For those interested in attending: CSN
The Kids of 2013 making strides: NHL
The tipping point? TSN
Paul George now this: SN
Summer pictures of Kane surface 😉 Chicago TribuneÂ
People like Ted Nolan: TSN
We wish you a speedy recovery: PI
So they had to do this: Sportsnet.ca
Is this really suprising?? PD
Fro-Yo back in the Peg: Chicago Tribune
Jimmy Hayes back in South Beach: CBS
YES!! The Score
This could get interesting: TSN
Non-hockey related but awesome: LA Times
12 minutes and more real questions than the last 4 years: 670 The Score
Lazy Summer days: HockeeNight
Pandering in its most simple, ugly and ignorant form: Suntimes
Ready to be Brooks Orpik? Daily Herald
Back with the Cats: FS1
I suppose that with it being summer and the Hawks having already made their signings and not yet a trade to clear cap space, we have more time than we should to study the narratives they are pushing. It’s not something I consistently want to do, but they keep putting this stuff out there and some of it is just wide of the mark. And those who are supposed to stand watch and call it out are once again passively accepting and even echoing it themselves.
During yesterday’s press conference, the Hawks and the sycophants who cover them couldn’t wait to tell us that Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane took less money so that they could keep the team together (even though the team is already over the cap). Their agent told everyone that they could have asked for the maximum $13.8 million per year.
That’s nice. I’m sure they could have asked. And Stan Bowman could have laughed them out of the room.
In one place: ESPN Chicago
Determination: Chicago Suntimes
Its starts already:Chicago Tribune
Johns excited: Comcast AP
That’s a bad thing? Sportsnet AutoPlay
Common Sense approach: PD
Now that Daydream Nation is firmly secured in Chicago until the next lockout and one of them has to be bought out after to get under the $12 salary cap Bettman instills to end that dispute, Stan can start figuring out just how he’s going to put next year’s team together.
What’s that you say? This year’s team is still over the cap? Why yes, it is. But we’ve been down this road a few times already, and the answers to get under this cap are known to everyone. It’s a punting of Oduya, or Sharp, or Rozsival, or Seabrook, or Versteeg (that would be a miracle) or some combination thereof.
It’s next year where some of the challenges lie. But is it that bad? Let’s look, yes?
