13dangledangle

I was 13 and remember being pi**ed right off. I hated Ottawa and I hated Yashin. Yzerman became my favorite player when I was 9 years old when my dad took me to maple leaf gardens to see the leafs vs wings. My eyes were glued to this dude making moves, moves I might add that Ive only seen in my dreams, well up to this point anyway. When the game was almost over my dad asked how I was liking the game, I said we need to stop by one of the stands on the way out and buy me an Yzerman jersey...Needless to say he was kinda pissed, it was almost blasphemy at that point for me less then an hour away from the leafs to route against them, but I did. AND its been glorious

After an article I saw today from Kenny Holland it most def seems like Z isn't coming back. The biggest hit we take from this imo is we seem to have a ton of wingers in the wheel house ready to go but who centers them? I believe Nielsen is best suited for a 3rd pairing role SO is the AA playing center thing done because he'd help us create 3 lines that can help score on a regular basis if he could play center Mantha Larkin Zadina Rasmussen Athanasiou Vanek Bertuzzi Nielsen Nyquist Abby Helm Frk Glendening (faceoff champion)/Witowski (face punching champion) Danny D Green Ericsson Daley Kronwall Hronek Chowlowski

Jesus Christ I guess some things cant please some people. Ive read negative comments all over social media about this signing and it boggles my brain as there is legit ZERO reason not to be excited for 5 more years of Larkin, and he could have certainly commanded more money if he wanted to. Hes our guy, our future C according to most and someone we can definitely build a winning team around. ….AND he is most certainly NOT Nazim Kadri, I haven't seen DBoss act like a ***** even once.

Yzerman because of his career here. Leadership, attitude and work ethic aside Stevies best years here were something else. Between 87 and 92 he put up some absolutely amazing numbers: 87- 50 G 52A 102P (in 64 games ?!) 88- 65G 90A 155P 89- 62G 65A 127P 90- 51G 57A 108P 91- 45G 58A 103P 92- 58G 79A 137P Those stats are insane, 732 points in his best 6 "prime" seasons (and they just so happened to be all back to back). If you took Feds best 6 seasons not back to back but overall it looks like this: 90- 31G 48A 79P 91- 32G 54A 86P 92-34G 53A 87P 93- 56G 64A 120P 95- 39G 68A 107P 02- 36G 47A 83P Feds totals up to 562 points in his best 6 seasons, that's 170 points less then Stevies best 6 seasons. Feds joined the club 3 years into Stevies 6 year tear and put up some amazing numbers too, just not nearly as crazy as what Yzerman achieved. The fact he was through and through a class act just puts icing on the cake.

I did. Equal parts of me was A) Im an assh*ole and this is funny and B) I would actually love to see Petr come in and become an awesome goalie for the Canes. Now I don't even for a second feel we should have kept him, but I do think hes a skilled netminder that IF he could put it all together he could be a beast of a goalie. Hes 100% showed us throughout his (short) career that he can play some incredible hockey, unfortunately for us its been followed by the Mrazek that sh*ts the bed and lets every other damn shot in the net. I hope he can put that game of his together and be the goalie he has the potential to be. As for Howie and Bernier go, I think they'll be a great tandem. Bernie wants to make a name for himself in Detroit and Howie just wants to stay the man here...Out of all the tandems we have had since Hasek and Ozzy I think our best was Ty Conklin. It seemed every game I actually got to sit down and watch the dude got a shutout. If Bernie is anything less then Ty Ill be surprised

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/former-nhl-goaltender-ray-emery-dead-35-drowning-accident/ Sad news out of Hamilton this morning. Apparently Emery was swimming with friends around 6:00am this morning, dove in and never resurfaced. Thoughts are with his friends and family.

I remember when I first saw this. Goose came into the NHL on such a high note, he was leading the AHL in scoring and just looked like a pimp out there, holding onto the puck and controlling plays and then firing home ridiculous shot after shot. Tatar too, it looked like in their first two seasons that we had a Z and D clone system going, the euro twins 2.0 were here. Life was good at this point, we had all the faith (at least I did) that these two were going to take the torch from Datsyuk and Zetterberg. UNFORTUNATELY we all know how this played out. They both seemed to over achieve in their first two years and left us with what they are now, 20ish goals and 20ish assists a year. Now Id love to see a Goose from the past come back and take flight but I don't see it happening. So at this point Ill look to another flyer, AA (lame speed joke I know). Hopefully he can do the opposite and take those two years to grow and now become the player he has the potential to be. How one can give Nyquist a pass without noting his obvious regression is beyond me, but I do hope him and AA both show up with sh*t to prove.

I wasn't aware until I heard the interview with Blash that he didn't even practice with the team last year. Its not sounding good to me about Z returning, nor would I really want him to at that cost. Like Kickazz said he already should be in full conditioning, he didn't practice with the team last year and played less minutes so without any conditioning or team practices this season I don't see the point of coming back. His minutes will be reduced even more and he will most certainly be a losing a step on these young guns. If its true he cant train or practice then Z needs to hang em up, the beards got nothing to prove at the end of his glorious career.

Agreed, I put my daughter into swimming lessons before she could walk and eight years later its turned into a huge passion of hers. Water can just be so unpredictable. I had a friend who drowned in highschool at the mouth of our harbour, he was a good swimmer but got caught a current and it took him right under and was found 3 days later washed up on the beach-by his dad of all people, it was a heartbreaking ordeal.

I agree, things are being kept very vague at the moment. Just that he was on a vessel in the harbour, other people (friends) were also with him and he went for a swim jumping off the boat which he never came up from. They will rely on the coroners findings as well as the statements from all friends on board his boat, as around 5:00 this evening they still needed to talk to more people who were with him at the time-which also seemed odd that they didn't stick around to give their story.

I remember being sooo sad/angry we chose Franzen over Hoss. I loved Franzen but Hossa was in another league. All the best to Hoss recovering here, it sounds like a very painful thing to go through-and considering the medication doesn't work while playing hockey he obviously had no choice.

Hanging around the red line? This must be sarcastic or perhaps you should re-watch that goal, Larkin won the faceoff and AA chased the puck and got a very fortunate bounce off Karlsson. Anyways either way I wont deny AA needs to up his defensive game but a lot of those plays of him looking for breakout passes are indeed set plays. You can see Larkin curl back a lot of the time trying to create time for AA to get time to break free, and when you have a player with his quick acceleration and high top end speed why not use it.

Im not really sure why you quoted both of those posts, they say the same thing in both. That I didn't explain myself enough BUT I still believe in my first thought that AA can be a game changer. You're very much taking my words and conjuring up your own little fun park with them, hopefully its been fun for you.

I stand by that, but I definitely didn't explain my thought of why enough. It was an under thought out late night brain fart. I do still stand by it though.

I agree with what you're saying, and I obviously didn't explain my thoughts correctly. I didn't mean to imply their game was alike at all, they play different styles completely and have different pros and cons to their game. What I was comparing was that in my mind AA 100% has the ability to become that secondary scoring force like Franzen was. Franzen said many times he liked that with Detroit he wasn't the main guy and didn't have that pressure to be the guy (off point but AA looks like the kind of guy that would love to be the guy) behind Zetterberg & Datsyuk making his job a little easier in his mind. As for AA I think he can be the guy behind Larkin, Mantha and hopefully Zadina putting up quality numbers and at times providing us with a great spectacle along the way. His ceiling is higher then most, but how hard is he willing to work for it? Ive always liked his game and am happy hes sticking around. I just hope he puts the work in to reach the plateau some can see in him

So Datsyuk isn't as good as Franzen? Until AA gets a chance at the playoffs lets keep it real. In skill level they are 100% comparable, both skilled players one difference being size which the other makes up in speed. AA and Franzen are waaaaayyyyyy more comparable to Dats and Mule. That's a can a worms I don't even want to have trolled into

2007, 2008 & 2009 Franzens playoff performance was amazing, he scored 31 goals in 51 games He was one of the best playoff performers of any team in any recent years...However in his career he had 187 goals in 602 games, so riddle me why you guys are so focused of his 3 good playoff appearances? AA has one playoff under his belt and it was 1 goal in 5 games played and I hope he gets to play in more soooooon. AA has most certainly taken over at certain parts of games, his speed and skill lead to many tie ups as well as games winners. He could be quiet all game then score the tying goal at the end of the period and the game winner 6 seconds into overtime. I not once compared anything to franzens playoff performances because-as his stats point out were pretty fluky to how he performed overall. My point was comparing skillsets-Franzens was great hands, great shot and big size as AA doesn't have great size but makes up for it with his great speed, and also has great hands and a great shot. This was my only comparison and I believe it is more important during our transition then the likes of Helm, Abby or Glendening. That was my point.

Who compared him to that Franzen? That was a freak of nature run that he went on, one that Franzen himself couldn't duplicate. What I said was Franzen had that certain skill level that allowed him every now and then to just take over a game, AA has done this too

Yeah I don't really get the reason for the hate here. AA has that special thing like Franzen had where he can all of a sudden turn it on and embarrass the crap out of your team and steal a game. With more skill players coming in shortly I think its important to have other skilled players in the lineup for them to play with....If anything lose Helm, Abby or Glendening

I'm not sure what number that was, I'm not sure if we have an actual number he sustained while playing. Franzen wasn't a rough player as we know, but he definitely played in the rough areas of the game so I'm sure he had a few in the beginning that went undetected. I like Roberts too, but theres no need for things like this in the game on a guy who everyone knows is suffering from concussions. At this point his brain had the strength of an eggshell

I read this yesterday, hit me right in the feels. Silver lining is he's in the right place now to give him the help he needs. Very sad for a genuinely good hearted and fun loving guy to have to deal with this, sounds like him and his family have some very rough days. Get better Mule

Oh I'm stoked for this final! It'll be amazing hockey, and somehow I don't hate a player on either team, it will most definitely be a series for the history books. I'm going with Vegas but Id be happy to see Ovi win too. Looking forward to this

Great showing by the Jets. Both of these final two series will most definitely be amazing and I cant wait to watch them. I personally think Vegas will beat the Jets and Tampa will win over the Caps, but Id like to see the Caps get to the finals so hopefully they bring it.