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Adam Gretz. Hockey writer.

Has he never scored with a backhand, wrist, or snapshot? Crazy. Wisdom.

Nice to see the Leafs pillage another organization for a ******* change.

8M? Jesus. What is that? 1M for everytime he intentionally dives or knocks his own helmet off each game?

No, but he can certainly finish a play.

I'm not trolling you. And for the record, other members are mashing your balls way harder than I am about the "inside source stuff". For my part, I promise to never bring that up again. As far as Franzen goes, you hate him. And that's fine. I don't have to prove it. Any regular member of LGWs knows the deal. But I'm done with that too.

None of what you just said is true. I'm not trying to bait, or troll you. Period. I am laughing at how ridiculous your opinions can be. Lat time I checked, that was a healthy part of any debating process. Feel free to reciprocate. If we're talking about this season's roster and Franzen's place on it, then your anti-Franzen bias taints any logical ability to properly slot him into the line-up. The fact that you refer to him in the feminine context is absolutely childish and should provide adequate reason for other members of this forum, including myself, to call you on it, and challenge anything you have to say about the man.

In which case, if healthy, Franzen is one of this team's best scoring forwards, and deserves to be in the top six. And Pulkinnen deserves to start the season in the press box and try and earn his way into the line-up. Case closed.

Not if you have a bias hatred of the man.

And he will play like garbage. Just like he has over the last 5 years. Haven't you heard? "Francine" sux.

So what? That year Pulkinnen barely played in the AHL and Larkin hadn't been drafted yet. Mantha was the only prospect other teams would covet at that time. So there's nothing to speculate about. Of course everyone asked for Mantha. What we were debating was this: who were teams asking for THIS year? Larkin, Mantha, or Pulkinnen? We'll never know. Because conversation gets way more intelligent here at LGWs when the season starts?

Bah. Empty words!! Still waiting for the real scoop. Until someone can really establish a reliable source within the upper Red Wings management office, we'll never really know which player teams were asking for. Was it Mantha? Pulkinnen? Larkin? All three?

Except Larkin has many dimensions as a player (speed, skill, grit, work ethic, character, etc.). Abdlekader? Same sort of thing only more physical, less speed and skill. The early signs point to Mantha having no hustle, grit, or work ethic. You better be filling the net in the AHL if that's the only dimension to your game. I can't see him killing penalties or blocking shots anytime soon. If only we knew someone who knew someone that sort of knew someone within the organization that could give us the real scoop. Oh well.

you remember what I'm talking about?

Leftwinger's not a fan of Helm. Something about how a buddy's friend's dad said that he had bad character or whatever. It goes back a year, at least.

Franzen, Helm, Ericsson and Howard. Duh. (_not my opinion_)

Quincey brings a physical element to this team. Imagine how soft the D would be without him. Also, don't count on him being gone after this year. It wouldn't surprise me at all if he signed an extension with the Wings.

and people act like he robbed Bowman in the Sharp deal. Except Daley had almost as many points this year (38) from the back end as Sharp did (43) as a winger, in exactly the same amount of games played. Then you look at the Spezaa deal and that contract and think that it might have been better to keep Chiasson, a young cheap power forward. For me, the Seguin deal was great for Nill, and that's about it.

If only we had NIll as a GM instead of Holland eh? Right?

Geez. Nill's really picking Chicago's cap-induced carcass.

This is really cool. Thanks for sharing.

Screw that. I'd be happy if he was half the player Doug Brown was in 1997-98.

Clearly not an Ottawa Senator.

I'm from Prince Edward Island, and I think this is pretty awesome.

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