The captain sets his contract demands at $4 million per season. The Blue Jackets start at $3 million per season but move up to $3.5 million, assuming the captain will meet them and a deal will be d...
The captain sets his contract demands at $4 million per season. The Blue Jackets start at $3 million per season but move up to $3.5 million, assuming the captain will meet them and a deal will be done. However, the captain does not budge and a stalemate ensues.
With the deadline hours away, the captain tells Blue Jacket management, according to the club's majority owner, that if he isn't signed to an extension -- at his $4 million demand -- he will refuse to play the rest of the season.
So a trade becomes the Blue Jackets only option, and the captain has but one destination for which he'll waive his no-trade clause -- his former club, the Colorado Avalanche.
So the deal goes down. The captain is traded back "home" and the Blue Jackets suffer an emotional and physical loss so devastating that any hope of the playoffs is lost.
In the hours after the trade, some backroom workings become known, making it seem as if the captain was planning this trade all along.
The plane that whisked the captain to Calgary, where the Avalanche played that night, was parked nearby one night before the trade deadline.
A box of equipment -- to the captain's specifications and with the Avalanche logo -- arrived in Calgary before the trade was struck. The Flames' equipment staff was asked to sew the captain's name on the back of an Avalanche sweater hours before the deal was reached.
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I'm going to the first one. I swear I hope that Nash will just get so POed and just hit Foote into next week. Whoever made this song should write songs about: Jordin TooToo Nikolai Zherdev Pascal LeClaire
i wouldnt mind making fun if the TooToo and Zherdev. TooToo is a bitch and Zherdev was useless. LeClaire was good he just outplayed by a beast in Mason and he doing very well for sentators. Would like to have both Mason and LeClaire as our goalies. Carry the Flag.
canuckchick, i somewhat agree with you, obviously he doesnt suck seeing as he plays in the NHL but comparing him to Ovechkin, thats a little crazy. and bignut, maybe he wanted to go with Colorado he played there before so maybe he liked the management. but maybe he was impatient, i dont know, you dont know, no one knows.
I know deep down that Ovechkin is better then Foote, and I'm also a fan of Ovechkin. He's an amazing player and he's really helped Washington make it to the playoffs. The Russians are starting to produce better hockey players then the Canadians, you know, other then Crosbey and players like that. But it is also sad how they're starting to beat us. I guess they deserve it after all this time.
Hey, it's my opinion that I'm expressing. I'm not saying that you have to agree with it. He just happens to be my favourite player, no matter what you say. We're all entitled to our own opinion last time I checked. Like I said before, if the guys never done anything to you, don't lip him. I'm also sorry if I offended your feelings at all, but it's not that big of deal. Hockey's just a game that some people take to seriously. People have forgotten that it's about having fun, not always winning.
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hopefully he shows up...he is their captain now after all.
Jordin TooToo
Nikolai Zherdev
Pascal LeClaire
Fuck You Foote!
BTW italianman, awesome comment!
Going to the first jackets home playoff game ever!!!!!!!! GO JACKETS 4-0-0!