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Well hopefully if Kindl plays he has a solid Janik-like debut.

If we're talking this season, I think I'd rather see Axelsson called up.

We're just snake bit combined with bad luck. I just don't know how frustrating it could be for the Wings to outplay teams but can't bury the puck. I hope things turn around for us in the third and we get a couple breaks.

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I sense fear coming from Miller Brew.

I lol'd

That's not what I meant. Since 05-06, nobody has touched Crosby and Ovechkin over that span, and the creators felt that was good enough to warrant a spot on the list, let alone 3rd and 4th.

Like the person said before, it's subjective, so it's easy to say what most of the posters on here want to say according to first glance of the title's meaning of the list. Everyone believes that Ovie and Crosby need a full decade in order to even be mentioned on the list, but that's not how I looked at it. I think the list has a little bit to do with everything over the stretch of the decade, season dominance, playoffs and cups won, etc. You believe Ovechkin and Crosby shouldn't be ranked 3 and 4, which is fine; I can see where you're coming from. But the way I believe the creators of the list looked at it was if you take a look back at this decade, which players have been the most dominate? If a person argued that they believe Alfredsson should be on this list because of the amount of points he's racked up over the span of a decade, would that person then say he would rather have Alfredsson on his team than Ovechkin, given what we've seen of him this year and the past 4 years and his total dominance? Nope, he'd pick Ovechkin over Alfredsson everytime. Who's the bigger threat on the ice, Ovechkin or Heatley? This is where I think the creators are coming from. I key in on Ovechkin because he's the one player that has the ability to take over games compared to Crosby (aside from the playoffs last season). Crosby gets his points but other than that I've never known him to be someone to take over a game the way Ovechkin can. Therefore I believe Crosby should be lower on the list. As for Malkin, well, it's a list of the best 10, and Jagr is probably more deserving of the #10 spot than Malkin is in their eyes., which is hard to argue with; Jagr's had some pretty dominate seasons this decade.

Did you just wake up?

lol that was too funny

Clearly they're biased

Did those players have better seasons than Crosby and Ovechkin have had this decade?

I knew you or someone else would use that logic response. I guess by your logic, Sakic and Jagr shouldn't be on the list either, right? The last four years that Crosby and Ovechkin have played in the league, Ovechkin has won 5 different trophies (Hart twice, Calder, Ross, Richard twice, and Pearson twice) and Crosby has 3 (Hart, Ross, and Pearson) and a Stanley Cup. Only Heatley has a measly Calder and Kovalchuk/Lecavalier both have a Richard (and Vinny also has a SC too). Since playing in their first four years in the league, they've both accumulated 100+ points in 3 seasons out of their 4 played. As a total in their first 4 seasons: Ovechkin - 420 points (4 seasons) 105 point average Crosby - 397 points (4 seasons) 99.3 point average Other players on your list since the beginning of the 2000 season: Lecavalier - 574 (8 seasons) 71.8 pt. avg. Kovalchuk - 557 (7 seasons) 79.6 pt. avg. Alfredsson - 652 (8 seasons) 81.5 pt. avg. Heatley - 543 (7 seasons) 77.6 pt. avg. Sundin - 561 (8 seasons) 70.1 pt. avg. So I believe Ovechkin and Crosby do deserve to be on that list, since they have been the most dominate players in the league next to the other players already on that list. But you obviously think they don't because they have played half a decade and because they're marketed? Again, it's best players of the last decade, and no doubt they deserve to be on the list.

The list is best players of the decade, and Crosby and Ovechkin have played in this decade, so they obviously belong on the list. I don't know how you can argue that they should be off the list in favor of who you mentioned.

damn, shoulda stuck with Bylsma's research

I've been noticing lately that he's been taking alot of quick shots from the sideboards to catch the goalie off guard. He takes this shot in a way to use the defensemen as a screen, and I believe he scored once this year doing this. I believe it was against Toronto. So I guess that tells me that he understands some aspects of the offensive game. While I'm not saying he'll be a breakout 30+ goal scorer, he does seem to have some understanding of the offense that could possibly get better if he worked hard at it. With that said, I'm a happy camper with the way he's playing right now without putting points on the board. Hell I'm happy with the way Eaves and Draper are playing along side him as well. That line is going to be the key factor in keeping our games close and not out of reach if they can wear down the opposing team (with all the injuries we have).

That was such a dirty hit by a piece of s*** player, RIGHT AFTER highsticking Helm. Kronwall's now out 12 games minimum, and possibly more pending the tests. Our boys gotta step it up now, the count is now Franzen, Filppula, Williams, Lilja still and now Kronwall. So now what? Are we looking at Lebda, Meech and Ericsson as the bottom three? I'd like to see Janik play again, I thought he was pretty solid when he was called up. How will the new pairings look? Lidstrom/Lebda, Rafalski/Ericsson, Stuart/Meech?

I believe Howard is 2-0 in shootouts now.

Price vs Howard? Well Howard won in our last shootout, correct?

I've lost every weekend pick going for the Wings winning. I just realized this.

lol good one

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damn. now everybody knows my method. it's gonna be hard to egt to the top now good research, though.