GMRwings1983

Do you really think Eddie Shore would be better in today's league than Lidstrom currently is? Lidstrom in my opinion would dominate Eddie Shore's era if he was to go back in time and play in it.

Who's to say Hasek is the best European goalie ever? Tretiak was a legendary goalie in his own right. In fact, there's many great players from the Red Army team that never got to play in the NHL, which makes it harder to compare all the European players together. I'd say that post 80's, Lidstrom is definitely the best European player ever in my opinion. 15+ seasons of playing around 100 total games a season, playing 25 or more minutes of ice time during that stretch, and against the best players on the other team no less. Not to mention, he's done it all at a high level, and for the last 10 years he's been the best in the league at it.

So I'm a spoiled Wings fan who believes that we can fight and win at the same time. Big deal. BTW, your sentence about cakes made no sense.

What nonsense? If Datsyuk doesn't play, someone has to fill a roster spot. Has Maltby really been that great in the playoffs that he's give us something we don't already have? At least Downey can do that much. Hell, Maltby doesn't even hit anymore. I've always liked the guy, but it's hard to excuse his play. And no I don't want to see a skilled player like Leino on the 4th line. He's too talented to be playing with Draper and Abdelkalder. They're not scorers.

I seriously doubt that one slow 4th liner could potentially lose the entire series for us. He brings great energy and hitting to offset all that. So far our hitting isn't as good in this series as the Anaheim one. Besides, there's enough speed on our 4th line already to be faster than their 4th line. Also, I'm just tired of seeing Eager doing whatever he wants out there. Since no one else is willing to challenge him, I want Downey to do it. If this keeps up, Eager may just behead one of our players with a bodycheck. He's a loose cannon out there. Burish is the same way. Excuse me for wanting to see some Blackhawks players getting beat up, and realizing that we can win the game and a few fights at the same time. Having one guy who fights back won't cost us the series.

Does he have to injure one of our guys before anyone does anything about it?

GMR doesn't make jokes. Eager is getting too much freedom running our guys around. Even Anaheim didn't have anyone who was this bullish with us.

He hardly played at all in that triple OT game. When a defenseman gets no ice time in a long game like that, he must be the worst player in the NHL. I don't think he's that bad.

He could kick Ben Eager's ass and hopefully injure him so that he won't run our players anymore.

How can I, he never gets a real chance? Even when he played in these playoffs, he hardly ever got icetime. I know he's not any kind of good player anymore, but he's not as bad as Babcock makes him look.

How come Brookbank did?

JR is and always has been an idiot, but I do wish that Chelli was playing. With two consecutive long playoff runs, he would have been able to extend his record playoff games played to an even higher amount. It's a shame that he hasn't played that much in these last two runs.

I hope this doesn't turn into a Rafalski like situation, where the guy missed way more games than anyone expected.

Ozzie is my pick. However, he won't win the Conn Smythe. It'll go to either Crosby or Franzen.

He's a spot picking visor wearing Euro, but he'd be a vast improvement over our current toughness at forward. He hits like a ton and does get in quite a few fights, despite some of the liberties he takes during these fights. I'd have to say yes knowing that Holland is unlikely to go after anyone tougher.

Sorry, but I always forget that not everyone's jokes are funny. Franzen may score 5 more goals before any of those players score 1.

Your attempts at humor somehow always fall short. Maybe I'll give you some lessons one day. What is it about my post that screamed "DUCKS FAN" at you?

Maybe he instructs Sammy to purposely shoot the puck into the goalie's chest all the time. Sammy violated Babcock's number 1 rule for him.

If it's a sweep, it can't be tough. Datsyuk will score eventually. If not in these playoffs, then next season at some point.

If that's all he can do at this point, he needs to be permanently delegated to the 4th line, with PP time still being given to him.

Homer looks like a beached whale out there right now. We could start a dozen threads about him just as easily as Hossa.

He doesn't? Well, that explains why we don't sign more enforcers.

Wow, what can I say. Is it too late to nominate him for the Selke trophy? He better be playing well defensively considering how useless he's been offensively.

Don't forget that prior to last year, Hossa was always labeled as a playoff choker. He played hard for the Pens last year in the playoffs and looked like a beast in this regular season, but he just doesn't look like he has it anymore. He looks like Malkin did in the Finals last year. Completely spent.

It was finished the moment they hired Quenneville.