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stoaked Pumped to live dt and watch the nucks!! soo getting season tickets 
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HOCKKKKEYYYYYy
do the wave!
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Source www.sportsnet.ca
"Let the games begin Now the fun starts as the sides will have to deal with free agent signings and the Sidney Crosby sweepstakes. Sportsnet.ca -- The deal is done. Sportsnet has learned that the NHL and NHLPA have signed off on a new six-year collective bargaining agreement, with a player out-clause after four years. The new CBA still requires ratification from both sides. The option allows the players to renegotiate this massive contract, if after four full years of working under its guidelines it's deemed "unsuccessful." The NHLPA released a statement Wednesday saying an agreement has been reached in principle but details of the new CBA will not be released until it has been officially ratified by the NHLPA members and the NHL Board of Governors. The game will return looking drastically different both on and off the ice. A vastly different and complicated collective bargaining agreement, highlighted by a hard salary cap, has given owners their long-desired "cost certainty." Teams will come back looking vastly different as well. Mass player movement is expected with a high number of free agents on the market as well as several high-paid players expected to get bought out so teams can fit under the cap. On the ice, major rules changes are being examined which will hopefully open up the game and create more excitement, likely including the reduction in the size of goalie equipment, allowing the two-line pass, and the penalty shootout to decide tie games during the regular season. And there's much work ahead to lure back bitter fans and an apathetic corporate community. A source also said Wednesday that the belated 2005 NHL entry draft will be held in Ottawa on Saturday, July 30, although a much smaller event with only the very top prospects invited, including Sidney Crosby, the consensus No. 1 pick. In the end, the players caved in on an issue they swore they never would: the salary cap. They also lost out on the entry-level system with rookies scaled back to $850,000 US a season in maximum salary as well as swallowing a 24 per cent rollback on all existing contracts. It's clear this isn't a deal NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow was in favour of but he went along with it, respecting the wishes of president Trevor Linden and the rest of the players' executive committee. It's been a long and tumultuous road towards a resolution. From the first labour meeting in January 2003 to the last on Wednesday, both sides met 82 times over two and a half years before finally agreeing on a new deal. The lockout wiped out the entire 2004-05 season, including all 1,230 regular-season games, denying hockey fans a Stanley Cup champion for the first time since a flu epidemic cancelled the 1919 final. The NHL became the first major professional league in North America to loose a season from beginning to end because of labour strife. Once commissioner Gary Bettman announced the season cancelled Feb. 16, both sides returned to the negotiating table March 11 in the first of 44 meetings aimed at making sure the 2005-06 season wouldn't be delayed. The two sides met every single week starting in early May and didn't let up until the end, cramming in long days in the final six weeks in an effort to finally get it done. A number of player agents are angry with Goodenow, feeling betrayed by his strategy from the get-go. But while the owners appear to have scored a one-sided victory, it remains to be seen at what cost. The damage to the industry from not having any hockey played for a year may have both sides singing the blues."
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Im kinda use to not having hockey around...( although im a hockey fanatic ) but ill prolly get so excited when it gets closer to fall...
I dont think our canucks will do great this year... they've had so much momentum for the past 2-3 seasons of actually getting into the playoffs in a good seed. BUT who knows, maybe its the start of something new in the NHL it might be another 1994 again
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we have hockey history Don't stop. Get it, get it
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So now that the NHL pretty much guranteed to return I would like to know your thoughts on how the Canucks will stack up in the 2005 and 2006 season. You do know with the new CBA that the Canucks will be one of the few teams that will be able to wheel and deal.
1.)Rumours have it that Markus Naslund has agreed to manage a Sweedish team for the 2005 - 2006 season. 2.)Bertuzzi is still waiting to be re-instated and this can't happen till Gary and the boys get this done so Gary can sit down and re-think pulling his head out of his ass after cancelling the whole 2004-2005 season 3.)Ever thought of the possibility of kid pheonom Sydney Crosby coming to Vancouver?!?!?! Here me out though: Naslund leaves Nucks for Sweden, nucks buy him out and have more payroll Bertuzzi, till this day will still dominate a lot of teams, has a very high trade value and maybe able to lure teams to take the chance on him. Nownow I know your going to say how could you possibly take the key members of our team from our first line and ship em off for some kid who's only completely dominated the Junior Level? Your right when it came down to the Memorial Cup Sydney Crosby and company completely choked up to Cory Perry and the Knights. However when your playing the team who completely smashed all records in all of CHL history, it was evident that London deserved the Cup more. What proves to me that Sydney will do just fine in the NHL is the kid has amazing hand, speed, and talent. I watched him in the World Junior Championships and when this kid is put on a team with some talent he makes the line he's on that much more dominating. Ovechkin vs Crosby...round 1 Crosby. YOU GOT OWNED. The kid took a beating, Ovechkin get hits a few times in the game against us and leaves for his team to lose. SOME KINDA SUPERSTAR YOU ARE OVECHKIN. I sense another trouble personality in Washington as they are going to have their have hands full just like they did with Jagr. Now with the new CBA pretty much complete I doubt any player will be asking for over 8 million US per year. Question is the Free Agency market is going to be HUGE, but will the Canucks with Dave Nonis actually do something? Or will they just leave their core players intact for like the last 5 + years. If Burke does something so dramatic in Anahiem heck Nonis you should get fired if you do squat. Comments and feedbacks are appreciated =) LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!! Last edited by -DLO_604-; Jul 13, 05 at 11:55 AM.
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^^
not too worried I just want an all heart team that plays hard and pulls the clutch upset here and there
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It'll be interesting that's most definitly for sure. Cory Perry is also another consideration. The kid is hardworking as well. It's going to be a great draft.
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Man, I'm never going to live that down. Coming over with new martini glasses
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