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Best signing yet. Hollands offseason acquisition is himself. His deadline acquisition will be Babs.

Monahan has not nearly proven himself a star yet, he's just young, which typically happens on bad teams Dano is their Rafalski Hiller is a goalie... and an average one at that

Whoa that's a lot of fire power EDIT: Good thing he has 3 separate players to protect him.

What star players?

I've never even heard of that guy

Bought time we got a big signing!!!

I think Jurco is definitely ready, but he's the only one waiver exempt. Which means he's the one going down until an injury occurs. That's life.

Jurcos ripe... But is he overripe???

I was being sarcastic. Couldn't you tell??? I don't think anyone seriously here believes that. The writer is just trying to drum up news in the off-season when there isn't any... and this is the best he could do.

Yes

Yeah because something happened. He got traded. And played his first 12 NHL games immediately after. I'm not sure whether Jarnkrok will be the next awesome player or not. I hope he doesn't and I hope KH and co really did see something disposable in him. But if I was a NSH fan I'd be pretty happy with his play so far.

No you didn't You didn't once address how many elite goal you think there currently are until your last post. First you commented on how many their could theoretically be. Then you spewed some insults and stuff about autocorrect. Then finally you came around to actually address the subject. So don't act like you have been all along. If you disagree feel free to quote the "7" posts you made during our argument where you talk about how many elite goalies the league has currently. Good luck.

Yup every team has injuries, but none had nearly as many as we did to key players last season. We will have our fair share of injuries, but it's highly unlikely to be anything close to as bad as last season. And last season we made the playoffs.

Darn it! No shiny new toys???

I gotta say, looking at rosters. A lot of people have pegged Buffalo or Florida to get the 1st round pick, but i thinks its gonna be Calgary for once. Their roster is despicable.

Lapointe sucks, Lilja rules.

I agree with you on that, and that's why I was for the trade. I Know they know better than me. I just don't think we should bash Calle until he really shows his value. In my book he's still a top level prospect until he proves otherwise. And like I said I will be so relived if the otherwise happens.

Lets also remember that Calle had 36 pts in 57 games with GR... with most all those points coming in the later half of games right right before the trade. On a crappier farm team he proceeded to put up 9 pts in 6 games, warranting a call up. On a terrible NSH team he then put up 9 pts in 12 games. (Zberg did not put up those pt %s at 23 or even 22 in Sweden) You can argue that depth was worse so he got more oppurtunity, but linemates were also worse, so that kind of evens out. Everything points to a very good 22 year old C. Again I still liked the trade, but I hope I don't kick myself in 2 or 3 seasons.

Your entitled to you opinion, but don't care pair 11 to the former 11, they're not in the same category. Signing Alfie helps this team (No i don't want to tank)

So you don't find it hypocritical to rudely correct someone else's grammar and then use terrible grammar yourself? If you made a grammar mistake that ALTERS YOUR ENTIRE ARGUMENT there is no shame in correcting yourself. But now you're deviating from the auto-correct excuse huh? So you made a quick off the cuff comment, that if you had really thought out, you may have adjusted it to 2-7? If the above is true wouldn't it just have been easier to say something like "my bad, those were just the first two to pop into my head" at the beginning instead of dragging your feet and throwing around insults? So then nothing we can believe is true? Mantha probably blows? But only if we trade him right?

“He’s probably the best prospect in our organization overall. Whenever he makes the transition overseas, he’s going to be really exciting to watch at the NHL level.” — Red Wings director of player development Jiri Fischer (December 2012) He's been compared to Zetterberg by multiple people within our organization and Zberg is the only player he's ever been compared to by the Red Wings. They've also never pegged him as say, a probable 3rd liner, or probable 2nd liner. From our understanding from the scouts it was always the sky could be the limit with this kid. Now did that change at some point making him expendable? Sure. But I personally doubt it. He was traded just when he was starting to dominate the NA game in GR. I was personally fine with the trade at the time. I wanted to see the streak continue. But now that Leggy is gone and Jarnkrok is gone and the PO's are over, I feel a bit stung by the trade. The Red Wings will be fine without Calle but I'll continue to follow him and his career hoping that he really does dud and the wings knew what they were doing. But everyone who bashes his talent all of the sudden I think are just being homers.

? Then why wouldn't you just say it was an auto correct error from the beginning? I couldn't care less about your grammar... Instead you skirted the issue in multiple responses, and are now claiming your phone auto-corrected the word are? Yeah ok bud. PS in our last "engagement" in another thread YOU corrected MY grammar... so I'd watch the grammar nazi insults my friend. I'll go quote it if you don't remember.

WHOOP WHOOP Luh me some Alfie

Dude, I'm not debating you about how many elite goalies there could be. I agree that it is fluid and changes. And have said nothing contrary to that. Quit trying to change the subject and make this about something else. I quoted and highlighted your statements and your refusing to address them now. You said "NOW IT'S HENRIK AND QUICK". Thats TWO goalies. I agree that, that number can change, but I'm not talking about whether it can or not. I'm talking about how you stated you believe there to be 2 elite goalies at the moment... then contradicted yourself later on by saying "I'M NOT SAYING ONLY 2-3 ARE". Keyword: ARE. Not was or were. And you specifically said that in a reply to a post I made about the current league. Why don't you address those bolded quotes that you yourself made, and that I have now quoted multiple time, instead of trying to argue a different point about the number of elites changing year to year (Of course they do).

Players go to other teams bc their buddies are there too. Imagine going to work with ur best friends everyday. That's how Minny got Parise Vanek and Suter now (plus the home thing). Orpik convinced Niskanen to go to WSH with him. Alfredsson came here for the Swedish connection.