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Howard's on net 23gp 7w 9L 5ot .906sv% 2.82gaa Go Jimmy Go! LGW!

Ohh I thought you might be in attendance tonight, beautiful arena btw, love the player mosaics on the floor. Hope you' have a better chance to go once we meet 'em in the cup finals...

I love that goalie swagger... kind of. more than anything. Mraz makes me very happy indeed... hope he has a great career as a Red Wing. He's ours.

That's okay Jimmy will be fine. Saving Petr for the Hawks.

stop all de pucks tonight, use that adorable face if you have to!!

Been a great 10 years, wish I had found this community sooner. It's been an honor to be here among all of you, through all the great posters who have been here and even the rough ones we had to endure. Here's to another 20 years, thanks to Matt for all the hard work and dedication, to Mikey for being our resident GDT guru, the moderation staff, and all the posters that make this place great.

He's a badass!!!

Actually it's not a back to back, they have Chicago Wednesday. But I'd wager they don't want mrazek playing two top teams in 3 days and probably cause Howard seems to be getting his groove back.

I think you're right. Go, Jimmeh!!!

I agree with this. I think Pasha will have a stronger finish but if they stay together Z will be chalking up points on every one Dats gets

>Break Glass<

Hah that's the spirit! Even I'd hit Dallas for that

So close, yet so far away from me... sigh. they seem to always play on a week night in Dallas, so I cannot be there. Beautiful wild west GDT, ND. Very nice indeed, may it bring us luck -- and two points!! LGRW!!!!

Should be a home game tonight at the AAC lol

Stone Cold Steve Austin's entrance music, of course.

Let's start a winning streak! You can do it! Screw the Stars! GO WINGS!!

That's about how old I figured you were from the picture of you in your avatar.

I think Mrazekfanboy is younger. (wonder where he's been)

I think the Walking Dead is really dumb.

Petr Mrazek = Confident!

It balances because over time, there will be shifts where the opposing team gets their top players out against your bottom players, or vice-versa. Injuries/line-juggling move a player up/down in the lineup. And it's not like teams have only one good player or line. A top player may have a lot more time against a specific player (like Dekeyser may play more minutes against Crosby), but if you look more of an overall picture (like Dekeyser against "good offensive players") it will be more even. Yes, if you compare a player with a coach making a concerted effort to shelter him to a player with a coach giving them all the toughest assignments, there will be a difference (though I'd bet less than you'd think). But that's the absolute extreme. http://war-on-ice.com/series.html will show head-to-head matchups for all games between two teams in a given season. You can use that to look at who a player played with and against to get an idea. For example: On the actual site, you can mouse-over the squares to see actual minutes. For the Wings, Kronwall, Ericsson, Dekeyser, and Quincey are all used about the same. Smith, Green, and Marchenko tend to be more sheltered. I'm not going to go through every bit of data for all the hundreds of players in the league, but I have to believe that if there was a big difference, it would show up in the stats. I suspect that no matter what, people who don't like what the data says are going to dismiss it anyway.

I thought it was funny they had to try so hard to make the Avs seem the better team all around. If you have to do that then you definitely aren't the better team

I like Claude Lemieux now. In 1996/1997 I wanted him punished bad (much like 99% of the rest of the town AND the press did). But I like the way he carried himself after getting his ass handed by McCarty. I like how him and McCarty are fairly acquainted well now and have moved on.

you can have this one on the house.