mjlegend

If I'm a Canucks fan, I'd like to hear him say things like 'We need to play with more urgency if we want to win,' or, 'We need to play faster within our system and not be caught flat footed in the neutral zone,' or 'It's do or die next game so we're going to fire 80 shots on net if that's what it takes to beat Quick.' 'It's going to turn around (because their defence is tired),' is something I would find unsatisfactory if it came from the mouth of a Red Wing.

Nyquist-Dats-Mule Bert-Z-Huds Abby-Flip-Cleary Miller-Emmerton-Homer Lids-White Kronwall-Stuart Quincey-Ericsson SG- Howard BG- Irrelevant I miss Helm.

I'm here late. So Henrik Sedin gets hit fairly cleanly by Brown so Burrows decides to fight Kopitar and needs to hug him down to win it? Hoooookay...

It's also not the Thunderdome. Lighten up, Francis.

Has the feel of a deliberately-confrontational column, set up to deliver angry responses. Postmedia (formerly Canwest) is full of these types now, which is a shame because Cam Cole has been around forever and he shouldn't have to resort to this. Vancouver should really form its own league if it thinks it's so much better than everyone else. The Sun and Province's columnists are such sycophants it's embarrassing. Totally the opposite of the Toronto print media, most of whom despise Burke and Wilson.

'He' is on the ice today. Not doing drills but skating now.

You are spoiled but who even does carbon copying anymore?

Sounds like something the Jack Adams Trophy winner in 1976 would say. We need toughness, but not at the expense of needless instigator/retaliation penalties because our PK isn't good enough to make up for it.

Pronger's #1 on the list. I don't know that anyone really comes back from severe post-concussion. Dwayne Roloson is 42 and awful. I think his gas tank is empty now. Andrei Markov has had so much trouble coming back he won't be half the player he was three years ago.

Looking at that mullet it's hard to believe the game has passed him by.

Well, the Luca Caputi era is over in Toronto. http://sports.nationalpost.com/2012/01/03/leafs-say-goodbye-to-luca-caputi-pick-up-minor-league-forward-from-ducks/ "We turned down a second and a fourth to make this deal..."

No, apart from Hudler I can't think of any either.

Meh.

Not bad for an undrafted kid. Bob Gainey absolutely stole him and a first (Pacioretty) for a Craig Rivet rental by the Sharks a few years ago.

Seems a bit out of character but it is a veteran linesman reporting it so what does he have to gain by making a false report? Three to five games and while he's out, make him take the same racial sensitivity training as inner city NY cops have to.

They can pretend they're cab drivers and withhold 15 cents from him. He'd probably flip out and give the Wings a lengthy power play.

Maybe a 58-win season could get him on the All-Star ballot next year. Er... you thinking of Juwan Howard?

With win rates from 48 per cent to 100 in a three year span, it's fair to say there's no real correlation to a Wings fight and a Wings win in recent years. It was worth a good look, though. Sometimes the numbers tell us what our eyes refuse to believe.

Hopefully Alex Edler was prepared to drop the gloves after hitting Kane last year in the first round. You know, because you can't hit anyone unless you're prepared to fight. Like Edler's never done in his life.

Off-topic, but I hope Swift Current trades Nedomlel to a contender. I'd love to see what he could do with a team that's not spinning its wheels like Swifty. I'm not too worried about Pulkkinen, but I am hoping Jurco can snipe a bunch for the Slovaks. Could be a huge tourney for him.

Actually, seeing as he's 36 and hits the crossbar on breakaways, he'd have fit in well on a line with Modano and Draper last year. Cuck the Fanucks anyway!!!

Conner looks to be providing a spark and I wouldn't send him down when Eaves gets back. If Mursak doesn't pan out, that 2006 draft class looks really weak. Kulemin was picked three after Emmerton and the Wings passed multiple times on Lucic, Anisimov, Marchand, Clutterbuck. Just so used to the Wings drafting well.

Somehow, Sandy Alomar Jr. is leading in voting for goaltenders.

Moar Jets pls.