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Chicago, honestly. I want an Original 6 match-up in the SCF. Also, my dad is a die-hard Hawks fan and he hasn't seen his team in the SCF since 1992. My team was there in 1995, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2008 and 2009. It would make him so deliriously happy, and after everything he's been through the last year, he deserves it. So yeah, go Hawks.

I'd rather he be a GM than to hear his voice on every NBC game.

Thank you for acknowledging this, they are not Canadians! France didn't want them, Niether does Canada. Who riots to celebrate getting out of the 2nd round of the playoffs anyway? They barely won the first 2 rounds and haven't won a thing yet! Quebecois continuously find new ways to make them selves look like assholes! Detroit is not known to be the safest city in America and I was there in 96 when we won the cup and millions of fans spilled into the streets... it was the happiest, friendliest mob of fans ever! No riots, no looting, no fighting, no burning just happy fun celebration by all.... and we won THE CUP! I lived there until recently and its not dying nealry as fast as you think... They are a very prejudiced and racist breed and they instill it into their children. I saw it first hand! Being an anglo I was told to "go back to Ontario where I belong" and that they "don't know why they let my kind into Quebec"

Kovalchuk would indeed make this team worse. If you can't see that, then I don't know what to tell you. Holland would have to refuse to re-sign Lidstrom along with letting go one of Holmstrom or Bertuzzi. Or, like you suggest, give up one of the best 2-way forwards on this team along with giving up Hudler and possibly more and replacing them with scrubs. Personally, I don't want to see a half line-up of scrubs to sign one 40 goal scorer. In addition to that, Wings would be losing more than 40 goals to obtain him. Not worth it. Kovalchuk (his salary) would make this team worse. And honestly, a lot less fun to watch. Top defense pairs only need to shut down DRWs 1.5 lines instead of having the burden of 3 rolling lines with offensive prowess to fear. I honestly cannot believe you don't understand that. You appear so stuck on the idea that it's causing you to fail to see reality. Even Ken Holland agrees with my assessments, per his quotes in his latest Mlive article. He stated the top 6 is fine. If Lids re-signs, the defense is good to go. The only area that he sees the need to improve is the bottom 6. This thread is useless. There is no way Kovalchuk is coming here and there is no way he signs for less than $7 or $8 million (long term). I honestly think he's going to the KHL for the money.

Crosby didn't exactly adapt either, as his numbers show. Ovechkin adapted well enough to put up good numbers in the series. I think the fact that Ovechkin is a foreign born superstar had something to do with it also. The hockey media seems afraid to say anything bad about Crosby. I hope that changes eventually.

we'll just be called for jealousy, but this 100% true. this just in..... lidstromboli and tomatoetownwingsfan phoned in by bettman and mario for emergency fluffing of crosby

Oh, everyone with common sense knew his great performance in the 1st round was because they played an AHL level team. Now he's back "among" the best, not "the greatest human being ever born." And I for one am glad the Pens are out.

Canucks’ Mitchell criticizes head shot policy Love this article. I didn't quote the full article.

Out of the 5 starting goalies still remaining in the playoffs, Nabokov is the only one who was expected to be a starter at the beginning of the season. The other guys were all projected backups. Remember how 10 years ago you needed a Hasek, Roy, Brodeur or Belfour to win the Stanley Cup? Hell, it seemed like those guys were playing for the Cup every year against each other. Well, the biggest names now in hockey amongst goalies are guys like Luongo, Brodeur, Miller, Lundqvist and Kiprusoff. Of course, those guys are nowhere to be found every year in the playoffs. Their teams don't usually make deep playoff runs. Also, I remember how as recently as the 2002 Olympics, countries like Sweden, Finland and Slovakia were thought of as lacking in the goaltending department as compared to the other nations. Obviously, that's not true anymore as there are some great goalies from each of those countries. I guess this thread isn't really a complaint as much as an outlook on how strange the NHL is nowadays in terms of goaltending. Seemingly, teams can just plug in backups that no one has ever heard of, and those guys can take their teams on a long run. This has happened before in league history in isolated cases, but not to the extent we've seen in recent memory.

Don't want Thornton, Marleau and other chokers on the sharks team to feel good about themselves and extremely confident next season which they will be if they go all the way Hate the Hawks so much, especially Kane, Campbell etc... Either of them can make it to the final but I really hope the East team win...

I'll take the team without the dumb-as-a-sack-of-hammers fans who chant "Detroit sucks" every night no matter who they're playing.

LOL. This was supposed to be insulting? My cousin's 5 year old daughter could come up with something better than that. Try harder next time. Or better yet, since you seem to think this site is beneath you, just don't bother posting here anymore.

Atleast their fans care about the team, showing interest and emotion... which can't be said about 90% of the american nhl teams

Imagine if these idiots win the Cup. Rioting after a 2nd round win? Shows you what their franchise has sunk to. Maybe it's a good thing that they've sucked for the last 15 years, or else we'd see more riots in Montreal.

Heh. Well, I mean, burning pictures... That's not jealousy. That's real hatred for it and what it represents: Bettman's incompetence.

Plus he was a -1 overall for the series. I think Ovechkin still ended up something like a +4 in his series. What annoyed me even more was that during the postgame, Crosby couldn't give one iota of credit to the Habs, just like he refused to give any to Zetterberg for shutting him down. Plus, predictably, he whined during the postgame about the penalty he took. "I don't understand how you can call that penalty 10 seconds into a Game 7..." Well, Sid, technically the rules aren't supposed to change whether it's Game 1 of the regular season or Game 7 of the SCF. You f***ed up, you pay the price. Own up to it, you baby.

Bingo. First guy to get the Cup handed to him and the first person who has to shoulder the blame when his team is ousted. It's part of his job description. But hey, he's still really young. He'll have another 10-15 seasons to try again. lolololol Carman has the memory of a goldfish. Apparently he's forgotten how poorly Crosby played for every other second of the Olympics. So he played exactly like he did in Game 7 against us except Malkin wasn't there to save his ass.

Crosby was awesome in game 7. He took a bad penalty right off the bat which put his team down a goal, played 29 minutes and was ONLY a -2 with no points! CLUTCH I tell you! CLUTCH like no one has ever been!

I bet Carman has a cassette tape of daily affirmations he listens to every morning, and the first one is "Sidney Crosby is the best player in the NHL and he loves you."

Crosby was completely shut down in the last two SCFs, sucked in the two games against the US in the Olympics (but got the OT goal on a lucky shot), and now has been shut down again in a 2nd round loss after being up 3-1 to the 8th seed in the weak ass Eastern Conference. esteef

Yeah, that's also another reason. I just don't like how Ovechkin was thrown under the bus, and everyone seemed to say convincingly that Crosby was better than him.

i want brandon prust. hes only 5'11 195lbs but he looked good on the rangers 4th line

Kirk Maltby

I think his assumption is that Lids wants $5 million, but rather than sign him to a one year, $5M contract, spread the cap hit over 3 years, assuming he'll retire after the 1st year. So, its a 3 year deal for $1.67M per year. However, the big problem is that if Lids retires after the first year, he doesn't get his $5 million, he only gets paid for the year he played.....but the cap remains. I'm sure you could play around to work something out to pay him well next year and get the cap hit down, but I'm all for not having cap hits for guys that are no longer playing and I'm sure they wouldn't do something like that. If he is played his last game, I'm a little disappointed that it wasn't well known, then he could have gotten a proper send off from the fans. Pretty sure he'll be coming back though.

Get rid of Rafalski at all costs. Trade him for a bag of pucks or something. He's soft and makes terrible decisions with the puck.