I know when I resigned Carey Price I could've locked him up for another year but for an extra 2m a year or an extra 8m over four yrs. But I didn't and figured I could get more production out of that extra 2m I was going to save by signing a good FA skater or trading for one. Price's next contract will go from under 4m to close to 10m. Some tough choices ahead but not for another 2 yrs. LOL

I'd like to see the limit increased like Rip but after reading Pigs rationale I'm thinking that domino effect would be bad.

How about another option of doing away with MiLR games played limit and you call up whenever you want to since you drafted the prospect as an investment. Teams would have to decide to promote as soon as their MiLR gets too crowded or in the case of the 's and 's of the league with only 6 prospects in the minors they can take their time before calling up players. Teams will naturally promote a player as soon as they play regularly and produce points consistently. And would make prospects more valuable because they can be stashed as long as you need for teams with full active rosters.

The current 40 game limit forces some players to get called up way before they're ready which hurts draft pick value if you think about it.

Skille was a free agent and anyone could've bidding on him. The fact San Jose ended resigning him after being the team that released him just means he got a better deal. Good on them. If 29 other teams passed on the guy deserves the cheap contract and the discount. It gives teams flexibility in fantasy so that's a good thing.

is worrying me. Johnny's team handed my Hawks their first Loss last week. And now Bryzgalov is coming back. Of course he'll have that awesome Oiler defense protecting him. LOL

Jeff Carter will be placed on LTIR and Brendan Morrow will be activated.