DangleDangleBeach

ummm lang didnt do s*** for us, st louis lead the league in points that year and where was lang after that season where he was so productive FOR WASHINGTON, NOT DETROIT, he only got us like 5-6 points.... did he ever lead us to the cup? ever have a point per game season for us? yeah that trade was dumb, buddy. fleischmann could really help right now, mike green was one of those draft picks.... lang never accomplished anything or produced when it came down to it. wheres igor grigorenko? he was probably our number one prospect at that point 5 spots in front of fleischmann.... hes really excelled for us dont you think? better player then fleischmann, thats for sure.

i would like to see the wings get thomas fleischmann back from washington or maybe james neal or loui erikkson from dallas... someone at a reasonable price who can put the puck in net which is why fleischmann would be ideal (******* traded him + a draftpick that ended up being MIKE GREEN for LANGGGGG f***KKKKK)

if the thrashers haven't made progress closing in on the deadline he will be sent packing but if dats during the olympics told illya to keep negotiations rolling just never bite and then in the offseason the wings will have the space for him haha not going to happen. in all reality, we dont have the cap space for him or the pieces atlanta is really looking for. dont think they want leino maltby and raffi with his ntc? haha they probably will want helm kronwall ericcson ferraro + other prospects.... not the guys on our team whose salaries are worth moving but we can all dream.

eaves bert miller helm abs all deserve roster spots next year imo

as long as howard continues to give the chance to win why not keep him in? in his last 12 he has only let in 18 goals which is good for a 1.67 gaa and the games he has been in when we have lost he did everything to get the win but score goals. howard is playing solid, is the goalie of the future so why not let him get comfortable in the net since he will be here in 5 years, (idealy) and ozzie wont. teams gameplans against the wings while howard is in net is completely thrown off... in the past to beat the wings all you had to do was put everything at the net and ozzie was good for 1-2 cheesers and would get outplayed by the other goalie more often then not regardless of the team winning of losing. howard doesn't let in those cheesers once per game like ozzie did and has outplayed anderson and bryzgalov in his last two starts which have been two of the better goalies in the west for their respective teams. you actually have to work to put something behind him and their gameplan of throw everything at the net is not as effective as it was prior to having him in net.

A LOT BETTER THEN DAVE LEWIS!!!!!

i hope some of these guys have to earn their spots, i would hate to see kids that have been working their asses off get sent down because they are the ones on 2way

leino filpula + picks for kovalchuk!!!! (who cares about the salary cap!!!)

phaneuf is EXACTLY what we need when we lose #5 to retirement. a hard hitting monster with a rocket who will toss the dogs when needed.... makes my heart happy to think about.

nuff said, babs is the man... hated him on the ducks bench

what did lilja do that you liked so much? get burned? cough up the puck? losing battles? getting his clocked cleaned for trying to be an badass when he is just a soft european and he clearly showed us why teams tend to stick to north american hard nosed D, and though there are rare exceptions (charas a perfect one) your phaneuf bouwmeister weber suter whitney pronger SCOTT STEVENS are way more common for good reason. lilja reminded me way too much of kuznetsov, krupp, none of which were worth salt and neither is lilja. watch a couple of lilja highlights for me and tell me you still like him... heres some fights that he had, seems to end up on the bottom in just about every youtube fight video on there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEjI56zWOZM and this one right here is my favorite right here, tune into the 7:20 mark and watch whos guy ends the season for the red wings.... your beloved lilja. this is the lilja pattented dont pick up your guy / let him walk to the hole and end the game move. classic lilja doing what he does best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si8qRav0dEQ this may be one of my favs, nillson through our team haha

side note, could you imagine the amount of championships this organization would have had they found a way to lure brodeur away from the devils? (assuming we had the same guys, contracts didn't matter etc... in a perfect world i mean)

brodeurs a class act couldn't be happier for him. if anyone deserves it. glad it wasn't the statue of liberty dust bucket (patty roy). maybe brodeur breaking all these records is the source to roy's drinking problem? haha

so sick

i swear, if all of our players return and are just given their spots back after the way a lot of our depth has performed i will be very upset. i feel that injuries will help us in the long run, creating competition between players fighting for the same spot. i just feel that guys like williams should have to earn their minutes from guys like abs when they come back... healthy competition is always a good thing, and the kids who are filling in have performed imo, hard to just send em back down. im excited for next year to see these kids turn into regulars, and hopefully see malts drapes holmer etc... retire as sad is it is to say, it needs to happen. that way we can resign helm abs miller eaves etc... because they all have earned it in my eyes.

well, at least he is doing the right things. thats more than a lot of our more pricey players can say.... cough cough datsyuk

well bertuzzi's cap hit is what, 1-2 mill? he is playing better then the guys we have for 5-6 mill.... what more can you ask?

well first off, it is not going to happen. second, he likes the talent atlanta has surrounded him with, the club is moving in the right direction. off the top of my head, peverley, kane, bagosian, little, armstrong, white, antropov, afinegenov (who the team offered a contract to try and make kovalchuk happy, and well, it did) i mean the team has a lot of young talent going. they are building that team around kovalchuk and will pay him whatever it takes (way more then the wings could) to keep him in an atlanta uniform the rest of his life. kovalchuk is a force, and from what i have heard is happy with the direction in which the club is heading, therefore it seems like he is probably gonig to stay there. an actually logical trade for kovalchuk since they arent just going to give away a top 5 forward in this league for a sack of potatos (filpula, malts, draps). they wouldn't want franzen, since he cant stay healthy, they would more likely either want datsyuk or zetterberg + some change. wings send: zetterberg, leino wins receive: kovalchuk they might want to target young talent too, but umm we dont have too much salary space here. another logical trade that the cap prevents could be like: wings receive: kovalchuk wings send: leino and/or filpula + a prospect or two + a pick or two. you may say this is a lot, yes, but kovalchuk has scored 184 goals over the last 4 seasons, i think they are going to want someone to overpay if they cant keep him themselves. my 2 cents

you guys still hate bertuzzi after he netted those two to carry us over anaheim? guy is a bargain for the price.

so your telling me you would trade a player who has 194 points over the last two seasons for bergeron and lucic? LUCIC????? i know LGW is pro-enforcer... but if we get an enforcer it should be one whos bones aren't made of glass. lucic broke his finger, came back, then hurt his leg.... you really want that *****? you dont think dats is worth a little more then that? if your answer to that question is no i would suggest finding another sport because your just not understanding hockey.

the way i see it, 1 goal and 9 points in 16 playoff games at 6.7 mill a year is hilarious. 21 points in 28 games is just as unacceptable. we can all sit here and talk about what he has done, 194 points over the last 2 seasons is beatiful, but lets talk about what he is doing... counting last years playoffs datsyuk has scored 30 points in 44 games and that isn't superstar material imo but you never know, but i mean, since last years playoffs? to the guy who wants to send datsyuk to the sharks.... think about it like this, would you want datsyuk on the sharks when he started playing more like datsyuk? or any team for that matter. (even though there is NO WAY the sharks could ever make that work contract wise unless they gave up one of boyle/heaters/marleau/thornton which i dont see happening).

how about how may would WHOOP downeys ass!!!>!??!! hes got old man strength, dont f*** wit it

too bad ryan signed that long contract.... if he wasn't locked up for 7 years maybe he would of followed his brother for the hometown team..... guess we will never know now...

yeah our goalie prospects are sick.... and jimmy is a really good goalie. im not at all worried about our goalie situation, ozzie scares me a little though but howard has confidence and skills which is a great combination.