GMRwings1983

I agree. However, everyone on this team sucks right now and seems to be taking up space. That's what happens when you don't score goals or win games.

Do I really need to post that picture of Sundin again?

It doesn't sound like any of our injured players will play in December. Maybe even January. This team could easily be well below .500 by the time we start getting people back, and that's provided there are no more injuries until then.

Make that 11 periods.

How dare those bandwagoners boo?

Help us Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're our only hope.

We scored 2 goals in the first period of the Montreal game, and have only scored once since then. That's one goal in 11 periods of hockey. What is Babcock waiting for? Take Ninety-Sux and Bertuzzi off the top line. Put Cleary and Zetterberg on it.

Osgood destroyed any hope for a comeback early in this period.

Patrick Sharp, is that you?

That's because Lilja isn't playing. We miss his virility.

Two straight shutouts? When was the last time that happened?

If you want to be optimistic, go to a Pens board. They're actually good this year. Let us suffer in peace.

If I'm not mistaken, we have one goal in the last 10 periods of hockey.

We might not be playing in April if this keeps up any longer.

Yzerman?

What if we don't win? That won't be very funny. Three losses in a row.

We have 3 goals in this game so far. Two that were disallowed, and one by Datsyuk into his own net.

YES! With mindfly gone, I'm officially "the most irritating poster" on LGW. Crown me the victor, egroen.

You make some good points, but I still think Lindros had more of a load on his shoulders in Philly than Forsberg did in Colorado. I admit that Forsberg handled his injuries better than Lindros did, but maybe that's just the nature of head injuries so that Lindros couldn't play as aggresively as he once did, which was his bread and butter. Lindros's line was great because of him. John Leclair spent his best days with Lindros and Renberg never did s*** the rest of his career. Lindros carried those linemates by himself. Furthermore, Philly had guys like Shjon Podein and Trent Klatt playing on their second line. So Lindros did have to carry virtually the whole team offensively. Colorado would likely have made the 96 Finals without Forsberg, and did in fact make it without him in 2001. Philly wouldn't have made it out of the first round in 97 without Lindros. Along that same line of thinking, you understated the goaltending difference. Philly had an old Ron Hextall and Garth Snow. Forsberg had the best goalie ever. In retrospect, Colorado should have won more Cups than Philly just based on that. I understand why people think Forsberg was great, and he was, but I feel like he's often overrated, whereas a guy like Lindros is underrated and forgotten about, because his injuries affected his play more and he didn't play on a team that was nearly as good. Basically, I would take a prime Lindros over a prime Forsberg, even if Forsberg had a more well rounded and longer career.

Messier was capable of being a cheap player, except that late in his career everyone forgot that because he became so respected. Don't know what he had against Madonna, but there was no reason for that play. I'm surprised no one on Dallas's roster tried to do anything about it.

Highly unlikely no matter what happens. However, you guys are being unfair to the OP. He's just asking if Babcock will be fired supposing we miss the playoffs. Not whether he'll be fired now or at some other point in the season.

Basically what I said. Forsberg wouldn't have taken the Flyers any further than where Lindros took them. Colorado had way more talent on their teams than Philly did.

WTF? I was just making a joke. I didn't know the guy wound up in prison for crying out loud. Oh well, let's try again. What's my boy Dmitry Bykov been up to these days? After all, he did carry Lidstrom to the Norris trophy in 2003.

What's my boy Yuri Butsayev been up to these days? Oh and no way Ottawa trades Kovalev for two completely useless players. It'd be too early to trade a guy that they just signed.

I'm thinking about joining letsgopens.com to pursue my first love. A WINNING team.