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Hello, Canada, and hockey fans in the United States and Newfoundland...

This is very possibly the single most ridiculous thread I have ever read on LGW and that's some steep competition...

Oh I know for sure. I was just trying to come up with an excuse...we Texas folk have to stick together...hahah

I've seen much worse. Also, there was that "Trade Datsyuk" thread that I never got around to starting.

We don't really need him now that Hudler has taken UFC lessons.

GDT's are BACK! Stay healthy and stay hungry. GO WINGS GO!!!

Thanks Mike! I bet you're as happy to start working on the GDT as we are to see it. Can't wait to watch the Wings play finally.

I agree Loo...you will be happy to know that they are almost at a deal for NFL network.....hahahahah Mike...good GDT buddy.

Hooray, GDT!! Thanks, Mike!! I wish TWC would air NHL Network here.

texas: the usa of the usa

Maybe each of my fingers is an undulating shrimp! It's a world of possibilities.

If teams could do that with players under contract that would be a HUGE loophole, so no it doesn't work like that. Any waiver eligible player has to go through that system to be loaned to the AHL i.e. any player that has a contract with the Wings organization, from an entry level contract like Mursak & Emmerton all the way to someone like Homer. If a player is not under contract with an NHL club but is on a prospect invite to training camp, they of course can be sent back to their junior club at any time. A contract with the big club though means you have to be waived to move off of it & that can only be done during the waiver period which is defined as starting 12 days before the start of the season & ends one day after a team's season ends according to the CBA. For younger players like Mursak & Emmerton, they may be waiver exempt depending on at what age they signed their entry level contract and/or games played at the NHL level but once their exemption is up, they have to go through the waiver process to be sent i.e. loaned to an AHL affiliate. Mursak & Emmerton are out of waiver exemptions meaning they would have to go through waivers to be sent to Grand Rapids & that can only happen once the waiver period begins which is 9/25 this year I believe. If a team could simply send any player signed to a contract down to the AHL prior to the season, or prior to the waiver period more like it, Kenny would send Emmerton down to Grand Rapids before this Sunday & would be in no danger of losing him at all. By the same token, he would have done the same thing with Ritola previously. Can't be done though according to the CBA. So yeah, if the Wings wanted to send Homer to Grand Rapids to start the season, odds are a team with the cap space & looking for a final and unique piece to round out their team would certainly pick him up.

Ain't gonna happen.

Yeah...no. Not going to happen.

No chance ever.

Yay! We get to see Hudler carry the top line against the Pens! esteef

Hehe... Just thought I'd get a good scare out of all of you. I was actually very concerned when I saw this on twitter, but it doesn't sound too bad. Just a bone bruise on his foot. http://redwingsfront.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/howard-suffers-injury/

Hopefully he plays better than Franzen did after he had a baby.

I find it funny to get a negative for a joke.... The means ha ha funny and not being serious....but some folks are just so negative that they don't take a moment to actually read it. Seriously though, I think I am not alone in hoping Commodore makes the #6 spot over Kindl...

you dick, just think of all that oxygen you're stealing from emphysema patients right now!

At least im not fat, and f*** you. At least im not fat, and f*** you.

If anything, I think he will spend some time on the IR instead. Maybe surgery if he really plays like s***.