Rick Zombos Ghost

league seems extra out of hand this year....no doubt COLON campbell wont do anything...

lay off me im retired

That's gotta hurt! That being said i don't like fights after the game ends.

might be true, but its just not in the numbers...

he has more points than Filppula the last 2 seasons and i dont think kenny would give him up for a 1st and 3rd rounder, so i dont think they overpaid. maybe im wrong. i am a stupidhead after all. He's 24 years old?

I would assume its going to be a very late 1st round pick as they are currently going to end in the top 3 of the conference.

Well some 1st round picks dont even end up in the NHL. I suppose if they want a *sure* thing than yes this is a good deal.

20 goal scorer for 2 draft picks? i know ones a first rounder but...

I have an unhealthy man crush on martin hanzal. I guess i assume in the Wings system with his size and abilities he could be awesome. he's still really young too. Not to mention he has a mean streak.

im gonna say it again just cause im willing it to happen. PLEASE GET MARTIN HANZAL KENNY!

I'll bet a kris draper dollar that Versteeg goes to vancouver for Samuelsson.

i would have seriously LOLd if he got Lupul and Lilja. i wonder how Lupul's back is doing.

Hasek is tearing it up in the KHL. Get it done Garth!

id take Martin Hanzel over him as 2nd/more likely 3rd line center and i may even give up him and hudler to do it. I think he could grow into a franzeneque player...

needs to be out of the league. he isnt even one of those players you hate but would love on your team. he's just garbage.

There are some charts at the link... It is insane to think the league allows the Panthers to exist with only 3000 people watching on TV.... http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2011/02/20110207/Media/NHL-ratings.aspx "At the halfway point of its season, the NHL's local TV ratings in the United States are marked by the haves and the have-nots. The biggest traditional U.S. hockey markets have seen strong growth and big audiences, but the sport still seems to be struggling on TV in the Sun Belt. GETTY IMAGES The Penguins sit comfortably atop the ratings. The Pittsburgh Penguins are drawing the biggest local TV audiences leaguewide, with an average of 105,000 homes watching the team's games on FSN Pittsburgh through the All-Star break. The rest of the league's leaders for ratings and viewership are mainly teams in cold-weather markets, including Boston, Chicago and Detroit. Conversely, teams in warm-weather markets dominate the bottom of the NHL's local TV chart. An average of 3,000 homes watch Panthers games on FS Florida, and an average of 6,000 homes watch Thrashers games on FS South and SportSouth. One head-scratcher is in Tampa, where the Lightning on the ice went into the All-Star break as the second-place team in the Eastern Conference. On Sun Sports, the team has registered a 27 percent increase to a 0.79 rating, the league's fourth-highest jump, but the Lightning's average of 14,000 homes per game is the league's fifth lowest. St. Louis games on FS Midwest are up a league-leading 41 percent to an average rating of 3.29. The biggest drop-off has come in Columbus, where Blue Jackets games on FS Ohio have dropped 41 percent."

you are crazy Meech=Paul Coffey

Seattle!

im hoping he's seeing charlie about a horse..hopefully no knee sprain. babcock in the post game said "weve lost fill" which doesnt make me feel good.

that's like trading a young hudler for an old hudler

they'd never do it but id give up a hudler AND a filppula for a dustin brown. i always though. Id do filppula for martin hanzal any day of the week.

If i know Holland...and i most certainly dont. I believe the wings will be picking up Brad Stewart, Tomas Holmstrom, Mike Modano, and Chris Osgood from Team Injury and those will be our "trades".