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I completely agree. The only thing the east has that the west lacks is enforcers. If we don't have enforcers, its not like our other players are going to be forced to fight.

https://mobile.twitter.com/mirtle/statuses/349238346104569857#!/mirtle/statuses/349238346104569857 Teams not using buyouts... Calgary, Columbus, New Jersey for sure. Imagine more added here in next few days. Mackenzie guesses other teams that won't use their buyouts: https://mobile.twitter.com/TSNBobMcKenzie/statuses/349241890455031808 Just a guess but also ANA, BOS, BUF, CAR, DAL, OTT, PHX amongst others.

If this year was an 82 game season, I think we would have made the playoffs easily. We were clearly rolling at the end and I see no reason why that wouldn't continue for 20+ more games. They just seemed to find their game there at the end. Abby realized his role wasn't to be a top liner, but rather to create space for his linemates. The rookie line came together and created huge mismatches for other teams trying to match lines. Howard became an absolute stud and everyone started getting healthy again. Also, helm would have come back, which would have been a huge boost.Change nothing and let Tatar play and we have a cup contender. As far as the bernier trade goes, I think the kings robbed the leafs. Bernier isn't exactly a sure thing, and scrivens will be a great backup to quick. Frattin has pretty good potential as well

When you have a ton of young players, you can pretty much expect to improve every year.Whether filppula stays or goes, I don't think Holland needs to do much this offseason besides trimming the fat a bit I pretty much agree with this unless a player that fits our needs gets bought out. If that happens, we'll all be thankful for the $10 mill of cap space that wasn't spent on an overrated player like Clarkson

You didn't watch, did you? Watching this team through the playoffs, they felt like a team of destiny. I didn't think anyone could stop them. They just got cold at the wrong time and the bounces started going against them. If they had closed out that series, I have no doubt that they would have beat the kings. I don't know about the Bruins because we never played them, but why not? If we keep this core together and don't trade away our young guys, we'll be competing for the cup for a long time

I was just looking at that yesterday haha.I was great through 2 rounds, but Detroit's loss killed me

Same!

Montreal? They're good! They beat Ottawa!...... Once...... Out of five....... Yeah they suck

Nyquist seems to play less "European" than Tatar. I don't know why, maybe its because of the time he spent at Maine, but he seems to have more grinder qualities. He reminds me more of Helm, where tatar is more like filppula. Both have some datsyukian qualities, which is obviously a positive

True, and that's much easier said than done

This probably isn't the place to put this, but hopefully a lot of people see this before it gets moved. Datsyuk is in the final 4 for the nhl14 cover vote. Apparently he's losing to Brodeur. All gamers (and other Datsyuk supporters) should go to nhl.com and vote Datsyuk. I don't want to see a 40 year old on the cover over the magic man Oops, sorry I didn't see the other thread about this Mods, please merge this with the other one

That's cool that you say something like that when you have no idea what an NHL player goes through. You never saw what happened to him or felt whatever pain he felt. Never question an NHL player's toughness.

Yep, that's the quote I was referring to. Thanks for finding it I couldn't remember where I read it

Holland said he would explore trades and buyouts

I don't know if anyone else posted this, but it looks like bryzgalov won't be bought out this year

I hate niemi Thomas Crawford Luongo and fleury, but Rask is awesome

Tuukka Rask is one of the most likeable goalies in the NHL

Rat fight!!!!

We'll never get that lucky. We're already blessed with the occasional Roenick vs milbury "kerfuffle"

Thornton?

He's fun to watch sometimes. We'll all hate him next year

I want stalberg ^^^^

Looks like no goal There better at least be a penalty

Did they just score???? I don't think the refs called it a goal... We'll see That would be absolutely insane!

So close