Konnan511

Lol, how is it unsupported or made up? Look at defense pairings and the percentage they are together ES. 62% Lidstrom - Stuart 68% Ericsson - Rafalski 83% Salei - Kindl Let's pick a random team, the Coyotes, since we played them tonight: 73% Yandle - Morris Schlemko: 23% - Yandle 18% - Aucoin 17% - Yonkman 12% - Lepisto Rozsival: 26% - O.E-L. 21% - Lepisto 52% Aucoin - Jovo (With Jovo out he is equally rotating with Klesla, Sclem, and Yandle) I can do this with all the other teams and find roughly the same data set, but i just don't have the need or want to. I didn't make anything up. Everytime I present an argument it is with data and statistics and observation. Yours is "nu uh". And by the way, Babcock HAS said he likes to keep his DPairings constant. I acknowledge the TOI and gave my observation why it was the way it is...and now I backed it up with numbers. You may think my hypothesis is absurd, but for me, and witht he numbers, it seems a damn good hypothesis. Not to mention, there are plenty rookie NHL defensmen around the league playing 10-15 minutes a night, while players who have been playing longer are player more minutes. It's not because they are better, it's because they know the system better and are veterans. You got guys like McQuaid on Boston who is a rookie but clearly better than a some guys who are playing more minutes than him, you got Martinez in LA who has the same situation, you have all these other rookies in the same situation where they are better than guys ahead of them on the depth chart, but because they are rookies and the guys ahead of them are veterans, they are stuck playing these minutes. Same situation with Kindl. Observation and numbers tell me Ericsson was severely outplayed...again...by Kindl. Kindl +1, Ericsson -2 while s***ting the bed on the last goal. Kindl would have been a +2 but Helm and he couldn't connect on a pass. Helm was staring straight at him and the pass was slow and between his skates and hands... Helm just took his eye off the pass. Kindl > Ericsson.

He didn't skate today...hopefully he's not out long or at all.

Helm channels his Forsberg on that goal.

FILPPULA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Come on boys, we need to play like we did in the early stages of the first

Howard was being hit and sat on...... terrible terrible call

Jimmy is teh sex tonight.

Is it just me, or does kronwall miss the net more than anyone else on the team?

Stuart...bad!

Miller for Richards Award

That's also the first thing I noticed. The guy on the ice looks like he is enjoying his time as well.

Modano floats on offense, not defense. Bertuzzi also is a hectic back checker, it's just the cool thing to say he floats. With Mo's speed, and Bertuzzi's passing and Cleary's hardass work, that line could easily pot a goal tonight.

f*** it, give Jimmy the C.

I posted those stills in a previous page where I stated I didn't see and elbow or anything, but in the picture above you can see a right forearm. Obviously the view is slightly obstructed, but with the slightest amount of spatial visualization ability you can see the elbow/forearm.

If and when I get out of this hellhole that is Michigan,when i go to a game the road, I' chucking some Pi. Plus, playing in Phoenix is like playing at home, gotta appease the home crowd with some Pi. And if we're going off tradition then we might as well find a 16 legged animal to throw on the ice, since the tradition was 8 legs for 8 wins.

He's not the fastest, but he is a very smooth skater. Kind of like Zetterberg. Z isn't the best skater, but he is very efficient.

Hmm... guess it was an elbow/forearm to the head:

We need more octopi thrown on the road. We won the games with them and lost the proceeding ones where there were none....

It's weird to think we haven't played them since November... Seems like every road trip we have we play them.

10 games eh? Seems 1,000 games too short. Must be mustache power that saved his bacon.

I've never liked Inge... might be just me, though. If Boesch can return to the rare form he displayed last season, we might have the most dangerous line-up in all of the MLB and most certainly the AL as it stands now.

No prospect was hotter in February than Maine's Gustav Nyquist (DET). The junior winger started off the month with a bang, posting his first career hat trick in the Black Bears' 6-3 win over New Hampshire on Feb. 4th. All of his goals came on the power play. In Maine's eight games during February, Nyquist posted 14 points (ten goals, four assists). He posted points in seven of the eight games, having been held pointless only in the Feb. 18 game at UMass-Lowell. His outstanding performance earned him the Hockey East Player of the Month honor for February. Nyquist currently leads Maine with 42 points (16 goals, 26 assists) playing in all 32 games to date. His 26 assists also lead the Black Bears.

2 shots in 16 shifts were his only stats.

Babcock is a firm believer in keeping the defensive pairings constant. That's why the pairings are the way they are. Look what happened when Rafalski went down, Big E is failing pretty bad out there. Past 6 games, where Kindl turned the corner, Kindl has 2 points and is a minus 1 while E has been w/o a point since early November and is a minus 2. Without Rafalski's elite puck moving skills, we can clearly see that Big E is not better than Kindl. Kindl has out performed him lately and will out perform him through the playoffs. Yes, Ericsson is playing more minutes than Kindl, but that more has to do with Babcock liking to keep his D pairings constant and about who Ericsson's D partner is. Ericsson lucked out to be paired with Rafalski when he did because Ericsson was in deed higher on the depth chart and the better player at the time. Now, not so much. Kindl > Ericsson. No matter how many times you refute that equation, you won't be able to get it to be false.

All he does is win. As of today: Petr Mrazek 4th in GAA 1st in SV% 3rd in Wins 1st Shutouts 2nd minutes played 1st shots against