dat's sick

Lids is so damn good. Just give him the Norris right now.

Why don't Kronner and Sammy switch sides on the point? So they can get one-timers going.

Beautiful goal. Who said PP2 sucked?

I don't believe it.. the 4th line... it finally happened.. they scored.

Too bad about Meech's injury, I thought the 4th line looked much better with him in it. And it's so good to have a guy like that who can play defense just as well as he plays offense. 7-1 Wings tonight? Hat-tricks by Franzen and Hossa. Pasha with 6 assists and one goal.

I wonder if you would have said the same at the end of the playoffs last year? I agree that Pavel is the greater talent, but right now Pav is on a crazy hot streak while Hank is on a cold one. Usually I'd say they're pretty close in terms of usefulness for the team, and their point production over the last couple of years point to that as well. Hank deserves at least what Datsyuk is making now, maybe more just to make up for how underpaid he's been.

I guess with Avery being suspended for trash talking his opponents (in a very low and completely not cool way for which he deserved to be suspended) the chances that more players will "open up" so to say during interviews is even slimmer. Every team will probably have Media Training once a week and learn all the proper responses such as "We need to get pucks deep and keep working, stay out of the box and get things going on the PP". In the Wings we atleast have Pasha and actually Lilja who are pretty funny in interviews. And McCarty of course, when he's with the team. I do agree the reporters asks really lame questions too. Often they're not even really questions they just say something like: "can you talk a little about how your offense is working?" or similar.

I just said I exaggerated about him hitting "everything but the back of the net"... my mistake, I'll try to choose my words more carefully in the future. I guess the language barrier doesn't help either. What I probably should have said was "it's not his fault his teammates hits everyhing but the back of the net" but when I wrote that, Hossa's miss, on what you call "not an open net" but to me is as open as a net can get, against Dallas was still fresh in my mind. It's at 2:40 in this vid btw. Yeah, Turco has his stick there but it's still amazing that it doesn't go in. All I'm trying to say is that there have been a few situations like that with Zetterberg involved and if a couple would have gone in than we wouldn't have all this discussion about something being wrong with Hank this season. Hossa is most definitely able to score, but in my honest opinion, with the amount of chances he's had I think he could have had atleast 4-5 goals more than he has. And that isn't really a knock on him, he's just had a little bad luck with bounces and played against some amazing goaltenders. He'll start pouring in goals again sooner or later I'm sure. And I never said anything about Hossa being a worse player than Z so I don't know why you start with that whole argument. I personally think Z is the slightly better overall player, but they both have their strenghts and as you say they're both among the best forwards in the league.

Not surprised it turned out to be false. Everything about Zetterberg tells me that he is a guy who would rather take a paycut (or in this case a smaller pay-increase) in order to help the team than play hard-ball to get as much money as possible. Still, Hank has been the biggest bargain in the league the last two or three years and the money he's gotten is almost a joke if you look at how much better he's been than guys with twice his paycheck. The dude deserves a lot of money, but I don't think he would decline an offer like that. He'll probably take about what Datsyuk is making if it means they'll be able to keep Franzen and Huds.

Maybe you misunderstood me, I worded my post wrong. The vid was related to the first part of my post and a response to people saying that Zetterberg is mainly a goalscorer and needs a playmaker on his line. No need to get so agitated, I wasn't really attacking Hossa to be honest. I definitely exaggerated a bit in my first post, he has missed a couple of great opportunities but he's not the only one who has, Z himself has had some great chances without getting the puck in the net. I think Hossa is playing great hockey and he does have a lot of goals and points, so I'm not at all dissatisified with his performance so far, it's just that him and Z seem to have this string of bad luck right now that makes it really hard for either of them to get the puck in the net, no matter how hard they try. Even on Hossa's last goal he didn't really touch the puck as far as I could see, and it should have gone to Lids. But obviously Hossa seems to be a bit of a touchy subject for you, so I'm sorry if I "offended" you or anything.

I've been using it the past couple of months, it's unbelievably awesome. Some nights when there are several interesting games I have several streams active side by side and they never lag or freeze and the quality is great. I really hope the site lasts, but something tells me it's too good to not be shutdown or turned into a paysite or something sooner or later.

oh god at those last 90 seconds. Ozzie redeemed total with that save! Pretty good game by the Wings all in all! But all that matters is that we beat the f***s! Goodnight everyone!

Oh, might be a high stick actually.. nice play otherwise, Franzen is good at knocking pucks out of air at crossbar height. EDIT: no, good goal! Nice turnaround of the game! Now just help Osgood so we don't lose the lead again!

Cleary! Where did that come from? And Meech is back, good news!

Ozzie just looks completely out of it today. Whenever he goes down to stop a puck it takes forever for him to get up. Lack of motivation? One more Ducks goal and it's definitely time to put Conklin in.

Have we ever scored on a 2 on 1? If so I sure can't remember it. Aww crap, Ducks score..

The only good thing that this financial crisis has led to is me being able to watch these late night games. Unfortunately the reason is that I lost my job so I'm unemployed as of right now. What's your excuse to be up this late/early?

Don't play Draper on the PK, mm'key?

Pavel is from the ******* moon. God that was epic.

..is anyone watching the Pens-Caps game? God those Pittsburgh announcers are horrible.. pretty good game though.

I mostly picked that vid because it's one of the most beautiful goals ever.. obviously Hossa would have scored on a pass like that. I'm just saying Zetterberg is a good playmaker, he makes a lot of great passes and he's imo better than Hudler and not that far behind Datsyuk in that regard. Sure, Hossa has scored 21 goals so far, but he could definitely have a few more, he's had a little bad luck on some chances. Just look at the chance last game when Z passed him and he had an open net, but the puck hit his skate and before going into the goal Hossa's own stick deflected it wide. Z has had some fine chances himself and has hit everything but the back of the net. Point: he's creating chances and could easily have like 10 points more than he has. I'm not worried that Hossa and Z aren't going to start producing more soon.

One thing I have to say is that Hank's abilities as a playmaker seem to be underrated here.. the guy can pass the puck. It's not his fault that Hossa is hitting everything except the back of the net on his passes.

So..Boston, San Jose, Wings or Capitals for the Cup then ? Granted the 2nd place in the East is hotly contested and there are atleast 4 teams that can end up there.

I was thinking about that the other day, what a crazy team Russia can have in that tournament. Malkin/Datsyuk/Ovechkin PP, with Fedorov (assuming he keeps playing) and Gonchar on point?

I think the lines look pretty good right now actually. I want to see the ZDH-line again as much as the next person, but I don't think there's much reason to start shuffling the lines around right now. We still have 6 wins in the last 7. And I wouldn't be surprised if Pasha let's off the gas a little bit soon, and Hank starts pouring in the points together with Hossa. That's the thing with this team, we want all the big players to produce a lot of points, but if they all did we would score 10 goals every game. The only real problem with the first three lines is Cleary imo. If the third guy in that line was more of a playmaker (a la Hudler) it would probably work a little better. But switching Cleary and Hudler is not something I want to do since the 3rd line is working so well now.