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It's kinda cool though that none of them have ever won a Cup

The 2nd round in the west is Nashville/ Phoenix and St Louis/ LA The ratings are going to be thru the roof

Datsyuk is god, Franzen sucks, and Bertuzzi sucks. That will pretty much sum up this thread.

please quit saying tootoo

Oink Oink!!!! this is almost as much fun as watching the Wings win.

They're all bums. F.

Francine is tough to play against????????????

Completely agree with you on Mike Smith. Great guy besides being a top-notch goalie.

He's a better hitter, fighter, better defensively and he's scored more points in a single season then Abdelkader has. He's a better hockey player then Abby, and there's a reason he's out late in games for New York because as a 4th line "goon" as most people would like to call him, Torts trusts him. And if Torts trusts him, then so would Babs. Plus, I'd rather have Abby AND Prust on the same line, then comparing them.

i guess we just differ on what we think franzen should be doing. to me his role is more than just a 30 goal scorer. i would put him at the 40 goal target given his salary, minutes, and linemates. he also needs to be able to generate more of those goals on his own and not just rely on datsyuk making amazing moves and getting him the puck 4 feet from an open net. because of his salary and role on the team, he needs to be an on ice leader. and you can't be that when you float around half your shift and rarely play in your own zone. he often is able to hide in the regular season due to his rep as a playoff performer. as stated in my last post, he was weak down the stretch and invisible in the playoffs this year. thats why he deserves one of the lowest grades on the team.

Real life is not like Eastside Hockey Manager or NHL 12.

Toss in the Sharks and no one in the world would've believed it. Certainly is a different NHL, the best goalies and defensive systems are getting it done while the offensive dynamos are sitting at home.

Ill take all of them except moen. i want guys putting up 20 fighting majors. this team is soft as baby s***.

This would be a great line if Bertuzzi was transported to 2004 and Franzen transported to 2008. That aside, this line is a joke and so is Babcock for continuing to put them on the ice, instead of putting Datsyuk and Zetterberg together for the final games against Nashville. Don't know if he was just trying to prove a point or what.

Prust-----Konopka-----Eaves

Awesome game!

Would really like to see Parise and Suter as Red Wings next year Would really like to see Parise and Suter as Red Wings next year

Im only in $5 for the Tuzzi fight. Sent $20 Thanks for doing this again, this is my favorite part of the playoffs now.

He was never one of the NHL's elite goaltenders. He was a steady, reliable goalie, but never a flashy one. He had some brilliant stretches, but he was not of the likes of, say, Brodeur, Roy, and Hasek.

Agreed. Last off-season was devastating for the hockey community.

It came from Gallagher over at STGT, what else do you expect? Just a bunch of Blosers acting like they've done s***. "Yay, we won our first playoff series in a decade, we're successful!"

With the Winter Classic, aging core, and 3 years of being spanked in the post season, I actually think Holland will attempt to make some big moves and spend to the cap. In a dream world: 1. Lidstrom comes back. Holmstrom (god love him) doesn't. 2. Sign Parise. 3. Trade Franzen, Filpulla, and Emmerton to Anaheim for Corey Perry. 4. Trade Miller to Buffalo for Cody McCormick. 5. Sign Bryan Allen to replace Stuart. And Josh Harding to back up Jimmy. This will never happen (I even overpaid for Perry) but one can dream. FORWARDS Parise ($7.000m) / Datsyuk ($6.700m) / Nyquist ($0.875m) Bertuzzi ($2.075m) / Zetterberg ($6.083m) / Perry ($5.325m) Cleary ($2.800m) / Helm ($1.500m) / Eaves ($1.200m) Abdelkader ($1.500m) / McCormick ($1.200m) / Andersson ($0.875m) Mursak ($0.550m) / Conner ($0.550m) / DEFENSEMEN Kronwall ($4.750m) / Allen ($4.000m) Lidstrom ($5.500m) / Ericsson ($3.250m) White ($2.875m) / Smith ($0.875m) Kindl ($0.883m) / GOALTENDERS Howard ($2.250m) Harding ($1.500m) ------ CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (these totals are compiled without the bonus cushion) SALARY CAP: $64,300,000; CAP PAYROLL: $64,116,667; BONUSES: $275,000 CAP SPACE (23-man roster): $183,333

After last summer, I just don't want to see anything that reads "_________ ________ Dead at Age ___".

I for one am going to be really disappointed if Kenny goes after Sutter, Praise, & Webber. Are those cheap, Chinese knockoffs of the real Ryan Suter, Zach Parise, & Shea Weber?