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Where's BottleofSmoke? Just found this little nuggest barried in Malik's most recent drivel... #Europe: Melén 1+0, +1 & 1 SOG in a 2-1 loss. http://stats.swehockey.se/Game/Reports/208695 … #RedWings 11:39 AM - 13 Sep 2014 Hampus is Back Baby!

Link to the game tracker anyone? T.Low, where are you getting these game updates?

I'd be pretty careful about assigning the "shutdown" defender label to Glendening. I know Babs used him in a game against Crosby and he didn't score, but 99 times out of 100 he probably will. I have no problem with Glendening, but let's not set the bar too high. As much as I hate to acknowledge it, Crosby has made many better players than Glendening look foolish.

Happy to see Jordin Tootoo got invited to the Devils camp. Despite never really fitting in here, he played the good soldier and never complained about his plight. He's a class act all the way and I hope he catches on in New Jersey.

I don't know that I'd want him to take Miller's spot per se, but I would definitely like him to beat out one of Ferraro, Andersson, Glendening, or Cleary. That would be ideal. I just think Miller has more value than those guys, so I'd rather have him on the roster and have the option to use him.

Those (10,13) were his first two years in the league, not "after he signed his contract" as you'd suggested. I agree, his fight totals have gone down since his first two years. Likely because he broke into the league as a bottom six tough guy and has since taken on a top six power forward/scoring role. Not, as you suggested, because Julien told him to fight less.

I just looked at their number of fights. Chara's have been steadily going down for about ten years, and Lucic is coming off one of the higher totals of his career.

Where did you hear that Julien told Lucic and Chara not to fight as much? I've never seen or heard that anywhere.

I know. Which is why Loui Eriksson has been kicking so much ass for the Bruins. Guy's a monster.

I wonder if he quietly chuckled to himself as he walked back to the locker room after giving this interview.

He later said, "it was an easy decision to re-sign with the Wings". Haha. I should ******* hope so. I think Kyle is punking us.

I'm not really one to bash the Quincey signing. As others have said recently, he's not as bad as he's made out to be. That said, this made me LOL. "The Red Wings’ lack of a high-profile free agent signing in the offseason has been highly discussed in the weeks following July 1, but the absence of a big move could be a move in itself. “I think it’s a big positive,” defenseman Kyle Quincey said. “We have a structure and a system that we know inside and out, and game one … we know each other, we know exactly what to expect. We know the system, so we’re going to hit the ground running.” You don't say? Kyle Quincey thinks the Red Wings failure to replace him, which subsequently ended in his getting re-signed (with a raise), is a "big positive". No s***.

Frank, you can't possibly think that Chiarelli should make personnel moves based on the fear of a non playoff team "coming to town". Even without Thornton the Bruins are miles tougher than every other team in the league. I think they'll be ok during the next brawl filled circus that they seem to have once or twice a season.

Whatever the reason, the guy's a bust. He's 30 years old and has had exactly one strong season in his career, which was (by every indication) the exception to the rule. He's undisciplined, lazy, and consistently underwhelming. There's also no reason to think he'd score MORE on a team that would require him to play a 200 ft. game, as Boston would. He scored well that one season in Philly because he was on an all offense team, with good linemates. That ain't Boston's game. This is a guy who has ALL of the worst traits of Franzen, Hudler, and Filppula and none of the good ones. He and his former teammate Linus Omark are destined to have the same exact careers. This will end predictably. I get the concept of a low risk/high reward move. I do. So I'm not blaming Boston here. But this is a low risk/low reward. So why bother? Maybe they just needed one more live body for training camp. Who knows?

Well apart from the fact that he's absolutely the antithesis of "Bruin Strong", he also hasn't scored a goal since 2012. He only had 12 assists and zero goals in 58 games last year. So yes, I'd say he's a worse option than Cleary if you want goals to be scored. A year ago Cleary had more goals than good knees. What's Leino's excuse?

Har har. I'm going to leave it rather than edit it...just so your post makes sense. But for the record I meant 6'4.

Agreed on Mrazek, especially considering his size. If he had the same attitude and work ethic and was 6'34 I'd buy the jersey tomorrow. But his stature will always be a concern until he shows it doesn't matter in the NHL. I'd love for him to be the next Quick...but I'm not holding my breath. Hell, we currently don't have a good enough defense for him to be the next Osgood.

Problem is, you're going to pay Kindl one way or another and waiving him only gets you minimal cap relief. It's not a situation like Samuelsson where you waive him and only have to pay for the remainder of the season. In Kindl's case you'd be paying for 3 more years. Best case scenario you start him on the third pair, and second PP. Hopefully he can produce (initially) at the pace he did a couple years ago and he'll have some trade value. Right now he's got no trade value and he's too expensive to demote.

Unless you're the type of guy who has maintained all along that the Red Wings struggles of late have less to do with injuries than everyone seems to think. But what kind of man would that be? Where would we find him? Who does he work for? Only time will tell.

You definitely do. But read over the last three or four pages and you'd be shocked by the number of people blaming KH for this deal not being done. Ya know, cause he's a screw up and Dekeyser is just an honest local boy with a heart of gold.

I think it's interesting that everyone is blaming KH for this deal not being done, but if it were Tatar instead of Dekeyser we'd be inundated with comments about how Tats is an egomaniac who puts himself before the team. Double standard much? Dekeyser has only played 72 professional hockey games. Whatever he and his agent are asking based on his modest point production and ice time is almost certainly too much. But god forbid anybody call them out, because he's from Michigan.

I sure hope so. I think 25-30 is a little more realistic given he won't have a quality center and will be required to play defense. But you never know.

Yeah, it'll help that we've got top six talent (Tatar, Jurco, Sheahan) on good contracts and occupying the third line. That's huge for depth. I'd be absolutely thrilled if we had that depth plus somebody to occupy that top line wing who can score 20 and play big minutes (Alfie could score 20 but couldn't handle the top line minutes). Maybe Helm will be that...but I'm not sold on it yet.

I think both of you can be right on this. It's not unreasonable to suggest that we probably need a top line winger who can score better than Justin Abdelkader. However, having a 40 goal Hossa-in-his-prime type of player is a luxury and not a necessity. I'd be thrilled with a 20-25 goal guy occupying that spot if he was doing everything else right.

Haha, I knew Harold would be all over this one. I was just waiting to see how long it took. You didn't disappoint.