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and you're not, so stop.

Congrats....you're the 1,000,000 LGW'er to make this comment. You win a virtual cookie.

Back when the Wings would stick up for each other... zinGGGGGGGGG

thanks for the really awesome after-school-special advice, but that's my legitimate opinion. i don't want osgood or draper on the team anymore. i'm not the only one. have to give you +1 for the ridiculous suggestion that posting unpopular viewpoints on a messageboard = dying sad and alone. i like your style.

Oh really? Last season while at home he gave up 1 goal on 6 shootout attempts. While on the road, he gave up only 1 goal on 11 attempts. Stop posting bulls*** information as fact when its clearly incorrect. It's not only annoying it makes you lose credibility.

What a great 14 years with the Red Wings! We will always remember you! Not a bad career... 400+ wins, 3 stanley cups... A future HOFer in my book! Good Luck in your retirement, you earned it! Thank You #30!

Can't really grade someone when none of us actually know what he really did. We only see the results. It's like trying to judge how a player played based only on the box score. Based solely on the results I'd give this year a D. Judging on a curve based on my assumption of what the real options were, probably C+.

lol. If you look back at that Howard/Crosby incident you'll probably notice how luck Crosby was that it was Jimmy who got to him first. An angry looking Bert was well on his way in.

Welcome back to the best goalie mask!

I've defended Hudler frequently on this board and think he takes WAY too much slack and SOME of your points aren't too bad, but man, do you go overboard defending him... 37 points isn't a horrendous year, but for his caphit and role (second line player) he should have hit at least 50, especially when they were expecting 60+ from him... Come clean... are you Jiri Hudler's mommy? his brother? one of his hookers who still thinks he'll Pretty Woman her one day? What gives?

Something I don't quite understand. Everyone talks about the "horrible season" Jiri Hudler had. I agree, he had a pretty bad stretch. But his season, as a whole, as not horrible. Let me illustrate. In his first 30 games, the games that people are really mad about, he scored 6 points. He then proceeded to score 31 points in 43 games. What happens if Hudler had been half as productive in the first 30 as in the last 43? He scores 42 points. Not a huge difference, but it puts him ahead of Filppula in team scoring. If he had been just as productive? He finishes with 53 points. That would rank behind only Z, Dats, and Franzen. Yes, I know his production would have been 15 points had he scored at the same rate the entire season as he did over the first 30. And I realize that these are hypothetical situations, but his ACTUAL production was 37 points. Statistically, that is a second-line scoring forward. Even with his struggles last season. So whether you consider him second-line or not, saying he had a horrible season simply isn't true. So please, whether you like him or not... enough with the "horrible season" stuff, because it simply isn't true.

Did you happen to notice the team playing in front of him the past two years?

And Jimmy felt nervous with Ericsson and Hudler in front of him... Back on topic....welcome back Conks

Did you watch the playoffs this past season? That Jimmy Howard fellow played pretty good in them. And to re-signing Conklin if it is true.

If I remember correctly, it went something like this: Datsyuk - Datsyuk - Datsyuk Datsyuk - Datsyuk - Datsyuk Datsyuk - Datsyuk - Datsyuk Datsyuk - Datsyuk - Datsyuk

Thank you for all the memories Ozzie. You were my first hockey hero growing up and although i'm an adult, I still look up to you. As usual, you put the team before yourself and chose to end your HHOF career at a time that was not only appropriate for you, but most appropriate for the Detroit Red Wings. I'm not sure what the future holds for you, but know you are a Red Wing for life. I will make sure my kids know of the Great Wizard of Oz, how you could bring the Joe to a roar with every save, and how you knocked that POS Roy ON HIS ASS! Enjoy your retirement Ozzie, you deserve it! Edit: reading my post brings a tear to my eye. We will miss you Ozzie.

I just wish the media would cut him a break and honor him like he deserves. He deserves a lot more than some hockey fans and writers would give him. Puck Daddy decided to take this opportunity to slight him and call him overrated and unworthy of HoF talk. The moment he is retiring is when he chooses to write about this. Osgood gave me many of the best moments of my life. He always acted classy, he remains the only Red Wing that signed my stuff without hassle or cost. He played his best when they needed it most, and I cannot say a single thing bad about him legitimately after his being around for 16 years. Thank you, I hope you get what you deserve in terms of Honor.

It's Official... Ozzie has retired "It's the hardest thing I've ever done. I thought it would've been easier." Thank you Mr. Osgood for all the great and memorable years!

As much as anyone ever was, Chris Osgood is The Consummate Red Wing. Anyone that can remember all the time he put in with this organization, through the highs and lows, especially winning Cups, and especially after being dumped and coming back undeterred and winning another, knows what this guy means to the Winged Wheel. Farewell and bon voyage, old buddy.

Put number 30 in the rafters, the guy deserves it. After all the criticism he gets, he os still one of the few guys with 400 wins.

Boston isn't going to offer up some insane contract to Stamkos because that will cost them Lucic and/or Krejci sooner rather than later. And a trade for Stamkos would involve one of them, plus picks and prospects, and possibly another roster player. This isn't a Phil Kessel "we're trading him because he's a pain in the ass, and we're getting a buttload of top picks from a dumbass" deal. Stamkos is younger than Kessel, and a top tier talent. If Kessel's deal was fair value, then add Lucic to it to make it fair value for Stamkos.

f*** boston