Z and D for the C

There is no doubt Leino doesn't have much confidence and hasn't looked too good, but he has looked better lately and still has a lot of potential. I just don't think Mayers would make enough of a contribution to the team this year to warrant letting him go.

Same.

No it wouldn't. And I would never give up Leino for Mayers.

Hah, I wish. I just looked at the TOI summary sheet and fast forwarded to whenever it said Flip came on the ice with my tivo.

Your post reminds me of some racist kids saying "no, I'm not racist, I have black friends!". So I went all out. I rewatched the all of filppula's shifts (NHL.com TOI summary = god). I was watching for all the times he fell, because it must have happened, what, 10 times going by your post? Well, not quite, in fact, not anywhere near. He was off his feet three times in this game. The first, he was knocked down in a face off scrum that he won anyway. The second time he just got hit on the boards trying to get past someone. (I didn't think that's relevant since it was a hit, but I'll include it anyway). The last time he fell down making a quick stop. In all cases he was up skating in half a milisecond, and the last time he got up, got the puck to a defenseman to keep the play alive and right after made a great takeaway which led to a great scoring chance. Because you are obviously oblivious to the great offensive things he does out on ice, I'm going to show you them and hold your hand throughout. I: Good play to keep the puck in, gains control of the puck and a pass into a slot, unfortunately Miller can't control it. Plays results in a solid shot on net. The video is cut off kindof early. II: Puck gets cleared out of our zone and filppula takes on the pheonix player to steal the puck cleanly, gets it to bertuzzi and we get another solid shot. III: After receiving a long pass, gives a slick pass to bert which results in a great scoring chance. IV: Filppula battles for the puck, comes out with it (as he does most of the time), sets up a great play. If Miller was cleary, that puck would have wound up in the net with all that space in front. V: Flip wins yet another battles along the boards, makes a great pass to an open bert in the slot. Another great scoring chance. VI: Play I mentioned earlier in my post. Flip falls, but still makes the play and 2 solid shots happen, the latter resulting in a great scoring chance. VII & VIII: What do I need to say? IX: Great shot from a great Bertuzzi pass. X: PP Goal Now, these aren't all OMG AMAZING plays or anything, but they show that Flip is more than capable of being an offensive second liner and can create chances. At the very least he doesn't just fall down and botch plays like you say he does.

Well, believe what you want, but I'm blaming gcom007.

UGH I'm sorry I just can't help it. I won't go on and on but you are the ONLY one who would say anything bad about Filppula tonight. It's just painfully obvious you have something against him. I remember him falling once (though I wasn't able to watch the entire game) but the one time I saw him fall he got the puck back and that play actually ended up being a relatively good scoring chance. A lot of what you say about Datsyuk can be said (though obviously to a lesser degree) about Filppula. You have such a keen eye whenever he doesn't something slightly bad but when he looks great you completely ignore it.

Agreed. He looked amazing this game. That's all I'll say.

YOU SPELLED HIS NAME WRONG DUDE

I wonder if we even have a player that would do that. Bert maybe? Drapes? Maltby but has he been playing?

I think all 3 looked very good today. Zetterberg the least of though, he definitely doesn't look like himself.

The hockey gods are getting back at us for letting Hossa go.

Well, if we just keep doing everything right then things will work out. that's probably what babcock will say tonight and we'll do the same thing tomorrow.

I haven't heard anyone bitching about that assistant coach guy lately.

Do you really think this would have gone any different if we had williams franzen and homer in the game? Injuries have nothing to do with them giving up leads so much.

It has nothing to do with his genitals, he just leaves that side of the net wide open. I guess he sucks either way.

Is babcock even coaching still? Or does he just tell which players to go out on the ice?

f*** the world.

Being that we're playing tomorrow night, I'm sure he will be.

=/

Please win

Not awesome.

Been that way for a while I believe.

Awesome awesome awesome awesome.

He looked great at the beginning of the period. Two real good chances. I love how our top players are being our top players, along with some secondary scoring.