Yellowknife Redwing

I've looked through all the players who played for us during Carson's tenure (1989-90 to 1992-93) and I really can't seem to match any names.

I believe the first one is Jimmy Carson

Stole this from another forum, but I figured you guys might enjoy it We signed Ogie Oglethorpe and Johnny Upton Maybe we can pick up Denis Lemieux to play backup?

I'd offer Radulov a nice fat contract, but isn't he still obligated with the Predators?

Why didn't Modano play? Because he's been terrible all season long and never came close to earning a steady roster spot.

I'm sure it's mostly gamesmanship on his part and the amount of whining from Canucks fans has begun to border on ludicrous, but the Canucks have absolutely been getting the shaft from the officials in this series. Vancouver is getting nailed with a lot of tickytack calls while Chicago has had some obscene after the whistle antics go unchecked. It reminds me a lot of the DET/SJS series last year where it was completely lopsided the entire time. Ideally they'll put the whistles away for game 7.

Always a mature way to start a conversation by making baseless assumptions; way to go. I just checked the schedule and aside from the team Canada U20 tryouts, I've seen him play 9 times this year. He's a good skater with decent hands but I don't believe he's ever going to be anything more than a checking center, and even then his compete level leaves a lot to be desired. He doesn't shoot the puck enough, is soft in the corners, lacks creativity in the offensive zone and gives up too easily in physical confrontations. I'm not saying there's no chance of him making the show and of course there's a chance that he will become an excellent pro, but I've seen nothing so far that warrants his draft position. He's got loads of time to develop and I'd gladly be proven wrong and eat some crow, but I've been a nay-sayer from the moment he was drafted and I will continue to be until experience forges him into a useful NHLer or proves him to be a bust.

I'll be the first to say that Sheahan's progress to this point doesn't give me a whole lot of confidence in drafting "bigger and stronger". I have very little faith that Sheahan will be an effective NHLer.

He should retire either way. When it first became official that he was joining the team, I imagined his potential basement and ceiling with the club this year and he actually managed to do worse than my lowest expectations. Modano makes this team worse.

It's impressive how you can be so arrogant with your post, yet so wrong at the same time.

CBC/HNIC is Canadian programming aimed at Canadians, funded by Canadian taxpayer money and has been broadcasting hockey coast-to-coast in Canada since 1952. Those of you arguing about CBC having a Canadian bias are borderline retarded. Just to be clear, we're all operating on the understanding that CBC stands for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, right? I literally cannot remember the last time I saw a Canadian team playing on the NHL on NBC. I don't even know if I've ever seen it in my life.

You want to slot a guy in at 2nd line LW who has 4 goals in 36 games? Modano has looked "good" for all of about 5 games this season.

Loving the thread re-name, very clever.

In J-Mac we trust. I have no problem letting him take the reigns and would be equally as comfortable with MacDonald in the playoffs as I would be with Howard.

Yup, we still have 3 of our last 7 against the Hawks. Detroit could probably eliminate Chicago from playoff contention just by winning those 3.

Part of me wants him to finish school because he's so close, but the other part desperately wants to have a look at this kid within the organization. I think he's going to do great things.

I predict we take a 4-0 lead into the 3rd period, but lose the game 12-5

It's always tough to give an objective and reasonable prediction while in the throes of a losing streak in which we've played terrible. That said, I haven't truly liked Detroit's chances at any point during this season. Things I believe will cause us serious trouble: 1) Howard has been terrible this year. He's won a lot of games, but many of those have come on the broad shoulders of the team's league-leading goal scoring. Howard has been prone to lapses in concentration that have led to at least 1 poor goal in nearly every one of his starts this year and he's had a very difficult time stringing together strong performances in succession. 2) Our defense has been completely exposed by two things: a) chip & chase with aggressive forecheck and b) attacking from below the goal line. Our d-men look completely lost when the opponent doesn't back off and give them room to work. Even Nick Lidstrom has been prone to coughing up the puck and making poor decisions when under duress and this is the first year I believe I've ever seen that 3) Special teams lack urgency. The powerplay has been lazy, predictable and altogether stagnant. The PP looks lost when teams take away the point option because they're trying to get too cute down low and seem completely unwilling to shoot for rebounds and dig for garbage goals. The failure on the powerplay can almost entirely be attributed to the fact that the penalty killers give up entry into the defensive zone too easily. The opposition doesn't even have to make a pass to gain entry because our defense backs down so willingly to the puck carrier. Easy entry = easy setup = free shots = bad PK. It's that simple. These are the 3 things that I believe are going to kill us in the playoffs. Playoff style hockey with high intensity and aggressive forechecking is exactly the type of type of hockey that is designed to dismantle a team that plays a soft perimeter game like the Wings have been all year.

This team is going to get crushed in the first round of the playoffs

That's probably the 3rd or 4th time I've read that article. It is an intimate look at a rare human being and is exceptionally well written.

High dollar players ending up in the AHL for extended stints is more symptomatic of poor decisions by GMs than an unsustainable structure created by the rules of the CBA. The New York Rangers' situation has all the right elements to repeatedly create the perfect storm for disastrous contracts. The Rags have: a) Bottomless pockets. They have incredibly rich owners who are capable of spending to the salary cap and burying any unwanted contracts without much concern for their bottom line. If the NHL had a soft salary cap with incremental penalties for additional spending, you can bet the NYR would eat that up too. b) A GM with who is a very poor judge of player value and contract length. Nearly every big dollar free agent signed by the Rangers in the past 2 decades has been overpaid by at least $1M and in some cases, several million. Gomez, Drury, Redden, Roszival, Gaborik, Lundqvist, Boogaard have all been overpaid by the Rags in the last few season. c) A market driven by big name superstars. The Rangers always want to land the big fish in order to stir public interest. The biggest free agent coming up on July 1st this year is Brad Richards and I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Rangers offered him $8M/yr to lure him to the big apple. Glen Sather and the Rangers treat the FA market like they're the Yankees: Poach big name free agents away from small clubs with the lure of huge money. Due to the salary cap it's burned Sather a couple of times, but the AHL option coupled with the deep pockets of the Rangers owners (as well as a few crafty trades) have saved their bacon so far. The Red Wings are a perfect example of how a top dollar club can make the salary cap work with proper management. The Rangers are the cautionary tale of how frivolity in the cap world very rarely results in on-ice success. This is a lesson that the Chicago Blackhawks are about to learn again. They already screwed the pooch with Campbell, Huet, Hjalmarsson, Hossa, etc, and they just signed Seabrook to an overvalued contract.

If we could somehow fit him in and carry him until the end of the year, he would make for a really nice security blanket in the playoffs in the event that Osgood reinjures himself. Even having the possibility of JMac backstopping us in the playoffs is enough to cause concern.

Nope, I completely agree. This is just going to further compound the salary issues that Chicago is already having.

It comes down to a choice between Getzlaf and Nash, but it really isn't a choice at all for me because I don't think Nash is worth his contract. Getz makes $5.325M Nash makes $7.8M Getz's career high in points - 91 Nash's career high in points - 79, and that's the only time he's ever broken the 70 point barrier Nash is a great goal scorer, but I'll take the point-per-game power forward who makes $2.5M less annually every time. I'm surprised at how many votes there are for Nash. Nobody around here wanted to pay Hossa over $6M when he scored 40 goals and 70 points for us. Those are basically the best numbers Nash has ever put up and he chews up a ton more cap space.