GMRwings1983

With his injury troubles, I wish he'd just stay here.

Now. But he did carry them to the playoffs for a few years, after Drury and Briere left.

Best fighter I would say Brashear. Although, with fighters it's different, because with youtube videos, I've seen just about all of Probert or Wilson's fights. You can't just watch a video of Gretzky or Howe's highlights to understand how great they really were. You have to watch them in a game format to see their dominance. But for my era, watching live fights, I'd say Brashear.

Hey, I just noticed that blueadams started this thread. Now the line thing makes sense.

Close thread.

If we're lucky, he might be the next Jason Woolley.

Sounds like some dude who plays in the Serie A. We are really desperate for defensemen, that's for sure.

Too lazy to create a whole team, but I'm pretty sure Lidstrom is the best I've ever seen. Best goalie would be Hasek or Roy. Best forward would likely be Lemieux.

Worse than our offense. With Lidstrom gone, those long tape to tape passes up ice will be few and far between.

That's because the other dude's stats were always better.

Maybe they based it on places to golf around the area.

I thought Howard carried this team in the regular season last season. Our defense had big names, but he still stood on his head many nights. I'm not sure what you mean. Are you talking about a defense with no big names and a goalie who's a big name? Like say the Sabres with Hasek and Miller? If that's it, I can't think of the last time we had that kind of team. Then again, I don't think of Howard as an "elite" goalie. Doesn't play like it in the playoffs, and doesn't get paid like it either. He's a good goalie, but nothing more at this point.

Dude, I get girls like that all the time.

Doesn't Fenix have free parking at their arena or something like that?

I would have left early in the 3rd period to repark my car.

I wonder if anyone here attended the Leafs last Cup clinching game?

Must have been a hell of a time, since you can't remember the year or where the game took place.

I wasn't there. But I was just thinking how sucky it'd be to have been there.

Winchester would be a welcome addition for me.

I say it can still be done.

But that wouldn't happen, because then Boston would go after Tootoo, and he can't compete with their bigger guys. That's the point. I think Tootoo would be much more effective in Detroit if we had a legit heavy in the lineup backing him up. I think he'll still play hard, but I doubt we'll see the same edginess and occasional dirty stuff from Tootoo, that we've seen in the past.

Verbeek scored 500 goals in his career. You guys are giving Marchand way too much credit comparing him to Verbeek. As I've said before, Marchand could only exist on a team like Boston. If he played for the Wings, he'd get his ass kicked by opposing teams, with no one to protect him.

North American propaganda, man. It's also rumored they trained in the snow without their shirts on, and karate chopped tree barks to toughen themselves up.

Neither Franzen nor Lilja played for the Wings in 2001. And I'm pretty sure Babcock wasn't coaching us then.

Bobby Hull would have also made a difference. But Canada would have had a tough time against the Soviets either way. Their team was together all year, while Canada's team needed time to gel together.