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I don't see how this play is even a little bit dirty. Chara interfered with him a little bit, sure, but that's it. If he had ridden him into it the whole way I could see an argument, but not for this.

Actually Jokerit is one of the few teams that have an enforcer type every year. Sami Helenius played for them and now they have Semir Ben-Amor.Anyways, I heard the injury was just a charley horse and he should be okay in a few days.

If Saku Koivu would've stayed captain longer in Montreal, i'd put him here.
Yzerman without a doubt
Stevens without a doubt (he may not have been a scoring leader, but by god if he couldn't hit somebody)
Messier gets some credit for winning with the oilers post gretz and then ending the Rags 53 year drought.
Beliveau without a doubt.
Always thought Arnott and Langenbrunner were decent, maybe not top 5 but sure up there.
And lest we forget, Brendan Shanahan was the captain for the Hartford Whalers when we picked him up.

Joni Pitkanen. Best available UFA defenseman. Would fit well in our defense and provide physical play. Will probably cost around $5.5m at the top end.
Want another defenseman? The cap is projected to go up by about $3m, and with Lidstrom retiring in this scenario, that should be possible.
Maybe the Wings can get away with trading Kindl and a pick or mid-level prospect for Meszaros.
Figure that leads to a roster which looks like this:
Datsyuk $6.7m
Zetterberg $6.083m
Franzen $3.955
Filppula $3m
Hudler $2.875m
Cleary $2.8m
Bertuzzi $1.938m
Holmstrom $1.875m
Eaves $1.25m
Helm $913k
Abdelkader $788k
Mursak $700k
Emmerton $650k
Rafalski $6m
Pitkanen $5.5m
Meszaros $4m
Stuart $3.75m
Kronwall $3m
Ericsson $1.25m
Meech $500k
Howard $2m
Smith $500k
Pretty strong team, don't you think? Still around $2.3m in cap space if you don't think so.

It's his first season playing on a smaller rink and he's one of the griffins leading scorer, an AHL allstar, and a leader...but he's peaked? Glad you weren't in charge of Bertuzzi last year/this year, eaves, and Cleary.
iFlip will be in the NHL next season, wether it's as our 13/14th forward or on some other team. He has a lot of hockey smarts and he plays an effective Wings style of hockey.
And as was asked earlier, iFlip is only waiver exempt this season because it's his first season in North America.

According to Darren Dreger, Bettman will be personally involved in the PIT/NYI discipline.
Which means that Bylsma's suspension will likely be rescinded, Godard will just get a fine and half the Isles roster will be suspended for the remainder of the season.

Did you even watch the game? Hillen, Gilles all just jumped Penguin's players.
Both teams were complete embarrassments. That was not a hockey game.

Fighting is completely useless. The only thing pathetic is players that actually think they help their team when they get an instigator and 5 minutes in the box.
I'll take a good hit over a fight any day of the week.

Iflip is a huge part of this teams future. He should be called up before anyone else.

You wanted to pay $4m per year for a 20-goal scorer who has two years left on his contract? Really???

This has been something that's way overdue. "Oh, but it'll be hard for fans to get right!" And we don't have plenty of names in the US of other European or all sorts of odd ancestry that's interesting to pronounce/read? People seem to get over them just fine... hell, here's some names from perfectly American sports figures:
Roethlisberger (Rofflesburger? Roachesburner? What?)
Ayanbadejo
Aromashodu
Rzepczynski
Really, you can find tons of examples of names like this, from American born individuals, all in American pro sports. We don't make a habit of butchering the spelling of their names just because we can't pronounce it the way it's written. Frankly, I think we can live with a few Fyodorovs and Kovalyovs.

Oh cmon guys, you know I'm not a fluent English speaker like you are. Not fair.

I gave you a +1 for being honest.

So, what's wrong with Larsson?

I gave you a +1 for being honest.

I gave you a +1 for being honest.

I support the players you listed, and I also support big goons who have no talent other than intimidating people and punching them in their faces. And no I don't care that those players don't skate well or score points.
Just being completely honest with my feelings on this.

I just said I would love to have them...nothing else...relax

Hmm, lets see... Maybe it's because you're the...ISLANDERS!!!!! : DDD

Either Isles waive him which probably eventually leads to Wings getting him. Or they keep his 570k salary and get nothing but bad reputation among Meehan's other clients.I mean if it were the Sharks or Blackhawks - just to prevent Detroit from getting him - it wouldn't been such a big deal. But cmon the ISLANDERS? : DDD
Garth Snow is a real player, I gotta tell ya.

Good Job Garth Snow. I'm sure this helped a lot in your future attemps of getting good FA's signed.

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one word:underrated.