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I've had 2 ACL tears. If they are considering surgery, it is a tear. They are likely trying to assertain if the tear is at the surface, where it will self-heal and no surgery is required. One of my tears was a surface-tear and did just that, self-heal. The other one required surgery and a small piece was removed. Both took about 6 months for full recovery.

I like it. I want to see what Robbie can do in the majors. Our defense flat out sucks and we are not making the playoffs. I say give him plenty of games, let's see where he's at.

Heh.. Sad, but agreed. Giving you a cynical like.

Hicketts on the left side, McIlrath on his right, let's see how they gel. In the AHL, of course. Probably won't bear any fruit but I'm open to see what'll happen.

A good loss. I was worried we were gonna win there for a while. Zetterberg is too good for this team right now, any chance he could be sent down to the AHL a few games?

Damn that's a steep price the Rangers paid. They must see something I ain't. I was expecting a 3rd or 4th. Good job on the return.

That Eaves "miss" is one instance that rings small alert bells as to the backoffice competency. In my mind it's probably the biggest precedence to use in a court hearing when arguing for not letting Jurco go, considering Eaves is a solid 1st line winger for Dallas. Still, as a juror presented with the evidence as of now I would take the 3rd round pick. But good point, makes my eyebrows twitch a little. This could develop roughly the same way. There just isn't any way to know.

My take: Clearly Chicago saw something in Jurco, enough to warrant a 3rd round pick. They might be right, most of us know he has skills, it just hasn't translated to our team. Who the hell knows if he'll bloom there. Only time will tell. As for us, a 3rd is a solid return on Jurco given what he's done here. In my opinion it is way better than I would have expected, I'll take it any day and let our scouts try to get something this summer. In summary, I don't care if Chicago made a steal. He didn't bloom here and this is not something I'll hold against the organization even if he was to shape up with the Hawks, rather, good job from Ken Holland.

I called six prior to. Gotta know the corrupt commitee, foo. Joke aside, given the crime I could see that the time would be 5 games minimum. Add 1 for good measure but not more since Gustav has no priors and plays soft & clean. Which is not a compliment.

Unless we land the first pick, possibly the second pick logic dictates a straight pick swap for Trouba.

My money is on Nyquist getting more than 5 games. My money would be on 6. Possibly 7 game suspension.

This thread was overripe for that comment^^

He looked good. Made us win no doubt. I'm sure he'll get the next one. Let's see where this goes. If he plays at max capacity he has the ability to steal some games. That is a pattern change. We'll see.

If Babcock picked him up, and he would have the final say for anything coming from Detroit, I'd say Marchenko wasn't picked up for being a third pairing defensive defenseman. There are too many of those, most likely already in the Marlies (their AHL club) ready to move up. I suspect he was picked up being projected as a right handed second pairing defensive defenseman or at worst a third pairing, for free.

Normally I would happily agree. I just wrote I'll go down with the ship which is a different phrase for 'win everything we can, if we can'. Problem is, math shows we are out unless a big pattern change emerges. So what factors can give us an upswing? I don't see any. And if I don't see any, I get confused as to our goals. See my merry-go round?

Danny DeKeyser with "the bomb". I'm still a bit confused if I prefer a high draft pick over us winning games this season. Can I have both?

I'll watch I'll watch it. I'll go down with the ship. This would be a good time to try to bribe Tavares over for the end of next year. A couple mill under the table, a nice house for the mom's, ya know.

Allow me to laugh, a dry laugh. This is turning into a parody of sorts. He should Not be waived. I can think of many more suited for that. Geez.

Not much I can add to the conversation. From a standpoint of making the playoffs or not, we are very likely not making it. With that in hand and an old core that cannot sustain any more it's time to sell. So hand out what you can but keep the youngsters. Picks or prospects only in return. Accept taking on some salary for some players, as mentioned Ericsson, Howard, even Smith.

I ain't sellling my Larkin jersey. I'll go down with the ******* ship. See you on the way up in 5 years.

I like Hitchcock. But I don't think he would work for our team which will be in transition really soon. I have also watched his interviews last summer about taking 1 year contracts and that this was his last and he gave an honest impression about that. Being canned could change that of course, I guess we'll see. He should be the prime candidate for Vegas. Well Lefty I didn't see this coming. Given what we have to play with I agree with your lineup. Maybe switching Larkin with AA but that's nitpicking both work fine. With that said I don't think we should roll those lines. I want a decent pick, we are in bad shape and if we are gonna miss the playoffs lets go out with a big bang.

Hear hear. And may the posts be with us. Not sure if we should win or not but I sure Hope we do.

To me it seems Toews simply isn't hungry any more. Not everyone is Yzerman, with a crazy drive to excel, no matter what and no matter what anyone says. Add to that a small natural physical decline and we have a potential answer. I might be wrong. But some things are as simple as they seemed when glancing at the issue initially.

I agree with this. Toews is, or rather was, a good center, perhaps a fringe top 100 player. Malkin should be a few notches above that, I have no idea about where, but compared to Toews at 100 I'd say Malkin should be 85'ish. This is all about selling a product, thus all this bullcrap comes into play. Really makes me less inclined to watch. I live far far away from any NHL rink. But if one was close, I'd think more than twice before buying any tickets. It's all about profit and not enough about the game. Turns me off. That's also why that rat Marchand didn't get suspended. He's about to play in the all-star game. Can't have that, can we. Rat players, rat politicians behind the scenes.

I am very against this idea. They have corporate logos on jerseys here in Sweden and I can't stand them. I still remember the first jersey with a company logo I had to put on as a young kid. I think I was 12 or 13. It made me feel cheap. I remember thinking "what does this company have to do with me or my team?". Just a rant but I like the jerseys as they are now. I wouldn't wear a wings jersey when skating if ads were on it.