Nev

My personal favourite

Classic I wonder how many of them are old enough to have actually played NHL '94....

I never said I approved of it, I said that is what it might be. And if you think this kind of thing isn't said all the time in proffesional sports (and in the military) you're living in Fantasy Land. I agree that in a normal workplace this kind of thing would get you fired, but the locker room and the barrack room are not normal workplaces. And I guarentee you, Mike Babcock has said things to Redwings players that would get you fired in an ordinary business. Getting in someones face and screaming obscenties is not acceptable in a normal business - in hockey its a prime motivational technique.

All this talk of an offer sheet for Doughty is nice, but lets remember what he would cost us. Up to $5.2M - 1st, 2nd + 3rd $5.2M - $6.5M - 1st, 1st, 2nd, 3rd $6.5M plus - 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st Thats a lot to give up for a player who may or may not pan out. Or you could end up with him + Smith dominating the blue line for the next 10 years..... What about Seabrook? Haven't seen the Hawks play this year, but they could struggle to keep him.

I said this in the last thread, but MINUS TWENTY SEVEN??????????

I find myself wondering if this was a (misguided) attempt by the coach to fire up his player Coach: Jews are lazy and only care about money Player: Yeah, well, I'll show HIM! Its coaching 101, and a thousand hockey coaches will have denigrated French Canadians for hiding behind visors, Swedes for not liking being hit, and Russians for being flat out soft. OR He might list the Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion as one of his favourite books, and Mel Gibson as his favourite actor, in which case sue him for every penny.

Thing is everyone forgets why the trapezoid was put in - because it was so difficult to go after the puck on the forecheck. Goalies would just collect the dump ins and ring them round the boards and out, whilst the defencemen, subtly or not so subtly, would stand up at the blue line and slow down the forecheckers attempts to get after the puck.

Where's Pierre? But yeah, Crosby.

According to the author of the article, no because he doesn't fight and isn't North American. Moronic author aside, with a couple of exceptions here I think we're all pretty much on the same page. We want a "Dallas Drake type" who can play, hit and drop the gloves. They don't grow on trees, teams who have them are reluctant to give them up, and in a cap world their value is often over-priced (cf Chris Neil).

Can Nabakov report for the last game of the season to avoid suspension next year? Didn't Kirk Muller refuse to turn up when he was traded to the Isles back in the day?

This, this, this, this and this. As for the article, who knew ESAD wrote for the Freep now? This is so moronic I can barely bring myself to comment on it. By this logic Jason Williams has more heart than Thomas Holmstrom purely because of the continent he was born on?

Wow, this certainly implies that Osgood is done for the season - get Nabakov back before the all-joke break so he can get skating and shake off the rust. Unless they plan on trading Hudler for a bag of pucks or burying him in the minors his salary can't be more than ~$1M I would imagine that if a non-playoff team claims him, he'll just refuse to report, but if a contender claims him just to stiff us can the Wings make a complaint for a malicious waiver pick up?

The sad part is, I can only give you +1 rep, that needs a +10

Um, OK..........

Howard is lazy and he sucks.

I didn't think I'd be coming into this thread and lol'ing More like 2008 when we had literally half the team out and didn't win a game in February. It seems like most of our injured guys are going to be coming back at around the same time.

Exception: He's ringing you with a trade offer.

Yet more evidence that Burke is an idiot. ITS YOUR FRACKING JOB TO KNOW THE RULES!!!!!!!!!!

Meh, the only value being selected as an All-star has these days is to bolster your HOF credentials.

Great set of quotes. He was -3 last night though which sends him back to even

Awww, poor ickle baby......did nasty uncle Mikey hurt your feelings? The rest of the article basically proves Babcock right. Commodore even admits he was out of shape....

NHL.com is good for highlights, 3 articles a day about Crosby, an uh, that's about it.

-1. This is the justification Lemiuex gave for the Draper hit. And Domi for the Niedermeyer hit.