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Because Gary Bettman is conspiring to always piss Red Wings fans off. Ha.....he has to go to work in the morning after getting some amount of sleep. If it even goes into 1 OT, he's liable to pass out. LOL

Oooh, 20 more minutes. Come on, my dad's earned this one. Oh he's not.....he's just extremely nervous. I told him I've been there before with the Red Wings and it feels like your stomach is doing constant loop de loops and you feel like you're going to puke......but you're still glad it's happening because it means your team is there, not golfing. So he's fine. Nervous, but fine.

This is the quietest my dad has ever been during a sporting match. I mean, even when the Hawks scored he just sat there, staring at the TV. I think he's afraid if he talks, the Flyers will score 6 unanswered goals or something.

Not even for Nick would I turn on a NASCAR race.

I agree the Hawks have bandwagon fans, my father unfortunately was stuck surrounded by them at the game on Sunday. I've had to sit next to them at games, so I'm not arguing about their fan base having a lot of turds. Every fan base for every team in every sport has idiots. The Trib shouldn't have run the picture, it was pretty stupid of them to do it. I even fired off an email to the sports editor about it. However, some of the comments people on this site have made about Pronger and other players make that picture look like a kitten in a basket holding a ball of yarn. Offensive is offensive, whether it's a message board or a newspaper.

This thread is full of funny. A bunch of people who probably wouldn't even know what the Chicago Tribune looks like if not for this ridiculousness that shouldn't have been printed, commenting on the quality of a paper that you don't even read, in a city you've never been to or haven't spent a significant amount of time in. What's even funnier is that some of you have said about 10x worse about Pronger and other players, insinuating they're women/feminine and/or ***, totally unaware of the offensiveness of those statements.....all the while using the cop-out that because this is the internet, that somehow makes it better. The Trib shouldn't have printed that, I'm in agreement with you there. My dad even told me this morning he was surprised they went with it, since the Sun-Times is usually the paper that runs the low-brow stuff. That said, if you think this is indicative of the paper as a whole or the quality of the work they do put out, you're crazy.

The best one. I don't care about names. There's a lot of players around the league who rub me wrong and I can't stand -- if we had to have one of them, I'd want the one that kills us the most and makes us look bad.

Thanks, I appreciate that. Even though this wasn't the Cup-clinching game, he was still excited to get to go anyway. Living here in NC, he doesn't get a chance to see the Hawks live as often as he'd like. So when the opportunity arose, he took it. Of course he had to call me earlier before the game from my all-time favorite restaurant and detail for me all the things he and his buddies were eating.

I'm pretty sure my dad is going to strangle the guy in charge of playing Chelsea Dagger. Well, my dad is coming home from Chitown a happy camper. He'd love to go to Philly on Wednesday for Game 6, but he can't take anymore time off this week.

Got a text from my dad after that goal: "I hate that ******* song." Me too dad, me too.

My dad is at the game right now and is having a ball. He's texted me twice to let me know that. Once after he had beer dumped on him by some drunk obnoxious woman and then another after some drunk Flyers fan told him to go f*** himself.

I didn't say there was a 100% possibility of Yzerman returning to the Red Wings nor have I ever said/thought/intimated/inferred/implied that he was a saint. I said that it could happen. Just like I could win the lottery tomorrow. And if it does happen, wouldn't you want him to have prior success doing the exact same job?

WTF is wrong with you people? Shouldn't you want Yzerman to be successful? If he's successful in Tampa and proves his competence at being a GM, that means there's a greater chance that when Holland retires, there could be an opening for him to be GM of THIS team. I wouldn't want him running this team if he can't run Tampa Bay. The margin for error in Detroit is smaller than Lindsay Lohan's chances of staying sober. So that means if he needs to take some people WITH THE ORGANIZATION'S PERMISSION down to Tampa to help him do his job there, I'm not going to argue. Because if they have no problem with it, what the hell are all of you crying for? For God's sakes, stop it. Just stop it.

I can't ever see Steve Yzerman being treated as "persona non grata" and anyone that does do that.......is majorly effed up.

I said the Jets. One, Canada needs more hockey teams and two, it would solve the problem of putting the current Coyotes (and former Jets) in a more suitable market. Kills two birds with one stone.

I really wish people wouldn't use the Pine Tar game as evidence for why Selig should overturn Joyce's call. The two situations are in no way similar, nor did they employ the same metrics. Joyce was in error on a judgment call. Safe/out; fair/foul; ball/strike. The umps in the Yankees/Royals game that threw out Brett's HR had poorly interpreted a rule in the books about the amount of wood on a baseball bat legally allowed to be covered in pine tar. The rules said X number of inches, the umps looked at the bat, thought it exceeded it, disallowed the HR. Later, the bat was looked at again and it was determined that Brett in fact had NOT broken the rule. So the AL President, not the commissioner, restored the HR and the game was resumed from that point and the Royals ended up winning that game. That's not the same thing as what happened in the Tigers/Indians game.

He won't because he can't -- the precedent for doing so isn't there and he's not going to do something that could potentially cause more problems and controversy than it solves. I hate defending the douchebag, but he's in the right here. Everyone wanting the call to be overturned has no clue what kind of Pandora's box you're opening up if it happens. And I'm saying this as someone whose team would also benefit from s*** calls being overturned. If it had been done before and Selig still refused, that would be different.

Bud Selig can't overturn the call and he shouldn't. Now, lest someone here tell me I'm saying that because I'm not a Tigers fan, that's not the reason. There have been TONS of s*** calls in the history of baseball that either gave a team a win or cost them the game, gave a pitcher a no-no/perfecto or took one away. You can't undo what's been done, even if the idea of that sucks more than a hooker when the rent's due. Joyce screwed up and at least he admitted he screwed up and his taking is lumps like a grown-up, but the league's hands are tied. The only time I've ever heard of an on-field decision being overturned was the pine tar game between the Royals and the Yankees in 1983, but that was a because of poor interpretation of a lesser-known rule in the books, not a judgment call on a ball/strike or safe/out. Besides, how many times do you think your team has benefited from the ump blowing a call? Trust me, the Yankees have had a few games go into the win column that shouldn't have because the ump made the wrong call on the other team. Jeffrey Maier, anyone?

Gary Bettman can go choke on a vacuum cleaner hose. He's ruining the sport.

That was one of the worst calls I've ever seen in the 16 years I've been watching professional baseball. Holy ******* s***. There's no way it'll be overturned, but hopefully this means the end of Joyce's career. If I was Leyland, it would have taken the whole team to hold me back from punching that ******* in the face.

:blink: I'm saying the reason no one is talking about how much his absence would hurt the team is because they're too busy talking about money.

No, I understand where you're coming from. The team is better with him than we will be without him, and I think some of these people bitching need to realize that. When he retires, and it'll more than likely be after next season, our team is screwed. We don't have any young, up-and-coming defensemen we can start phasing in so his absence won't be as difficult to take. The opposite happened when Steve retired -- we had Hank and Pavs among others, to help bridge that gap. Right now, we've got no one. The fact he DIDN'T retire and didn't leave us in the lurch is something no one is addressing. I wonder why. Oh right -- $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Let me answer that for you now. Yes.

Thank you Chicken Little.

Apparently it's a "touch" over $6 million, which could be anywhere from $6.05 million to $6.2 million.