Sunday, November 15, 2009

OK... We Give, We've Had Enough

I like Michael Nylander. I think he's a solid professional on the ice and (he said, biting his lip) equally so off the ice in the midst of this "Whither Nylander" mini-series. I sympathized with his predicament, he being merely a party to a contract who chose to implement rights under that contract to have a say in where he plied his trade. We even had a nice long entry all ready to go pretty much telling those Caps fans who would begrudge Nylander his right to invoke contract language to shut up and deal with it.

But you know? Enough is enough. Beginning last Tuesday, after Nylander cleared waivers, the stories started coming out that a deal with a team in the Kontinental Hockey League in Russia was imminent. Dinamo Minsk... Salavat Yulaev Ufa... "it's a done deal"... "the move is imminent"...

Well, here we are -- five days since the stories started leaking and in the seventh day since he cleared waivers -- and the stories have dried up, the potential landing places aren't being mentioned, and that roster spot still belongs to Number 92.

After the first speculation that a move was on the horizon and the move failed to materialize, other stories emerged that he wanted a provision that would allow him to move to another team and that he was waiting on a potential move to another NHL team.

We just want it to be over. So, as a therapeutic alternative to spewing screed about who is at fault for what in this nightmare, we'll introduce a new feature over there on the right. You'll probably have no trouble finding it.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, I thought it was just me. It's time for him to go. LEAVE. GET OUT. Do you need a ride to the airport? I have a big car, I can fit your gear, your sticks and your golf clubs in the back. Get in, shut up and LET'S GO.

Anonymous said...

Last week I was in Mexico. I turned on the TV mid-day and saw a woman on a soap opera wailing: ¡Nylander! ¡Nylander! ¡Nylander! She look worn out from all the drama.

Anonymous said...

Please let it end tomorrow. There is yet another rumor on HockeyBuzz today about yet another team. Could Nylander's agent and if necessary someone in Caps management just get up earlier this week to have more overlap with the daytime in Russia to close a deal.

The Peerless said...

Omsk, which would reunite him with Jagr and, of course, Jakub Klepis.

But not even He Whose Name Dare Not Be Spoken will put an "e" on this one.

Anonymous said...

Day 8? Day EIGHT?! Piffle. More like Day 1,888 - if ya ask me. And if you ask GMGM 'Spunky' McPhee, he'll say it's Year 1,888.

Anonymous said...

He wants to play in the NHL, leave his kids playing for team Maryland...and not live in russia...think we might have to wait for a top 2 center to go down for this to be resolved...IN THE NHL.

Anonymous said...

All the Nylander talk leads me to ask the question I really want to ask but haven't--what the heck did Nylander do to deserve this treatment by the Caps? OK, OK, he doesn't fit into BB's system. It can't be just that. He did pretty well for a while with BB here before injury. And I don't particularly enjoy all the spin-o-rama, but there has to be something more to this. I guess I may have to wait for GMGM's autobiography to get an answer, but geez, I ask again, what did Nylander do or not do?

Paul R

DMG said...

There is yet another rumor on HockeyBuzz today about yet another team.

Eklund only gets 3% of them right in the NHL, I can't imagine what the odds of him getting an overseas move right are.

Anonymous said...

This is a recycling of the original Saturday Night Live Gag "Good Evening, Generalisimo Francisco Franco is still dead". Our version is, "Good Morning, Michael Nylander is still a Capital".

Anonymous said...

He's still here, I checked.

Anonymous said...

Yep, still here.