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I hope Ozzie more or less lives in Grand Rapids next year so he can provide some close mentorship to McCollum.

Ozzie will return Shawn P. Roarke - NHL.com Senior Managing Editor Helene St. James - Detroit Free Press Ozzie will retire Ansar Khan - MLive Art Regner - Fox Sports Detroit Net Chuck Pleiness - Macomb Daily

I hope to see Datsyuk steal this in a shootout move this year.

Wow so... Wait what's Ozzie gonna do now? Is it a press conference or a conference call or what?

Winning, winning and more winning, whatever it takes, regular season and playoffs. At the same time it's hard for me to specify how they should win. I'd feel a little weird if I hoped for them to play harder and yet last 82 games and the entire playoffs.

I think Eva might be Gary Coleman in real life. EDIT: Reference to...

Why did Zherdev come back from the KHL? Did nobody want him over there either?

Some mini Eklunds said that about Ozzie a few years ago.

For the last three, not Bahstin Celtics, New England Patriots and Manchester United?

Seems like he should just stay in the Q for another year. Or is it better for him to play in the ECHL? Doesn't seem like he'll make the AHL team with Smith there and the way Nill talks about Lashoff and Ehrhardt.

Is this enough to stop Wings fans from making "Let's get Weber!" comments?

Fans on some of the other Wings forums think that Emmerton's contract will scare away other teams from picking him up off waivers. How true is that? Assuming Emmerton gets to that point, of course.

Ericsson sucks. Jason Williams sucks. Cory Cross sucks. Jiri Hudler sucks. Ken Holland sucks.

Consider the perspective of other teams. Who would you actually want on the Red Wings that you could afford?

Who on the Jackets would the Wings want, if anyone, not named Nash, Mason, etc.?

Ericsson's cap hit is higher. However, Kronwall will receive more money this year. Jonathan Ericsson - 11-12 salary - 3.25 mil Niklas Kronwall - 11-12 salary - 3.75 mil

I came up with a lineup that expands to players in today's game. Only one per country for each of the groups (forwards, defensemen, goaltenders). I tried only one player per country on the team but that seems impossible. Kopitar (SVN) - Crosby (CAN) - Hossa (SVK) Zetterberg (SWE) - Datsyuk (RUS) - Kesler (USA) Vanek (AUT) - Koivu (FIN) - Havlat (CZE) Zubrus (LTU) - Grabovski (BLR) - Niederreiter (CHE) Zuccarello (NOR) - Goc (DEU) Lidstrom (SWE) - Weber (CAN) Chara (SVK) - Kubina (CZE) Yandle (USA) - Volchenkov (RUS) Timonen (FIN) Thomas (USA) - Rinne (FIN) **It doesn't really matter who plays with Sid as long as they have talent and can play off of Sid's game. **Kesler doing the dirty work for Pav and Z would be siiiiiiiiiiick. Siiiiiiiiiick, I tells ya. **Not crazy about the forward lines beyond the top six, even though that third line could be a first line on an NHL team today. I feel like the 4th line would get eaten alive more often than not. Also the reserve forwards are nothing to brag about. **The dmen corps though would be pretty awesome for sure. The goalies too.

So... Wings will be allowed to overspend again or...?

Ozzie. Just have a feeling.

I second the skepticism of Aftonbladet for what it's worth. Players are just more candid with the Swedish media than they are here in the US and Aftonbladet can really run with it at times. I don't have any examples offhand so hopefully the Swedish fans on here can back me up but even Lidstrom has said some things to Aftonbladet that would make you think, "Hmm... Did he really say that?" And the Hope Solo comment was in regards to her outspokenness about how much better she would've been in 2007/8 (?) than the goalie they started against Brazil. She actually ended up alienating her teammates. Larsson's unwise statement of "I wiped the floor with Jimmy Howard" was said in kind of the same spirit/attitude. But again, Hope Solo is hot.

At least Hope Solo is hot.

I mean... Wow. Not sure if I agree.

Ouch. Although, nice one.