deetroit dario

his wang has hands?!?! he must've come from dr. weird's lab!! all kidding aside, this looks like it could be a good thing for us (as said before...IF he's kept of the point in PP and this doesn't split the twins), and for him. someone mentioned the possibility of being a "poor man's cleary"...of course, when we first got cleary he was his own poor man's cleary. now he's a man who gets his own poor man-self! mayhaps a few short years from now, we'll all be discussing the new signing, who could be the poor man's eaves... i'm predicting 14-18 goals and 45-ish points. thats still massive improvement over his last season, but i'm not expecting him to suddenly turn it all around in his first year here. he'll make mistakes, we'll call him names and say awful things about him...and if he comes back for another season, it'll still happen that way, just a little less name-calling, a few less mistakes, and a few more points. or, i just got overexcited by the fact that we actually aquired someone, and expect too much. gods damnit...can somebody invent a universe-remote so we can fast forward time to at least the exhibition games?

"HAVLAT"...the new film by Oliver Stone. (rated R)

now, why would you bench a big boy like leatherface? sheesh, guys what...6' 4", something like 260-270? (i'm going by "classic" leatherface, gunnar hansen) i think he played linebacker in school, if i recall correctly. chain saws in football. now that, i'll watch! as for the hossa contract/chicago (should we just call it "cago", since its chi is obviously too effed up to be included anymore?) situation, i've only 2 words. ha..... ...ha!

i also had to go with my heart and vote mccarty. he will always be the guy who got lemieux... it was him or cheli, again for nostalgic purposes. i remember his first year a lot of fans weren't so pleased to have him here, to which i always replied "yeah, but now he's OUR little ball o' hate!"

finally! something that every single poster on this board can agree with. folks, this is a rare day in hockey fandom... i see a world where hawks fans and wings fans are holding hands. pens and flyers stand side by side. all united by our most common natural instinct... to take turns kicking gary in his (alleged) balls!!! *cues "what a wonderful world"*

is that some cryptic way of saying "i work in their front office"?

that would actually be pretty cool for conks to keep the streak alive, really.

aren't those called "panties", traditionally?

thread-winning goal! not sure if i agree with everything that you've said (of course, not sure if i agree with many others as well, which is why i usually just pop in for a quick joke), but the bolded just says it all. either our team wins, or it doesn't. the only thing i can allow myself to worry about at this point is how very far away the next game seems, no matter win or lose. if hockeys on, I win! and so say we all?

best analogy ever!!!

10:33am - Realize that the bullet went through his cheek, lament the fact that he can't even kill himself right

lol....sounds like a bargain, until you check the seller's feedback!

lol...turn on eachother, one by one...what else? sincerely, though...how about we slit eachother's collective throats when we have some actual information to go on... just a thought...i'm a peaceful chap, after all. hell, i'd hold an avs fan's hand...long as it was holding a knife at bettman's throat!

yeah, forgot for a moment about the ntc on rafalski. but we gotta make it through today while still worrying about tomorrow. and the more i let myself digress into this argument (i prefer "discussion"), the further away from the point i'd intended to make seems to be... the point, ladies and germy-men, is this....we're powerless speculators. we're dissecting every aspect as though we really know what we're talking about, but in the end, we're waxing bulls*** about nothing. huds will be signed, or he won't. if he is, and its a capbuster, they'll work it out. THEY will, the cats in charge....and until anyone outs themselves on here as being front office, well...you know, frankly, its starting to sound like a circle jerk... now, don't get me wrong...jerkin' off is fun! and i can see the value in doing it online with buddies, cause its anonymous...but as i said the first time, this argument is lazy and it sucks.

first, yes...next year we have "cap to burn", but that doesn't mean that its enough cap to cover what we're lacking and will need...and if you've noticed, the trouble this year is not enough money to cover "what we need" (granted, this is set to a ridiculous, red wing high standard. cause we're the effin' wings!). now, if i was a forward thinking guy, guy who forever frets about tomorrow without taking time to cherish today (kenny?), probably i'd be planning every deal based on the realities of two years from now, much less next or this. now, i'm not gonna crunch numbers, cause i'm not the effin' GM...but i still see concerns about next year being very much a consideration in this year's affairs. i'll let all the junior GM's figure out if there's some fire to my smoke, but i'm still smokin' it until someone says its catnip... now, as to hud v fil.... if you're gonna be so drastic, dump rafalski, replace him with TWO two way players AND a one way player. also, you're slanting your line observations. it seems like you're characterizing fil as "lazy and sucky" specifically to fit your argument. now, i don't disagree about hud being a possible fit on franzen's line...i actually find that pretty keen. but that doesn't mean that fil is suddenly an unworthy player, nor someone to consider trading. hell, i frankly would sooner consider actually making good on the rafalski trade over fil! cause thats what this year is about...the gee-dee money. suck though it may...its about the effin' money... again...i'm not attacking you, and i'm not pretending to be the wisest of hockey strategists. i simply hold my views, based upon my own capacity for logic...and i leave them bare to interpretation.

and one of the last reasons to hate colorado goes into that good night... salut! those above me have already said what needs said...i merely wish to say goodbye for the record.

numerous might be a stretch, in the span of a given season. over a decade, maybe numerous would be the word. but not in the cap era, and surely not for that kind of bread! look, you've got a vladdie quote in your sig too, so i'm not trying to give you any crap or anything...i'm too new here to go sticking my neck out hatin'...but really, in this of all years, the idea of laying that kind of cash on a one way guy is simply untenable! if bread is the barrier to the two way guy (diminutive though he may be), it just strikes me that laying nearly the same kind of bread on a one way player (gargantuan though he may be, whoever this mythic addition is) is, well... lazy and sucks? not quite the words i'd choose this time...i'd go with "inexpeditious and, frankly...retarded". okay, not "retarded", but you follow my general logic? look, i'm not pretending i ate scotty bowman's brain and gained his knowledge...been a fan longer than i've really understood the off ice aspects, and i admit that, so i'm good people. but honestly, in a year where our biggest signing news has been pretty ahl-centric (unless you count the myriad "cap-stricken wings look lazy and sucky" pontifications), it simply stands to reason that you don't spend the money on someone who, while potentially the fullest of the full one way players, is still just half a player... also...why hasn't anyone given voice to our own cap concerns for next year? sure, we get cap relief but as far as long term deals being made today...there's still an incredibly shrinking cap in the works, to the tune of a 2 and 6 zeros...frak! that's gotta get its own thread....

this speculation is lazy and it sucks....

sure...once they relocate the team to fantasyland!

...do "dale tallon days" include canada day??

and while we're trusting kenny and babs, lets spread some of that faith around to the "new kids". yeah, they've yet to feel the toll of a full 82 games in the nhl...but these aren't entirely "fresh faced" kids, either. anywhere else, they'd've been brought up to the roster last year, if not prior! the only one who might actually need that little extra seasoning is abby, and even this i doubt because really the only complaint i've heard about him so far is that he's too much of a natural center to play wing. i'm no nhl coach, but i think i see a way past that issue...4th line center. just saying...we're still the wings. we respect our vets, and inspire our rooks. and our worst game is still better than many teams' best. yeah, its gonna be different this year. new faces new challenges and all the other s*** they like to narrate sports dvds with. but some folks are starting to sound like suddenly we're the lions!! myself, i'll start worrying when and if we're in danger of not making the playoffs. until that unlikeliest of doomsdays, in kenny and babs i trust!

"blame canada post" sounds like a south park song! now we've got trey parker and matt stone advising bettman? lol, actually....that would explain an awful lot!

yeah, but that "someone" these days is usually himself! there HAS to be someone else. i'm not pretending to know who it is, but i can damn sure sniff out who it isn't. to me, it would be almost as offensive as the first time we signed him, possibly more so under the "fool me once/fool me twice" clause.

turned a whiter shade of teal, i sing...

i have to agree with you, frankly. he'd look awful in the winged wheel. let him stay in chicago...'s penalty box. heck, let him go play for the ducks. with his ability to take stupid penalties for retaliatory practices, he might make captain!