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How many times can we say "GOD DAMN I LOVE OUR 4TH LINE!!"

Quadruple shift? It's a team game. It's ridiculous to quadruple shift him just so he can keep his precious little scoring streak alive. Now seriously, I will admit, he is the best scorer in the game. But he is not the best player, nor is he as great as everyone thinks. I'm a Canadian, and it SICKENS me everytime they show him scoring that goal in the Olympics this year. Crosby's stats are inflated because he only plays 5-5 or on the powerplay, and the majority of the Eastern conference teams suck. What bugs me the most is the Pittsburgh Penguins in general. The team tanked for half a dozen seasons, almost went into bankruptcy, and what does the NHL do? Here, here you go, here's Malkin, Staal, Crosby and Fleury. You deserve them for all those years of poor management and shotty GMing. The NHL should not award horrible teams with the best picks. With the salary cap now in place, any team who misses the play-offs should have an EQUAL shot at the #1 draft pick.

Why wouldn't they quadruple shift him? He is the best player in the world by far right now. The hatred for Crosby makes me laugh. He might whine but he is passionate as hell about being the best. He works at the things he needs to get better at and i'm pretty sure his resume speaks for itself. He's 23 yrs old and won everything. I'm not a huge fan of him because he is a Penguin but saying the refs help them out? cmon stop being such a baby.

Wings win 4-1 Wings: Mursak, Hudler, Kindl, Helm (because that's all that's left) Stars: Kronner breaks a stick attempting to clear. The puck goes off Flip's butt, is fanned by Bertuzzi, the breeze from which redirects the puck and sends it bouncing off Ott's skate and into the net.

OTT! #1 star for the Wings so far.

The other Pens players didn't even seem interested in scoring when he wasn't on the ice. Quadruple shifting him throughout the game and then having him play the first 2:00 of OT? That's not even necessarily caring about the team anymore. If anything, that's opening up a guy for injury, but hey, if that's what they wanted to do to keep a personal achievement going. Then the refs call a too many men on the Isles in OT and why? Because a Penguins player tripped an Islanders player on the way to the bench. You can't deny that - at least in the league's eyes - it was in the league's best interest for that streak to continue. Guess with the Pens, it really is about the name on the back, not the crest on the front. But I digress, because I'm horribly off-topic. Shooting gallery between Phoenix and Los Angeles in the first period, yikes. 4-3 Phoenix after 1.

Oh, look what happens when you shoot the freakin' puck at Dallas' goalie. Gah.

"Ott" and "ass" are both words that begin with a vowel, followed by two consonants. Coincidence?

You know, I've debated this one internally for a while and finally decided on a way to answer it: "If Ozzie's number was raised to the rafters, would the Ozzie chant in the Joe be thunderous?" The answer to that question is my answer.

Yzerman, Lidstrom, Shanahan, Fedorov. You could argue about Vernon, Chelios, and Konstantinov being better during those years. Try again.

DRAPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL~~ Lehtonen channeling Turco in net. Oh, hell yeah!

Doesn't he, though? No one on this team to do that, however. :nonono:

Ott needs his ass whooped

Eaves will be a Franzen-esque star in time, mark my words. If the guy developed in Detroit as opposed to being oppressed and derailed by the terrible Ottowa system, he'd be too expensive for the Wings right now. Thankfully, he's still young. Last season was his 2nd Rookie year and a 2nd chance with a quality organization. Just give him time and he's going to really explode. Quote me on it.

So long as we can keep him around (see above and take note of my longing for this...) I think he's more than capable and even likely to be a top 6 guy in the next 2 years. He just keeps getting better and he's got all the tools as well as the work ethic and attitude to keep improving. He was the such a wonderful off-season signing summer before last. Again, one of the best bargains in the league and I hope he's a Wing for life.

I was watching the game and they didn't seem all that interested in getting him the point he need in OT either. Malkin had the puck the entire time and never passed it Crosby. In any event they were obviously just trying to win a game. Credit to the Islanders for ending the streak.

Now why was he talking about Crosby during a WJC game? (Sorry, too easy.)

Hey, I rock one.

Ericsson at forward for a few games, if needed, sounds like a good idea.

This has nothing to do with anything, but I have four Red Wings on my fantasy team. Yes, those four are Datsyuk, Cleary, Rafalski and Zetterberg.

I dont think theyre giving out curly fries anymore, they changed it to jr roast beef I was very pleased to throw my favorite wings hat on the ice last night though. Great game.

Hockeytown should be licking his chops right now, I picked up a bottle of Infinium for after my finals today

have you watched any of the games? he hasn't been as bad as the stats suggest. a lot of the INTs are plays where his receiver runs the wrong route or can't handle the pass. the whole team isn't doing as good as they were last season and i think it's unfair to put it on him. either way, favre is the NFL all-time leader in every meaningful category for QBs. to suggest that forsberg is/was a better hockey player than favre is/was a football player is ridiculous.