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He wanted top two line minutes, he'll be lucky to get a checking role.

Sounds awesome, I'm in; are you going to put a password on this stream?

Of course, but look for things to change in the coming days if guys come off IR and/or Quincey gets traded.

technically yes FWs are Hossa, Homer, Zata, Dats, Flip, Cleary, Huds, Franz, Sammy, Kope, Draper, Maltby (12) DFs are Lids, Rafs, Stuart, Kron, Lils, Lebda, Meech, Quincey (8) Gs are Osgood, Conklin (2) IR/LTIR are D-Mac, J-Ho, Cheli (3) There is your 23 man roster for opening day as of now, obviously if/when Quincey is traded it'll be a 22 man roster on opening day

Leino was sent down to GR earlier, so no unfortunately Agreed

You know what's funny Crymson, i almost posted the exact same thing, about this not being NHL 09 lol. Well played!

There, fixed it for yah.

He will clear and he will get sent down. He had to be waived to get sent down. He needs to be sent down to make us fit under the cap since we have 3 players on either IR or LTIR. Once they heal up and can be assigned to GR, Downey will be recalled.

Logic fantasy championship here I come! No they were all great points, but like you and others have said, once a person hears from a media source about a team's dynamic, they are labeled there on the spot. With the Wings, the only way to shake the notion that we were soft was by winning a championship, coincidentally we added two enforceres on the team during our championship run. Wings have built their team in the cap age to be skillful and defensively sound and din't worry about size or how Canadian they were. The only time I was happy we had Downey on the team was when Lids got cheap shotted by Lappy and Downey went on to Turtle Lappy. What happens next shows how much Downey is actually needed. We play Colorado in the playoffs, the same team that injured our captain, how much ice time did Downey get during that entire series? I have nothing against Downey, I think he has the BEST attitude of any hockey player right now. He is ALWAYS positive, this guy is the Sean Casey of the NHL. Will the Wings possible championship run be determined if we have an enforcer or not? Personally, I don't think so, but this is why we have forums to discuss things and HOPEFULLY be open-minded and accept things that we aren't normally willing to accept.

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This is really awesome, you are making many many red wing fans happy!

Hopefully once everyone is healthy and able to be re-assigned to the right places, leino will get activity duty on the WIngs roster, or at least i suspect so will be the case.

You forget how well Cleary is at Karate:

once D-Mac is able to be sent down to GR, Downey will be up, so maybe a week or two into the season...it's really no big deal.

Personally, when I did the logic draft I took Aristotle with my first pick, I got Opie in the third round behind Plato. I'm expecting big things out of you Opie!

I think that basically sums it up. I for one think Malts is useless and some of our other players coupld step in a produce more than him significantly.

You think Downey is more important than Sammy? Our last years fourth line was awful and had horrible +/-; with Leino in there, you know that our fourth line will actually put up points and be a threat. And for the record, I think Kope is useless. But that is for another debate.

Don't forget also, last year Downey was waived numerous times by the Wings to keep options...they are just doing the same.

5 actually, you forgot about Dats, Lils and Sammy

He does remind me David Blaine...not to mention i always see Holland munching on Cheeze-Its....

I really really, reallllly, doubt that Babs would keep him as 13th forward. Maybe i'm being too optomistic, but if Babs wants a 13th forward to waste on the bench, I'd suspect it'd be Downey before Leino

So with Helm in the AHL, downey on the waiver-wire, D-mac on the IR; what line does Leino play on? I'm hoping 3rd line if Homer isn't off opening day roster with an injury, but if homer is injured I wouldn't mind seeing him on the top line =)

Ahhhh fair enough, Go Wings

No, your opinion was needed, everyones opinions are needed; just the rant was out of place in the sense only one person was like "OMGGG horrible move" and everyone else agreed with you, for the most part.

I think maybe one person brought up the toughness thing being an issue for them...other than that everyone else is saying it sucks because they like Quincey but they understand the move. That really was an uneeded rant.