Bring Back The Bruise Bros

Mark Fraser re-signs with New Jersey,1-year,$500,000 contract.Both Brian Bickell and Jack Skille re-signed with the Blackhawks.Anton Stralman re-signed with Columbus,avoiding his arbitration hearing.

I don't expect Downey to blow everyone's minds at camp,and if it does turn out that he doesn't impress,there's plenty other tough guys looking for jobs.

I still want to see the Modano would make spent on a physical 6th defenseman and/or an Asham-type forward.Evgeny Artyukhin is the LAST guy I want here.He takes far too many careless,lazy penalties.

Well you never know I guess.

It was merely a joke.

******-ology..only on LGW

Well its yet another boring summer day,and I've been surveying who is remaining un-signed as we near the 1st of August.There's plenty of talent remaining.The possible destinations for these players is still up in the air,but here's what I think: Ilya Kovalchuk-KHL Teemu Selanne-Anaheim Paul Kariya-Anaheim or Los Angeles Mike Modano-Retire Kevin Bieksa-Columbus Mike Comrie-Florida Maxim Afinogenov-KHL Marek Svatos-KHL Raffi Torres-Toronto Robert Lang-KHL Bill Guerin-New Jersey Slava Kozlov-KHL or retire Denis Grebeshkov-KHL Alexei Ponikarovsky-Atlanta Feel free to add who I missed

If Kronwall found his rhythm,yes,we would have the hardest hitting blueline in hockey.Calgary has a hell of a tough blueline with Giordano,Staios,Regehr,and Pardy.They've got my vote right now.

:carrot: Give him a 2-way contract at league minimum,let him play in his 40 games and use him as a black ace for the playoffs.This made my day

Still not gonna watch the Winter Classic.I've never liked Talbot,he seems like the "******" type of player.

Maybe the Lions will be playing

Same here.Minnesota,Montreal,Colorado,Vancouver,Ottawa,and Toronto all deserved to get a game,before s***tsburgh had another chance.The fact that there's gonna be a "Heritage Classic" not far from the Winter Classic bothers me too.I guess you could call it another Winter Classic,I'm thinking about boycotting the Heritage Classic as well.

Looking like a very solid lineup,with a decent balance of skill and grit.The defense is gonna be the question mark.

Matt Moulson re-signs with the Islanders right before the beginning of his arbitration hearing.One-year deal worth a little less than $2.5 Million.

Frolov-Prospal-Gaborik Anisimov-Dubinsky-Callahan Avery-Drury-Christensen Boogaard-Prust-B.Boyle Redden-Rozsival(?) Girardi-M.Staal(?) Del Zotto-Gilroy I'm not very familiar with the Rangers' cap situation,but do they have any space left to re-sign Marc Staal?

The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed Center Marc-Antoine Pouliot and Left Winger Chris Durno to one year deals.

I want some of what the writers of this list are smoking.

I was contemplating it,but I figured someone would capitalize on it

Every single vendor had violations Someone invite Obama to a Capitals game and give him all the food he can eat!

I think Durno will be a regular in Tampa Bay's lineup,but they're stacked with centers,and I'm not sure if Pouliot could play wing.He'll most likely be a 13th or 14th forward.

Good call Mindfly TSN has it posted now.

Anyone have any restaurant food horror stories they can share?

Any salary figure released yet?

Fair enough.

Where did you see that?