RockStar36
02-08-2010, 12:16 PM
The notion that Tim Thomas (http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/2969/)(notes) (http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/2969/news) could go from Vezina Trophy to trade bait for goal-scoring help is jarring.
Not in the sense that Tuukka Rask (http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/3798/)(notes) (http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/3798/news) would have won the job, because he's earned it and it was going to happen eventually. Rather, in the sense that they'd be able to actually move an old (in hockey years) goalie with a four-year, guaranteed contract worth $20 million and a pesky a no-trade clause.
(http://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/2009/4/5/824026/tim-thomas-new-deal-will-be)
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Doubting-Tim-Thomas-and-the-Blackhawks-goalie-n;_ylt=Aq_sZ39rnqO8U4wRBKPHzWx7vLYF?urn=nhl,218263
(http://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/2009/4/5/824026/tim-thomas-new-deal-will-be)
Not in the sense that Tuukka Rask (http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/3798/)(notes) (http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/3798/news) would have won the job, because he's earned it and it was going to happen eventually. Rather, in the sense that they'd be able to actually move an old (in hockey years) goalie with a four-year, guaranteed contract worth $20 million and a pesky a no-trade clause.
(http://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/2009/4/5/824026/tim-thomas-new-deal-will-be)
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Doubting-Tim-Thomas-and-the-Blackhawks-goalie-n;_ylt=Aq_sZ39rnqO8U4wRBKPHzWx7vLYF?urn=nhl,218263
(http://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/2009/4/5/824026/tim-thomas-new-deal-will-be)