EHM The Blue Line

1 day into the playoffs, Calgary, the 2nd seed in the Western Conference, place Dion Phaneuf on waivers. I figure, "ok he didn't develop like he should have", so I check his stats:

76 GP
7 G
54 A
61 Points
30 +/-

.....ok so i figure, "he must have an ungodly salary":

$1,000,000 for 2 years......


meh

I hope you claimed him

Wow. That would be the steal of the year if you get him off waivers.

I have him in my season, and although he tends to have morale problems at times, he does very well for himself and the team

i believe the coyotes (cellar team) got him first.

Wow, that's an odd one!

I had Phaneuf on my Washington Challenge team and he was spectacular...

Actually the past two games I have started and played for more than one season he's managed to wind up on waivers, or I have pried him away for very little after he is shopped around. As the AVS I believe I got him from the flames for a 5th one season, and three years later he's a two-time norris winner.

Its odd actually, quite often players like that wind up on Waivers, at least in my games. As I said Ive seen Phaneuf on waivers, in the same game NJD waived Parise (22YO). In another game I saw PIT waive Malkin, and I was the top club and still got him. I can't imagine no other team put in a claim

I guess it's a quirk. Teams are so quick to waive bona-fide blue-chip prospects but trying to pry a first-round pick from any of them is like pulling teeth

I get the opposite I can get virtually any first round pick for average prospects by just asking what teams want for the pick. I've stopped doing it as its virtually cheating to accept their proposals. Getting bluechip players however, I cannot do for anything

My two copecks is that he's a bit overrated in the game. He's got a nice slapper but 54 assists in a season bugs me a bit. I should admit though that i'm a fan of mobile, versatile defensemen more than big guys who push around for all the time who could even play without the stick

Back-toback Norris' for me.

93 assist in my most recent season. He's absolute quality, at least in the game

"waived Parise (22YO). "

I actually did pick him up....NJD waived him too. He didn't do so well at first...i guess cause he was playing on the 4th line. But then he got bumped up to line 2 and he's a top 4 point getter on my team. I'm thinking the game has trouble adjusting to the salary cap, hehe.

Yeah in my game with the Isles I picked him up in first season, now five seasons in and Im just not thrilled with him at all. Only reason I havent dumped him is his cheap contract (he signed on for 5 years @ 1.6m per)

I signed Parise when he was about 27 and he didn't make my team out of training camp, so I had to waive him, lots of good players in real life aren't so good, or don't pan out like they do really in the game.

kidhander wrote:My two copecks is that he's a bit overrated in the game. He's got a nice slapper but 54 assists in a season bugs me a bit. I should admit though that i'm a fan of mobile, versatile defensemen more than big guys who push around for all the time who could even play without the stick

Actually, Dion is probably the 2nd best rookie in the NHL (behind Alexander Ovechkin, Crosby would be 3rd). I think he's underrated in the game since he's always scratched by the Flames and ends up getting traded for very little. He has a very hard slapshot and is a great asset on the PP, and he can hit like Scott Stevens. He's one of the best defensemen in the NHL right now, and he's only 20 years. I can't wait till he's in his late 20's. He'll most likely be the best defenseman in the league by then!

This is something I have noticed in the game!!!

Sometimes u really can take superstar players in the waivers!!! I remember Tampa waiving Prospal and Richards in the same season!!!! Other good player I recall are Handzus from Philly, Drury from the Sabres or Upshall from Nashville....just sad Iam always late in claiming the players, because I never get them!!!

How does the "claiming a waiver" work??? First to claim, first to serve???

Waivers work that the worst team gets first priority if more than one team puts in a claim. If it's early in the season (first-20 games?) the previous seasons final standings are used.

Parise in season 1, and Jeff O'Neill in season 3 are the only two really good players I've seen waived, but O'Neill was a strange one as it was after the deadline, Detroit had only just traded for him at the deadline, he had 80 points in 60 games on the season, and they were under the cap. I claimed him anyway

hluraven wrote:Waivers work that the worst team gets first priority if more than one team puts in a claim. If it's early in the season (first-20 games?) the previous seasons final standings are used.

Thank u very much hluraven!!!

I thought that the first one to enter the claim would pick up the player!!! Never too late to learn something new though