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[Revenant]

I take back my comment. There this no equivalent to this level of stupid.

you should decide on NHL 13 or Borderlands 2 soon, because you're going to need it to last for awhile...

 

[dem]

Haha you watch football. Everyone point and laugh.

Gambling makes football wonderful


Every reception.. every yard.. every field goal..

it can all be bet on.

 

[SpectreFire]

you should decide on NHL 13 or Borderlands 2 soon, because you're going to need it to last for awhile...

I already decided on and picked up NHL13.

 

[Revenant]

I already decided on and picked up NHL13.

so how long until you're desperate for Borderlands 2 and end up buying it as well?

 

[SpectreFire]

so how long until you're desperate for Borderlands 2 and end up buying it as well?

When Tabris makes a stupid fucking trade and ruins GM Mode for everyone.

 

[Dastardly Jerks]

Non-CBA hockey news:

Viznovsky status: crying.

 

[Cake Boss]

Jesse Spector ‏@jessespector

Fehr says players asking for 67% would be equivalent to today’s offer from owners. Good times, clearly union is thriuh

"HEY GUYS! TAKE 50% WITH OLD HRR!"

"that's like us asking 67%"

I HAVE NO LIMIT TO MY ANGER

Show me your rage.

But yeah the NHLPA is just being childish right now, they dont even look like they are trying.

 

[Smiley90]

you should decide on NHL 13 or Borderlands 2 soon, because you're going to need it to last for awhile...

I gave him my xbox wifi adapter so he had no excuse left not to get NHL.

 

[DopeyFish]

I hope the NHLPA gets screwed with 40% of HRR

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

The ECHL is going to be HUGE this year.

 

[Slurmer]

Even with the game installed? Damn, that already took long in 11...

You also get retarded trade offers from the cpu after every single game. Every team wants zac rinaldo apparently, at any cost.

 

[CrazedArabMan]

The ECHL is going to be HUGE this year.

Guess I'm going to a few more Toledo Walleye games than usual.

 

[Alucard]

Guess I will save money not buying Gamecenter this year, I was looking forward to using on the Xbox too. I will also have additional 160+ hours to play videogames, read, etc. Good times?

That's the best way to look at it.

Yay for more time with my wife, child, and my Star Wars books! Woo!

 

[Solo]

I am glad they didnt do that deal. I think Subban can be good but I dont think he is good enough to trade a piece like Couts.

Already is very good, homie. Question is, can he be great?

 

[Marvie_3]

Guess I will save money not buying Gamecenter this year, I was looking forward to using it on the Xbox too. I will also have additional 160+ hours to play videogames, read, etc. Good times?

Good thing your wife doesn't read GAF or she'd be pissed about being relegated into the "etc" category behind books and video games.


If she does I hope you get a merciless beating.

you should decide on NHL 13 or Borderlands 2 soon, because you're going to need it to last for awhile...

Just get both like I am.

 

[CrazedArabMan]

Good thing your wife doesn't read GAF or she'd be pissed about being relegated into the "etc" category behind books and video games.


If she does I hope you get a merciless beating.


Just get both like I am.

This is the only correct answer.

 

[Revenant]

Just get both like I am.

 

[SCHUEY F1]

Good thing your wife doesn't read GAF or she'd be pissed about being relegated into the "etc" category behind books and video games.


If she does I hope you get a merciless beating.


Just get both like I am.

:lol I better edit it just in case because there would be a merciless beating.

Also can't wait for Borderlands 2

 

[DopeyFish]

owait

i just remembered leafs are in a lottery position

keep up the good work NHLPA!

 

[Red_Man]

I want to get Borderlands too, but don't think I have enough time with that + NHL 13 & Halo 4

 

[SCHUEY F1]

Halo 4, AC3, Forza Horizon, NHL, Borderlands 2......too many games!!

 

[Socreges]

owait

i just remembered leafs are in a lottery position

keep up the good work NHLPA!

They've gotta figure out a new system.

 

[yankeehater]

Just get both like I am.

Great advice. I cant wait to fuck shit up as Zer0.

 

[Smiley90]

It's kinda funny how both lockouts happen before a draft with a "generational" talent like Crosby/MacKinnon.

/conspiracy

 

[Marvie_3]

They've gotta figure out a new system.

Should just do a lottery with each team getting equal odds during a lockout.

 

[DopeyFish]

They've gotta figure out a new system.

LOL

 

[sefskillz]

Congrats Detroit, you finally got your Lidstrom replacement

 

[calder]

Watching game 2, and seeing Gretz give a soviet Dman a few wacks only to have Lemieux bull in to push the Russian away like an enforcer brought a tear to my eye.

 

[Socreges]

Should just do a lottery with each team getting equal odds during a lockout.

Hmmm.

The Chicago Blackhawks are proud to select, from the Halifax Mooseheads, Nathan MacKinnon.

 

[Wingfan19]

Andy Strickland ‏@andystrickland

Detroit #Redwings sign Carlo Colaiacovo to a two year contract totaling $5 mil...$2.15 in yr one $2.85 in second yr #NHL

.

 

[Socreges]

Watching game 2, and seeing Gretz give a soviet Dman a few wacks only to have Lemieux bull in to push the Russian away like an enforcer brought a tear to my eye.

Seriously, that was awesome.

Lemieux made this awesome move moments before through two defenders, shot it through the goalie's legs... about an inch wide. Never seen that before, but if it'd gone in we'd have been seeing it on every highlight reel of his. That's the best part about watching this for the first time (I saw it, but I was just a few years old). All these flashes of brilliance that I'd never seen before.

 

[Merguson]

.

Gather up all the former Leafs

 

[SpectreFire]

So apparently the serves for NHL 13 are absolute shit right now and playing anything online is a pain.

 

[Red_Man]

So apparently the serves for NHL 13 are absolute shit right now and playing anything online is a pain.

I'm not really having any problems but I know a lot of people are complaining on EA's site.

 

[CrazedArabMan]

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Sign all the depth defensemen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eh, if he can stay healthy I think it can be a decent depth signing which is what it is, but who cares, there won't be hockey anyways.

Edit: Or maybe not yet:

Red Wings are talking to UFA D Carlo Colaiacovo, but he is not signed. They've wanted to add veteran D for depth.

 

[Socreges]

Sign all the depth defensemen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eh, if he can stay healthy I think it can be a decent depth signing which is what it is, but who cares, there won't be hockey anyways.

Edit: Or maybe not yet:

Ever?

 

[Marvie_3]

Ever?

No. It's gone forever.

 

[DopeyFish]

Ever?

@ChrisBottaNHL: Text from player pal: "NHL offer is a f***ing joke. Sets PA back 20 years. I appreciate what I got, but wake the ******* up buddy."

 

[MacAttack]

So apparently the serves for NHL 13 are absolute shit right now and playing anything online is a pain.

I had a slight hiccup yesterday where I couldn't log onto the EA servers but since then it hasn't been bad.

 

[SpectreFire]

I'm shocked that the NHLPA is dumb enough to think that the league will be popular enough to support their salary demands if it goes up to a year and a half worth of lockout.

 

[CrazedArabMan]

Ever?

Yup, hockey is finished, all of the players will move on to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUaxDB0ea3M

 

[DopeyFish]

I'm shocked that the NHLPA is dumb enough to think that the league will be popular enough to support their salary demands if it goes up to a year and a half worth of lockout.

The concussion problem may be worse than we thought

 

[sefskillz]

Bandy is awesome.

 

[KernelPanic]

I'm shocked that the NHLPA is dumb enough to think that the league will be popular enough to support their salary demands if it goes up to a year and a half worth of lockout.

PA doesnt care about the league, only their paychecks.

Fehr is as bad as I thought he'd be and he's just getting started. Players are really dumb to follow him off the cliff, you'd think they'd have learned from the last lockout.

Looks like I need to get NHL13 if I want any NHL hockey this year.

 

[CrazedArabMan]

Bandy is awesome.

Time to bring this sport to mainstream America, let's do it!!! Advertising time!

 

[SpectreFire]

Wow.

The trade value system for GM Mode is absolute shit.

Bieksa and Booth are worth just slightly more than Derek Joslin.

While Burrows, Higgins, Lapierre, Malhotra, Hansen, Tanev, Garrison and Jensen are all worth significantly less.

TIL Derek Joslin is a high coveted defenseman.

 

[Wendel Clark]

https://twitter.com/benscrivens

LMAO

someone tell him to relinquish the twitter handle

 

[Smiley90]

Wow.

The trade value system for GM Mode is absolute shit.

Bieksa and Booth are worth just slightly more than Derek Joslin.

While Burrows, Higgins, Lapierre, Malhotra, Hansen, Tanev, Garrison and Jensen are all worth significantly less.

TIL Derek Joslin is a high coveted defenseman.

Joslin's the future, clearly.

 

[DopeyFish]

PA doesnt care about the league, only their paychecks.

Fehr is as bad as I thought he'd be and he's just getting started. Players are really dumb to follow him off the cliff, you'd think they'd have learned from the last lockout.

Just note the player text I pasted in here

Average player salary in 1992 was 250k

Which roughly translates to 550k in 2012 dollars (adjusted for inflation)

Which is less than 25% the salary players make today

Also note one of my prior posts how a single lockout of an entire season and continuing being paid 57% with declining revenue after a locked out season is worse than 48% and increasing revenue. Even at flat rate in 6 years they would have earned more money at the lower percentage. That's 1/3 of a players career, or 1/8th if you're a clone of Chris chelios

League health has a direct effect on fan support, franchise health has a direct effect on fan support. Stability is FAR more important than saving 12% of your grossly inflated salary

As I've said here before... If the league was in a state of constant good health... It would have a snowball effect on revenue and profit. It's in the young players best interest to have the lower % than the higher % as long as they maintain it. If Nashville or Florida can't afford to properly advertise their stuff and blanket their market, how does that help the players in the end? It's leaving money at the table. Arguably a fuck ton more money at the table.

NHLPA should have accepted today's offer but then said let's evolve both from your proposal to protect bottom lines, and then fix revenue sharing to ensure every % of the share is used. And every dollar not tied to contract is split between NHLPA members in the end. Bam. This way it ensures that the entirety of the player is share is spent and can act as a buffer in lieu of escrow

Agree on the share, work on the behind the scenes bullshit and make yourselves richer than you could have ever imagined.

The immature grandstanding helps no one.

 

[CrazedArabMan]

Wow.

The trade value system for GM Mode is absolute shit.

Bieksa and Booth are worth just slightly more than Derek Joslin.

While Burrows, Higgins, Lapierre, Malhotra, Hansen, Tanev, Garrison and Jensen are all worth significantly less.

TIL Derek Joslin is a high coveted defenseman.

Yeah, they have Smith's value and potential extremely low which is funny when he is our number one prospect and has a good chance of becoming a solid top pairing defenseman.