Semin: No Longer a Free Agency Option
If they are calling Semin an enigma, maybe we should stop the debate about whether our guys are.
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Keith Quinn
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Wow, another 1-year deal
Not a bad approach for him, really. That’s no small change, and this way if the Caps hit a wall via cap, injury or age, he can picks his spots without being tied to a place on a longer deal that the team ends up just wanting to get rid of.
Sort of relieved that he won’t enter the “Islanders should sign this guy!” conversation anymore.
Lighthouse Hockey: "Are you fist-f#$%ing me?!" --P.A. Parenteau
I can’t believe someone would seriously want to sign him. He seems like a Straka type, great when lined up with someone great, not so much if he has to do the heavy lifting.
Dough Weight is so old, The LHH community made over 200 so old jokes
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Definitely
and then consider how much he may fall off on a team like ours where another team may key up on him instead of Backstrom/Ovechkin. Glad like Dom that this is no longer an option. (and now we won’t have to hear about how Snow failed in the off-season)
"Gervais...he looks danger in the fist with his face!" JPinVA
Call me crazy, but Semin as an UFA that wouldn't be a bad fit
Yes he is a flake, but he’s the type of flake that the Islanders may be able to target and acquire. We need a top six skill guy that isn’t over the hill. If he were perfect he wouldn’t be available. I think the one year deal is a higher price point than he would receive in a longer term deal and he still has something to prove. He wouldn’t be with Backstrom/Oveckin, but a trigger man with Bailey and Okposo would have the makings of a killer second line at the end of next year when he’s available again?
Here’s a guy that some of the top teams like Detroit may shy away from because he doesn’t fit their mold or there just sin’t the cap space around the league but can fill a top line slot on the Islanders with ease. No doubt a team like Pittsburgh has to look twice if he makes it to UFA, but they are invested at center. We aren’t looking at getting a guy like Parise because everyone will want him, his injury is the only thing that gives us even hope, that and a little bit of nostalgia.
Sarcasm is my permanent font.
Agreed, I would love to see what he could do on this team, BUT
I just think it would never happen, or certainly not had he hit the market this summer.
His agent I believe said they’re doing the one-year deals in part because of the CBA uncertainty, so maybe if in summer 2012 the Isles are on the uptick and they can offer him a bombshell one-year deal…otherwise I just figure it’s no-way no-how, so I haven’t dreamed about it.
Lighthouse Hockey: "Are you fist-f#$%ing me?!" --P.A. Parenteau
I like his skills. I think he is the real deal, even without superstars around him. But he isn't worth a ton of money. $6.5mil is probably high-end for him, but $5mil-7mil/yr is right. Good move by the caps.
The Isles future looks brighter then most would think with these young core guys in place:
Tavares, Okposo, Bailey, Nielsen, Niederreiter, Grabner, Moulson, MacDonald, Hamonic, and DeHaan.
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