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I'm just confused by this whole scenario. You're rich, young, and reasonably good looking. How hard can it be to hook up with a gloried prostitute? You've got to be one irritating son of a gun.

Here's a good article which explains exactly why Jarnkrok isn't producing this season. *SPOILER ALERT* It's not because he sucks. http://www.sportsforecaster.com/tsf/hockey/articles.php?aid=1160 Q: I had very high hopes for Calle Jarnkrok this season. I even thought he'd challenge for rookie of the year. Instead, he's done nothing so far. Should I give up on him or does he still have a bright future? - Bruce W. (Nashville, TN) FI: You were not alone, Bruce. We were also very high on Jarnkrok this summer and felt like he was a true Calder candidate as well. Then the Predators signed veteran centers Mike Ribeiro and Derek Roy a few weeks into the free agent signing period and changed Jarnkrok's fate. Now, Ribeiro and Roy are clearly Nashville's top two pivots, with Colin Wilson now back to playing his natural center position following the return of veteran Matt Cullen from injured reserve. Cullen is another natural center, but he's forced to play wing (as is another veteran natural center, Olli Jokinen). Also, let's not forget that eventually veteran Mike Fisher (Achilles surgery, IR) will also be back in the lineup at some point. Therefore, Jarnkrok owners need to concede the fact he won't be much of a fantasy factor this season. Those in deep keeper or dynasty leagues can probably stash him away and wait for a new development here, but those in year-to-year leagues who were counting on the Swedish playmaker for production this season need to cut bait and look for a replacement. Sometimes, fantasy hockey can become a very harsh reality. So, we feel for Bruce (and everybody else in the same boat).

This guy rules! Kudos to Michael Del Zotto for being freaking hilarious.

Meh...Zemungus, Humungus. Same diff.

We're talking about the same guy right? Lord Zemongous?

BOOM! Using equal but opposite logic. You my friend just aced your Philosophy 105: Intro to Logic class. Totally agree with you.

Yeah, I can't really blame Howard for the second goal by Zembuaidonfgous Gergensoaiuhduiadfnins (sp?). That was a hell of a goal.

Did Tomas Tatar break both his arms prior to the shootout?

Shootout? Where's Nestrasil when you need him?

I know you weren't trying to be confrontational. I was though, and I apologize for that. I thought this was another case of someone making excuses for Brendan when he f***s up but crucifying Quincey or Kindl when they do the same thing. Clearly you weren't and I'm wrong. So my apologies.

He's 21. Give him time. Look how long it took Abdelkader to develop his game. Jurco is good on the boards, hits, and plays well in the crease. For that alone I'd give him a couple years. Hell, at 21 Tomas Tatar couldn't even get a cup of coffee in the NHL. He's still developing. But agreed that it's be nice for him to get it going like last year. If that had been Kindl who turned the puck over you would have been leading the mob with pitch forks and torches, not "blaming all six players".

I don't agree. He's worse defensively and is producing no more offense. Last year he produced similar offense to Dekeyser and was way worse defensively. How's that good value for money?

Don't anybody blame the fourth line. Smith turned the puck over in the D-zone. He's been good tonight but that was on him.

Goddamn Kindl and Lashoff. They're horrible. Turn the puck over for goals constantly. They need to be more like Brendan Smith. Oh wait.

For 5 million a year he better be top two on whatever team he's on...and he better produce like it. He doesn't. So no thanks on Tyler "Big for Nothing" Myers.

I think they should try (just for a few shifts) to switch Helm and Sheahan. Have Sheahan with Franzen and Jurco and Helm with Tatar and Nyquist. That second line seems like they'd be hard to get the puck from, and the third line would fly.

He's holding his own this year. I think in the past he's been the recipient of their good play, but this year he's really contributing to that line...not just riding their coattails. I never saw it coming and bitched quite a bit about Abby being on the top line. I was clearly wrong about that. This is me officially eating crow.

Yeah, he's sorta good I guess.

I disagree on that one. He is big, no doubt. But with defensemen, 50 pts. seems to be the magic number and Byfuglien's done it three times as a d-man. I don't love the guy or anything, but that's a lot of points from the back end (like, Keith Yandle type points from the blueline). If Myers was anywhere close to that I might understand the hype. But he's long way off.

I've been saying that about Myers since the rumors started. He's not that good. He's only an average defenseman. If he was 6'1 and 205 lbs. but did everything else exactly the same nobody would be impressed by him at all. For whatever reason hockey fans are mesmerized by "bigness" regardless of whether or not the biggie has much talent.

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Anybody else think that the "euro twins" should really be the "euro triplets"? Kronwall plays so well with D and Z. He reads them just as well as they read each other.

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