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Good to see Mantha back.

Nice goal by jurco Gonna surprise a lot of people this season

Beauty by Jurco!

Won't be Datsyuk due to time missed, but he will be the leader in PPG. Assists = Zetterberg Goals = Tatar Points = Zetterberg

Is that what they mean, when they say love hurts?

Top five d-man in the league i'd say in no particular order Suter Weber Keith Hedman Doughty

Howard gonna win the Vezina.

Hmmm, the big, bad, bruiny, bears are acting like big Boston *******. Head locking Larkin? He's 19 years old tough guy!

I think it's great. Show how much enthusiasm there is for the sport. You've got to remember, this is just the pre-season and people are irritated that they can't see it. A few short years ago nobody cared about pre-season hockey. It's crazy the change you see in the consumption of the sport. You've got people watching the draft, playing fantasy hockey, watching the preseason, following minor league affiliates, and monitoring European prospects overseas. That kind of stuff probably doesn't seem that crazy to the Canadian fans, they've been at that level for a while. But that's entirely new and exciting for American fans. It means that the sport is growing. And everybody has to like that.

It's pretty messed up that fans are running around like it's 1999 and Napster just blew up.

Tatar is a better possession player than Kane. Demonstrably. He was one of the very best possession players in the league. http://www.nhl.com/stats/player?navid=nav-sts-indiv#

Sorry I might have misunderstood your original post.

Good post. I have a friend that was a baseball prospect that was drafted by an MLB team and I remember him telling me that when he was playing for a Single A or AA affiliate team he would have to attend classes or seminars on how to handle himself in public, and he had another class on teaching athletes about women trying to "accuse of rape" or "sleep around" with them to try and get a payday to help educate them (not saying that's what happened here). But like you said, it's always about them and never about the other person, so they don't really know how to handle the rejection part of it. You are completely right, when you are extremely successful and everyone says Yes to you all the time then hearing the No word doesn't always go over to well.

You insulted his ability to have an intelligent conversation, and told him "not to poke the bear" or "rattle the cage", yet you feel like he's the one instigating?

If you meet a model, make sure you don't let her take her phone to bed. Imagine how mortified you'd be if your picture was all over the internet in bed with a model.

Even with Datsyuk starting the season on IR, and if Helm isn't ready to go (which I think he will be), or another player gets injured, I still think Larkin starts the season and in all likelihood plays the entire season in Grand Rapids...

If he wasn't so injury prone he couldve been an amazing goalie.