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And it showed when it mattered too.

You think there's MORE risk signing a young guy just entering his prime and playing very well rather than an aging one dimensional veteran who's clearly declining?

Well I wasn't suggesting that they were going to break down and sob. I was, however, suggesting that their inexperience and relative lack of "professionalism" might mean they'd be more easily distracted by protracted management instability. But you "doubt it". So that's that.

But surely you'd agree that with a team full of young guys it would be better to have stability and assurance. I mean, on a veteran team who really cares? They're professionals. But I'd imagine it would be tough for all the youngsters... ...except Brendan Smith. He'd salivate thinking of a team with no Babs, he'd never have to be bothered to play defense again. (Sorry, had to).

Wasn't Alfie supposed to help on the PP with his "booming" shot? Good in theory, bad in practice. Also, if you're not planning on winning for a couple of years anyway, and the money you spend on Boyle is likely to be wasted (or at best only have subsidiary effects), when why not use that money to "overpay" for a young guy like Niskanen and have him for the five or six years during his prime as opposed to the two or three years leading up to retirement (as is our norm).

You got me. I thought all Red Wings entered the NHL having already won the Stanley Cup. But then you dropped this knowledge on me and WHAMMO, reality check. Boyle, Iginla, Alfie, and everyone like them are losers. Yes they've had successful careers and blah, blah, blah, but I'd rather we give the spots to young guys and let them develop a winning culture by...ya know...winning (and perhaps losing) together like they did in GR, rather than give their roster spots to a bunch of old hacks who haven't ever won anything. Realistically we're years from another Cup anyway. Lets use those years developing a new core of winners instead of washed up has-beens.

If we signed Emery we'd get a backup goalie and the enforcer everyone seems to want. Win - win.

Said it about Iginla, and now I've apparently got to say it about Boyle... The guy's a loser. I don't want any more washed up losers on our team. Right now every guy we've got on the roster is a winner...Stanley Cup winners....Calder Cup winners. We need more winners. Not old farts that can't get it done.

I'll say this much, if a Canadian team is going to win the Stanley Cup, can't we all agree that Montreal is the least of all evils? Meh, maybe Winnipeg.

It's like the twilight zone no?

Torey Krug was undrafted. Literally NOBODY projected him to be an elite defenseman. Now granted, he's had a real nice year, but given that he has no track record of success I think 7 million is WAY to much to give the guy. You're looking at the best case scenario, and I do love an optimist, but there's a whole lot that could go wrong giving an undersized, system defenseman, a HUGE contract after only one good season.

New York City sent la pisse et Glen Sather (et son équipe) sont hacks sans talent. En toute sincérité, baiser mon cul de New York ... et vive le bleu, blanc et rouge!

What's the trouble Frank, you seem perplexed today? Also, what happened to you last night? As much as you'd hyped the Bruins before Game 7, I thought for sure we'd hear your thoughts throughout the evening.

Nope, guy's a loser. I don't want any more washed up losers on our team. Right now every guy we've got on the roster is a winner...Stanley Cup winners....Calder Cup winners. We need more winners. Not old farts that can't get it done.

If you watch the Bruins' post game comments they all have the same mindset. They keep repeating over and over "We have such a good team", "we're so good", blah, blah, blah. Iginla, Lucic, Boychuk, all spoke in those terms. It's like they can't believe that they actually have to PROVE how good they are in the playoffs rather than just being handed the Cup based on their regular season record.

Spot on.

They were only perfect in the wake of beating the Wings. After the dust settled a bit it was apparent that they were old...and slow. Perhaps having a bunch of meatheads doesn't really add much in a game like hockey when they can't skate or score.

According to reports Milan Lucic of the Boston Bruins allegedly called Dale Weise a "baby" after their playoffs series concluded tonight; this coming after Lucic allegely called Montreal defenseman Alexei Emelin a "chicken" after a regular season altercation. In response to these reports Lucic issued the following statement: "I'm rubber and you're glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you". What an intellectual cripple.

Did he flex his muscles and challenge the sportscaster to a fight? That's what he usually does when things don't go his way.

Great, now the grave of Ruslan Salei will be an underachiever for it's entire career.

I didn't see it, what did he say?

Chicago may or may not be better than Boston, but that's not the problem I have with you post. You made it seem like the teams MOST likely to beat Chicago were NY, Anaheim, LA, and then Montreal. As if Montreal were the fourth best of those teams. Considering Montreal just beat a better team than any of the rest of them have played, I'd have the say the Habs are the best of the rest after Chicago.

Not sure if you saw, but the Canadiens just handled the bestest team in the history of bestest teams. To suggest that out of the remaining teams they're the least likely to beat Chicago sort of flies in the face of the fact that they just whooped a President's Trophy winner. That article only made me love Subban more. Comparing anyone to the Nature Boy usually does that for me!

Wooooooooooooo! (Knife Edge Chop).

Is it a foregone conclusion that Boston is beating Montreal then?