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i'd love it if the Wings faced them in the playoffs Franzen could use some more goals to pad his playoff stats

true forgot about that but still that would force us to Waive/trade Emmerton(although he could replace Miller so it doesn't matter for this) anyways you missed my edit for Modano I went and dug up his contract since then and these are the bonuses: $150,000 for 40 games played $100,000 for 55 games played $125,000 for round 1 playoff win $125,000 for round 2 playoff win with him at 20 games played and out until at least March or so both games played bonuses are probably gone but if the Wings make it to round 3 of the playoffs that's another 250k for next years cap also with how Eaves has been playing,his age,going UFA,20 goals as a rookie in the past etc I find it hard to believe that he will only get 1.5m could easily see him getting 2+ if he keeps it up in any case things are going to be really tight

agreed he should have jumped off the bench onto the ice and tried to trip him or something!

well for arguments sake say Lidstrom does return and for about what he got this year Draper+Modano+Osgood=4.25m coming off the cap but those roster spots need to be replaced,say 600k or so average/spot or something with Mursak+Emmerton and a veteran backup/Larsson or something like that that's down to 2.45m cap space then say Howard get's 2.5m(which if his numbers improved a bunch/good playoff run he would make more) all of a sudden that's down to .667m for both Ericsson and Eaves raises which is nowhere near enough even if the cap increases by a couple million I could easily see it just plain not being enough edit: also this isn't counting Modano's bonus,I think there was a games played one and a second round appearance for the Wings one,the games played one probably won't happen now but the second round appearance has a good chance not sure how much that is exactly but that knocks even more off of the cap space

will there even be enough cap space to resign Ericsson,Howard,and Eaves?

Lidstrom is now tied with Byfuglien for most points as a defenseman(41) and Lidstrom has 2 games in hand

Dustin Byfuglien isn't even the best defenseman on his team Tobias Enstrom has 3 points less and is far better defensively

5-0 today to finish 17 points,ties my best week still 13 points out of first,shows how far behind I was I guess

figured this deserved it's own thread http://twitter.com/W...847081730899969 edit: "May have misheard about extent of Osgood's injury. Checking into it now". http://twitter.com/WalkerBigTalker edit again: "I'm going to have to retract my previous statement. Can't confirm". http://twitter.com/WalkerBigTalker edit once again: it's on mlive now too so guess there was something to this after all http://www.mlive.com...ood_likely.html

it's Howard mostly not like the Wings scored a ton in those two shootouts(just once each time) but Howard was 3/3 both times (although stopping the first 5 didn't do him much good earlier in the year when Datsyuk was around )

I figure the tiredness should pretty much cancel out sure the Canucks are on a back to back and the 6th game in 9 nights but the Wings are on a back to back too and played 16 games in December and this is their 4th in January

I think the Canucks will win easily and i'm a Wings fan ordinarily yes it would be close but the Wings just have too many injuries

didn't they demote him from the AHL to the ECHL because of his poor play in the AHL? I really doubt they would trust him to start a NHL game I wouldn't mind Larsson getting a shot at back up if Osgood is gone a while,but because of his SEL contract he can't until next year I think

on the bright side at least the Wings have more depth than last year

who will be injured next in what game and what body part? I call Darren Helm on Monday against the Avs with a broken arm

would be March,but that Vancouver sports writer said he may have misheard about the extent of the injury,and that he can't get confirmation now so has to retract the statement so who knows,hope for the best I guess

Osgood might need groin surgery http://twitter.com/W...847081730899969 edit: "May have misheard about extent of Osgood's injury. Checking into it now". http://twitter.com/WalkerBigTalker edit again: "I'm going to have to retract my previous statement. Can't confirm". http://twitter.com/WalkerBigTalker

and Smith

Datsyuk

he's getting there 54.6% so far this year which is 3% better than last year

Friday, January 7 Carolina at Florida Toronto at Atlanta Ottawa at Chicago NY Rangers at Dallas Detroit at Calgary Edmonton at Vancouver X2 Columbus at Anaheim Saturday, January 8 New Jersey at Philadelphia NY Islanders at Colorado Boston at Montreal Tampa Bay at Ottawa Minnesota at Pittsburgh Florida at Washington Nashville at San Jose NY Rangers at St. Louis Buffalo at Phoenix Detroit at Vancouver Columbus at Los Angeles Sunday, January 9 Atlanta at Carolina Tampa Bay at New Jersey Dallas at Minnesota NY Islanders at Chicago San Jose at Anaheim

yeah the last time they did that was way back on December 26th understandable to forget things that happened so long ago with how old they are

Who will win? WASHINGTON Over or Under 6.5 goals (not including any shootout)? OVER Will there be OT? NO Will there be a shootout? NO Which Team Scores First goal? PITTSBURGH Will Ovechkin Score a goal? YES Will Crosby Score a goal? YES Will Backstrom Score a goal? NO Will Malkin score a goal? YES Which team will have the most shots? WASHINGTON Will there be an Empty Net goal? NO Over or Under 12.5 PIM? OVER Will there be any fighting majors? NO Who will have more points - OV or Crosby (or tie)? CROSBY Who will be the three stars of the game (any order - 1 pt for each correct)? SEMIN,CROSBY,MALKIN Will there be any precipitation during the game? YES

this,plus also the Stars are playing tomorrow so it will be a back to back for them also the Wings were horrible in their game against Dallas earlier this season so will probably want to try and make up for that too