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Witkowski against Calgary should win an award of some kind.

Have you seen the lineup? None of our goalies have anyone defending them

Euro Twins is the one with the implants.

Learned from the best in that role:

I was totally gonna do a thread like this but you beat me to it, LOL! I agree with the 1st 3. Biggest Surprise: Jonathan Ericsson- been solid for awhile, looks like a 2nd pair D. Biggest Disappointment: Petr Mrazek- I was hoping for a bounce back year. I thought I would add a couple as well. Best Comeback Player (Masterson Award): Ericsson Unsung Hero/ Blue Collar Award: Abby= quietly putting up top 6 numbers, good PP guy, adds a little grit too Denis Green Award: (They are who we thought they were!) Daley= nothing special, exactly what I was expecting Best Defensive Forward (Selke): Nielsen MVP (Hart): Larkin Best Sportsmanship and Gentlemanly Play (Lady Byng): Larkin Best Rookie (Calder): Frk obviously Best Leadership and Humanitarian (King Clancy): Z Best Goal Scorer: (Richard): Mantha Why do you think they changed the rule?

Good piece on Anthony Duclair: http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/anthony-duclair-hidden-gem-nhl-trade-market/ If we want to rebuild on the fly and be back in Cup contention within the next three years, this is the kind of situation we have to pounce on.

Unloading Bickell cost the Blackhawks Teravainen, a 2nd, and a 3rd -- and Bickell's contract wasn't even all that bad, Seabrook's contract is infinitely worse. It's going to bite them in the ass.

"But the simple fact is Quenneville believed that Jordan Oesterle, Connor Murphy, Michal Kempny, Gustav Forsling and Jan Rutta (who carry a combined cap hit of $7.195 million) have played better than Seabrook (who has a cap hit of $6.875 million, with six more years left on that contract)." https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/brent-seabrook-a-healthy-scratch-for-blackhawks-in-ottawa/amp/

While Chychrun is playing 20 min a night in the NHL, this fool is nervously meeting some dumb girls parents Trade em

I don't get what the argument is here. Chowloski is ranked 6th among defense points and it's his first season in that league. The rest of the guys on top 10 have been in the league longer than him. Age wise only 2 of the players on the top 10 are younger than Cholowski, the rest older or the same age, but still all of them have been in the league longer. Regardless of how you cut it, Cholowski doesn't have any more significant advantage than the other 9 players, if anything the others have more experience in that league than he does.

Well played, sir.

What are you talking about? Are you at all familiar with the WHL or CHL in general? You make it seem like he's a young guy playing against older players for the most part. It's actually the exact opposite. Firstly, he'll be 20 in a month, so suggesting he's a 19 year is accurate, but misleading. Secondly, suggesting he's playing against 20 and 21 year olds is completely false. There is not a single 21 year old in the league, because the age cut of is 20. Not only that, each team is limited to only three 20 year olds. 15 year olds can play in the league (for up to 5 games anyway). He's a guy that will be 20 next month and playing against mostly 17 and 18 year olds. Average age in the league is right around 18. I always discount performance in junior from guys who are 19 and 20 years olds.

I'm the guy on the left, he's the guy on the right.

Perhaps that explains his poor play? Lack of said dumps.

I think he looks like he should work at Gas Monkey Garage personally.

Franson is coming here.

He should be getting more starts.

They're certainly holding up their end of the Wings-Knights 2018 SCF bargain. Unfortunately, the other half is the Wings.

Drop off in terms of what? Visuals? Probably.. he's one year older. But production wise he actually has more points this season through 41 games than he did last season. I said this in a thread months ago, Z is going to get slower and slower and slower. But he's the type of dude that will continue to find a way to control the ice and pace of the game on his stick and still produce, until he hits a brick wall which is probably in a year or so.

They actually have done studies that confirm this attitude. Individuals who win bronze are resoundingly more satisfied with their performance than silver winners. The bronze winners are just happy to even make the playoffs... I mean get a medal

Detroit should to be in East for time zone reasons. Otherwise it's dumb.

I prefer arguing with amateurs. It's easier to win. Gotta pick your battles.

No. I just like arguing. Someone can tell me to argue against everyone that Paris Hilton is not a ***** and I would do it.

You know, the thing a lot of people who have given up on Mrazek overlook is that the guy had two relatively solid playoff outings, as a young kid playing behind a lousy defense to boot. The second time he put up better numbers than the year before despite coming off a rough regular season and then coming in cold in relief of the floundering Howard, once again posting an underwhelming playoff performance. And that’s the thing that sticks out to me about Mrazek and makes me think we’re not giving him a fair shot. I think someone who can come in and play well in those big pressure games has something in him worth fighting for. I’m not going to defend his play in the previous couple seasons; it’s been lousy. But from many reports we heard that he’s been working hard behind the scenes and been focused, and he’s shown strong moments at times this season already. But he’s not getting any sort of consistenty. You can’t sit there and honestly say a goalie is getting a fair chance to get his game going when he’s going 3-4 weeks between starts. How don’t care how much you might believe the guy is done here, it’s ludicrous to say that any goalie is getting a fair shot when they’re getting next to no games. Ask any goalie and they’ll tell you that’s an incredibly hard position to be in. They’ve already decimated his trade value enough through mishandling the situation, and it’s weaker yet with Edmonton picking up Montoya tonight. There really is very little to lose giving him some more consistent starts for awhile to see if he can’t string something together. We’re not a team that’s ready to do anything in the playoffs. Truly, why not see what he could do this year if given more starts? No player has more upside if they were to come around. When little else is working and the playoffs or success in them are a pipe dream, there’s literally nothing to lose giving this guy a more reasonable shot. He may continue to be terrible, but on that slight chance he’s not, it could be a.big break for us. And again, Mrazek has gone 2-2 on strong NHL playoff performances, and end of the day, Howard’s never been a strong playoff goalie. You should not walk away from that kind of potential so easily when there’s so little to lose in a season like this.