Blueliner

You people need to realize that Filppula is not going anywhere.

Lebda won't make the trip to Columbus, but will be day-to-day.

Doing it like the Wings? I think it'll be pretty hard to get a bunch of Europeans on the team.

You can hear Frasier say, "He's getting six minutes." Talking to the Buffalo bench.

Well he's thirty right now. So I say they'll get him for 8-10 years.

that sounds like a penalty that would be called in the Mighty Ducks movies. Two minutes for roping?

I run for kilometers and trust my eyes to Dr. Rahmani, you should too.

Maybe we would have taken Johan Fransson. He went to Dallas for the 34th overall pick. I think they pick they wrong Johan. Or Alexander Elder (3rd round), and Mark Streit (9th round)

I think Bin Laden claimed responsibility for the attacks.

omg, those guys are bad (even though Danny Gare was the captain before Stevie). I usually watch the jackets when they are on tv and I can't stand them.

well put

I think playing in the Eastern Conference would dramatically improve the PK.

I think Lidstrom is the best defenseman I've ever watched. It's all the simple thinks he does. He does do any of the fancy things like throwing hard checks or a 100 mph shot. Most guys in the league like Chara, Souray, Weber, Phanuef need to rely on those things to be affective. Lidstrom doesn't have to use any of that. Again it's the little things he does. How many times have you seen him bat the puck out of the air along the boards when the opponent tries to chip it past him. It's pretty much impossible to get around him. Just look at the last couple of games. Guys like Ovechkin, Malkin, Crosby went one-on-one with him and they lost each time.

Wow. You're a bigger buzz kill than Buzz Killington. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTz0oisC3F4

Hey, finally someone makes sense.

Millbury thinks the wings should pick him up because they brought back Hasek and Osgood. http://www.freep.com/article/20090206/SPOR...6076/1053/rss17

Dan O'Halloran isn't the best ref? wtf?

It's not fair for a team like Detroit to have try so hard to stay under while teams like Nashville and Columbus are way below it. I believe Columbus is like $12 million under the cap. Why don't they go out and get a Marian Hossa or Henrik Zetterberg? That's why the cap is in place. So Other teams have the chance to get these players. Maybe these teams should invest money in good players to get more people in the seats. Not too many people will pay money to watch NYI play Tampa.

We had a couple extra home games this year when they were down in Florida.

Make that a 5 on 1 with an empty net behind him.

Not even the Great Sidney Crosby or Alex Ovechkin can get around him.

not worth giving up good players or picks for a guy we will not be able to sign

If I could change one rule, it would have to do with the game misconduct penalties with boarding/checking from behind calls. I hate it when ******* like Backes pretend to be injured to get the major penalty and a game misconduct and come back out the next shift. I think that if a player gets a game misconduct, the "injured" player should also sit out the rest of the game to prove that the injury sustained was real and serious. I don't mind the five minute major for a dangerous play, but it's a shame a player gets a game misconduct for someone trying to win an Academy Award. What do you guys think about this rule change?

Does anyone have the video that Versus showed last night of Draper at the 97 Cup Celebration? It looked like he gave Illitch a dollar back for the one he spent to get him off waivers from the Jets. I was able to watch the clip, but didn't get sound because I was watching it during night class. I'm curious as to what he said.

Did anyone else catch the Gaborik and Demitra jerseys at the end?