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Pastimes : Time to talk PUCK - thread for hockey junkies -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: justaninvestor who wrote (1589)	8/21/1999 1:59:00 AM
From: Stephen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1750

Well put, Other teams have tried to buy championships and most fail miserably. My Canucks are a great case of spending lots to get very little in return. Hockey is a TEAM game and without chemistry, all the dollars in the world won't help you (Rangers/Canucks vs Buffalo as case points). Maybe players that don't get the going rate are less than team players. I don't know in this case but .... Sinden is no dummy. regards...spl

To: justaninvestor who wrote (1589)	10/1/1999 12:12:00 AM
From: doby	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1750

Looks like Bruins might lose Dafoe. Ouch! Dafoe ups ante with trade request BOSTON - After storming out of a meeting with Boston Bruins management, goalie Byron Dafoe asked the team to trade him if it isn't interested in meeting his price. Dafoe and his agent, Ron Salcer, met with general manager Harry Sinden and assistant GM Mike O'Connell on Wednesday in an attempt to end the impasse. Dafoe was asking for $4 million a year but has since lowered his demands; the Bruins have offered a three-year, $9 million contract and have not budged. Dafoe told The Boston Globe that Sinden claimed the team couldn't afford his request. ''To quote Harry, he said, 'If I were to pay you what you were asking for, the Boston Bruins go bankrupt. ... I'm not going to be like these other teams and run my team into the ground,''' Dafoe said. ''At the end, I got up and left. I couldn't take it anymore. For him (Sinden) to be crying poverty and to say I'm going to bankrupt the team with what I'm asking for, I think that's ridiculous.''