AceInTheSleeve

believe it or not our PP is only 16th in the league

I actually was thinking the same thing 5 minutes in. I guess this is what it feels to be a fan of a lesser team though, so Ill take the opportunity to walk in their shoes and 'hope' my team can pull out a win somehow. What a strange feeling

I don't think you're completely right about involuntary muscle tension being a definitive sign of brain damage. You see this a lot in combat sports like boxing and mma when fighters get knocked out. I don't know why it happens but it obviously has something to do with your brain bouncing around your skull sending scrambled messages to your body. The link you posted previous deals with patients in a coma, not knockout victims. Although it looked pretty nasty, especially the way he hit the ice, I'd wager that Voracek does not have severe brain damage from the hit.

3 things that suck about this game: 1 - Giving up a goal to retarded play by joey mac leaving the puck. 2 - Folding after giant kronwall hit. 3 - Shorthanded goal...

our pp CANT get worse, can it?

that just took 1st place for hit of the year

Pretty sad when this sort of thing happens. It really detracts from fan expression among all teams. I'm guilty of not wearing my red and white to pubs in vancouver when we play. I just can't trust people to not start s*** with me when I'm there.

way to pull that one out of the fire

Woooo go CBJ breakdown!

What is babs fascination with having huds play point? I hope those two breakaways change his mind

kronwall should be on the pp all the time instead of HUDLER!

what the hell is with them giving up short handed goals, and what the hell is with all the passing out of the slot to the perimeter???

wow what a missed call as hank gets hauled down with gloves in his face

horrible refs are horrible

good call

bulls***

If thats homer instead of nash its no goal every time

What a classy organization...

I enjoyed watching this, thank you.

Have to agree with Stuart. Second place is Schneider.

I would love to see the results of this experiment!

On the contrary, I'm pretty sure outside of Pittsburgh Crosby might actually be the most disliked NHL athlete. Yzerman was liked not because of his skill-set, but because of his attitude - which is not something these two have in common.

Besides the point that you don't really ever replace a talent like Rafalski, White is having a great season and consider this: Ian White has a $3M cap hit, Rafalski was $6M. I'd say if White was making $6M you might have an argument here. Commodore is our 7th Dman, and has been playing solid and simple hockey. For a 7th Dman you cannot ask for more. His only game with a minus record was a -1 against CBJ (he wasnt even a minus player during the pre-all star weekend MTL debacle, and he played over 14 minutes that game - his highest TOI in a game this season) Hank is having an off season, Ive noticed his speed is lacking but he is still strong as ever on the puck. He leads the team in shots, but they just aren't going in for him right now. I think his last 2 games Hank really turned up the intensity and I'd be very surprised if he wasn't ready to compete during the playoffs. If this is a glimpse of Z at 40 years old then we should all be very thankful. Bertuzzi has the 6th most points on the team out of our forward lineup, I don't know how you define 'top six' but to me this is one way. Not to mention he has been playing with great chemistry on the line with Pav and Mule. I say keep him in the top 6 lineup, it's working for Bert. Helm, Abdelkader, Miller, Mursak, Eaves, Nyquist, Emmerton, and Conner? Ive been seeing some amazing talent and potential from our bottom pool of forwards, infact I think we are deeper than we have ever been in 15 years and our forward prospects are swimming in potential! I don't know what games you've been watching. Yeah, but Howard is top 5 in the league. JMac has been solid for us the last few games with Howard out too so I see no need to panic over Conklin's shortcomings. Cleary - arguably. although I remember ken and mick said cleary has been suffering from an injury for the last while. Helm - no. Homer - 5on5: perhaps, special teams: no Ericsson is actually showing a lot of confidence out there and I think hes improving with every game, hes +16 right now which is a record pace for him. Hardly as horrible as ever. Remember, we won the cup with Lebda in the lineup in 08. Is Ericsson worse than Lebda?

Phoenix is such a bitchy little team

Why exactly can't we overpay for a backup? We have 5m in cap space, and our only weak link is Conklin. We all know Holland isn't gonna make any moves anywhere else.