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Ansar Khan and Brenden Savage both picked Boston. I'm currently making them rue the day by utilizing the comments of my arrogantly ignorant Mlive character "TheGlistening" to baffle, confuse, and idiotically insult them. In past exchanges I've accused them of being the "liberal media" for reporting Red Wings loses, as well as attempted to arrange a Khan v. Albom celebrity boxing match for a charity of TheGlistening's choice. In that case it was a fundraiser to support my character's made up dance troupe "The Tri-City Manikins" located in Saginaw, MI. Don't ever be a Michigan sports writer and pick the opposition on my watch.

enforcers don't play hockey in the playoffs. We won't have to fight just be tough in scrums and in front of the net Smith has been awesome in scrums and sticking up for his teammates. Having him on the first pairing and abby on the first line it should keep the flies off datsyuk

too low I see it at least 5 with 4 being to the back of the head. So 6 games I will go with 24 Not to mention the number of times Tatar/Nyquist are headlocked around the net while Eddie O spits out his normal blurb about Red Wings subtle interference.

From Bruins facebook page:

Not a good tooth-to-gum ratio there, Zdeno.

Ladies and gentlemen, you heard it here first, two bold predictions for this series. The Datsyuk and Bergeron lines cancel one another out thus freeing up the eventual reconstituted Legwand, Franzen, and Nyquist line and the Goose gets loose. SECONDLY, and this is the big one...after taking some time to identify the mismatch and grow comfortable with it, Uncle Mike matches up the kid line against the Krejci, Iginla, Lucic line and the latter never get to another loose puck for the remainder of the series. Speed kills. Bonus Prediction: Wings in five. f*** you Boston.

Hope to see a lot of this:

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@HeleneStJames: Helene St. James: My NHL award ballot choices for 2013-14 #transparency #phwa @phwa http://t.co/1FVaLqbUnk via @freep Helene <3's Boston too. SMOKE HER OUT KIP.

The thing about Glendenning: his body seems to be an extension of Babcock's brain. So basically, Luke does everything Babcock asks him to do. That why coach loves him. (compared to Tootoo, who Babcock had no control over, and didn't like as a player, at all) Babcock will tell him to play on the edge but not to cross any lines, and that's exactly what Glendenning will do. No worries.

Can I get McCarty, Lapointe and Maltby on the fourth line, and replace Lashoff with Konstantinov? Sorry, I was just watching the Red Wings hit parade. But I would replace Lashoff with anyone else. Get healthy soon, Ericsson.

Pretty good for a hockey player. As for Rask, I didn't know there were Amish leprechauns.

I work with a guy from Boston. I had to deal with the Tigers loss already in the fall when I thought the Tigers were better. This would be perfect redemption.

Does Buffalo need a Jakub Kindl?

That would take some balls lol

http://kuklaskorner.com/a2y/comments/expectation-management I love being an 8 seed. I love the playoffs. I love hockey. I love the Detroit Red Wings.

Got a big feeling that a lot of people are gonna know who Riley sheahan is after this series! Kid looks to be a perfect playoff player

Too many threads, so just putting this in here. Have folks seen this:

It depends on what else they do. I'd like to see Marchenko on the 3rd pair, but the free agent market is going to be paper thin, with a few decent players and a bunch of guys who are old, injury prone, or just plain bad, if not a combination of them. The odds are anyone they'd sign won't be much of an upgrade, if at all, just have different issues. Ideally they can trade Kindl and a prospect or two and get a top 4 quality defender and use Smith and Marchnko as the 3rd pair with Lashoff as the #7. If not, trading Kindl for a pick and re-signing Quincey to a pay cut to play on the 3rd pair won't be the end of the world.

Obscure Breaking Bad reference with creepy Rask doing euro-karaoke.

$5 for every game won $5 for every Kronwalling $5 for every Glendening goal $1 for every PP goal (my bunghole demands it)