avs ink Tucker

[recchifan]

Tucker signs on with the avs for two years at 4.5 million for two years

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/feature/?id=11353

 

[TanguayFan]

Nice....apparently the Avs think they're the Leafs. First Raycroft, and now the biggest waste of space in the NHL today.

 

[leafs4_cup]

Still makes no financial sense that the Leafs bought him out. They are willing to pay $2 million a season for him NOT to play while another team will pay him $2.25 million to play.

 

[WildforCup10]

Thats is very interesting. Now I have to watch him when the Wild play them. He just sounds like a big pest. lol

 

[MIKEYSLEAFS]

Thats is very interesting. Now I have to watch him when the Wild play them. He just sounds like a big pest. lol

you won't even see him

 

[bto3105]

Good luck Mr.Tucker. You never know as he could turn it around!!!

 

[quincy]

Great. Sideshow Bob on the Avs. I guess they were pining for the days of Claude Lemieux's incessant cheap shots.

 

[MMarch]

Yet another reason for the Wing Dinger fans to hate the Av's.

 

[DredJAw]

Still makes no financial sense that the Leafs bought him out. They are willing to pay $2 million a season for him NOT to play while another team will pay him $2.25 million to play.

They pay him $1M a year not to play, for 6 years.

So paying him $1M, instead of $3M (the contract) works out as such:

08-09: Save $2M
09-10: Save $2M
10-11: Save $2M
--------------contract would have expired.
11-12: Lose $1M
12-13: Lose $1M
13-14: Lose $1M

Each of those years they only pay him $1M buy out- so they are saving large the initial 3 years. By 11-12 the cap should be at $65M+. Basically, at the end of the day they save more money and cap space than they lose.

 

[pmc336699]

Thats is very interesting. Now I have to watch him when the Wild play them. He just sounds like a big pest. lol

Yep, I have a feeling he'll be getting under our skin next year. He probably doesn't have the nads to step up to Boogaard, though. I don't blame him.

 

[Psych-Guy]

whats a "anvs" ?

 

[MMarch]

He probably doesn't have the nads to step up to Boogaard, though. I don't blame him.

No, but how much fun will it be to see Voros destroy him regularly?

 

[DredJAw]

No, but how much fun will it be to see Voros destroy him regularly?

Voros signed with the Rangers

 

[MMarch]

Voros signed with the Rangers

Ugh, now who is left in the West to make Tucker cry regularly? Burrows? Maybe Avery goes West somewhere, hmmm, Chicago would be nice.

 

[pmc336699]

No, but how much fun will it be to see Voros destroy him regularly?

IMO, Voros is a terrible fighter. He tries, but it doesn't really work out for him. I'll say I'm not sad to see him go. He used to get stupid penalties a lot. Don't worry, though, Stephane Veilleux has become a bit of an agitator himself. It will get spicy!

 

[moosejaw]

I like the signing but they gave him too much.

 

[x26stastny26x]

Great. Sideshow Bob on the Avs. I guess they were pining for the days of Claude Lemieux's incessant cheap shots.

Claude's got a few :stanley:'s to show for those incessant cheap shots too.

 

[yero2277]

tucker lost his Nuts last year he was invisible on the ice and and the money lost was better then paying him to do nothing

 

[TheGriceBoys]

Wow, this has to be one of those signings that has AV's fans scratching the ol' dome........

 

[x26stastny26x]

Wow, this has to be one of those signings that has AV's fans scratching the ol' dome........

As a lifelong Avs and Nords fan I like this move. I'm not gonna sit here and worry about the money that's the Avs problem. Same thing with Theo. Didn't care what he was making only that he produces. Only time will tell though.