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If you want a jersey bust, when I saw the Wings play at Vancouver the season before last there were two guys with Wings Bertuzzi jerseys. He wasn't even back from his injury during that game.

If the Wings are involved in the next Winter Classic and they use some kind of vintage one-off, I'm definately getting a Hossa jersey. Their standard jerseys look too similar to the previous ones to warrant buying another.

As a Wings fan who hates the Flames I love this pick-up. I can't tell if he's lazy, if he's still having injury issues, or if the assault thing is still affecting him, but he isn't a goal scorer and I can think of much better enforcers in the league. He's a waste of a roster spot.

Nacho Libre II?

These aren't Frozen Moments but I have to throw these ones in:

I'm in Calgary, so they were covering this pick-up quite a bit on The Fan, and most of the people that called in seems to actually approve of it. They were really quite infaturated with the idea that this was a 'second chance' for Bertuzzi. The whole buisness with Bert was in 2003, right? Why is it now, five years and four cross-country moves later, that this is his 'second chance'? How many chances does a guy get before it becomes painfully obvious to EVERYone that he's a laughably empty shell of what he once was? Normally I have a ton of respect for Iginla but the faith he places on Bert sets him back a notch in my books. He can't score and I can name of plenty of much better agitators out there in the league. f***, Sutter should have made a push to get Gary Roberts back on the Flames.

Todd Bertuzzi: The village bike of the NHL's GMs.

Raw population means nothing in terms of what defines a good hockey market. Atlanta is a HUGE city, but so long as the Trashers can't give away enough tickets to get anything even close to a sellout, it might as well be a town of 10 000. Fact is, the vast majority of America thinks hockey is a joke, and plopping a franchise into a large population center isn't going to miraculously change people's minds. Sure those 25 American cities are all bigger cities, but virtually all of them have MASSIVE generations-long followings for local franchises in the other major leagues or for college teams. They're NOT going to take a brand-new NHL franchise seriously because they don't take the SPORT seriously. Teams like Phoenix and Atlanta have been in the red since day one, what's so amazingly different about a place like Las Vegas where that trend is miraculously going to reverse? Seriously, Orlando? You think yet another franchise in Florida is the missing piece of the puzzle that's going to save the league? There's barely one club's worth of public interest and revenue spread out between two teams, how is adding a third going to solve anything? Winnipeg is smaller but is bound to have far more people who actually LIKE hockey and ergo more people likely to WATCH hockey, not to mention has zero competition in terms of other sports beyond the CFL which takes place during the NHL's off-season anyway.

So...we're going to win the Cup *AND* tank the season so we pick up Tavares?

I'm having Youtube problems, it'll play two seconds then freeze.

I think Kenny getting Hossa was kind of like a parent spoiling a kid (the fans) "Okay, just this once, but this is your free agency AND your trade deadline present, okay?"

Nothing is moving to Kansas City. The city screwed up big time when they decided it would be a great idea to build a shiny new arena and just assume that teams will jump at the opportunity to play in it.

Ha, okay then! Not like the Wings dominated most of the finals with Hossa playing AGAINST us or anything.

I'd love to see someone with something weird like that as a number. There's some guy in the NBA with the number 0 isn't there?

They can keep him. We got one of the only Penguins who actually DID something in the finals.

Holy s***, I thought we'd be a long shot for Hossa for sure, especially with the money Edmonton was throwing at him. Christmas just came half a year early for me, this completely blows me away.

Exceptionally debatable. That said, Bobby Orr earned even less, and he wouldn't even accept payment by the time his career was just about over.

Wall-E OST. Indescribably beautiful score for what's easily my favourite movie in a long time.

Satan HAS to play for the Devils. It would just be too coincidentally perfect for it not to happen.

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There's nothing to lose by sending him an offer. Who knows, maybe he'll take the Cup over his ego/paycheck and go for it. Even with the insane offer thrown at him, I still feel like Sundin would take Detroit over friggin' Vancouver...

2008's Scott Neidermeyer. Only this time it isn't just his own franchise he threatens to harm.

Uh, that was Markannen, not Conklin. Conklin basically threw away game 1 after Roloson was injured, then Mark took over.

Watch as NONE of those get signed to Detroit. At best we'll get some aging fourth liner to be 2009's Dallas Drake. We don't need free agents, we need some breathing room for the massive logjam of NHL-ready prospects we have.

It definately interests me far more than the draft, but I don't see the Wings making any kind of a decent splash tomorrow so meh, wake me up in October.