Finnish Wing

That's gonna be so easy.

Ham, I think.

Yeah, I thought so. He always has fancy clothes.

Who's the other guy in that picture besides Ericsson? Is it Leino?

Of course I know the Disney special. Here in Finland it's on TV every Christmas Eve as well. But the main focus isn't in Donald Duck in that. Here the show is called something like "Jiminy Cricket Presents".

Same.

You know what, that's a good argument, but I'm not. I've been a fan of this club at some level since -99 when I was still a kid. I'm not saying Leino is better than he really is, or that Helm is worse. I'm just hoping that Leino does well and I know he has the potential. You could as well be biased yourself. I actually asked who overrates him here. Losing a puck in the opposition corner is always better than center trying to be a playmaker with no skills and passing it right to the enemy in the middle.

Who exactly overrates him? I think here in LGW he's almost underrated. Every loss is his fault and even if he just plays a normal game like the likes of Helm and Abdelkader (maybe they hit more, but they also turn the puck over) he gets all the blame.

Sherlock.

Yeah. I'm glad Babcock and Holland don't suck.

You understand?

Yeah, but no way he'll be playing against Blackhawks like some have speculated.

Filppula will be there centering the 3rd or 4th line if healthy.

The main thing about Filppula coming back is that we can build a line around him. Hopefully we get more secondary scoring and Leino gets going as well.

In an interview Leino speaks about his season not going well. He says that you can see looking only at the stats that it hasn't gone as planned. I knew that he's most worried about his stats as his supposed to be an offensive player. Finnish article

In an interview Leino speaks about his season not going well. He says that you can see looking only at the stats that it hasn't gone as planned. I knew that he's most worried about his stats as his supposed to be an offensive player. Finnish article

In an interview Filppula said he's expecting to be in shape for Christmas Eve. Finnish article

I'm sorry but this looks better: Frolov-Datsyuk-Cleary Zetterberg-Filppula-Franzen Abdelkader-Helm-Eaves Miller-Draper-TOUGHGUY I lol'd at your 3rd line and having Abby on 4th line wing or not on the team at all.

The whole team was better and more productive offensively last year than this year.

Seems like every loss is Leino's fault now. At least he didn't turn the puck over like Helm did.

Thank God you're not Mike Babcock. I'm pretty sure he doesn't dump Leino anywhere this season. Abdelkader will definitely go play big minutes in GR. Could be good for Helm too because he doesn't develop playing 4th line minutes here. Then next season we're gonna have the second coming of The Grind Line as our 3rd line: Abdelkader-Helm-Eaves. Then we've got Miller-Draper and a tough guy on the 4th line. 0-1 of Leino, Bertuzzi, Holmstrom and Williams will get a spot in the top6 next season. I'm already loving our future roster. Frolov-Datsyuk-Cleary Zetterberg-Filppula-Franzen Abdelkader-Helm-Eaves Miller-Draper-TOUGHGUY69 LOL why am I posting lines and rosters in a game thread again?

Kovalchuk? Nope. Semin? Nope. Filatov? Nope. Frolov? Yes, please.

You don't have to hit the bars srsly.

You should know.

Yeah, it's a surprise considering there were also many other players from Penguins. Ovechkin was there also because he's Russian. But most of the guys were either from Penguins, Blackhawks or Red Wings as I said.