Still lots of time for Voracek to prove his worth but I could see them trying to pawn him off just for the cap space to take a run at Perry this summer. There's also the reality that Timonen's huge cap hit comes off the books this summer. I'd imagine they want to bring him back but at a discount so the Flyers could have more flexibility than we might imagine.

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All of my friends say I'm crazy when I bring up signing/trading players.

"Where do you guys get all the cap space from?"
"You're worse than a Leafs fan."

But the reality is, Holmgren, for better or for worse, is an aggressive GM. There is no doubt in my mind he kicked tires on Luongo, that he inquired about Subban and that he will (if given the chance) send one hell of an offer to Perry this summer. If that means getting rid of Voracek, so be it.

I can see him buying out Briere, and to a lesser extent Bryz if things go sour, this summer while either re-signing Timonen for a small cap hit or letting him walk and then putting Pronger on LTIR. That frees up well over 15 million in Cap sapce (without buying out Bryz) to sign Perry or do whatever. And next years cap is 64.3 million, so we only need to drop 5.7 million to comply.

What a lot of people don't get is that Holmgren has the biggest balls among the NHL GMs and that he comes with a seemingly unlimited supply of cash and pressure from Snider. That means big things.

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The Untouchables Cup.
C: Crosby, Giroux Benn, Getzlaf, Bergeron
RW: Neal Voracek, Backes, Brown
LW: Couture, Eriksson, Kane, Lupul, Vermette, Pacioretty
D: Subban, Pietrangelo, Keith, Girardi, Kronwall, Ekman-Larsson
G: Rask, Bryzgalov, Niemi
Drafted - Traded For - Keepers
Categories:
G, A, P, +/-, PIM, PPP,
SHP, SOG, FW, HIT, BLK
W, SV, SV%, GAA, SHO
10 Team Roto Limited Keeper
3C, 3RW, 3LW, 2W, 1F, 6D, 2G, 3BN

I would take Voracek. id bet he ends up on the top line.

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10 team Keeper Roto League
4C-4LW-4RW-6D-2G-5bench-unlimited farm.

C= crosby,m.koivu,malkin,zajak,grabovski,j.jokinen,
LW= ovechkin,nash,s.gagner,dubinsky
RW= downie,hemsky,callahan,voracek,perry,mueller
D= green,doughty,phaneuf,wisniewski,girardi,karlsson
G= rask,lundqvist,ward,price

FARM=kreider,grachev,petrov,enroth,kuznetsov,ennis ,rundblad,bjugstad,radulov,montoya, adam,t.erixon,cowan,s.elliot,j.faulk,cormier,petro v,orlov,stone,eakin,grigorenko,silfverberg,brodin, atkinson

--G,A,P,PPP,SHP,GWG,PIMS,+/-,SOG,hits,FOW,blocks-Wins,GAA,SV%,saves,SO