goal lead to set up the Ovechkin empty net goal.