ChristopherReevesLegs

Mrazek sucks for 160+ games and now suddenly decides to play well a month before the deadline. Hopefully he's traded because he is going to screw us.

If we keep Green, it will be Mrazek's fault

I'm a Netanyahu guy myself

No sarcasm. Completely serious. The same people who are jacked up to sell Green and co are the same people praising Mrazek for winning. Everyone needs to wake up and realize these things do not go hand-in-hand. Holland will hold on to every last piece if we are in the playoff picture. Hell I could see him trading a prospect for a 35 year old depth player again. That's his MO. A winning streak by Mraz will end up ******* us over worse than him succeeding at this point. He just couldn't wait one more month. I really am actually starting to hate this guy.

God is a lie. Nothing is real.

February is the last month you want to start winning in. Mrazek is the most frustrating player. A few more wins and Holland won't sell.. then in 2018/19 we will have the same team as this year. I don't think there's one person that wants to see that happen. Where has this goalie been the past 160 games? Of all times to turn it back on....

I'm not cheering for a Footebro

Insane Receive By Dahlin I have to keep reminding myself this kid is a defensemen

I'm with Jonas Bahonas on this one. Your posts were gold. Straight fire. I looked forward to them. Any disrespect I showed you was just part of the dance. Don't leave. Don't change. Hope your familybro is ok lwing.

Mrazek is really ******* up the tank right now. Watch us make the playoffs, not sell, and draft 19th or something. Of course Mrazek FINALLY starts giving a s*** about hockey at the worst possible time. Thanks Petr.

Sather will f*** up all our plans

Yeah, it's gonna happen. Kinda bummed cause I was hoping Seattle would go with the "The Whales" and steal those jerseys, or at least something close to it. Hartford is easily one of my favorite sports logos of all time.

Friedman: Nyquist, Tatar, and a goalie on the market According to Elliot both Nyquist and Tatar have been on and off the market the last few years. He expects them to be back on the market again. Won't say who, but sounds like one of Mraz and Howie are on the market as well. IMO, looking around the league, I just don't see anyone trading for either. If true this means we have Green, Nyquist, Tatar, XO, and a goalie on the market. We could be in for a big haul this year...

There's an interview with Mike Meyers somewhere I remember, where the interviewer cited all these very funny Canadians and then asked Mike what is it that makes Canadian actors/comedians so funny. He said basically, Canadians are constantly getting American culture rammed down their throats, but are not participants in it themselves (for the most part). So Canadians have a weird perspective of being the ultimate observers of American culture, and thus Canadians are naturally the the best at mocking it and poking fun at it. I found the question/answer surprisingly insightful for a celebrity interview, true or not.

Two men enter. One man leaves.

Depends on the cap hit. I'd hand him that $4 mil for 11 years Franzen deal if I could.

I agree. Blashill made statements recently like "I still have my eye on the playoffs, this team can make it" and everyone goes "hur dur, what an idiot, this team isn't winning squat" but to me that's him trying to keep young players like Mantha and AA motivated. My biggest worry with this team was that it was going to lose it's winning culture when the streak ended. I don't wanna see young players like AA and Mantha phone it in because the grind of the season is getting to them and "we probably won't make it anyway". That's a losing attitude and we absolutely need to keep our foot on the peddle no matter the outcome. My thinking is that is Blashill's way of instilling that. AA and Mantha both have been critiqued over the their careers for being lazy or bad on the defensive side of the puck. If they're going to be future pillars on this team that can't be allowed to continue by any means. Neither are good enough to only be scoring players. The breakaway thing for AA is a one-tick pony act, and it's dried up. Mantha has gone incognito mode. Both need to be better right now.

Personally, I'm hoping Tyler Bertuzzi murders an Avalanche player within the next year or two

I think this board gives undue passes to young players. Personally I don't care what age a player is, there is good play and bad play. If Franzen's play was unacceptable to you, Mantha's current play should be unacceptable to you as well. I don't see the need to give Mantha special treatment. If you're excuse for him is he's too young, then he should be sent down. To me, he's not too young, he's just not bringing it every night.

What I wanna know is what everyone thinks of Mantha at this point... especially after this board pissed and moaned about Franzen on a daily basis. Franzen built like a powerforward: check Mantha built like a powerforward: check Franzen soft as baby s***: check Mantha soft as baby s***: check Franzen gifted goalscorer: check Mantha gifted goalscorer: check Franzen disappears and becomes invisible at times: check Mantha disappears and becomes invisible at times: check Mantha is taller and Canadian, but that is literally almost the only difference between these players. Same exact style of hockey. So where is the Mantha hate?

It's Lidstrom's fault for not scoring that late goal in game 7. Things would have been different.

This is the problem I have with those who love to harp on and on about this decision. Even though I've made it clear I would've picked Hossa knowing what I know now as well, you're still looking at it from a now perspective. Smarter hockey move, caught flat-footed, beginning of the bumbling of this team, yada yada yada, none of that was clear in 2009. Franzen WAS a BEAST in the playoffs for three straight seasons, don't downplay it. Hossa on the other hand was lackluster in the playoffs for us compared to his season and what was expected of him. Franzen was looking like a playoff nightmare for opposing teams at the time and he continued that reign of dominance in 2010 before his health started declining. Don't forget that 1.3 saving is the entire salary of another roster player too. We also had the future to think about with guys like Filppula and Hudler who we still struggled to get under the cap. I'm not trying to convince you that Franzen was the better choice, but the whole rhetoric of LOL HOLLAND IS A FOOL AND CLEARLY MADE THE WRONG CHOICE THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE END is just silly. He had a tough choice to make with two great options in front of him. It's a good problem to have, and neither player ended up a bust. To you Hossa may have been the clear cut choice, but not to me, Holland, and definitely others at the time. And yeah Holland pioneered weird long term contracts. Franzen getting destroyed by concussions in a way kinda saved him from himself there. EDIT: Just saw your 2nd post

Meh Montreal is basically Europe

Hossa is easily the better and more well-rounded player, but hindsight is 20/20 It was either Franzen @ $4 for 11 years, or Hossa @ $5.3 for 12 years. The critique on both those contracts was always length, because besides that, both players were EXTREMELY effective for that low of a cap hit. Any GM would be thrilled to have either of those players on those respective cap hits. The advantage to Franzen was he offered us a lower cap hit, and was a playoff MONSTER at that time. Hossa was definitely an effective player, but he didn't perform nearly as well as Franzen did in those playoffs. Going back knowing what I know now would I have picked Hossa? Definitely. But looking at it from a 2009 perspective it's easy to see why Holland made the decision he did whether you agree with it or not. So I think you're being more than over the top suggesting Holland was losing his the grip on the wheel when he made that decision. Even with the steadily growing number of concussions, Franzen was just outside a point per game player almost every season of his career. With a healthy brain and motor functions who knows how much better he could have performed in seasons post 2009. That decline in health was completely unpredictable at the time.