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Inlägg #570332

Sv: Pittsburgh 05/06
Deas: Lite kommentarer från Jes Gölbez webblogg, angående Dick Tärnströms kontrakt med Penguins

"The Penguins agreed to meet the arbitrator's award of $1.6mil for offensive defenseman Dick Tarnstrom. What kind of parent names their kid 'Dick'?

Anyway, $1.6mil is a pretty good deal for the Penguins, and I don't understand why the media think that Tarnstrom is going to be traded. Is his salary a burden to the Penguins?

How many other teams would line up for a defenseman who scored 52 points in 80 games last NHL season and cost just $1.6mil for a season? I'd be shocked if it wasn't '29'.
Despite his defensive shortcomings, Dick is one of the few defensemen who can produce high offensive numbers in a low-scoring NHL era. Given how hard it is to produce offense in today's NHL, Dick is severly underpaid. That's two arbitration awards that have been on the 'low' side for the player. Is Bettman strongarming the arbitrators? Hmm...

(Oh, and the Penguins got this guy off of WAIVERS from the New York Islanders. How sweet is that?)"
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