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Please explain this. I am so tired of hearing about this Bettman conspiracy to ruin this game that I could puke. Further, what on earth does Gary Bettman (or Sid Crosby -- kidding!) have to do with MN's success? If someone could please direct me to data that ties Gary Bettman to MN winning a bunch of games, I'd love to read it. Seriously, I'd eat that s*** up. Until then, hats off to the WIld for exceeding expectations. Go Wild, unless you're playing the Wings.

It definitely looks like Stoll. Penner's too lazy to drive the net like that.

No credit to Yeo? Seems like it's really true that there is no actual coaching culture in the NHL and everything is just measuring player's point totals and seeing which team has the best star players. Coaching has a pretty big part in the game of hockey as well, you know.

Another team with a fluke record a la s***cago. They don't score and their defense is not as good as ours (they've given up more goals than we have)....not sure how they got that record.

Sure

I laughed so hard. "I thought it was unisex?"

That game was awesome. My hockey needs have been sated. Temporarily.

Ok, we talked about these guys all summer long, none of which were signed by the Wings. Lets see how they are doing thus far and if we are missing out at all... 1. Jusi Jokinen : 4G 15A 19pts. 2. James Wisniewski : 1G 15A 16pts. 3. Kevin Bieska : 3G 11A 14pts. 4. Christian Ehrhoff : 2G 12A 14pts. 5. Jaromir Jagr : 10G 16A 26pts. 6. Brooks Laich : 7G 12A 19pts. 7. Steve Montador : 4G 5A 9pts. 8. Joni Pitkanen : 3G 9A 12pts. 9. Tomas Kaberle : 0G 13A 13pts. (between 2 teams. He does have 4A in 3 games with MTL) 10.Ed Jovanovski : 2G 3A 5pts. 11.Alex Tanguay : 5G 15A 20pts. and we got: Ian White : 4G 11A 15pts. ...of course Commie hasn't played enough to even gauge him, Chris Conner either, although he has brought a lot of spunk to this team. Considering the salaries that the defenders we all talked about received, I think we made the right choice with White. I guess the only one I still kinda wish we took a gamble on was Jagr. 26 points would be third on our team right now and who knows what that total would be playing with the best player in the league as his center, Pavel Datsyuk. Hudler is doing just as good as Jokinen and costs a bit less, so it seems that worked out too! I still hope somehow Holland can get that sniper, but I am not gonna name any names, because I at one time wanted each one of these guys and well, this show's why I am a fan and not a GM! also, I didn't put the +/- of these guys, but I will note that alot of them are in the -. As noted last night, Ian White is leading the west at +18 and is having a career year.

Doesn't ring a bell

Wait. Anyone remember the most famous brawl in Wings history? Against the hated rivals of that time? Nah.....

Can't we just enjoy Datsyuk knocking Weber on his ass without having to talk or think about you know who?

Coz it was lame, dude. Seriously, that wasn't funny at all. Particularly compared to some of his other ones.

So what exactly makes that funny?

You included. We are top 3 in goals scored and goals allowed in the West (while still having games in hand) and no other team in the West is even close to our goal differential. Filppula is not going to be traded. It would be unwise by the front office to trade away one of their best forwards who isn't in their prime yet. You really should look in the mirror before you criticize others for not "understanding how a front office works".

And you seem like a self-styled expert GM who is either incapable of considering any intangibles of management and team chemistry or simply refuses to.

the wings have been looking up at chicago all season long and that doesn't look to be changing any time soon. yeah, real "fluke", those hawks. LOL

Phoenix Coyotes have traded center Kyle Turris to the Ottawa Senators in exchange for David Rundblad and a 2nd round pick.

ottawaghost is hilarious. Why did this get negged so bad? f*** go ahead and neg me for this one then! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQN74ZA41go

not one of ottawaghosts better ones but i thought it was funny

That voice he uses to try to imitate Shanahan is just hilarious. It doesn't even sound like him, but I love how it sounds.

Don't derail this thread with a stupid comment.

Too many people on LGW don't like the idea of any player being moved. Seems like a bunch of fanboy slappies that would rather lose in the 2nd round with this roster than win the Cup with a few new players being added in return for some current ones. Apparently, everyone outside of Ericsson and Hudler are untouchable. How dare any poster propose a reasonable idea about moving some people?

2 games doesn't mean anything. The standings are artificial because of the shootouts and loser points. If you take away the loser points (OT and shootout loses) and the extra point for winning in a shootout (the game should end in a tie after OT with 1 point to each team), the Wild have 39 points in 33 games which is a .591 percentage. Not bad but not so impressive. Incidently, the Wings are at .629 My point is that they aren't doing that great now. It's all part of Bettman's smoke and mirrors...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuReHQchc78