Byfuglien, Sopel, Eager to Atlanta -- Hawks Not Done Shedding

Come to think of it, Luongo does look like a Vampire…

Agreed. It’s the draft picks that put it over the top.

I hear what you’re saying, but I think finances will win out in this decision. Huet won’t be on the team next year, but not at the expense of someone like Sharp, and in my own opinion not even for someone like Versteeg. Any taker of Huet would lose the deal. A team just can’t take on 5.6 million in salary for two full years in order to get a second-line player that will get them 25 or 30 goals. It would be insane.

This doesn’t even address the fact that Huet, it could be argued, can’t even be shopped as a bona fide number 1 anymore.

besides Toews, Kane, Keith, and Hossa. The other “untouchables” were Bolland and Seabrook.

Sharp is a bargain for what he brings to the table – and I believe our management thinks the same thing. Versteeg and Ladd, however, are still trade-bait.

I should go check them out. Wade into the mess. It’s not that I’m not on their side (I mean, I’m not on their side, but that has nothing to do with it).

There was another “incident” which I believe is feeding into this somehow. There is another Hawks blog (Committed Indian?) that is related somehow to the SBN blog. They ran a post saying Mirtle was an idiot re the Hawks cap situation. I commented that they were all wrong and Mirtle was right and gave them the figures. They deleted my comment(s). Mirtle commented and told them to retract the whole thing. They deleted the entire post.

I don’t blame them for being freaked out though.

no one is “ragey” about the situation; you should understand our community tends toward a speech pattern that is much more abrasive than the rest of SBN – however, most of it is purely sarcasm, which does not tend to come across on the internet.

There have been plenty of discussions about what to do with the cap; however they’re in past threads or fanposts. If you’re willing to wade through all our comments (we go off-topic a lot) and search our fanpost section (we had a deluge of new posters writing “woo hoo” style posts recently), you can find other proposals regarding our cap situation.

the “rage” got started b/c a couple posters were wondering how to wade into the cap number crunching and i’d suggested they could start by reading over here b/c you all had gotten a head start on it (i believe you were number crunching here while we were still reveling in the SCF and avoiding thoughts about Capocalypse). Discussion ensued. it happens.

SCH has a LOT of posters, rivaled only by Pension Plan Puppets i think, so we generally don’t all have the same opinion. Overall though, i think we’re all pretty resigned to whatever’s going to happen. Some are more optimistic, i tend to brace for the worst. but at the end of the day, i think our conclusions are not based just on numbers, but also the priorities/weaknesses we know about our team and what priorities should be, as well as what management themselves have said about player priorities (i.e. the “untouchables”)