puckbags

It's also silly to sit here and blow this guys ego up on the word potential, lets be honest in the long run Johnson would be projected to be a better d man than alot of guys that we have now or have in our system but so far he's been a mediocre d man and until he proves otherwise thats all he is. And to the people that say Lebda is only a product of the team he plays on, well of course he is, he got drafted by this team, what is he supposed to do? decline to play for a good team? " Hey Kenny can you send me to Atlanta so maybe I can be exposed as a lesser d man and then the posters at LGW can laugh at me". Its the same as the people who say that the only reason Burrows is having such a good season is because he is playing with Sedins, well no s***, should he ask Vigneault to take him off their line because he thinks hes scroing too many goals? cmon !

Im in the process of reading Theo Fleury's book and he was a degenerate smoker, in the book he talks about smoking in between periods and s***. As we all know he also had other problems like snorting mounds of coke and drinking lemon stoli right out of the bottle. It's a great book, pick it up !

Exactly, everyone keeps saying he has great potential, potential is exactly that..potential. Although I would trade Leino for Johnson in a heartbeat.

Huh? He played 8 regular season games and 16 playoff games in 2006-07 and it's pretty common knowledge that his back was a mess at that time and he was about 30lbs heavier than he is now. Judging him on his previous Red Wing stint would be harsh judgement I think !

So what you are saying is we are good at the moral victories? Moral victories are exactly that...moral victories, they dont put 2 pts on the board !

I have an over under with my friend (a Canucks fan) on how many goals Sammy would get in Vancouver this year. I took the over on 27 and it's looking pretty close !

I laugh at the people that say this is pure luck. Although it does require some luck it also requires a fair bit of skill..namely great timing and hand eye co-ordination...........yea and a goalie who looked lost.

And based on his performance tonight his next one might be Feb 20th, Howard has played well enough and earned the top job, Ozzie has earned the right to play once a month. I love the guy and he's done a lot of great things for this team but he is easily the 2nd best goalie on this team right now !

Haha, that's awesome and I completely agree, the number 8 freight train will be on the loose and hopefully we can slow him down a bit because he's impossible to stop !

If we plan to compete with the Hawks this year we better find out a way to kill penalties against them. Letting Kane walk into the slot with 20 feet open space everytime is not effective !

Exactly, its going to take a top 6 forward, A top 4 d man which Ericcson could be as soon as next year and a 1st and probably a 2nd rounder. although the closer it gets to the deadline the less teams will be able to give up for Kov, Waddel doesn't want to lose this guy for nothing !

Thats like asking if you would rather bang Oprah or Marth Stewart lol

I envy you , you got to bang Kelly Kapowski.

Your originality amazes me, its not as if this topic hasn't been brought up 477 times in the last 8 days. Cool story bro !

Any news that doesnt have the terms torn or ripped in it is good news !

Bring back Boyd !

Its pretty funny s***, spoiled rotten brat Red Wings fans of the last 15 years acting like babies. We are not playing good hockey thats obvious but it's called adversity folks, do you think that this team was going to win 65% of their games every year until the end of time? I mean be mad but for f*** sakes keep a level head about whats going on here !

I love this place, it makes me feel are warm and fuzzy inside !

I love this place, it makes me feel are warm and fuzzy inside !

I love this place, it makes me feel are warm and fuzzy inside !

i've watched the video 11 times and I am still looking for the so called 4 game cross check !

?? Really, I think they are pretty damn good, 2 solid scoring lines, good grinders and toughness, their defence is young and solid. Their big question mark will be in goal but I think their goaltending is similar in a sense to ours. They dont need Huet to be a god in goal come playoff time, he just has to be solid. I hate the Hawks but lets be honest, they are top 5 in the league right now. As for the original topic, 100% we make the playoffs and if I said we werent gonna win the cup I wouldn`t be a die hard fan.

I'm still confused about the OP. He bashes the fans but claims he's been around here longer then 95% of the people yet it shows that he just joined the site yesterday meaning that he is so insecure he had to make another account to post a thread about his man love for Z and that we should make sure Dats feels bad about his lack of goals? Someone help me, I need it !

Nobodies compared to who? Osgood and Howard? I dont know much about the other guy but Rinne is a very good goalie !