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these are two of my favourite jerseys that happen to be yellow First Go Walleye! Geeky jerseys are AAmazing. I own this one lol and both are fish related

We went the entire playoffs without having to hear Chelsea Dagger...

An entire Hawks series with no "Chelsea Dagger". Wow!

Shenanigans!!!

it sure does suck to miss the playoffs, but the Hawks crashing and burning so spectacularly brings a grin to my face; bye, hawks! biggest (pleasant) surprise of the first round

Looks like that tank job didn't work too good

We need Eichel to come here so he can clean house.

Awesome... The Blackhawks won as many playoff games as the Wings did this year The Blackhawks become the first #1 seed to be swept by a #8 seed Preds are going deep!

I'm just glad Martin Havlat won't be one of the voters.

Bye Bye Hawks!! Three goals in four games with their offence? Hahaha what a s***kicking. Rinne will be giving them nightmares all summer. Thank you Preds!! How many Hawks "fans" are off the bandwagon now? Lolll

Empty netter by. Arvidsson 4-1 Preds. Bye bye Hawks!

is the "we finally don't suck and think we're better than we really are" symbiote making Nashville its new host

Love a good sweep. What a game by Josi!

Break out the brooms! That $10 million cap hit for Toews is looking pretty good right about now, eh?

Alright, broke out of my shameless marathon just in time for OT go habs go! It makes sense.. they do have a Gallagher after all.

See being in Canada I rarely watch the US feeds for hockey so my exposure to Emrick is very minimal, if I listened to him all the time though I could see his voice annoying me. I don't hate George like a lot of others do, but that is because I grew up watching him as a VJ on MM lol. Pierre, is someone who has been showing up on TSN, the score, and sportsnet for me in what seem like 20 years now. For me, he just comes across like a guy who is trying so hard to be "one of the boys". From the way he talks to the players, the way he announces etc.

Please please please take the job! Anything to get that ****** off my TV! Is this a shot at me for starting the thread?

Let me preface this by saying, I would never speak negatively of the Detroit Red Wings #1 starting goalie Jimmy Howard. He is a superior athlete and fantastic goal tender. I will love him and praise his name always. However, with this sweep and Elliot's season... This may be an opportunity to move Jimmy Howard...

YES! Now you're catching on. Other teams, with better core players, might find our depth players more useful than we do. And since we don't have that kind of a team right now, it's more beneficial to us to play kids, see what we have in them, and move out veteran underachievers WHILE WE'RE REBUILDING OUR CORE. Not, as you seem to be advocating, bringing back aging veterans on the back end of their careers and leaving potential future Wings in the minors. It's really not that hard. I'll break it down for you really simply. Abby is a better player than Ott. So replace Ott with Abby on the fourth line. Then replace Abby with Svech (or Frk) on the 3rd line, since it's likely they'll produce better offense than he did. And have Bertuzzi as a spare forward, learning the pro game, and filling in during injuries. THAT would be an improvement because you've replaced two players with BETTER players in their given roles.

I'm not advocating signing a "Gagner type". We've already got a better center on our team. Helm. And I never once advocated "promoting Bertuzzi to the 3rd line". I advocated putting Frk and Svech on the 3rd line. If you're going to argue with me maybe you should actually read my previous posts. Just to reiterate. Nyq-Z-Mantha Tatar-Larkin-AA Frk-Neilsen-Svech Glen-Helm-Abby Bertuzzi Sheahan

Nope. I'm saying whether or not we had Steve Ott made no difference at all to our winning and losing. So why sign him again? Why not try to find a solution that actually IMPROVES your team rather than one that does nothing at all? Again, this isn't theoretical. If having Ott made us better, as you're suggesting, then we would have been better when we had him. But we weren't. We were the same crappy team with or without his "hardness to play against" or whatever other stupid intangible you're suggesting he brings to the table.

The big deal is, you've got guys on the roster who are better than Ott, you have guys on the roster you want to be better than Ott, and you're trying to develop you team in order to be competitive again in a few years. So giving a roster spot to a 34 year old grinder at the end of his career is absurd. Why not re-sign Miller if you're dying to bring back a veteran grinder? He had almost the exact same s***ty season that Ott did. Our team is stacked with 4th line types. More than we could ever need. And you're advocating bringing another one in for what? Because you like him? We've got Glendening, Helm, Abby, Sheahan, Bertuzzi ALREADY on the team. Smith too if you're really stretching it. The only way I sign a veteran grinder is if we magically get rid of at least 3 of them in the offseason, which is unrealistic. And WHY would that even make sense anyway? Get rid of grinders so you can sign different, older, less good grinders? It's dumb, regardless of how you look at it.

Because they're overpaid they're unlikely to be "shed". So you'd just be adding Ott's salary on top of theirs, and all of those guys are better players than he is. I can't believe I actually have to explain this. And even if you should shed one of those guys contracts, it would still be better to plug that hole with Bertuzzi since you'd ideally like him to be on the big club anyway.

Agreed. We've already got 3 guys that forecheck well, have 4th line level offense, and are already under contract. Glendening-Helm-Abby. Why do we need someone like Ott? Oh right, because he occasionally punches people. Ugh. Nyq-Z-Mantha Tatar-Larkin-AA Frk-Neilsen-Svech Glen-Helm-Abby