mjlegend

Why not put Helm on a first line with May and Newbury?

My Olympic Nightmare is Germany coach Uwe Krupp wanting to return to play for the Wings.

No fighting. How boring. Anyway, we ought to see a Canada-Slovakia (or, any team who doesn't suck as bad as Norway) elimination game in the next couple of days, which just makes me sick. Let's see which players have checked their balls long before they got to the Olympic village. I know Perry and Brodeur have.

Now, Canada needs to send out the surprise Gino Odjick line.

Meh. To complete this Wings experience, we'll still probably lose it in overtime or a shootout. I'm waiting for Ericsson to take a penalty in overtime for the red and white.

Forgive me if this has been said before but watching Canada is a lot like watching the Wings - in all the wrong ways.

I do like the Olympics precisely because you get to see sports in prime time that you never get to see. So far, I've been able to watch qualifying and/or medal rounds in biathlon, mens and women's long track and short track speed skating, skeleton, luge, women's freestyle, men's skicross, mens and women's moguls, men's and women's super G downhill, men's and women's curling, men's and women's hockey, two-man bobsled, men's figure skating and pairs ice dance (the tango was dreadfully boring a couple of days ago), large hill and normal hill ski jumping, etc. I'm looking forward to the rest of it too, largely because in Canada there's always three channels doing SOMETHING live. I don't want this valuable NBC-bashing thread turning into hockey versus curling. If you personally have a problem with curling, that's not NBC's fault. In Vacouver last night in the 10th end of the Canada-UK curling match had an impromptu crowd-wide version of O Canada sung extremely loudly by almost everyone in the audience. It sounded louder than anything else I've ever heard in a curling crowd, and I've been to a couple of Scotties finals. It's such an agonizingly precise sport with so many tough decisions to make. I rememeber it getting a lot of hype in the 2002 games and I remember hoping more than a handful of countries can get it like Canada (and speicifically Weswtern Canada) gets it. In Canada a few months ago, Edmonton's Rexall Place was packed to the rafters for a week and a half for the men's and women's Olympic qualifiers. I apologize on behalf of all Canadians (and Scots and Swedes and Chinese people) if there isn't enough Mark McGwires or Gilbert Arenas' or Plaxico Burris' or Sean Averys in curling taking 'roids/degrading women/ getting arrested for gun crimes to hold your attention. It's a damn shame NBC isn't giving these games enough of their attention in coverage of actual live events; it's hard to beleive they don't realize that's what many people want and need to see in order to feel as close as possible to it. If this is the case, it's seems as if the network has decided to cut their losses early and screw their viewership out of something truly great, which is what I'm sure a lot of Canadians feel these games have been so far.

Twitter is all abuzz that the Panthers are going to be selling anything and everything they can as the deadline approaches.

Who knows when we shall meet again, if ever. But time, keeps flowing like a river, to the sea.

I've always suspected, but has that ever been proven?

Before this thread gets deleted, I'll just step forward and give Nabokov all the credit in the world. He stole those points tonight. The Sharks were playing well below their capabilities offensively, for whatever reason, but stopping ~ 50 shots is amazing. If he plays like this in the playoffs, they're winning the Cup, no matter how bad Thornton chokes.

I like him a lot too but not only is he a center (do you put him ahead of Dats or Flip?), we'd have to clear up a lot of space to even get him in the picture. Only four players on the Wings have a bigger cap hit than Horton would, if we somehow traded for him. I don't know about 50, but I think he could score 35-40 with half-decent wingers. His cap hit of $4 million is daunting but he only turns 25 this year. If the cap were going up, I'd say do it, but it's staying at about the same level this year.

But then he would have sent Nion Dion to the Rangers for Higgins and Kotalik, were he could be best buds with Avery. I remember some sage words I overheard Sutter saying: "You can only trade a tremendous asset like Brandon Prust once, so you have to make sure he's a throw-in in the right trade".

Atlantic: New Jersey: Paul Martin Islanders: Rob Schremp Flyers: Hartnell Northeast: Boston: Johnny Boychuk (great shot, spectacular hits, would be a good cheap #7 defenceman) Buffalo: Tim Connolly Montreal: Lapierre (always makes me hate him as a neutral fan watching the Habs; I can't imagine how badass he'd be if we saw him play more). Leafs: Poni Southeast: Carolina: Chad LaRose Tamps: Ryan Malone Warshington: Fleischmann (Thanks, Bob Lang) Western Conference Central: Chicago: Duncan Keith Blues: Andy McDonald Northwest: Calgary: Dustin Boyd Edmonton: Mike Comrie (Rent him, Kenny!) Minny: Latendresse Pacific: Anaheim: Bobby Ryan Dallas: Brian Sutherby LA: Ryan Smyth Phx: Shane Doan SJ: Pavelski

I agree with most of this but Chevy's making almost as much as a firefighter in Saskatoon than he would as an NHL backup... Oh wait. Interesting first sentence in Chevy's Wikipedia profile:

So Turco's bound to be a rental now. Here's hoping someone like Nabokov tears his ACL, and the Sharks need a high priced goalie, and the Wings sneak into eighth place...

Damn. If this were a non-Olympic year, I'd hope Getzlaf would be back just in time to play for Canada in the World Championships. This Canadian team is getting less and less reasons to get me to like it. If Yzerman and Babcock weren't involved, I don't know what the hell I'd do.

Clean hit but I wonder what Lou thinks about head shots now. Keith Jones is a Wings-hating idiot and has been since he played for the Avs. I just thought I'd add that because I really hate that him and Dave Reid get to go on television every few days on either Versus or the NHL Network and tell everyone the Wings are s***ty.

The more I think about this the more I think - Lilja better be damn well worth his cap space. Damn well worth it. Damn damn damn well worth it.

The Pens won't repeat if they bump up against the Caps this year, which may not be until the ECF. But they won't beat Washington. I'd go to Vegas and bet my soul on it. I had to look it up because I also rememebered it vaguely. Ben Eager in the third period of the Game 4 win.

They don't have enough Swedes. Anymore, in the Devils' case.

St. Louis seems to fit your idea of a team looking to add experience. Think they'd want to part with impending UFA Colaiacovo as a Wings sixth/seventh defenceman? The next time we're in the mood for a scrappy, speedy forward, I want Dallas' Brian Sutherby at $812,000.

Frig, the Flames got more for Phaneuf. What the hell? You sound interested in joining their fanbase. You think the Red Wings are constantly disappointing? Try following a team that's only made the playoffs once in 10 years. No, seriously, try it.

I heart DGB. He's one of my bookmarks, and I never thoguht I'd have a Leaf fan's blog in there.

Two goal leads are generally pretty safe lately, right? Guess I can turn the internets off and go to sleep.