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Mine would be that he and the Wings played the Columbus Blue Jackets in round one but much better teams in every other round.

I think "Get The Puck Past Lidstrom" should be a skill event.

Mursak would give Helm a run for his money on fastest skater and Eaves is pretty good at picking the corners too against Mule. esteef

I've been to Flint enough times to know that that city needs something to be happy about.

Actually, this last skills event was interesting. Passing into that small net is a good idea, because we always see perfect saucer passes in the game, but never in a skills contest. Same thing with shooting pucks from bad angles. However, the intermission they had stalled things greatly. No reason to have an intermission. These guys aren't tired from doing this. Also, they should have a hardest punch contest just for enforcers. Like Ivan Drago.

Florida waived Grabner, good job lol That's not something a guy usually brags about

Yeah, I have no doubt in my mind he can hit that in the mid 13 second range. Maybe it's just me and old age but most of these all stars are not really all stars IMO. I am not in awww like back in the mid to late 90s.

Did Toews get hit by someone to hurt his production as the rounds went on in the 2010 playoffs? You cannot disagree that the role of the enforcer is lessened during the playoffs. Things get locked down, time is rationed, and fights are less apparent. Of course this is all moot considering the entire argument is based on "team toughness", which there seems to be enough for the bottom six. The fourth line seems to do very well in the other team's zone and the third line is effective as well. Having a core of Abdelkader, Helm, Eaves, and Miller for bottom 6 guys isn't half bad. A bigger, more nasty player wouldn't hurt on the grit department, either. However it's not like Detroit is really "needing" more of the gritty aspect on the team.

And the ace of spades for the anti-enforcers has always been that enforcers don't play in the playoffs which is simply untrue. The Hudler example was just to show that maybe a tougher player (if we had one) could've played against Anaheim more instead of little Huddles getting pushed around every game. One example that's all. esteef

Wow... people are still citing that hit on Hudler as a sign of softness?

I'm pretty sure esteef was saying that Hudler got hit once and became ineffective basically right after whereas a Lappy type would be the one laying a hit that would make the other team ineffective, you know Detroit is allowed to hand out a little punishment every now and then too, not everyone has to take punishment like Hudler did. Lappy would've bounced up from that hit and hit Brown back even harder probably lol

Haha classic bandwagoner comment. Punching people in the face has happened in hockey since the game started being played pal, maybe you should stick to watching women's hockey, it doesn't have hitting either so you'll probably like it even more since you dont seem to like the parts of hockey that have been there FROM THE BEGINNING

Yet Asham, Laperriere, Carcillo and Eager all played during the playoffs for a total of 71 games and that's just from the two teams who went all the way to the SCF. It would've been more had Lappy not been hurt. I guess those teams were just lucky considering all those guys are useless? Maybe Detroit could learn a thing or two from this instead of letting guys like Hudler get lit up at center ice then disappear for the rest of the playoffs. Enforcers play in the playoffs and are not useless. It depends on the player and the opponent. esteef

Lidstrom assembled a defensive fist team. In fact it is quite similar to what Detroit would be if we would have no cap restriction

Mike Modano coming back from injury will be our deadline acquisition. We play this game every year.

Oh, who cares about the technicalities??? Welcome back, Pasha. You were missed more than you'll ever know.

sorry it was to funny to pass up, and sorry if someone else posted it. i'm at school and it doesnt let me see all the pictures

That one of Sid in the crib is excellent! It gets my vote for the funniest.

Not Wings pics? So what.

WTF? This pic is just nuts! esteef

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