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Maybe he wouldn't sign somewhere else for the same reason 99 percent of the other wings don't sign somewhere else? I dunno, call me crazy.

All of this is pure speculation that the Wings end up in the Finals...... OH, and forgive me hockey gods for speculating a little early. The NHL recently announced they are looking at the possibility of moving the Finals start date up to this Saturday. Weird that they haven't decided yet, and are waiting? This one is for all the conspiracy theorists. Let's look at the implications/possible negatives and positives. 1. The waiting until after the Pens series allows the NHL to make sure that the Pens don't get any injuries they need to recover from. 2. The Saturday start would give the Wings just a couple days rest instead of three. 3. The league is aware of the injury situations, and let's just say the Wings would probably benefit most from more time to heal up. Starting the series Saturday might make the wings start the series without some key components. 4. The Pens are rolling better right now than they have all season, and 9 days off might just interrupt some of that MO they have going. 5. The earlier start would give the Wings much less prep time for the Finals. 6. The Wings being a Veteran team just might have an advantage on how to deal with that much time off before a series. (The last one is obviously questionable at best) Do I believe any of this???? LOL!!! Not saying. OH, and one last thing. Most would say the Wings....being the "old" team and all would probably benefit more from rest, than the "young" Pens.

Reading comp. take time learning it. the person was saying nice find to Shoreline, who posted an article with the OLD schedule. So the OP (Myself) posted the NEW updated schedule which was what the original post was about. Not the old schedule, which the OP assumed that everyone already knew of the old, and new updated versions. Not exactly sure that's what you meant, but the OP had 1. read about the scheduling change on here earlier, 2. Knew about the original schedule. 3. Posted the info about the updated scheduling possibilities (which a couple people posting in this very post, knew nothing about apparently) and finally,The reason this thread DOES EXIST is because the OP had spent the time, and knew about ALL of the scheduling possibilities.....hence the speculation about the conspiracy. More important than the conspiracy talk though is.....what is the NHL going to do to reimburse the people that had already made travel plans based on their original schedule. My guess.....Nothing.

Oh, and a couple other things..... Do I believe this scheduling thing is a conspiracy. I would like to think not. At the very least though it makes the NHL look bad and is poor management. Let's just say you lived out of state and when the wings lost game 3.....(according to the schedule they released) you lived out of state and bought airline tix to detroit for games 3 and 4. Now you have airline tix (non refundable) that are useless. In other words you just lost a bunch of money because of poor management. And at the very least, IMO this revised schedule benefits the Pens more than the wings. Just my opinion.

I'm not talking about the Back to Back games. Never was. How would back to back benefit either team?I was talking More about the original schedule, all of the sudden being possibly changed to sooner. How do we know what the intent was? WE DON'T! Yes, that is what the article says the intent is, but IF it were a conspiracy.....would you expect them to come out and say it??? Naive much? Look, I'm not saying it is a conspiracy....just that the NHL doesn't do themselves any favors in cooling the fires. They tend to add fuel to the fire. And if you don't like the conspiracy stuff....here's a little help for you.... You don't have to read about them. The thing is no one here can either prove, nor disprove a conspiracy. The other thing is....no one here (including you or I, shoreline) can prove what someone's real intent is.....unless you crawl inside their head. The intent as iterated in the article is EJ Hradeks opinion, or what he was told by the NHL. Doesn't mean it is the REAL intent. At one point the Pens had 74 PP's and the next closest was 60 (wings) I am sure we got alot closer after the Hawks meltdown. The funny thing is....at that same point the Canes, Wings, and Hawks were at 56, 57, and 60 PP's....while the Pens sat at 74. That is a pretty large discretion. Just curious, why are you so quick to discredit some of these folks who discuss conspiracies? Do you have some overwhelming proof that disproves them?

NHL may bump up Cup finals start dateComment Email Print Share By E.J. Hradek ESPN The Magazine Archive According to multiple sources, if the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings can wrap up their respective Conference final series by Wednesday night, the Stanley Cup finals likely would start on Saturday, May 30 in Detroit. In this scenario, Game 2 would be played on Sunday, May 31. Stanley Cup Playoffs Blog Check out the latest updates and analysis from the 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs as our NHL crew weighs in: • 2009 Playoffs blog This is a change from a May 22 press release from the league that indicated that the championship series would begin on Friday, June 5, if both Conference final series didn't end in four-game sweeps. The Penguins can close out their series with a victory over the Hurricanes in Raleigh on Tuesday night. The defending champion Red Wings, meanwhile, have positioned themselves to advance with a win over the Blackhawks on Wednesday in Detroit. For the past several days, the league has been working behind the scenes with NBC, which has limited prime time real estate to devote to the Cup finals due to important "sweeps" week programming and the Tonight Show re-launch with new host Conan O'Brien. The possible change would spare the league an embarrassing, television-created, eight-day hiatus and the competitive nature of the playoffs wouldn't be compromised by an unusually long layoff for both clubs. E.J. Hradek covers the NHL for ESPN The Magazine.

Sorry Johnny, meant to quote Shoreline. Shoreline, that is not the latest info dude. If you are going to put a conspiracy theory to bed with Facts, at least make sure you have the latest info. http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/playoffs/2009/news?id=4203658 The NHL WAS going to start with that schedule you mentioned in that APRIL 2ND article. Now, it's looking like they want to start this Saturday. Hence the original post. Guess I should have showed everyone the original schedule, and then the updated proposal so we didn't have to go through this. Just assumed (yes I know the saying) everyone knew of the latest scheduling proposal.

Go canes go!!!

Babs said Drapes missed the third period with a pulled groin. Another reason the wings ran out of gas. Short dats, Kronwall, and Drapes for the game. With the possibility of Drapes now being out, things are getting kinda thin.

*** is in no way the same as retarded, but your point is taken.

I am gonna wait till the game. (most likely he is out, but NHL live said he was out, then came back and said they were wrong...that he was a game time decision.) Wish there was someway of knowing without exposing players to further injury, but there isn't.

As is NHL.com/ espn and everywhere else on the web. Including Babs at the presser. I find it odd that Babs would say he is a gametime at the presser, and then 10 minutes later say he is out. Weird.

Anyone else think there is a bit of irony to the timing of Dats injury? If nothing else it is a little odd (timing wise) that Babs brought leino up to practice with our other regulars, the day prior to Dats injury. What do you all think of the possibilty that Dats has been nursing an injury for a while, and Babs was preparing leino to play in the event we won game 2? Just giving Dats some time to rest an ailing injury? Not saying this is true, just saying there are quite a few possibilities out there (including, just the truth being what babs told everyone), and the timing of Leino's activation with the rest of the team adds more intrigue. Just curious to see if anyone else had thought about this.

Has anyone been able to verify if that vicious rib rumor was true or not?

Do you remember when he took the blast to his foot?? The reason I ask is because I tried to go back and rewatch everything, but I couldn't find where it happend. The only thing I found was where he took a pretty good hit in the third period coming out of our own zone. I even slowed it down to watch the hit, and it really wasn't that bad of a hit. Dats for the most part got out of the way of the brunt of the hit. The hit I am talking about is the one where the vs. play by play guy said dats was slow to get up and was in pain on the bench (I think his exact words were Pavel had his head down on the bench). Anyway, no biggie....just wondering if you knew when he took the puck off the skate.

Could the Pens beat the wings? Yes....Could the wings beat the Pens? Yes. It would be a great series. IMO. I do think the Pens are a better TEAM, than they were last year. I think they are deeper on their forward lines. Their D is still a little suspect, but they have the guns up front to make up for it. The only thing I don't like about them is.....IMO Crosby still lacks the humility. He has a real problem giving credit to other teams, and I hope the Wings can help him with that. I would have thought last year would have tought him something, but the issue is still there. IMO.

It seems to me that you have some sort of issue with Leino. I have yet to see you say something positive about the guy.

Guess the OP didn't want to answer the bell on Where Lilja's stick was in Game 6 last year????

With the way our depth stepped up tonight, the question that has been raised on here a thousand times, just got a little more interesting......Should they, or shouldn't they resign hossa? Do I need to explain this any further? Opinions anyone?

I think they had to kill one (that I remember, I am getting older) in the Caps series, but I would be willing to bet that they get more 5 on 3 PP in the playoffs than any other team.

Nothing as blatant as Flowers stick you say????? You mean like the Pens player that slashed the stick out of our D-mans (Lilja) hands when you were on the PP in Game 6 last year (No call), down 3-2 in the series, and 3-1 in the game? You know where a goal was scored about 10 seconds later on a tip from Hossa (Lilja's man) in front of the net? Or Datsyuk racing along the boards to end game 6, then being tripped with about 20 seconds left (No call again) Give me a break, Pens fan is the last one who should be complaining about calls. Get outta here. Again, I heard no Pens fans complaining about those no calls, why this one?

Stalker Alert!!!! Stalker Alert!!!! Someone notify the DHS!!!!!

It's not a bad thing. It's a good thing. The kid could add some scoring punch to our 4th line.

The first goal was just as much ozzie's fault as anyones. IMO. Most of the writeups/analysis I have read attribute it to OZ as well. I mean he did fire the puck out to someone not far away from him.

Yes, Hossa came back in the game after he went to the locker room but,.........after the 2 minute mark he left for the locker room. Anyone else notice???