Looks Like Palffy's Gone

i agree
especially when ziggy has been having injury troubles in the past few years
not too many teams are gonna wanna pay that much for a guy who is lucky
if he can play 3/4 of the season. but DT knows he needs to keep ziggy
so lets just hope he does

Corey

"jeff5768" <jeff5768.TakeThisOut@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >the big difference i see between the two was that blake was wanting to
back up
> >a brinks truck to the kings vault, while i'm willing to bet palffy would
be
> >fine if he could keep making what he made last year instead of getting a
pay
> >cut.
>
> Well Blake was trying to go from what $7mil a year to $9mil a year or so.
> Kings offered Blake 5 years for $40 mil and he refused that. Wasn't he
making
> $7mil the season he was traded or was it $5mil? I thought we gave him
like $21
> mil for 3 years in the prior contract. As for Ziggy and his Brink's
truck. He
> made $7mil last year and I don't see anyone else stepping up at the moment
to
> pay him that much or more. The Kings have supposedly offered him $19.5mil
for
> 3 years; which is a slight paycut of 500k a year, but to be really honest,
in
> the current state of the NHL Ziggy should jump at that. To me that is not
LOW
> BALLING Ziggy. Can someone please just low ball me to the tune of that
500k a
> year difference and I'd be happier than a clam. :/ Jeff