Konnan511

He's an offensive dynamo, and now it seems he's added snarl to his repertoire. I think he should make it this year, him and Xavier both.

If the team sucks and they need to draw in fans, in the end, the team owner has final say on who plays and if he wants a few extra bucks, you'll see a goon out there at the expense of a skilled forward. McSorley did not try to tap Brasher's shoulder, he swung at a guys head with a heavy wooden stick. The injury to Brashear was directly related to McSorley and his stick. Moore's injury can not be proven to have been by Bertuzzi when a gaggle of hockey players decided it would be a good idea to jump on top of an unconscious Moore. Plus, it didn't end Moore's career, Moore decided on his own to take himself out of hockey after that for hsi impending lawsuit. He was offered multiple NHL contracts and he turned them all down.

Franzen dives just as much, do you hate him as well? Have you ever cheered for Franzen? I hate Crosby as well, not for his on ice actions, but mostly because he looks like a smug little turd and has been forced down our throats. But to say he's playing up a concussion is just crazy talk. You don't sit out of games by your own choosing, no one would. Not even when Claude knew he was going to get his ass beat by DMac did he want to sit out. Even the biggest ***** in the NHL a decade ago wouldn't sit out of games due to headaches, he'd want to get in there and help his team.

Yes, 6 minutes into the game. There were 5 fights prior to the incident as well. Enforcers prevent nothing.

Not to mention refs don't have the luxury of watching replays from multiple angles before making a penalty call. From one angle, it looks like a blatant headshot. The checker threw an elbow and it appeared to make contact. On another angle it just looks like a slight graze that couldn't hurt a fly. Who knows, the ref that made the call could have been at and anglke which describes the former and not the latter. OMG, this person is kicking down the LTOP!!!: Wait, come stand over here:

And by the beginning you mean a couple years ago when you heard the Wings were interested in him Except for Nyquist.

Which is why I wished we would have signed him to a one-way deal in hopes that if we need the space, we could send him down with the less likely chance of him being claimed.

If the checking player didn't try and throw an elbow, a call never would have been made. It was a disgraceful dive, but dives happen because of careless plays.

Diving is worse than headshots? That is the most asinine statement I've heard in a while.

Back a couple decades ago it had a purpose. You'd put a goon with skill on a stars line and they'd protect that start with their fighting while not completely hampering things. Fighting doesn't really serve a purpose these days besides an entertainment value. Fight slappies will protest that it curbs dirty plays, which it doesn't, well not anymore at least. They'll bring up "the brawl" of almost 15 years ago and talk about how it changed our team to what it is now. It did change the dynamic of the team, but that is a one instance thing. A one instance sample size is a terrible sample size. Other players and fans from other teams contend that Kronwall's hits are all dirty, how many fights has he been in? Look at the dirty hits from this past season and this pre-season, really looks like goons and fighters really curbed those. Having Downey in the line-up really stopped Lappy from elbowing our star DMan in the head. Fighting doesn't prevent anything. With that said, i like when players stand up for themselves and want to throw down ala Abby trying to go after Mac. Or when people went after Cooke for cheapshotting Savard and Savard couldn't do anything. It's purpose is to stick up for temmates after an injustice, but today scrums happen after clean hits, and those need to go.

Not every other player is in the top 2 or 3 in the league. And for God's sake, we hada Lilja update about his concussion every week. I cannot believe all the bias hate in this thread.

This is what I'd do on a day off from work. Drink and play putt-putt and take ridiculous pictures: Left to right, back to front: Younger brother, Older brother, me, Uncle, Dad Not even a big black man can deter me away from winning an NHL Hitz game:

We're hearing it now This thread makes me miss Titanium...

He does have a point about the bitter thing, I wished someone a happy birthday in the Water Cooler, and got negged a couple times for it.

I knew you'd throw Hudler in there somewhere.

Why would anyone not want the best players playing? If for anything, when we beat them, we can say our best players beat your best players.

Paging Mr. Shanahan, Mr. Malone is here to see you.

Why not instead of signing Brunnstrom, we just give Nyquist the spot? Brunner looked good his first couple games then started to resemble Hudler, who looked like garbage. Start Gus on the 3rd line and then let him dangle from the 2nd line. This is Americuh and we speak American, not Mexican or Scandinavia or what ever the hell the people in Twilight speak! Nascar!!!!!

The one good thing about Eva, is that he will provide numbers to prove his point. Although he'll incorporate Hudler in there somewhere.

I'll reiterate what I said yesterday before this game even happened. Except Sit Miller or trade Hudler when Mursak comes back. Nyquist needs to be on this team. If his only flaw is that he isn't big enough at the moment, then that's ok. Hudler/Filppula have never been big. Zata and Pavs were tiny when they entered the league in a much rougher era.

Put him on a line with Datsyuk and he gunna score 35 goals!!!!

GUSTAV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sign Brunner and try to send both him and Emmerton down to GRap through waivers. Gustav is better than most our entire bottom 6 combined. I'd rather have Gustav in over Hudler.

Not gunna lie, this game is second fiddle to the Tiger's game, but I am going to do my best to watch both!

So that means you are really excited? This game should be good, we have the majority of our forward corps in. The back end looks quite shaky, though.