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Would be an awesomeeeeeeeee line. Only a problem I see is then who plays on Datsyuks RW? Fil? Goose?

Kronwall - White Quincey - Smith/Ericsson/Colo Smith/Ericsson/Colo - Kindl

Filppula - Datsyuk - Franzen ------Fil/Dats chemistry will help Franzen Nyquist - Zetterberg - Brunner ----Goose is a better Omark Cleary - Helm - Sammy -------------Helm will have his best season with better linemates Bertuzzi - Abby - Tootoo -----------Grindline baby, with a scoring touch

Goalies around the league are rejoicing

If this is true that sucks for Philly and Boston. Savard and Pronger seemed like two of the most obvious buyouts

Boston: Savard & Thomas Rangers: Redden Buffalo: Leino & Ehrhoff Islanders: Dipietro Vancouver: Luongo & Ballard Montreal: Gomez Philly: Pronger & Bryzgalov Chicago: Hossa Los Angeles: Carter Tampa Bay: Lecavalier Toronto: Komisarek Pittsburgh: Martin Edmonton: Horcoff Would like to see wings go after Hossa, Ehrhoff, and Horcoff (good friends with helmer) if those buyouts happen

I knows there is sarcasm about, but I understood that Illtch and Holland were Anti-Lockout. If Ilitch voted with the rest of the owners it was only to show solidarity amongst the owners, a situation he could not have prevented anyway..

He didn't make the Edmonton Oilers... THE OILERS

Edit: apparently I'm retarded at embedding tweets Woooooo. Glad this kid is performing well and will get to play among the other high caliber prospects. I haven't heard of any other wing prospects making WJC rosters yet besides him.

At least we can look forward to seeing Mrazek play. Hopefully a lot of starting time will do him good. Just wish we had someone better than McCollum and Pearce to push him. http://www.thegoalieguild.com/2012/10/12/ahl-goalie-power-rankings-week-1/

Why don't we just trade our super-star Cory Emmerton for him? E-dog is pretty much still a prospect at the baby age of 24, and like you said has so much more developing to do. Could turn out to be a hall of famer! Why wouldn't Tampa want him? Giterdone Kenneth!

I imagine Axe would take this deal

I'd trade Emmerton for Omark straight up....

Was reading an article about Sabres coach Lindy Ruff and the article happened to include this interesting little list.... The list ranks team systems based on player usage and specialization. Basically if a player is only on the ice for offensive zone face offs then that player is 100% specialized. If a player is on the ice for offensive and defensive zone face offs an equal amount of times they are not specialized at all. Here's the list of teams, ranking them highest to lowest based on how specialized their team is..... 1 -Vancouver – 66.4% 2 - Tampa Bay – 37.6% 3 - NY Rangers – 34.8% 4 - Chicago – 33.8% 5 - Colorado – 33.1% 6 - Carolina – 32.8% 7 - Winnipeg – 32.0% 8 - Nashville – 26.1% 9 - Montreal – 23.0% 10 - Minnesota – 22.3% 11 - Pittsburgh – 21.7% 12 - Phoenix – 21.3% 13 - Florida – 20.6% 14 - Philadelphia – 20.4% 15 - Edmonton – 19.3% 16 - St. Louis – 19.1% 17 - Columbus – 18.0% 18 - Toronto – 18.0% 19 - Buffalo – 15.8% 20 - Boston – 15.5% 21 - NY Isles – 15.4% 22 - San Jose – 14.9% 23 - Washington – 13.5% 24 - Ottawa – 14.7% 25 – LA Kings 13.9% 26 - New Jersey – 11.9% 27 - Calgary – 11.1% 28 - Dallas – 10.5% 29 - Anaheim – 9.2% 30 - Detroit – 7.6% Was proud to see Detroit dead last. To me it speaks to how we demand the best from our players on every side of the puck. What I found interesting is that #1 Van is almost twice as specialized as #2 TBL! Here's the link to the article http://wgr550.com/pages/13598525.php?

The stat doesn't take into account PK or PP starts.... just whether a player was played heavily in one zone in general. I bet if you looked at which players started on the PK you'd see a more consistent unit. The Rangers high specialization just means Torts takes his offensive players off the ice when their is a defensive zone face off (PK or not) and takes his defensive players off the ice when their is an offensive zone face off. PS the Rangers were only 4.4% better than us on the PK. I was much more concerned with our unusually poor PP last year.

Anybody wanna take bets on when the first probation violation will be?

Which is why you prefer Emmerton over Tootoo I'm sure

Patty made it? Veryyyyy nice. He was my favorite goalie going into the draft last year (his numbers don't display his true talent) and I couldn't believe it when the wings drafted him. Thought fersure he was going to go in the 2nd round.

Lebda

hence why i said "what if at the end of the season it looked like this?" cause our player r awesome duh kipwing nice. trying to derail another topic with the same ridiculous point. ur shooting for the stars these days axe keep it up

Axe: "Emmerton can't score, play defense, or play physical......but he's fast, nuff said"

what if it looks something like this at the end of the season......(should there be one) Val - Pavs - Mule Goose - Hank - Brunner Tatar - Cleary - Sammy Bert - Helm - Toots We have so many spare parts right now

Why did we ever sign Tootoo?!?!?!? Emmerton is all the grit we need! look at that hammer job! We don't need more fast softies in the bottom-6 like Tootoo, we need grinders, agitators, and fighters like Cory .

pshhhhhh hockey towners live and die this sh*t. Not worried.