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If that or some degree of that actually happens...

Definitely.

EDIT: Woops, hang on... Here we go.

On Red Wings TV they have a video of Nick firmly stating that he believes Z will have a really good year or something to that effect. It's great to hear for sure. Can't wait to see him actually prove it on the ice.

Pulkkinen tekee maalin! How do you say "Filppula makes the pass"? It'd be fun to say that before "Pulkkinen tekee maalin!" EDIT: Or maybe something like "Ilari screens the goalie!" "Valtteri makes the pass!" then "Pulkkinen scores the goal!" except in Finnish.

For some, it's not specifically in their arena but on top, on the bottom, or on the side, etc.

Snap.

Lebda also got kind of lucky that his former college coach is now the assistant gm in Toronto. Lils may not be as connected.

I love the women. Simple as that.

They're looking at something like this. Kunitz-Marketing Tool-Dupuis Talbot-Malkin-Comrie Cooke-Staal-Kennedy Rupp-Adams-Godard Martin-Michalek Orpik-Letang Goligoski-Lovejoy Fleury

I heard that they're going to move Staal to the wing so he can play top six minutes with top six linemates.

RWC's ratings are supposedly very close to the way Kenny and Co. would rank them. Not sure how much I believe that personally. Daniel Larsson somehow is not even good enough for the top 25 anymore? Just because he wanted to develop in Sweden? That doesn't make much sense to me.

How often do goalies change the paint job on their masks? I would think that some of them are really superstitious.

Nighty night Havsplat.

He'll probably get to skate with the team. Maybe fill in if someone's injured. At practice of course. Not a game. Not a game. But practice.

Oh right. Woops. Maybe I was thinking of Aurie. Wait I don't quite understand why that's a reason to trade someone. Well then that seals it. That number is just cursed.

That's how I felt about Shanny's 14. And even Igor's 8.

Can't find the video on YT but he did make TSN's Top Ten goals by Red Wings.

It wouldn't bother me all that much but we all saw how Zetterberg was at the start of last year and then pretty much the rest of next season. :angry:

Every time I try to make up my own prospect ranking I usually stick to some general principles. Tatar is imo the undisputed #1 simply because I haven't seen a Red Wings prospect like him on such fast track. Datsyuk and Zetterberg weren't even on such a fast track. He was the youngest player in the AHL (I think) who wanted to play in a man's league and succeeded even though many thought he shouldn't, including the Red Wings brass. When it comes to Jan Mursak I'd actually rather go with the safe route in ranking him. Right now, for some reason, I can't help but think of Patrick Eaves when I try to think of how well he'll do in the NHL if he makes it. I'd rather classify him as a tweener right now instead of a sure lock for top six forward, which generally bumps him down a little because as you know, players who project to be top six receive higher rankings. Even though McCollum has a much higher upside than Larsson I feel like those two should be right next to each other. For the most part Larsson played pretty well here in NA to the point in which he should be pretty close to McCollum in any ranking. I also feel as if Lashoff and Nicastro shouldn't be too far apart either. About 2-3 spots at most. I think they both have similar strengths and NHL upside (4-6) along with the fact that I think they've both shown that they're just as likely to reach that potential relative to each other. It's just that Lashoff is ahead of Nicastro in terms of years because he chose CHL and not the NCAA route. Another pair who I think shouldn't be too far apart because of upside is Ritola and Andersson, both of which have drawn comparisons to Filppula. Andersson is much younger but I think his size and international achievements pull him close to Ritola in any ranking.

Vladifan too I think... Right?

I didn't read your OP very carefully and so I didn't notice when you said it was you who wrote that. It wouldn't be my top 20 list (I should really come up with one) but I understand if you have to follow guidelines to keep the job. Great work! I envy you big time. Are you allowed to post on here your own ranking if you went by your own, but wisely guided, rules?

Dick Axelsson shouldn't be anywhere near the top 20.

Watched some of the '08 Dallas series... I hate Steve Ott.