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He plays with heart and energy, it is good to see him rejuvenating the oilers, especially since they have so much young talent that seems to do so little, and he will be the next captain if he keeps energizing the team like that. As long as he doesn't constantly showboat like that (he is very young still, and in the very wise words of yoda "much to learn you still have, my young padawan") I don't see a problem with that, it was his second career goal and it tied up the game with 4.6 seconds left against the reigning stanley cup champs. Can't get much better than that for the kid. What I am upset about though is that he doesn't play for us, he has made his displeasure for canadian players abundantly clear, so he should come to detroit

Brunner actually did, he is 26, and babs and kenny have been waiting to sign him for some time, and he obviously was nhl ready by 26

I always liked the idea of signing suter to a decent contract, maybe 5mil. He is not worth what he got in minny, he is very overrated. He doesn't have anyone of weber's caliber playing alongside him now, he always wanted to be number 1, to be "weber" but hjust wasn't as good, that is why he always played in weber's shadow. Now the truth is starting to come out about how much weber actually did. Yes I know Weber said himself he couldn't have done everything he did without suter there, blah blah blah. All that means is Weber needs a decent defenseman to stay back while he takes risks, that doesn't make suter elite. Minny can have that huge contract, I'm sure they will be kicking themselves soon enough, Parise however is worth his money, no debate there. I really hope Detroit embarasses Suter tonight and makes him wish he chose wiser, alongside Kronner he could have been pretty good with us, for 5mil lol

I do not think you are going out on a limb at all, that is exactly what 75% of the people on this forum will do, if we lose. I can see it now "if only ken would have signed Suter we wouldn't be in this position, look how much better minnisota is now because of them, blah blah blah" right cause kenny didn't try to sign them... I will be happy when Ericsson returns, and I don't think monster will be ready to back up howie tonight, maybe sunday.

I get that abby has 30 pounds on eaves but we need pucks in the net, and so far cleary isn't playing well, so we either need miller or eaves on a wing with helm, cause abby can't score

I have been hoping for that (with abby too) since tootoo was signed, tootoo and abby could clear out a lane for helm to skate through and eventually score, once in a while lol. miller helm tootoo or eaves helm tootoo would be pretty effective though

There doesn't seem to be a "big guy" on that third line, biggest guy would be abby at 6'1" but thats not big in the nhl, that's average. I don't like that bottom 6, I was looking forward to cleary helm eaves, and a grind line of miller abby tootoo

may as well throw vladdy in too, he can wheel around the ice and still do better than quincey

Quincey is not injured defense lines for next game are kronner-lashoff quincey-smith huskins-kindl

Smith and I would play better together than Quincey and Smith, and I would be drunk...

Ya, the way he has come in and played for us so far, I want to see more of him, he has potential and he is young, why would we give that up? He has been one of our more solid dmen so far

kronwall, datsyuk, z, flip, howie, and brunner edit: smith and lashoff too

you're right, my bad. Although, you can argue his salary wouldn't have been much different in arbitration

You do realize Quincey makes more because he took us to arbitration and we were forced to pay him that right?

fair enough

Don't get me wrong, I loved the hit. I am going by nhls definition of boarding and charging though, which according to that, it was both.

1. it will be a big cap hit, he is good but overrated because of the current drought of dmen. 2. Definitely go after him, we would be crazy not to if this was remotely true. 3. Brendan Smith, or Lashoff with a draft pick, and your choice of one of our prospects in the ahl EDIT: That trade is only if montreal signs him first, if it is just for his rights, give them Almqvist and a 2nd round pick

I am not debating that schenn jumped on the hit. What I am saying is tootoos hit was just as dangerous, it was boarding and charging. Not to mention Larsen didn't even see the hit coming, by the time he even turned around tootoo was already hitting him

yes I do, first off McCollum is garbage. Secondly, Abby plays center, Emmerton is useless, and Tootoo provides grit that we've failed to have in years, and he works hard every shift he is out there and plays with a lot of energy and heart. Once again though Suter wanted to play with his butt buddy in Minny, can't fix that, can't change that. Not to mention he was vastly overpaid, and isn't doing all that much to help his team now

41.1 Boarding – A boarding penalty shall be imposed on any player or goalkeeper who checks or pushes a defenseless opponent in such a manner that causes the opponent to hit or impact the boards violently in the boards. The severity of the penalty, based upon the impact with the boards, shall be at the discretion of the Referee. 42.1 Charging - A minor or major penalty shall be imposed on a player who skates or jumps into, or charges an opponent in any manner. Charging shall mean the actions of a player who, as a result of distance traveled, shall violently check an opponent in any manner. A “charge” may be the result of a check into the boards, into the goal frame or in open ice. Both of those from nhl.com and they pretty much both sum up the hit

exactly, we already have 2 rookies on our d-line, ericsson should be back soon and kindl will be back friday, so we should be ok for a bit assuming we don't get another 2 injuries... assuming.

tell me this isn't a charge and boarding please..

no that's silly, we can put one of our fourth liners on the defensive line...

Ok, we should get a defenseman and say forget about getting a backup goalie because we have a defenseman?

Sarcasm or not, if one is suspendable so is the other. In my opinion tootoo had the more dangerous hit because Larsen was 4 feet from the boards and tootoo smashed him into it, pretty reckless if you think about it