And now the 25-year-old can celebrate being the cover athlete for the NHL 2K11 video game, following in the footsteps of Alexander Ovechkin, Rick Nash, Jason Spezza, Joe Thornton, Marty Turco, Martin St. Louis, Jeremy Roenick, Chris Drury and Brendan Shanahan.
That's your Ryan Kesler folks.
(g/t Kukla)
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I was gonna go all “what about the cover curse” or whatever, but I realized that was for the EA game.
This is the Wii game right?
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by eightyseven on Mar 8, 2010 1:02 PM PST via mobile reply actions
NHL 2K11 is different than the EA version. And I think the cover curse is just football isn’t it?
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by Section 312 on Mar 8, 2010 1:09 PM PST up reply actions
nah, the EA Sports Hockey cover is cursed too….. now i had 20 cents lying around somewhere…..
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Same with Mr. Cuthbert.
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by eightyseven on Mar 8, 2010 1:54 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
“Everything just keeps getting better for me,” Kesler told The Canadian Press. “I’m very excited.”
More at TSN.
He’s looking like a very smart financial mind for not signing a contract extension last summer…his possible salary is probably tripled in the past month.
Is that how it happened?
I recall this article from last September
The Vancouver Canucks intend to make Ryan Kesler their next signing priority and the fleet forward said Thursday he feels flattered.
and
“Obviously it’s good if they want to extend you before your contract’s over,” Kesler said following workouts at UBC. “That’s something pretty special. I’ve said before I want to play here the rest of my career. So whatever happens happens.”
It’s a decision made, in part, because the sides have reached an impasse and Vancouver is trying to avoid any distractions which can accompany in-season bargaining. But it has created some frustration in the Kesler camp. He is a pending restricted free agent who will now have to wait until after the season to see if he can get the multi-year deal he’s seeking with the Canucks.
“It’s frustrating and it’s disappointing,” Kesler’s agent Kurt Overhardt said. "He is a core player for the Canucks who brings his heart and soul every night. He puts it all on the ice. He’s a great teammate. He’s a warrior.
“It’s disappointing because based on the marketplace, it’s not a difficult deal to get done for a core player like this. There’s just not a lot of logic in waiting.”
I’m not sure it’s fair to say Kesler wouldn’t sign because of his financial acumen. It doesn’t sound like he’s had the chance
Perhaps Gillis is watiing for Brian Burke to airborne and on a plane to Livonia?
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or perhaps Kurt Overhardt is a bit mouthy...
He IS the kind of agent that likes to negotiate in the media.
Though, MG does seem to work to a deadline.
I was OK with the distractions not being there for the season as a reason not to negotiate during the season.
But I doubt that there is no communication anyhow. Our former agent probably pulled the other aside and let him know we’ll get it done in due time. I think he noticed that Kes’ is playing like a man possessed.
So STFU already with the media Kurt! We haven’t heard much more than that one quote.
Besides, he is an RFA anyhow. MG will get it done, methinks.
BTW…nice timeline research Mr Pratt. Related to Dave?
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i might just buy it instead of downloading it
by Optical Delusion on Mar 8, 2010 1:38 PM PST reply actions
So much for Kesler being the best kept secret weapon for the Canucks. Good bye home-team discount.
Los Angeles, CA
Re the hometown discount, I still expect it from Kes, but it’ll be a discount subtracted from the highest bid. Given that Kesler’s an RFA, not a UFA, tho, if some other team wants to bid him up, then we get more in compensation if they win, and the prospect of that’ll help back them off.
Kes’ll likely get his market value, less the HTD, and remain a Canuck; it’s not like Gillis hasn’t played the negotiation game before. Heck, given his record, I sometimes wonder if the other teams encouraged Vancouver to hire him as a GM just to remove him as an agent and make their lives easier.
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Props for being hip and cool and using pop culture references.
Ugh sunglasses indoors. DB alert.
"I was thinking it would be cool to see a game on the road. I have been looking all over this atlas but I don't see Vancouver anywhere. What state is this sh*t in!?"
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by eightyseven on Mar 8, 2010 2:58 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
No way Mr. Hart was a douchebag! :) Love that song.
by Sean Zandberg on Mar 8, 2010 4:54 PM PST up reply actions
I was referring to Kanye.
"I was thinking it would be cool to see a game on the road. I have been looking all over this atlas but I don't see Vancouver anywhere. What state is this sh*t in!?"
- Dallas Stars Forum
Spezza?
I hope whoever let this happen got fired…..
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by Section 312 on Mar 8, 2010 2:58 PM PST reply actions
The USA does NOT SUCK
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I agree completely. USA was very impressive. That’s part of why it was so awesome for Canada to win gold.
by Beantown Canuck on Mar 8, 2010 4:07 PM PST up reply actions
Remember: This is the Same Evgeni Nabokov that had to battle Vesa Toskala for his starting job in San Jose
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I remember waaaaaaaaaay back when Toskala was respectable. Like pre-September 11th, it was a crazy naive time.
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by Yankee Canuck on Mar 9, 2010 1:33 PM PST up reply actions
I’ve really been tempted to write a version of I’m on a Boat to celebrate Kesler’s cover. Anybody else think he looks a lot like Andy Samberg?
Please allow me to adjust my pants, so that I may dance the good time dance, and lead the onlookers and innocent bystanders into a trance.
Smo is wise.
He looks like Andy after one f**k of a bender…
If Andy was a two way centre with speed and power. Who indeed has his better days ahead. I expect the HTD too, but I am thinking it might be more in the 6 than 7 figure category…
Every little bit helps. Besides, with Burr’s 2 mil in his back pocket, Luongo on one of those “superdeals” to bring down the Cap, and the Sedins scoring definitely being of the “punching above their weight category”..in terms of what other Top scorers get $$$…
I trust GM to get a deal done that works for both sides.
Its nice to hear Kesler is so jacked about it too, being a gamer.
Works for me.
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That I love how Jannik Hansen plays. Extend him, 10 million a season!
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Mar 8, 2010 7:08 PM PST reply actions
Whaaa...?
Please allow me to adjust my pants, so that I may dance the good time dance, and lead the onlookers and innocent bystanders into a trance.
I know who Big Country is.
9.5 for him.
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Mar 8, 2010 9:25 PM PST up reply actions
I would like to quote Mr. Kesler from March 8, 2009:
“That’s what we need everybody to do,” said Kesler. “If we’re going to win the Cup, we need guys to take pay cuts. The way the salary cap is now, you really can’t get what you’re worth now if you want to win. Everybody in this locker room knows that and for us to be a great team going forward, we’re going to have to take a pay cut.”
“I want to play here for a long time,” said Kesler. “I think we can win with the group of guys we’ve got here and that’s the important thing. I like the direction. We’re not in a rebuilding phase and I like that this organization wants to win badly.”
That’s easy to say but he didn’t say how much of a pay cut he thinks guys should take. It the Nucks want to sign him for 4.5 a year and the Flyers, why wouldn’t they try to sign him, want to offer him 6.5 what deal would you take?
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"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
by Section 312 on Mar 9, 2010 10:14 AM PST up reply actions
The biggest reason not to offer $6.5m is a 1st round pick in 2011. Overall, you can see from the following why the Canucks’ll wanna offer Kes at least $4,520,151 and why other teams’ll balk at offering more than $6,026,867: both those numbers are thresholds to the next level of compensation.
Given that the twins each make $6.1m – just enough, by the way, that it wouldda made it extra-special painful to any other team trying to poach them (*cough, *toronto, *cough) – it’d be hard for Kes to ask for more than that. So his likely range, esp given his previous comments about giving a hometown discount in order to win, is prob between $4.5m and $5.0m, or thereabouts.
http://thenhlarena.com/index.php?showtopic=89464&mode=threaded
New figures for 2009-2010. If a player is taken away from a team via offer sheet (Restricted Free Agents), then the team that loses the player is potentially entitled to compensation. Here are the compensation awards based on Salary Cap hit (Averaged contract over length of deal).
$994,433 or below – No Compensation
$994,434 – $1,506,717 – 2010 3rd round pick
$1506,718 – $3,013,433 – 2010 2nd round pick
$3,013,433 – $4,520,150 – 2010 1st round pick, 2010 3rd round pick
$4,520,151 – $6,026,867 – 2010 1st round pick, 2010 2nd round pick, 2010 3rd round pick
$6,026,868 – $7,533,584 – 2010 1st round pick, 2011 1st round pick, 2010 2nd round pick, 2010 3rd round pick
Over $7,533,584 – 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 1st round picks.
The opposite of serious is not funny; the opposite of serious is unserious.
Have you considered the fact that some teams might offer him more than they think he is worth because they assume the Canucks will match? If I am a GM I would love to have Kesler on my team, especially if I think I am close to being a cup contender and need a second line center. I would be willing to give up some draft picks to get him. And if the Canucks match and I don’t get him then at least the Nucks salary structure is fucked for the next however many years.
Plus a team with multiple first rounders, like the Phoenix Coyotes, might be willing to offer 6 a year since they can afford to give up one first rounder and still have one left over.
And Kesler could rightly justify making as much as the Sedin’s since he is the teams third best forward, IMO, and isn’t that far off of the Sedins. Plus you add in the fact that he is doing things like being on the cover of video games and suddenly Ryan Kesler’s value to the team is about more than on ice production it also includes off ice marketing value as well. Jersey sales in the US will go up if Kesler is on the front of a video game in a Nucks sweater. And that will make the owners money. Kesler would rightly feel like he should get a larger salary since he is generating more money for the team. Or if he doesn’t think that, his agent will. Fans sometimes think contracts are just about goals, assists plus minus etc etc etc. But so much of what a team is willing to pay a guy is impacted by how much money that player can generate for the owners.
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by Section 312 on Mar 9, 2010 11:32 AM PST up reply actions
Let’s say the Canucks offer $5m and Phx offers $6.5m and gets Kes. The Canucks’d now have an extra $5m in their pocket with which to get another really good 2nd line center, plus they’d get all the draft picks, including 2 more first-rounders, whom they could either develop or trade.
The system is geared to keep star players where they are and it largely succeeds. It’s big news the odd time a star player moves – e.g. Kessel – cuz it doesn’t really happen that often, and even when it does, it costs a lot to acquire such guys. You can’t make a true lowball offer to a star RFA cuz that makes it easy for another team to steal him, but if you stay in the range you should be able to keep your guys.
The opposite of serious is not funny; the opposite of serious is unserious.
I'm not saying he is going to leave but what if.......
Phoenix isn’t the only team with two first rounders. Boston, Anahiem and Atlanta all ahve two as far as I can tell. What if one or more offers him 6 million a year and the Canucks don’t want to match. So we get a first, second and third round pick? Does that really help us if we think we are close to winning a cup?
The other question is where this tree is growing that produces point a game second line centers who are elite shut down guys, win face-offs, kill penalties, play with heart and soul, can skate as well as anyone in the league, etc etc etc. I think you might be underestimating how hard it would be to replace Kesler.
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"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
by Section 312 on Mar 9, 2010 12:21 PM PST up reply actions
Not to mention any of those teams get a rising star American to market, familiar to millions after the Olympics.
I think you’re bang on about how hard Kesler would be to replace.
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Boston had a rising American star, and didn’t seem to hesitant to shuffle him out the door.
Please allow me to adjust my pants, so that I may dance the good time dance, and lead the onlookers and innocent bystanders into a trance.
Kessel isn’t half the player Kesler is and Leafs fans are finding that out the hard way. Kessel 42pts in 53 games, Kesler 59 in 65. Kessel 0.79 ppg, Kesler 0.91……and as we all know Kesler provides way more that Kessel in every other facet of the game. So if Kessel isn’t outscoring Kesler he is a vastly inferior player. IMO.
"We love them, We mourn for them, Unlucky boys of Red" - Morrissey
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
by Section 312 on Mar 9, 2010 2:03 PM PST up reply actions
At $6.5m, you’re talking someone like Ryan Getzlaf or Jonathan Toews or Pavel Datysuk, that level of player. So yeah, I’d grab a guy like that as our 2nd line center, PLUS we’d get the draft choices, in return for Kesler.
Kesler’s a great all-around player, but trees don’t grow to the sky and some dollar limit, whatever you think it should be, applies to every player out there in the salary-cap era. If some other team really wants Kes, it’d cost them in salary (and cap space) as well as in picks for the future.
The system is set up to discourage this sort of thing; that’s why, for example, Burke is trading his buns off to rebuild the Leafs; cuz he just can’t afford – he of the richest market in the sport – to simply sign the best RFAs. Absent the need for compensation, he probably would nab a few.
The opposite of serious is not funny; the opposite of serious is unserious.
OK casual I actually started talking about 6 million but whatever. Where do you think we are going to magically acquire Getzlaf, Toews or Datsyuk from? The draft picks are nice but the draft is also a crap shoot so you might end up with a pile of crap for Kesler and then we are further away from contending. In fact we are further away from contending anyway if we let Kesler walk but if the draft goes poorly for us then we are even worse off.
It’s all fine and dandy to say let’s let Kesler walk if he won’t agree to sign for what we want to pay him, but it’s a different story in real life when you have to go find a player to replace what Kesler provides as an all around player. To me he is the perfect second line center and there aren’t very many other players in the league I would want as my second line center. And we aren’t going to be able to get any of those guys.
I agree that the system is set up to discourage RFA’s moving teams. But tell me when the last time a player of Kesler’s quality and currently marketability in American markets was available as a RFA when 4 American teams have two first round picks?
"We love them, We mourn for them, Unlucky boys of Red" - Morrissey
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
by Section 312 on Mar 9, 2010 2:44 PM PST up reply actions
The point is that Kesler is in a stronger bargaining position than the Canucks, IMO. Especially if some team offers him 5-7 years at 6 million per.
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"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
by Section 312 on Mar 9, 2010 2:46 PM PST up reply actions
You gotta have a limit and you gotta stick to it. If someone else wants to overpay, that’s their call, and if they rate the guy as being worth that much more than you rate him at, so be it; pick your number and stick to it. Mine is around $5m per, and I’d prefer to get him at $4.5m if possible. At $5.5m I start to wonder just how high the picks would be. At $6.1 I take the picks and I spend my original $5m on someone else.
1. What’s your max number?
2. Would you tell him that beforehand? Or would you bargain tough, first?
So far we’ve done this dance twice already this year alone, once w/Luongo and once w/the twins, and we got good cap numbers in each case. It’s just a good time dance, so let’s all adjust our pants and enjoy the trance.
The opposite of serious is not funny; the opposite of serious is unserious.
Without having a staff telling me what I could get for the same amount of money on the UFA market and without knowing what my staff thinks Hodgson will be capable of next year? It’s tough to say but I think my max number is north of 5.5, based on comparable players and their salaries this year, and I wouldn’t insult him by trying to offer him any less than 5 per.
Out of curiosity and I am not trying to be a dick just genuinely wondering, which of these guys do you think are the best comparables for Kesler?
Corey Perry – 6.5 million per
Patrice Bergeron – 5 million per
Tim Connolly – 4.5 million per
Daymond Langkow – 4.25
Paul Stasny – 6.6
R.J. Umberger – 3.5
Mike Ribiero – 5
Johan Franzen – 5.5
Nathan Horton – 3.5
Michal Handzus – 4
Jarret Stoll – 3.5
PM Bouchard – 4.25
Jason Arnott – 4.5
Dainius Zubrus – 3.4
Olli Jokinen – 5.5
Mike Fisher – 4
Mike Richards – 5.6
Andy McDonald – 5.2
Ryan Malone – 6
Phil Kessel – 4.5
"We love them, We mourn for them, Unlucky boys of Red" - Morrissey
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
by Section 312 on Mar 9, 2010 4:33 PM PST up reply actions
Actually, the q is: what player PLUS THE DRAFT PICKS are comparable?
Solely for sake of argument, let’s take Mike Richards (pretend that we traded Cory S for him). We’d have MR centering our 2nd line, and … who? … Taylor Hall and Tyler Seguin? – on the 3rd and/or 4th?
I think Kes is a wonderful player, but Richards and Hall ain’t exactly chopped liver either.
The opposite of serious is not funny; the opposite of serious is unserious.
How are we getting a top two pick? The Oilers and the Canes don’t have two first round picks and aren’t close to contending. Why would they go after Kesler? And how on Earth would trading CS get us Mike Richards? What world is this?
"We love them, We mourn for them, Unlucky boys of Red" - Morrissey
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
by Section 312 on Mar 9, 2010 6:02 PM PST up reply actions
I just don’t see how that is possible. If you look at that list I posted Kesler is much closer to Corey Perry in terms of ability and what he brings to the team than he is to say Kessel or Langkow for example. Certainly he brings much more than Stoll or Umberger. So in terms of salary 4.5 would be below market value IMO. And to get a guy below market value would be nice but I don’t see it happening.
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"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
by Section 312 on Mar 10, 2010 9:45 AM PST up reply actions
Thats the number I thought too.
More than doubles his salary. Lives up to his previous comments.
I think Section said 6 mil for the sake of argument, but I gotta think that the idea of offering him slightly less than 5 mil is not “an insult.”
Say 4 years. He ends up coming out of that probably a huger number…and sign that end of contract big # deal when he is 28/29.
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And how on Earth would trading CS get us Mike Richards? What world is this?
You might have missed it in my original comment, hidden as it was in italics and all that, so I’ll repeat:
Solely for sake of argument….
Solely for sake of argument….
Solely for sake of argument….
The opposite of serious is not funny; the opposite of serious is unserious.
Solely for the sake of argument doesn’t excuse being ridiculous. What’s the point of the post then? For the sake of argument? Mike Richards and the top two prospects in the draft? For the sake of argument what if we put a unicorn in net?
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"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
by Section 312 on Mar 10, 2010 10:29 AM PST up reply actions
The point was that there are other players in the same price range, players from the kinds of teams who might go after Kes (Philly already tried once, some years back), and that if we take a comparable – a reasonable one, not an $8m Drury – PLUS the picks, things don’t look so bad after all, do they?
And, by implication, looking at the same deal from the other side’s pt of view, it’s pretty scary to be giving up those picks, which is why I expect Kes to remain a Canuck.
He’ll get market value, less a hometown discount (I take him at his word on that) and that’ll be the end of it. His agent was trying to negotiate in the media and Gillis, no stranger to the tactics, put the kibosh on that. It all seems pretty routine.
The opposite of serious is not funny; the opposite of serious is unserious.
My point is that in reality getting a comparable player to replace Kesler is damn near impossible. If you can think of a comparable player in terms of talent and what he brings to the team on and off the ice that we can get easily then please tell me the guys name. Chemistry then becomes an issue, and leadership as well. And draft picks don’t always pan out especially mid to late first rounders which is the type of pick we would likely be getting for Kesler.
I don’t think he is going to leave but he might. You have to understand that my point is that Kesler is very difficult to replace, as I suspect you already know, and that a team close to being a contender doesn’t let a key guy, a core guy, who is coming into his prime leave for draft picks. That sets us back from contending in a big way. By the time guys like Hodgson, Schroeder and whoever we pick this year are ready to contribute to a cup winning team the Canucks window of opportunity might have already closed.
So Kesler has the stronger bargaining position and if you think he signs for 4.5 a year then I think you are crazy. Maybe not crazy enough to put a unicorn in net but still crazy. If he signs for 4.5 million per then he has given us a like 1-1.5 million dollar a year hometown discount. That’s not going to happen. A couple hundred thousand maybe but not north of a million.
"We love them, We mourn for them, Unlucky boys of Red" - Morrissey
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
by Section 312 on Mar 10, 2010 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
We could maybe get him for 4.5 million a year but only on a short one or two year deal. And then he will be walking cause someone will offer him 6 plus after that. Long term to keep Kesler we are going to have to stump up.
"We love them, We mourn for them, Unlucky boys of Red" - Morrissey
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
by Section 312 on Mar 10, 2010 11:12 AM PST up reply actions
smart.
I said that too…a few threads ago.
In the end, the HTD is probably mid 6 figures, and not over 7 by any means.
Say, 6 years, 28-ish million. No lower.
The thing is, if he keeps playing as well as he is, and leads us through more than 2 RDs….the price goes up too.
Totally happy with that too!
His position is strong. I like how he can make it stronger by giving the team greater success.
Murphy ; "You finished with the Twins against Nashville, and AV elected to keep you guys together for today, were you happy with the decision?"
Mikael Samuelsson ; " I was happy with it...Oh yeah. Sure"
LOL...unicorn.
Does the unicorn get to wear two sets of pads? If so, that would be a pretty sweet deal.
That horn would really deter crease crashing too.
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