Friday Morning Open Thread: Where Is Kovalchuk Now Edition?

at least gaborik plays responsible in the defensive zone (though he could really get better, which i believe he will)

and certainly not at a 8.7 cap hit annually. he is a tremendous talent. TREMENDOUS. our offense would be instantly better. but ill repeat what i have said in the past about kovy:

1) signing him would require us to do it for a very long time to reduce his cap hit, im talking about 10-12 years, and thats a loooooong time.
2) even signing him at the reduced rate because of added on years, sather would have to do some very fancy manuevering to get him, staal and girardi under the cap this offseason and next year. im talking about moving brashear, voros and redden all in a very short time frame. i dont think sather is intelligent enough to pull something like that off

did he do something to you personally? I agree wholeheartedly that he is not, and never will be, the player that crosby is and therefore does not deserve anything close to 10 mil a yr. he turned down the atlanta offer because he didnt want to play their anymore, not because he thought he was the best player in the league. im not saying i want him, but if a team locked him down for 100 mil with an 8 mil cap hit annually, that really isnt that bad for a guarenteed 40+ goals a yr. you have to remeber that he did wear the C for a while down there in atlanta, so the staff obviously saw some inkling of leadership in him. maybe when put in the right position he would flourish as a leader. im not saying thats likely, just possible

This should be the end of the thread. Nothing else needs to be said. Idk where he gets off looking for that kind of money in this era.

and then he goes on LTIR and his cap hit comes off?

he will probably be a 40 goal scorer for the next 7 years or so.

B) Darren Dreger was the one who said that Kovy had interest in the Rangers and obviously vice versa.

if the Rangers signed Kovy to a 7.5 million dollar contract, the only move that would have to be done would be to drop Redden to the minors.

Then next year the Rangers would have the cap space (we’ll go into more detail if something actually happens) to re-sign Dubi, Cally, AA and Gilroy, and then the year after they get 12 million dollars in cap space from Rozsival and Drury leaving.

lou is way to smart a gm to put himself in a position where he has to abandon parise next summer. he is not giving kovy money that would prevent him from keeping the heart of his team

that means they never went to arbitration right?

how long does it normally take for them to release the terms of the contract?