Din758

No chance Smith scores on the PP.

Why not? he has done nothing so far, and hope mantha takes his spot sooner rather than later, or really any of our top prospects

But that's kind of exactly what it's about. They kill penalties and absorb some tough minutes so Datsyuk and Zetterberg don't have to.

While guys like Orr and to a lesser extent Tootoo would be a liability in those circumstances.

Just kidding. I didn't see this thread this year, so I figured I'd make it. Go Wings!

i started using tapatalk app to access this site on my phone. works much better than trying to access the full site on the phone. seems like you got a handle on the rest of it from the posts above.

Is that Kris Draper's cousin?

Ok,
So let's say we sign Alfie and with Jurco up we have 15 forwards... one too many.
If Cleary gets dramatically outplayed in camp, or a month into the season he just plain awful, we send him to GR, he passes through waivers and we eat $1.5M in cap space and we bring Jurco back up.
OR
Someone gets hurt in camp and the point is moot to start the year...
OR
Cleary turns water into wine, raises the dead, and [insert your own favorite cliche].
OR
One or more of our forwards is/are getting traded
Maybe we have someone hurt the majority of the year, he's up on the big team, but is a healthy scratch most of the time... then he could be a like another coach/mentor for the young guys that are up.
Who knows what was actually said behind closed doors last year. If the DRW are just keeping their word on some deal they promised then they are doing the honorable thing. Now, I wouldn't have signed him last year in the first place, but I kinda look at it as if Holland signed him to a two year dear last year (cough Quincey this year)... The bell was already rung on this deal.
I'd still say that we have bigger fish to fry. I DO believe we need a RH D-man and that means trading one of our D-men at some point.

You must be drunk. Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Franzen, and Helm WILL play a combined 4 games and Weiss is a joke. Unless we sign Vanek, Gaborik, Niskanen, and Callahan we will go out in the first round AGAIN and we'll be no better than Florida and Buffalo.
Holland smokes too much Cleary to do anything even close to intelligent.
Oh, also need to buyout Franzen, trade for Weber, and somehow acquire Ekblad. Can you get that through your noggan? Or are you too busy wearing your rose tinted spectacles?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLTuggsNZPw

Amazing to think that there is a whole generation that doesn't remember life without a recent Cup.

No. Just no

I don't think they mean that adding a "Top 4" defenseman will automatically push someone else down a notch. That would all depend on defense pairings (chemistry) and possibly even situations. They just mean someone of that caliber, who can compete with our four best.

Detroit Sports nation on Twitter just said he will join gr for whatever is remaining in their playoffs after qmjhl playoffs. Don't know where they heard that from so don't take it as a lock..
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Filter - "hey man nice shot" is another original, not really one of my favorites though.
older song from Alter Bridge called "Isolation" has some pretty wild parts to it. reminds me of flying down the lodge on my way to nemo's with a crown and coke in hand...
no i dont encourage drinking and driving, just sayin

Not a good tooth-to-gum ratio there, Zdeno.

Not mine, but....

Damn; Shanaban had such a nice ring to it. You can't replace that.

I'm sure al Mac hit a few guys in those type pads and I still says his shot was the hardest I've seen.

The rule does state that.
"the goal post must have been displaced by the actions of a defending player or goalkeeper"
Was the goal posts displaced? Yes
Was it due to the actions of Smith? Yes. That player that had an easy tap in wasn't going to knock the net off himself just standing there.
After Smith pushes him into the net. Smith doesn't do that, its an easy tap in goal. The goal as imminent, and Smith's actions caused the net to go off its moorings. Once again, good goal.

I thought it was a good call. The rule 63.6 states....
http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=26355
IMHO, a goal was imminent. The player had position, and he was going to have an easy tap in goal. Smith pushed him into the net and therefore caused the net to be dislodged. It really is a no brainer call in my opinion.

League minimum pro-rated down to a single day would be about 2,000 bucks. Which should just about cover the increases to his insurance premium when you consider he's adding a career in professional hockey to a pre-existing heart condition.

Power forward? Why are we even talking about this guy? We'll never see him in a Wings jersey.

So the expected cap increase may be lower next season, not the cap itself. Kinda misleading thread title, isn't it?

Wings twitter just said they called up Pulkkinen for tonight

Wings twitter just said they called up Pulkkinen for tonight