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Team - ta = em, switch that up and you have me

Probably didn't want another Gomez mess on their hands Edit: or Carey Price for that matter, 6.5mil/year for him... Imagine how much Howie could fetch in Montreal lol

Really? He had an out on Franzen and didn't take it

Jar Jar Quincey (for obvious reasons) Princess Franzine,or Johan the hutt Hans Zetterberg (captain of the ship) Damien Skywalker Pasha-Wan Kenobi RTooDToo Grand Moff Tarkindl thats as good as i can do lol

Ya I don't mind him getting all his goals out of his sytem before we face them, as long as pavelski doesn't score I'll be happy. If he even tries Tootoo can change his mind for him

no it's 2 years at 5.75 over the 2 years, or as capgeek has it 2,875,000, per year

I understand your point and what you were getting at, but if memory serves correctly, there was a certain captain of ours for 20 years that started off a pure goal scorer that could not for the life of him backcheck whatsoever, yet he was turned into one of the best 2-way forwards in the league. Granted he had scotty as a coach, but I'm sure if Brunner is willing he can be taught how to be a little more responsible defensively. I just don't want him to be afraid of taking risks to score

I heard about a trade for pk to detroit quite a few times over the last week, but obviously that ship sailed. No one ever super credible really mentioned it though, so who knows

Goalies are the last line of defense, but I've never heard of Lidstrom strapping the pads on, why because he is a defenseman, not a goalie. Two seperate groupings

This season is hard to say as he is still adjusting, but i wouls say around 15-20 next year however he could easily be 30+

Like I said he definitely can work on his defense, he is already better than Franzen at it. It will come, he is new to the NA game, give him some time and he will be ok defensively, but he was brought in to be a sniper, not an elite two way forward like Hossa or Datsyuk, he is a work horse that wants very badly to score all the time, and Datsyuk will help him become better on his 2-way game, but I like that he is a bit selfish with the puck and just wants to go score, we need that

Ya like I said I am glad it's inflammation only, it just sucks we will be another week without him. Obviously I don't want him to rush it, you can't mess with back problems, I just want him to be healthy soon so he can energize our team again

Ugh, keeps getting worse, although at least it is inflammation only, but I wish he could stay healthy, especially now we need Helmer

I never said he was a 2 way forward, if you read my comment that you quoted the guys I mentioned I said were solid defensively, you said 2 way forward EDIT: I think we are arguing the same point, I just saw you wrote our bottom 6 is good defensively but can't score lol, which was basically what I was saying too. Miller put up 14 goals last year, Eaves is good for 10-15 goals thats not bad for bottom 6 guys.

that is laughable, their D was good but not great at all. Aside from their top pairing they didn't have much D, they had goalies standing on their heads throughout the playoffs, Brodeur, at 40 was better than most of the goalies in the league still and Quick had a phenominal run all year. Quick had a 1.41 GAA and a .946 sv% in the playoffs, Brodeur had 2 GAA and a .924 sv% going into the finals, no one can argue how well the goalies played throughout the playoffs, Quick won the Conn Smythe

Are you joking? Helm is our best penalty killer, and he is good defensively, maybe not top 10 in the league but certainly better than most

Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Bert, Filppula, Helm, and most of our bottom 6 are pretty solid defensively (no one is playing great this season yet)

People keep saying Brunner needs defence blah blah blah. He was not brought in to be a two way forward like Datsyuk, we have enough of those, he was brought in to be a straight up scorer, and that is what babs expects from him. Sure he could work on his defensive game a bit too, but he is still better defensively than Franzen, and works his tail off night in and night out, and thats all I want is for him to work hard and put some pucks in the net. So far so good.

If D wins championships why did St. Louis get swept in the second round last year? and if offense wins same goes with philly getting beaten by NJ. Fact is neither one nor the other wins championships, you need a good balance of solid goaltending, decent defense, and good scoring to win, which LA had in the playoffs last year

I agree 100%. Yesterday I can't count how many times I almost threw the remote at the tv screaming SHOOT FILPPULA SHOOT! WHY ARE YOU GUYS PASSING BACK AND FORTH LIKES ITS A GAME OF KEEP AWAY? SHOOT THE PUCK ALREADY!!

I am referring to the team being injury prone, not individual players. The last few years Detroit seems to have an injury curse. Quincey on the top pairing? Are you trying to give me a heart attack?

Flip, Brunner, White, Smith, Lashoff, Howie, and Nyquist all need to be signed

30+ goal scorer? I'll take it

I agree with you about trying to get the pp going, but you realize certain nights it just won't work and is a waste of time. We continue to be the best 5-on-5 team in the league but the bottom of the barrel in pk and pp, we are only like 7.7% on the pp, and 63% on the pk right now. Renney better start earning his money soon

hahaha Colorado's "rocky" start puns are fun