Z and D for the C

EasyBakeOven is a closet Filppula slappy.

Hossa: check

Glad he won't be able to single handedly beat us on Saturday.

Truly hysterical dive. Glad that the ducks scored because of it.

Between us, Marleau. Between the world, Eaves.

No, he did NOT play with the likes of Draper and Maltby. http://www.dobberhockey.com/frozenpool_linecombo.php?selForward=DETHUDLER%2CJIRI&period=ALL&situation=EV&games=2008-2009%3AR%3A99&Submit=Show+Line+Combinations&sent=go (I'd also like to say that that site is THE BEST site on the internet) Hudler had a whopping 1 more point at ES than on the PP. I'm not manipulating the stats, I'm just telling you them. That stats show nothing BUT Filppula being as good as Hudler offensively, and better at everything else. And I'm not saying that Hudler isn't well worth his 2.85m deal, it'd be great to have him back (though I'd rather spend 4-5m on a bonafide 2nd line scorer). But I think he is overrated on this board and and FATALLY sick of the "produce so much given his ice time" argument, it simply isn't true. He produced as much at ES as Filppula given his ice time and got a ton of PP time.

Last year, if Hudler was given Filppula's even strength time on ice, he would have scored 36 even strength points, compared to Filppula's 36. Given Zetterberg's ES TOI last year, Hudler would have scored 37 even strength points, compared to Zetterberg's 41. Your stats are seriously skewed because you're not taking into account all the differences for even strength, short handed and power play. Again, if Filppula (I'm not using Filppula here because I have a hard on for him, but because he's the closest comparison) was given Hudler's PP time, Filppula's point totals would have been very close to Hudler's actual total last year.

I don't think he will. His production is way down as is his +/-. He'll be in the running, but I don't think he'll win it.

He's definitely been absolutely greet this year. Last summer I thought this should be his last but if he still wants to I think we should sign him in an instant.

Last year Hudler and Filppula had the exact same "points per minute" at even strength. (ie if you gave Hudler Filppula's ES minutes last year, he would have scored a whopping .1 point more than Filppula). I think Filppula would have a higher points per minute at even strength if Filppula didn't play in all situations. I'm sick of the "hudler did so well with so little minutes" gig. If you gave Filppula Hudler's PP time last year, Filppula scores over 50 points and Hudler doesn't even break 40. All his points came from the massive amount of PP time he got. Only Datsyuk, Zetterberg and Holmstrom got more. I'll even go further. Last year, Hudler had .113 PPM on the PP. This year Filppula has .083. BUT, compare the linemates they had on the PP. http://www.dobberhockey.com/frozenpool_linecombo.php?selForward=DETFILPPULA%2CVALTTERI&period=ALL&situation=PP&games=2009-2010%3AR%3A99&Submit=Show+Line+Combinations&sent=go http://www.dobberhockey.com/frozenpool_linecombo.php?selForward=DETHUDLER%2CJIRI&period=ALL&situation=PP&games=2008-2009%3AR%3A99&Submit=Show+Line+Combinations&sent=go It's black and white.

Because these are all right up there with Filppula being a second line center who can put up 60-65 points in a season.

I'm sorry to sound like a broken record, but I think that Flip should be centering instead of Zetterberg. I think Filppula is twice the player as a center instead of wing and it would take some load off Zetterberg's shoulders and would get him going.

1 point behind the Hicks.

THREE IN A ROW!

Awesome game.

Hah. (I +1'd you, we're even) Man I almost felt that goal coming.

They need to stop jinxing our PK

I would think that one third period of that one game 7 of that one summer of that one year was bigger than this.

Wait so Filppula is a good player with a s***ty shot so his goal scoring has higher expectation than the s***ty player with a good shot? You're contradicting yourself. You say Filppula sucks but he has high expectations? If he sucked wouldn't he have low expectations? Obviously the underlying premise here is that s*** happens and player miss nets, it has nothing to do with their caliper or skill. Anyone remember Hossa miss the net in the winter classic last year? Is he a s***ty goal scorer? I'm not saying Williams or Lidstrom SHOULD be bitched at, but that Filppula shouldn't be. No one should, really. Is it disappointing? Yeah. But that's about it.

This team can't make an outlet pass to save it's life. And that might be what it comes down to.

So what if Filppula missed that Lidstrom shot?

I love Howard. I love Datsyuk.

I'd like to see ZDH for the top PP line.

I don't care - tell me I'm wrong.

You act like it's a good thing he's struggling. Man, if it was Filppula instead of Williams to hit the post there this board would be in an uproar. Thankfully it was Williams and it gets like, 1 mention.