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You have to earn them.

In all fairness most ppl don't remember Carolina winning the cup either

Joey MacDonald IS our deadline acquisition.

Respect the streak, lay the bet.

20? 20? What do you take me for one of those bandwagon Wings fan that only caught the bus once they started winning? My first game was in 1979 at The Joe when the re-hung Gordies number in the rafters. Been a fan since i was 9 and have stuck with them through the lean,years as well as the last 20. That is why i get so passionate sometimes. But honestly, ya, they could still win friday, but its gonna be hard as Nashville will be gunning for our spot. Without Z its gonna be even harder.....

These threads need to be met with swift shutdowns.

NHL network on the tv, LGW on the laptop. Sweet!

To be fair he was decently clutch in the playoffs.

No thanks.

God i hope not.....

Congrats to the Preds on winning the Cup. They deserved it. They played so well I don't even recall what happened. I wonder if Suter and Weber will stay now that they have both become Stanley Cup champions. So what does everyone think Kenny needs to do this off season to be able to dethrone the Preds as Cup champs? It's going to be tough. I heard that Carrie Underwood is going to sing We are the Champions on American Idol next week with Mike Fisher. That should be good. We can al learn from the Stanley Cup champion Nashville Predators.

unlike a lot of people here, I don't think Conklin has been as bad as his numbers suggest. I've watched every game and seen how many goals against him were the result of shoddy defensive play, or flukey goals going in off defenders sticks, skates, etc. Having said that, Joey has been better and earned the job...kudos to him, he was good last year as well.

All I saw was Parise, very upset.

At least The Core is intact.

All Australian team: .

Except Ericsson isn't continuing to play bad. In fact, he's been quite solid back there. He has his brain cramps like most dman have... but overall, he's been fine, and definitely not been the 'problem'. Smith has shown glimpses of greatness, but as we watched in his last game(?) on the Red Wings is his ability to feed the other team free goals. Of course, I see him learning to make better decisions in the future, but right now, to Red Wings standards, he's not ready to crack the roster... yet. Let him play in GR and hone his game. In every loss I can point to one player that made a stupid play that cost us a goal. From Zetterberg's giveaway in the Boston game (which we won in SO), to Howards softy in last night's game to the Blues, but to me, Ericsson is the least of the problems. This team, overall, isn't playing with the spark we saw in 2007, 08, and 09. Unless one can argue Lebda and Lilja were game changers, stop blaming Ericsson.

I just don't get this whole depth defenseman rumor. The only way we need one is if we lose one in a trade for a forward.

Expansion? The league needs relocation right now and not expansion. Move Phoenix to Quebec and the Florida Panthers to Saskatoon.

They should get Cup parade input from Vancouver, they are good at that stuff.

To me, the best part of this news is that we can finally (hopefully) start a somewhat normal goalie rotation, and keep Howard as fresh as possible for the playoffs instead of playing him in every single game for the rest of the regular season.

I wonder if the "Detroit sucks" chant is still going strong over there.

It is a sign that is hanging in bridgestone arena,not a banner,the nashville predators goal is to win a stanley cup and to make bridgestone arena the #1 venue in the united states,that sign may look like they are calling themselves stanley cup champions,but everybody knows that the preds have not won a cup,yet,but that doesn't mean they can't have a goal to win one,i am sure that every team in this leauge has a goal the win the stanley cup

You can always blame a professional athlete for being lazy. It's their choice as to whether or not they give their all every night. If everyone followed your philosophy, no bad team would ever stand a chance of getting better.

I am friends with God, Elvis, and bigfoot. They all say that the Capitals party hard in the old style of the word. They drink so much milk, they sometimes get heartburn.