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I am sure some of you guys saw the 2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs commercials last night on HNIC. One with Stevie is coming!!! Video: 'History Will Be Made' campaign debuts with Lemieux, Orr

Please list some of the players who were brain damaged as a result of blindside head-hits durring the era before the instigator rule was thought up. It isn't about relatiation, it's about respecta and prevention, and for the most part it worked. That's change I can believe in!

I have a problem with some of this; What makes an OT win equal to a SO win and not a regulation win? The complaint about the shootout is that the game is won by individual skills. OT wins are won just as much through normal hockey as regulation wins are. So the system I have proposed since shootouts were first suggested to end tied games is: Regulation/OT win: 3 points Shootout win: 2 points Shootout loss: 1 point Regulation loss: 0 points This way, if a team wins simply through playing hockey, they get 3 points, and if they loss that way, nothing. If the game is tied after 65 minutes, then each team deserves a point, and the shootout determines who gets the third point. Another option, if shootouts remain, is to simply remove points altogether, and go by straight W/L record. A third option is to remove shootouts and bring back ties.

After which I respond how zucchini.

something about the red, in a playoff game, at the joe looks intimidating

i don't get the obsession with frolov here

haha, who would have predicted a comment like this from a poster like you

The hockey gods are making up for striking down our entire team with injuries this year, they work in mysterious ways.

Lol WTF?? Is your join date also the same time you started watching hockey?

It's true.

Oh how soon we forget. Osgood WAS amazing in the playoffs the past two post seasons. No one can deny that. Even moreso last postseason and had we won he would of been MVP.

You gotta be good to be lucky and lucky to be good.

Pierre McGuire just called Z a rock star, on NBC. lol i couldnt believe it.

Hockey fans are no different here than they are anywhere else. They're just as passionate about their team and they don't want to miss the playoffs, just the same as we don't. I don't understand why everyone wants to run off at the mouth calling everyone idiots and douchebags just because they're upset about losing potential points. Chances are we'd be pretty pissed off if Edmonton gave Calgary a point with less than a second remaining in regulation and Vancouver gave Calgary the bonus point with less than a second remaining in OT. If Detroit got spanked last night, all the "sky is falling" theorists would come out of the woodwork and make this board look like a bunch of idiotic crybabies. My best friend is a Flames fan and on game days we poke fun at each other's GDTs. Believe me, this board can come across equally as childish and petulant as CalgaryPuck. It's all a matter of perspective.

They seem like they're getting along fine. It seems they left the bitter feelings on the ice.

How about the new rule and remove the instigator penalty.

Sigh. How I miss them. That's actually a really well-written piece for a blog I gotta say.

No, the trade deadline is for trades. Waivers is applicable until the day after the regular season or thereabouts IIRC. Regardless, nothing changes after March 3 with regards to call-ups.

Yeah he finished second whilst Nick got 127 of 134 first-place votes.

You make some good points but I have to disagree with the bolded. The entire reason I thought I throw this out there, is because of the 2008 playoffs. He just wasn't able to be healthy. Colorado could replace him on the roster (which obviously didn't help), but Sweden cannot.

I'm sick of seeing this s***. I don't care if we won last night. We probably shouldn't have. The Ducks just hack, whack and run Jimmy Howard whenever the puck is in or around the crease and nothing happens. This team isn't losing because of injuries. It's losing because it has no fire. Heads are hanging low. The players are too timid to get in the face of an opponent that challenges them. You don't need to be a goon to stand up for your teammates. Not so long ago, a guy like Bertuzzi or Datsyuk would not just skate away after Corey Perry takes 3 or 4 whacks at his goalie while the puck is under his pads. You can't allow that to happen. Yet, it is allowed. Losing free agents and getting injuries hurts. I'm not ignoring that. But it's not an excuse to allow other teams to push you around. It should be the opposite. The players should be MORE pissed and MORE driven to make sure their opponents know you cannot take liberties with the Detroit Red Wings. This was the hockey that was played in the '08 and '09 playoffs. It was energetic and inspired. Each player was in the game. Right now, you could count them on one hand in any given game. The worst thing about that is, in the past few weeks none of them have been our better players. Injuries hurt. Indifference kills. Wake the f***, Red Wings and show some pride!!

Just laughing at you for making stuff up.

Right. So you can post about what you like, but others can't if you don't agree. Got it.

Lilja had an existing problem which went undiagnosed until the punch from Weber which caused it to become a real problem.

They were last year and the year before that. I already made that point if you read my post. I never asked for fights. I asked for them to stand up for themselves and not get pushed around. Like our last two postseasons. I dunno why everyone has assumed I'm referring to fights. Fights aren't necessary to show strength and solidarity. One more thing, Jack. If you don't like the discussion in this thread, why do you take part in it? There are tonnes of threads I don't particularly like. The best way I can think of to deal with them is to not read them. I know you hate this stuff and you think it's a pointless conversation. A very fair POV. I just don't understand why you insert yourself into it, if that's the case.