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And Brett "Pylon" Lebda is? Oh btw...the "established...help now" comment on Hudler was sarcasm...

Have to give you a +1 for that. Go team Ram-Rod!!!!

Evidently Brian Burke has said he's willing to discuss his first 3 picks for an established player that can help the Leafs now. If "established...help now" doesn't scream for Kenny to trade Huds off to Toronto, I don't know what does.

The key piece being if the voters approve. If not, Kansas City here I come...

Or maybe the long awaited move of the Islanders to Kansas City.

To really throw things up in the air, here's my take regardless of the whole talk of Detroit & Columbus moving to the Eastern... East Division (EC) Boston Montreal Ottawa NY Rangers NY Islanders New Jersey Phily Pittsburgh South Division (EC) Washington Carolina Tampa Bay Florida Nashville St. Louis Dallas Midwest Division (WC) Buffalo Toronto Detroit Columbus Chicago Minnesota Winnipeg Pacific Division (WC) Edmonton Calgary Vancouver San Jose LA Anaheim Phoenix Colorado

The problem is the statement that each conference would have one division with 8 teams & one with 7. I would assume that the East & South divisions would be in the Eastern Conference and Midwest & Pacific in the Western. If that's the case & both Detroit & Columbus move to the Eastern, that means moving an existing Eastern team over in addtion to Winnipeg. To do that, you would have to move a team futher east than either Detroit or Columbus over. I don't see that happening.

Looks like he's still got something in his eye after a little "one-on-one" time with Crosby....if ya know what I'm sayin'

How about something like this? Might not be popular with the Middle Eastern demographic though...

I think someone needs to hire more editors. Count the errors! http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/post/_/id/6688754/who-walk-away-vegas-winner Martin St. Louis is a right wing on the St. Louis Blues! Jeff Skinner is a rookie for the Carolina Panthers! Lou Eriksson's up for the Lady Byng! That St. Louis guy is talented. He's also a goalie for the Lightning! And Dan Bylsma is such a great coach that he also coached in Pittsburg! I can almost forgive the Lou/Loui thing & the misspelling of Pittsburgh, but the rest? Makes me all the more glad that ESPN doesn't have the rights to broadcast the NHL.

Think Minny would trade Burns for Hudler, the rights to Larsson & Hat Trick Dick, & a 1st or 2nd rounder?

Bob McKenzie tweeting this morning that he's hearing that Montreal is the mystery 3rd team in the mix.

Anything other than Jets=fail on their part IMO

It would be an absolute riot to live in Vancouver I would trade TSN/CBC for all 25 ESPN networks pretty much any day of the week. Can't stand all of the talking head shows & anchors who think they're more important than the sports they're covering on the supposed "world-wide leader".

Most of the bitching I've been seeing on the +/- front has been from Boston fans crying over the fact that Chara & his +33 should have been enough to convince everyone that he should have won just on that stat alone. +/- is such a flawed stat to begin with. I mean if it's the be all, end all of stats for a defenseman, that means Rafalski & Ericsson were the Wings two best this season. Riiiiiight... I think Bruins fans are just a little butt-hurt that Nicky will end up tying Orr when he takes the trophy again next season.

And if the NHL would allow them to attach dreds to it too.

So what happens when Joey Mac can't find what he's looking for out on the market? I for one would still welcome him back on a 2-way deal to split time between GR & the big club. Wasn't that how he ended up back in the Wings organization to begin with?

I bet that as soon as I talk myself into believing that signing Jagr could work, he'll turn around that same day & sign with Pittsburgh. I really do wonder who that 3rd mystery team may be though. Edmonton?

I pretty much just go there for the lols of how bad they are.

I think they should have gone with a bolder look. Something like this maybe...

I would think that a set of balls would be required to even think of putting one of those suits on.

Am I the only one who really hopes that the Canuck fan who took the flash/bang grenade to the junk was actually one of the green men? edit: spelling

On a lighter note, Ray Ferraro evidently tried to get the riots started before the game by attempting to put his nose through a plate glass window. I would add the twitter link but can't do that from work. See @TSNBobMcKenzie's feed for pics. Hope Landon's got better eyes than his old man.

Heard a rumor that the shop owners downtown had hired private security for extra protection. They made the mistake of dressing them up in Luongo jerseys to blend in with the crowd though & were shocked when they couldn't make any saves.

The me from 1994 is all The 2011 version is Maybe after Jagr we can get Paul Coffey out of retirement too. What's Brian Leetch up to these days? I hope the rumors of the Wings being in touch with him are only true in so far as they're just humoring him.