Legendary D In 03

No we aren't

Still waiting for all the people in the know who were talking about Z being done to come out and say that Larkin got paid more because of it. Oh wait, they haven't. Cuz it didn't happen.

Stop supporting racism. Whitewashed Charlie. Pygmy slavery. Glorification of white privilege. Not to mention Dahl's anti-semetism and body-shaming. SMH

Lurker here usually, but had to join to respond to some of the posts that I think are really off-base in this thread. 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/givani-smith-racism-post-season-1.4653588
He received racial slurs from the crowd and death threats and had to have a police escort. Fans verified seeing a player on the other team making "monkey" gestures toward him. And they talk about him experiencing similar incidents throughout the year.
You can read this from Gemel Smith (written last year) about him and his brother being frequent targets for racist comments while in the OHL.
https://theupsetsports.com/for-gemel-smith-mental-strength-goes-a-long-way-when-dealing-with-racism-in-hockey/
Really disappointing to see the reaction is to doubt the victim before anything else - and with no basis for doing so. You should know that racism is a problem within the hockey community since there's plenty examples we've seen to glimpse that in the resent past. For another incident involving the Greyhounds - John Vanbiesbrouck stepped down as GM after calling Trevor Daley, then his own team's captain, a N-----
Other public incidents: 
- whether it's the banana thrown at Wayne Simmons in London, On.
- During the lockout, Czech fans also chanted "monkey" at Wayne Simmonds
- Kevin Weekes also had a banana thrown at him.
- Sean Avery supposedly yelling a racist epithet at George Laraque
- Blackhawks fans banned for life for heckling Devante Smith-Pelly with racial slurs 
- If you only believe video, you can search and find Subban having the N word (bleeped) thrown at him an being told to go back to Africa by a Bruins fan. Also, there was that twitter-hate storm against him that was much publicized during that series.
-  Krys Barch suspended for making a racist comment at Subban
- Maybe you'll trust Joel Ward's mom when she said he grew up with that after an incident where he was flooded with online hate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puiLRJWn1jo
- Such Twitter hate storms and death threats were also aimed at J.T Brown when he kneeled for the national anthem.
There's enough of these public incidents to glimpse what most black NHLers surely go through it at some point. I'm mean, there are only about 30 black NHL players in the league and of incidents I listed 7 involve current NHL players - so that's about a quarter of black NHLers involved publicized incidents of racism and I'm sure there's more if you want to search - not to mention which doesn't get picked up on camera or audio or not reported - in juniors especially it is reported as a bigger problem. All examples that should lead one to give Smith's claim credence.
And, yes, sure some people might make false claims, but against the Everest sized problem of racism, it's a molehill. And where's the examples of that would lead you to think that likely? Has an OHL or NHL player ever done that?
And why would he do that? He was suspended for the game. It's wasn't a lessened punishment.

It doesn’t make sense.  It is easy not to be racist, victim blaming is a poor attempt at deflecting.  If people stopped being racist, racism would end.  It’s simple, any confusion that follows only follows the primary cause.  Obfuscation doesn’t serve moral action, it only hinders that envoy.   Contemptuous mention of social justice warriors just adds another layer of transparency to an already indigestible position.

Struck by the #90 curse.  

Good prospect news:
Givani Smith has 18 points in 18 playoff games.
Larsson named USHL goalie of the year.

Cool story, bro.

I didn't know that Bonds and McGwire represented the entire United States olympic team. Dumb comment GMR, I'm disappointed. Soviets were notorious for doping since the 80s. Widely known. But back then there weren't really any anti-doping laws as stringent as today. But what makes this hilarious is that they decided to pull it off again in the 21st century and failed miserably. Because they're idiots. I think 49 some medals were stripped because of last olympics. 49??? And by the numbers half the Russian athletes were doping in the 2016 olympics. Wtf?? Lol. At least try to be subtle about it.  Every country (including the U.S) has doping issues with athletes, but the wide scale that the Soviets/Russians did it in was laughably stupid. And what's hilarious is they're actually playing victim and whining about it. Well unless the IOC appeals the decision, Putin and his boys have a lot of time now to think it over and compete like real men with the rest of the countries. 
I linked it. Turns out there's more stuff going on in the world than Trump's toupee problems. Of course dumb Americans that live in a box (most of the people) don't know that.  
 
 

I was here in '02!
Edit: just checked - '03

It was to keep Helm from playing on the 4th line where he belongs, not to keep Miller and Ott.  It was also because he's unlikely to be an NHL player for very long.

I have it! This year's contest will be who can best incorporate LGW-specific memes into a GDT. There must be a minimum of 3 LGW-specific memes in each thread or if the thread is dedicated to one meme, it has to be really over the top. 
Photoshop ability is not required in any way for the creation of GDTs. I'm looking more at creativity. And the older the meme, the better, but it has to be either created on LGW or so well known here that it could have been.

For all the americans who don't know British slang, I'll laugh at this one.

Hmmmm, I came in here for a reason. What was it? Oh, yeah. Anthony Mantha.

He sure knows a thing or two about scoring on people who try to deny him
HA CHA CHA

He's a great guy both on and on the ice.

Larkin!

I think Larkin needs to show more discipline in the stupid penalty department before we start considering stripping our team's leading scorer of the captaincy to give it to this kid.

You know what Ken Holland was doing during the fabled class of 1989 draft? Scouting and drafting them. He was the Director of Amateur Scouting. You know what those other guys where doing for the Wings organization in 1989? Nothing. They didn't work here yet.
If you're going to attribute his success to that class, fine. Give him credit for scouting and drafting them since, ya know, he did that. He's literally the only person you mentioned who had anything at all to do with getting those guys into Red Wings sweaters.

So in other news water is wet, grass is green and the sky is blue

I know that "technically" that's a clean hit, but I'm with Mickey Redmond in saying that I hate that hit. It's hard for a defenseman to make that play and see the guy coming. And the only way a forwatd makes that kind of hit is if he's trying to hurt someone.

If you're looking for W-L results, any hockey website should have them. Like nhl.com or tsn for example. Many of these sites also include breakdowns of OT loses, SO loses, etc. You should be able to find playoff records there too.

I actually agree with the ruling. The head snaps back, which makes it look bad, but that whiplash from what I see.
It is kind of a dick move to hit a player when they're pinned against another one of your players. Don't think there's any rule against that, though.

Horrible for entertainment purposes?