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Well none of the fights were all that impressive, but we gave as good as we got. Anaheim didn't have their A game last night and they were clearly frustrated, which led to them doing the only thing they know how to spark their team...which is apparently having your core skill players fight our depth players to draws. All of those fights should have turned out worse for them though, they're lucky. They were mismatched each time.

I'm now reading that the Rangers want a replacement forward for Gaborik. Think they'd consider a 1 for 1 swap for Franzen? They get a big body who's capable of producing, and they get to shed salary. We get a scoring winger for Pavel. All would be right with the world.

He didn't say we had to win them all, he said the next six games will likely determine whether we're in the playoffs or not, and if we are then there would be a trade. His exact words were something like, "we need to win some games before trading makes any sense" or something to that effect.

I don't think I enjoy anything more than watching Scott Hartnell get punched in the face. What a clown.

The scouting report on him is that he's a stay at home defender with a little offensive upside. I wouldn't get too carried away by the Nic comparisons.

Don't know if this was already posted or not, but here's a link to a petition to get Murphy back for those who are interested. http://kuklaskorner.com/a2y/comments/give-us-back-our-murph

Anybody see that Volunteer Energy commercial with Drapes and Osgood? If you have there's no way you can say either of those guys would be better in front of a camera than Murph with a straight face.

Anybody remember the Nashville game earlier this season when Murph shot his intro from the stage of some honky tonk bar? Pure comic gold. I loved Murph and all his goofy wonder.

Don't know where you're watching this game, but it's after midnight in Michigan, I might just have to run down the street for a late night snack.

Smith and Tootoo are within a few pounds of one another, and Tootoo would pound the hell out of Smith.

Halifax isn't bad or anything, but St. Johns way unreal when Jurco played. They won the league championship three years in a row. One of the knocks on Jurco was that his team was so good it was hard to tell whether his stats were padded because of team depth.

I've seen a few videos of Lashoff fighting in GR and he usually handled himself pretty well. I'm actually surprised it took him this long to get a fighting major in the NHL. Either way, good for him.

Haha, my bad I honestly had no idea. Thanks for the heads up though, and thanks for being a generally decent she.

I seriously cannot believe that just happened. Thanks for the curly fries Abby!

I'll send you a message with a link, you should be able to view it on that.

What kind of device are you on? Repeating homophobia still makes you a homophobe. And he's not being oversensitive, he's just being a generally decent human being, with consideration, and class. Also, he's not the only one offended by it, so you should probably just stop with the hate speech and smart assy comebacks.

Not really sure what Kindl did wrong on that one?

Do we seriously not have anyone better than Abby for the top six, like Sheahan, or Ferraro, or f****** anybody else?!? Christ.

You only think that because you can't comprehend the sheer brilliance of Mike Babcock. Remember, many people (here and elsewhere) think he's a Jack Adams candidate this season...for his tireless work screwing up the timing and chemistry of every line in every game. If you hate Babs, then you clearly hate this team. Why don't you go cheer for the Pens you traitor!

Yes he does, and he's currently tearing it up. His 2013 season has already surpassed anything that Jurco did in the Q, AND he's doing it on a worse team, AND Jurco's stat line was super impressive. I cannot wait until these two are wingers in the NHL. How weird will it be to go from having elite centers and horrible wingers to having elite wingers and average centers...oh wait, we've got Jarnkrok coming along. So pumped.

Even without them playing above their heads you're still talking about a team in which Helm, Bertuzzi, Sammy, and Filppula missed significant time and one in which Colaiacovo and White (both projected to play significant time) either under performed or didn't perform at all.

You should probably re-read the whole argument to fully understand the context that I was speaking in. I already stated that anytime a goalie scores it's a "lucky" thing. Someone else said that it's less "lucky" when a goalie shoots the puck rather than simple getting credited with the goal. My response was to suggest that shooting in a goal is probably more so because it almost never happens. It's far more common the other way around and as such, less "lucky". Nobody thinks it's lucky if the mail comes tomorrow, or a coin lands on heads vs. tails. Those things are likely to happen. In terms of goalie scoring, what happened last night with Brodeur (according past precedent) suggests that it's much more likely to occur than the alternative, and therefore less "lucky".

That's your problem right there, it's not just the addition of Sammy, Cola, and Bert. It's the addition of those guys plus Helm. AND, it's a team in which Flip, Ericsson, Kindl, Smith, didn't all miss significant time with injuries as well. None of Nyquist, Tatar, or Andersson have a game winning goal, and only 3 of their combined 8 goals came in wins. While they've all played good, none of them has been a difference maker thus far. So I'll amend my statement and say that having Helm, Bertuzzi, and Sammy in the lineup doesn't guarantee that we'd have done better, but it does mean that we probably couldn't have done worse. Add to this the fact that all three of them would have made their respective lines much better, Helm obviously, and Bert and Sammy would certainly produce more with Datsyuk than Cleary and Abby have. Finally, these numbers don't even take into account how many more games we likely would have made more competitive with fewer defensive injuries. As well as he's played, Lashoff on the top pairing is much worse than Ericsson (who missed time) and as we've seen, Smith and Kindl in the lineup makes the team better than it is without them. So again, our early season performance is not indicative of the team overall, and therefore shouldn't be used as a baseline for projections.

Right, but if you compare the number of times in a given season there's an empty net, versus the number of times goalies have scored you have to come to the conclusion that luck was involved in each one, if not it would happen more often. Are some stranger than others? Sure. But every time a goalie scores it's strange, so again...splitting hairs. Edit: Actually, according to this the majority of goalie tallies have come in the same manner as Brodeur's last night. As such, statistically it's far "luckier" to shoot the puck and score for a goalie than to score as the last person who touched the puck before the opposition shot into their own net. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_goaltenders_who_have_scored_a_goal_in_an_NHL_game

Again, anytime a goalie scores it's because of luck, not because of skill. You're splitting hairs for some reason that I can't understand. Also, it's really not that strange though it's still really lucky. The exact same scenario happened last year between the same two teams when Cam Ward was credited with a goal after Kovalchuk back passed down the ice on a delayed penalty. Lucky, yes. Luckier that other goalie goals, no.