Monday, October 30, 2006

87's steal-and-backhand...

...is in the below video clip, at about the 2:40 mark. It's the only video online I've seen thus far.

I do understand that this is all just for me.

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The team announced today that they're holding on to Jordan Staal-- at least for the time being-- and not sending him back to his junior team. I suppose they could be simply extending the experiment from 8 to 39 games, but I think this is a huge move. Keeping Staal on the roster not is a matter of both time and money-- time in that he'll be an unrestricted free agent sooner, and money in that the first year of his rookie deal now kicks in. This move says a lot of things the Penguin fanbase hasn't been hearing over the past five years, when there were a succession of salary dumps leading to the competitive absurdity of a franchise goalie spending extra time in the minors just to keep salaries low, while third- and fourth-line forwards were being signed largely because they possessed two-way contracts, and not because they possessed observable skills.

Yeah, this is a big move.

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