Cost certainty
The chatter continues about Ilya Kovalchuk, cap circumvention, and lifetime contracts with phony-baloney years tacked on to the end, but amazingly, that’s not the biggest CBA failure that was exposed...
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Let's walk through the relevant part of the CBA as it pertains to the Kovalchuk situation. My own comments are {in italics}.{Note that I've cut out some sentences below that aren't pertinent to the...
View ArticleJustice Delayed is A Contract You're Stuck With
(I've written a ton of background on Khabibulin on my own site that I don't particularly feel like rehashing. It should be up sometime tomorrow; search Khabibulin if you're interested.)One of the...
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Another instance of Colin Campbell becoming involved with Florida games?
by Tyler DellowWell. That certainly got a little out of control. For all your hosting needs, I do not recommend Canadian Web Hosting. If you're tired of this Colin Campbell business, I recommend Mike...
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Friday
Baseball/graphical standings, for the first time this season:The east is balls once again. The Central is absolutely vicious. And the NW... is more like the East than the Central, it would appear,...
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Monday Baseball Standings
Been thinking about windows lately. Not the things my dog stares out of all day, or the juggernaut out of Redmond, but windows of Cup opportunity in the NHL.Darryl Sutter's stewardship of the Flames...
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Monday Baseball Standings
**For the Flames, talk about hanging on by a thread. Their schedule for the next 10 games is about as favourable as you could hope for. If they can't make up more than half the gap between them and 8th...
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Thursday Baseball Standings
Well if Devils fans got an early Christmas present today, I suppose Flames fans are hoping for a Boxing Day Blowout. While I'm still afraid that the org would just install Jay Feaster as the new GM...
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Friday Baseball Standings
**So on December 13th, the Flames were 4 games out, and I said:Their schedule for the next 10 games is about as favourable as you could hope for. If they can't make up more than half the gap between...
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Monday Baseball Standings
**In the 20 games preceding the weekend in Ontario, over which the Flames put up a 9-8-3 record, they outshot their opponents 623-507 and were outscored 57-51.450 saves on 507 shots is .888, which is a...
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Monday Baseball Standings
Real talk: tanking is an idea that seems very poorly thought through by those who advocate it. And although I do oppose tanking on karmic grounds, I don’t think you need that mysticism in order to make...
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League at a Glance - All Star Break
The Flames are this close to being right in the middle of the pack, with as good a chance as anyone for a 5-seed. But they aren't there.**This Lowetide blurb from last week deserves a Word, or Amen:The...
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Friday Baseball Standings
With a win tonight over the Ducks, the Flames would move into a playoff spot even factoring in games-in-hand. I wouldn't have guessed it, though I was sure cheering for it. And I remain pretty...
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Friday Baseball Standings
**The Flames' standing continues to improve by this measure, even though they still haven't made it back into the top 8 at any point. They're closer to 4th place today than they were to 8th place on...
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Thursday Baseball Standings
**It was with their win over Nashville on Sunday night that the Flames finally moved into a WC playoff spot by this measure. With a win tonight in Phoenix, they move into a tie for 4th. BONKERS. On the...
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So one of these days, I have a rant I need to post reminding the statzis that what they don't know could fill a warehouse, but the fact remains that if you just looked at Corsi numbers to predict a...
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Friday Baseball Standings
**Whoops: that should say Thru Mar.17, but I'm too lazy to fix it.**If the Canucks can beat Phoenix tonight, it'll still be a 2-game spread between 4th and 10th; five get in and two do not. I'm...
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Welcome Home Big Fella!
In what is, without a doubt, the best sonnet I've ever written about a traded hockey player (from this March 5, 2007 thread on CinO), I predicted Smyth would be reborn in Oil. Nice to be right for a...
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All of economics is devoted to the proposition that there is no such thing as a free lunch. All of politics is devoted to the opposite conviction. All economics teaches that you can't get something for...
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