Datsyukian Geek

As long as Hank keeps stepping up the way he has been and producing, I'll feel better about losing Dats for a couple weeks...

The bottom three are mostly fill-ins that make it dollar for dollar, so I have no problem looking elsewhere on them, except that Konopka is apparently a freak on the face-off. Was something like Top 5 in won face-offs at one point late in the season, I believe.

If Lids takes a $1M or more pay cut to stay on another year, buying out Hudler's remaining year makes this work: 3.00M Hudler ( C ) 1.25M Ericsson ( D ) 0.75M Salei ( D ) 1.25M Modano ( C ) 1.10M Osgood ( G ) 1.25M Draper ( C ) $8.60M Cap space cleared 3.25M Wisniewski ( D ) 0.85M Kindl ( D ) 2.40M Laich ( C ) 0.60M Konopka ( C ) 0.70M Tatar ( C ) 0.80M McCollum ( G ) TOTAL: $8.60M* Just thought I'd throw something together to add to the talks. *Numbers are rounded off at the ten-thousands, so not 100% exact, but very close.

Then why is it not like an announcement or something, this is important people!! We're losing ground so we need all the votes we can get for the Curly Fry.

I don't see it on the front page, so I can safely assume a thread for this does not yet exist. If you love the curly fry and want to see it brought back as the Red Wings's hat-trick treat, then get yourself over to Fox Sports Detroit and DO THE RIGHT THING! Vote Curly Fries: because a vote for roast beef is a vote for the terrorists. http://www.foxsportsdetroit.com/pages/landing_shock?blockID=364695 #OperationCurlyFries

Didn't see a topic about him getting picked up yet, sorry if I missed it. Found the news in this article: http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news;_ylt=AjAms3ylhtrDpDs.mKLQmWR7vLYF?slug=ap-redwings-maltby Also, here is the Lightning's article on the issue: http://lightning.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=539624

Won't be sad if Meech gets picked up, but I will miss Malts. As has been said though, his time really has come and gone--good though it has been.

Mule and Bert really do show promise together, and their combination excites me greatly. Hopefully they can bring out each other's physical edge and scoring drive.

It's just more Crosby handjobbing. I am obviously so surprised at this turn of events.

I've been preaching the need for Bert to be more physical for a looong time, so I hear you there!

Cannot wait to see that...

As far as Ozzie is concerned, I'm cautiously optimistic. I hope Babs tandems Jimmah and Ozzie just about equally, so Chris's previous excuse of not enough games is quashed. Then, if Ozzie still craps out through to midseason, I think it may be time to start questioning whether we want to keep him around. Yes he's got the rings, but as much of a fan of Osgood as I've been, the longer his funk lasts the more I start to wonder if 08 was his last flash of brilliance before the flame burns out. Again though, I'm not pulling any nooses tight till at least midseason.

Not sure it's actually being covered by TV stations. None that I saw anyway. I'm not sure I'd watch it even if there was one.