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Who: Dave Tippett Why: He's the best coach in hockey.

If he was the best lawyer at the best law firm in the country, and then one year later he was at one of the worst law firms making half as much money, EVERYBODY would agree that he had mismanaged his career. Whether it was worth it or not, to become a better father, is between God and Timmy. But the career implications of it are pretty much not debatable. As for the delusional comment, that was in reference to Timmy saying he "doesn't like to overblow things", or whatever. Which couldn't be further from the truth. He overblows tons of things, all the time. I gave allowance for the fact that he could just be joking around, but if not, he's being delusional. Again, not really sure how this is debatable...unless, of course, someone perhaps just wants to be argumentative.

When did we start talking about Tim Thomas the husband and father? This is a hockey forum fellas, try to stay on topic. I honestly don't care if he's got ten or twelve of those "World's Greatest Dad" coffee mugs. I said he mismanaged his HOCKEY career, and he did. He currently plays for a garbage team for half the money he did in his last full NHL season.

Where's Cleary? Hopefully he got lost on his way to the rest of the season.

Yeah, if they're relocated they can change the name to whatever they want. Just like Colorado, Carolina, and Dallas did.

Agreed, it's obviously easier to play with Tavares and your numbers will inflate a bit. But Moulson is the real deal. Guy can flat out score. Still don't want him though...the price is wrong.

Sure, but you're talking about a different kind of "nuts". And really, when you boil it down it's all shades of gray anyway. Both Tim Thomas and Ilya Bryzgalov are absolutely, positively, 100% wackadoodle.

I read an interview a couple of months back where the new owner was talking about renaming the team with the Arizona moniker. It wasn't so much about "rebranding" them as much as it was about making the Coyotes similar in name to the Arizona Diamondbacks and Arizona Cardinals. Kind of a solidarity move, similar to how all the Pittsburgh teams have the same color scheme for their uniforms. I actually think it's pretty cool. A little state pride never hurt anyone.

Lefty, you're reaching. Lidstrom, Fetisov, Murphy, and Chelios are all Hall of Famers. Konstantinov would have been. In the 1997-1998 season Fetisov played 18:00 minutes a night and Murphy 25:00 minutes. I can't find numbers for the year before but logic dictates it was probably not less icetime given that they were a year younger. In 2001-2002 Chelios played 25 minutes a night. In 1997-1998 Lidstrom played 27:00 minutes a night, in 2001-2002 he played 28:00, and in 2007-2008 he played 26:00...again, no stats for 1996-1997 but there's no reason to assume a huge change one way or another. Finally, because he was only on the first Cup team there's no stats for Konstantinov, but considering he was considered the better of the two (at the time) between he and Lidstrom, you have to assume it was a lot for him as well. It's not like they were a bunch of young kids who hadn't reached their potential, or else old guys who were past it. They were Hall of Fame players logging HUGE minutes. You've got a moderately valid point for 2008...maybe...but that was post cap and our defense was about as good as it could be given those constraints.

I don't. It was more a joke about Torts than about Hegelin, who's really quite good...supposed powerplay difficulties aside. You'd need Ovie AND Stamkos to make up for all the goals that a combination of Smith and Mike Green would let in. They would arguably be the worst defensive pairing in the history of the league. I'm wondering which of the two would actually stay back on defense...breakaways and odd man rushes galore. Nevermind all the blown zone coverage. Yeesh.

I blame Bettman...and the Pittsburgh Penguins.

"Hagelin's a jitterbug and he stinks..." - John Tortorella

Yep sure is. Ok, I'm with you now. I appreciate your patience while I (slowly) figured out where you were coming from.

Just out of curiosity, isn't it possible that nothing nefarious happened and that Franzen simply had a reoccurrence of symptoms which had subsided consistently over the previous week, culminating in three straight days without symptoms at all? Is that really such an extraordinary sequence of events?

I'm sorry I'm asking a lot of questions, I'm just trying to follow your line of thought. You'd keep Smith because of his upside as a young defenseman, but you'd trade Dekeyser? I mean, doesn't he have even more defensive upside than Smith?

I mean, I get that Smith is going to improve. I agree actually, he'd almost have to. But apparently you think he's going to improve so much that you'd rather move Datsyuk than him? Do you really believe his ceiling is that high?

I just want to be clear, you'd trade Datsyuk for a powerforward but Smith is untouchable?

God bless you for this post.

Noesen hasn't stepped foot in the AHL as of yet, because of injury. He's a Canadian junior stud who hasn't made waves in the AHL, like Frk in a way. So yeah, I agree with you. We could have matched that.

Dollar hotdog night, every night + Larry Murphy as new color commentator = Bankruptcy. It's as simple as that. Edit: That's why FSD let him go. Too much of a strain on their promotional capacity. You should have seen how flagrantly he took advantage of the "Homer for the Holidays" ticket package in years past. Disgusting!

Hockey hair. Perfect!

I have a two part prediction that might be considered "bold" by some. 1) The Olympics will go off without a hitch, 2) The Americans will win the gold...easily. Suck it Canada, and suck it even more terrorism.

I mean, by the sounds of it Franzen will be able to tag along since he's never going to play hockey again...unless...unless, he's a vegetable that is. Anyway, everyone needs a wing man. Just don't cramp my style.

Jesus, a lot of you are making it seem like he's been out for a year or two. He's not Crosby there fellas, he's missed a good chunk of time, but that happens with concussions. Let's not jump to conclusions. I mean, if I had a nickel for every person that said Helm or Bertuzzi was done after last year I'd be typing this post from somewhere that serves drinks with little umbrellas out of Brazilian girls' belly buttons...so basically anywhere in Brazil.

So, I don't really want to post line combos, but I just did this on capgeek. Following this blueprint we can fit the majority of our young guys and still have room for the vets that aren't going anywhere. They, if we want to make further moves, we're in good shape capwise to do so. CAPGEEK.COM ARMCHAIR GM ROSTER CapGeek Armchair GM Roster FORWARDS Henrik Zetterberg ($6.083m) / Pavel Datsyuk ($6.700m) / Daniel Alfredsson ($3.500m) Johan Franzen ($3.955m) / Stephen Weiss ($4.900m) / Gustav Nyquist ($0.950m) Tomas Tatar ($0.630m) / Darren Helm ($2.125m) / Tomas Jurco ($0.709m) Drew Miller ($1.350m) / Joakim Andersson ($0.733m) / Justin Abdelkader ($1.800m) Todd Bertuzzi ($2.075m) / Danny Cleary ($1.750m) / DEFENSEMEN Niklas Kronwall ($4.750m) / Jonathan Ericsson ($3.250m) Danny DeKeyser ($0.925m) / Kyle Quincey ($3.775m) Brendan Smith ($1.263m) / Brian Lashoff ($0.725m) GOALTENDERS Jimmy Howard ($5.292m) Jonas Gustavsson ($1.500m) BURIED Mikael Samuelsson ($2.900m) Jordin Tootoo ($0.975m) Patrick Eaves ($0.275m) ------ CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter) (estimations for 2013-14 crunched using simulation date of 2014-01-28) SALARY CAP: $64,300,000; BONUSES: $2,850,833 CAP SPACE (22-man roster): $1,430,167 Some thoughts: 1. We're not waiving Cleary or Bert, so best we can hope for is that they're scratched (which is possible with this lineup). 2. I traded Kindl for nothing. Someone would take him for a conditional 4th or something. Probably more than that actually if we really wanted to do a for real trade. 3. I demoted Glendening and Sheahan sadly. However, either of them could be back if we made an admittedly difficult decision and traded Andersson or moved one to wing in place of Jurco.