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Quebec City and other prospective NHL towns are the winners of this lockout

Posted by Chris Lund under Logic on Oct 12, 2012

Writer’s Note: JOCELYN THIBAULT!

Quebec City has received an immense amount of pity for the last 18 months. The Remparts, under Patrick Roy, have garnered their fair share of fame but the scale of adoration isn’t quite the same. Across the country, when the Jets landed back in Winnipeg, the question became concerned with when the Nordiques would make their triumphant return. Their fans have been popping up all over the NHL — the Nassau Coliseum is likely sick of seeing them — but the message has been sent through loud and clear.

They would like NHL hockey back in La Belle Province.
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Is Ondrej Pavelec serious?

Posted by Ryan Lambert under Logic, Opinion on Jun 20, 2012

We’d been hearing rumors for a while now that Ondrej Pavelec might not be long for Winnipeg or, indeed, the National Hockey League.

As recently as a few weeks ago, it was rumored that the KHL had expressed in interest in the Jets’ Czech goaltender and was, as is the league’s wont, willing to offer him a bunch of money. That seemed reasonable enough. Pavelec is a decent enough goaltender behind a very bad team who, given the quality of the KHL, could become a dominant force in the way that Kari Ramo has been for the last two seasons. This is a league, after all, in which Kevin Dallman is unequivocally the best two-way defenseman, having scored no fewer than 12 goals and 39 points in 53 or more games. Kevin Dallman.

And that was all well and good, because he’s going to be a restricted free agent after having cost slightly more than a million dollars against the cap last season, and was more or less universally adjudged to have been the Jets’ team MVP, faint praise though that might have been. Pretty good reason to go seeking a raise, for sure.

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