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No chance in hell Nysquist is out, especially for an older player. Iginla would be great, but they won't mortgage the future for instant gratification.

Iginla: 7 million dollars a year, on the downside of his career and will require some type of large return back to the flames? Hell no.

As swiss, I'd love to see Brunner wearing the winged wheel! In our league he is one of the best. He is young, he can skate and he has good hands. Come on Kenny!!

Have you been watching any Jersey games? Parise or bust.

Agreed. He sometimes acts as if fans and players are an inconvenience to running a hockey league.

Not defending this guy but that wasnt homophobic... Thats a harsh accusation to make.

I read somewhere that replacing Holland will instantly make Lidstrom, Datsyuk and Zetterberg 5 years younger!

I think you are going to have a meltdown when Holland doesn't land Parise. I don't think our chances of getting him is any better than many other teams out there that will throw huge offers at him. I wouldn't be surprised if he wants to stay in NJ with how good they are this year.

Lol wut? Making an offer to this kid has absolutely nothing to do with Parise. Even if you (incorrectly) assumed there was only one spot on the roster your rage still doesn't make sense. The only way your response can be interpreted as anything but a spastic, thoughtless reaction is if you believed the Wings were at 49 out of 50 on the contract limit AND trades were illegal.

Kronwalling needs no reason or purpose, it is above all of that. That Latvian should accept his gift with honor. Kronner just gave it to him wrapped in a freight train and now everyone in his village will be talking about how he got to exchange pleasantries with a real hockey player.

Where was that during the Nashville series

that guy still doesn't know what hit him. Damn, Kronner!! I love how they showed the hit over and over, from all different angles.

to make a statement to the idiot with his head down.

He's Kronwall and is just letting people remember that he is indeed there to play. Thanks for posting op.

Iginla is exactly what we need. He is a sniper and would provide some much needed toughness. Nash would be good too but more expensive salary wise and for compensation in a trade. There is a lot of speculation that both will be available for a trade and that the Flames will go into rebuild mode. I would part with Nyquist, Kindl and a first for Iginla but unfortunately it will probably take more than that for a 34 yr old who is in the last year on his contract for a team that probably won't make the playoffs next yr and will probably move on after that. He could probably score 50 goals again playing with the Wings and brings a lot more of what the Wings need than either Prise or Semin

I'm as tolerant of a little bit of homophobia as I am tolerant of a little bit of racism. Which is to say, I'm not tolerant of it at all.

Okay if you want to be a stickler and take it in its worst possible meaning then yes, it could. But labelling someone a homophobe is pretty harsh based on that.

read it again, it doesn't say pull YOUR dick out of your ass, it says pull THE dick out of your ass.

telling someone that there's something wrong with their head because they have a dick in the ass isn't homophobic?

Awesome, not only are your comments extremely boring and full of gross over exaggerations, but now they're homophobic too. I can't help but wonder if you're as single minded with your bigotry as you are with your hockey analysis. p.s. I hope the moderators have something to say about this and not implicitly condone hate speech on this forum.

Just a few things. 1. Rumors are Suter and parise will be over 7.5 million each. 2. Ericsson has a no trade clause. So does Burt and Dat btw.... 3. Helm and Abdelkader will both be around 2 million. Somewhere in the 1.8-2.2 range for each. 4. Quincy will be 3.5 million or more. 5. I do hope that Nicky and Hommer call it a career so we all can move on.

He's got a good portion of his playoff points on a line with those two. I think he plays with them occasionally and Huberdeau occasionally. His height is okay. But he NEEDS to add more weight, he'll get pushed off the puck so easily by the average NHL defenseman because he's so lanky. But then you have to worry about him possibly losing a step as far as skating ability goes and/or the possibility that his already questionable work-ethic gets worse. He's also got to become more of a student of the game. His hockey sense on the ice is less than admirable as well; every once in a while i'll see him trying to play Pavel Datsyuk and dangle into the zone and then lose the puck resulting in an odd man rush the other way. His defensive game could use a little work but that's the least of his worries really. That will improve a lot with more coaching and just learning better positioning. He does posses some pretty nice hands and good on ice vision. But he has A LOT of work to do before he'll be making any kind of positive impact to an NHL team.

and an unrealistic one!! all i really did was the same as above... just traded ericcson and cleary as well for "picks" CAPGEEK.COM CAP CALCULATOR ROSTER My Custom Lineup FORWARDS Zach Parise ($6.700m) / Pavel Datsyuk ($6.700m) / Gustav Nyquist ($0.875m) Valtteri Filppula ($3.000m) / Henrik Zetterberg ($6.083m) / Johan Franzen ($3.955m) Justin Abdelkader ($1.200m) / Darren Helm ($1.800m) / Todd Bertuzzi ($2.075m) Drew Miller ($0.838m) / Zenon Konopka ($1.000m) / Patrick Eaves ($1.200m) DEFENSEMEN Niklas Kronwall ($4.750m) / Ryan Suter ($7.000m) Ian White ($2.875m) / Brendan Smith ($0.875m) Mark Fistric ($1.000m) / Barret Jackman ($3.750m) GOALTENDERS Jimmy Howard ($2.250m) Scott Clemmensen ($1.500m) ------ CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter) (these totals are compiled without the bonus cushion) SALARY CAP: $64,300,000; CAP PAYROLL: $59,425,379; BONUSES: $37,500 CAP SPACE (20-man roster): $4,874,621 could make this roster with almost 5 million left over. say the cap does go up to 70 (from 64).... leaves us about 10-11 million left over. could literally have signed semin too just like the way this roster flows better then if he were in the top 6 (which bumps filppula franzen or nyquil out) but in reality... you think kenny could make something happen at the deadline with 10-11 mill cap space?

Uh....ya, no. I only mentioned Semin after everyone else mentioned him becoming a F/A. If you see my sig, it doesn't, nor has it had Semin mentioned in a long time. I'd prefer just to sign Parise and Suter and Vokoun. So no, I don't mention in it every thread....an excuse me for talking about it in the "Semin" thread. And I have talked about plenty of stuff...Why don't you pull the dick out of your ass, its starting to mess with your head!

Obvious choice to me, but who would it take to get Iginla here? Plus he is at $7M...could Holland afford all three of Iginla, Parise and Suter? Or would Iginla take us out of the Parise-stakes? I guess if the Cap goes to $70M, Nick takes a nice respectable discount, that would be a pretty awesome roster... Just who would be gone? I would think Franzen? Filppula? Prospects? Hate to lose Smith, but Tatar and Andersson are expendable...along with Franzen if the Wings got both Iginla AND Parise... edit: OP, you should add Parise to your poll to see what everyone thinks! Of course how about this question: Lidstrom & Parise or Iginla and Suter? Hmmm....