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Was the Boston game a change in fundamental strategy? Everybody looked faster, more aggressive, and more offensive minded.

Sounds like a douchebag now, that's for sure.

Intriguing to say the least. At first glance, your lines look like the names were pulled from a hat. But then the more you look at them, the more intrigued yet. They just might work.

Other people on this board(myself included) think he belongs on the 3rd line. Letter rip, Tatar chip!

Ha! Thought you said you weren't here to argue! Apparently my English comprehension sucks too.

Roster looks so empty without Pasha and The Todd.

No doubt. One spot away from a job on the line at Volvo. So close to a completely different life. . But instead, he's living the dream, and built his dream home Dont you ever wonder.. Maybe if you took a left turn, instead of taking that right Youd be somebody quite different-Dave Matthews

I'm a huge Tatar fan, but too many times this season he has looked like a boy among men.

"So the ONLY way to appease those that want to make this the Nanny Hockey League, is ban ALL contact. No checking, no hitting, no pushing, no shoving. But what if someone slips and falls? Ah crap, they can get a concussion from that too, perhaps we should but foam padding around all the boards, so to make sure. " Nobody here wants nanny hockey. But things cannot stay the same, since we know specific things we did not know before. -- "June 13: Pop Warner football, which registered more than 285,000 children ages 5-15 to play in 2011, bans head-to-head hits and limits contact in practice to 40 minutes a day. That night, Terry Bradshaw, the former Steelers quarterback who now receives treatment for short-term memory loss at the Amen Clinic in Newport Beach, California, told Jay Leno: "In the next decade, we will not see football as it is."

Couldn't have said it better

I can't help but wonder how much of this stems from not having Scotty Bowman watching the games and giving his two cents. It's certainly been working for Chicago.

League of denial http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yE3m4r4_JEk

But one major problem that I see for the future of the game is that the latest testing shows people are getting concussed at a low level, low enough so they don't necessarily know they're concussed. Two of these low level concussions is enough to cause damage including CTE. Former Pittsburgh Steeler Ctr., Mike Webster had such severe brain damage that he was homeless after retiring from football. After his death his brain showed major CTE. At the time it was a bit of a surprise because it was thought that only speed positions like RB, WR, KR, and DB would have this issue, not linemen that took lots of lower impact hits, but on a very repetitive basis. Even soccer players are getting it from headers If the game is to survive, there has to be major technique changes in hitting, and major equipment changes. As for thoughts that players knew what they were getting into because hockey is a violent game, nobody imagined they'd be mentally ill or in wheelchairs unable to feed themselves or speak. What they are finding out now is just the tip of the iceberg.

I would think that if people will watch a slow, boring game like soccer, then they would surely watch some sort of safer hockey. But that's an entirely different thread altogether.

In 24 GM's in Tampa, Filp has surpassed what he did in 41 GM's under Babcock. Hmm

That's a lot of rookies.

Goose, The Ginga Ninja.

Even a quality car battery reaches a point when it won't take a charge anymore. Like my favorite ex girlfriends, I'll choose to remember the good times and not the bad.

Siri's first husband was Atlanta Flame's Curt Bennet, so she knows that hockey rules.

Curt Bennet's first wife is IPhone's "Siri". In my mid '40's and in the early phases of Lou Gehrig's disease , so I've been following the NFL findings ("League of Denial" documentary and the findings on CTE, etc). After a lifetime of football, hockey, mountain bike, and dirt bike concussions, I was always told by my neuros that concussions have nothing to do with ALS, but the NFL science shows otherwise. Hmm. In the beginning I was suspecting it was mostly politically driven, but now I'm convinced there is something to the science.

There are plenty of reasons players don't get picked up off waivers, including the fact that many owners are like you: they have anxiety about getting rid of their own players. It's not like they don't already have full rosters themselves that they too are enamored with.

It's crazy being in theEast: we're ready to far and feather 80% of the organization, yet we're still right in the thick of the race.

I'm really happy with the effort we put forth tonite. I mean, it was really hard to watch this game so I want to commend all of us for fighting the urge to turn it off and walk away. Props everyone!

6 swedes, 1 empty net.