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ugh will they both sign in s***sburg?

If NYR is on his list I bet he's going there.

I agree

Parise expected to make a decision in 5mins TheFourthPeriod: Parise announcement expected any minute. [via Twitter]

I don't get why his decision is based on when ZP signs somewhere unless ZP actually goes to Minn then is Suter going to Minn as well? Is Suter trying to follow ZP?

I think it was Mckenzie saying he could get 14mil for the first two years of the contract with 12mil signing bonus coming out to 26mil for the first year. I think that was on NHL.com's website under suter news on a video.

Eklund is a moron no one should be reading his crap anyways not even for "entertainment" value.

Its also rumored there might be a 12mil signing bonus on top of that.

Though there have been twitter comments that Broduer has been talking with ZP this morning and likely this afternon. *spelling edit

DarrenDreger: Additional teams being told they're out of Ryan Suter running. Carolina Hurricanes were told a short while ago. [via Twitter] Slowly going but one team off the list.

Even after there horrid downfall after playing the flyers? Goalie is questionable and always have and their defense did nothing in the playoff to keep the puck out of the net.

Ya I really don't see Parise coming to det hopefully he stays in NJ and doesn't go to the Pens.

I would love to get Nash but I don't know how we are going to pry him away from the kings ransom that Columbus wants for him. Are we trading away our entire future players?

http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=3&id=183416 Did anyone happen to catch this at NHL.com 14mil in years 1 and 2 and 12 million signing bonus in years 1 and 2 ???? getting 26million in one year! WTF!?!?! Is this seriously the offers he's getting?

Yes 3m makes me cringe and the NTC drive me nuts but your completely correct we desperately need someone that doesn't pass the puck around for the entire power play. Sammy has a shoot first mentality that this team desperatly needs more of.

Kenny can take his NTC and shove it up his ass!

I would litterally s*** a brick if Kenny pulled that off.

/drool talkin about pipedream lol

I don't get this either Det feels like they are out of the bidding war for Parise and decided to go for Nash? with a 7.8 cap hit for Nash how can they not afford to out bid to get Parise as well and not trade way what we have? Whats being rumored is both Suter and Parise are in the 12yr 80-90mil range which 90mil I believe would be a 7.5mil cap hit avg. Something doesn't add up. *edit In all honest we have nothing to trade realistically that would be competative to other teams.

He does have decent teammates already and is spotty goal scorer if anything he should be flourishing in our style of hockey but he doesn't. He's too easy to play against for other teams when it matters and he isn't going to wear anyone down. The general problem imo with this team is having too many playmakers and not enough shoot first mentality. I don't believe huds has shoot first mentality and the already glaring cons of him that everyone has mentioned makes him an easy replacable player.

Franzen is an enigma to me. I don't understand how we draft big guys like Franzen and Erikson and they don't know how to use their bodies. I want to like Franzen but he makes it increasinly difficult every year. Its like he's hudler stuck in a giants body. He pretty much need to take this summer to find his balls and then be sat down by Babcock who should slap him in the face and tell him he's in a mans league and learn the term "drive to the net". I have no clue why Franzen plays the way he does. Is he scared? Is he just lazy? Only he knows why he does the stuff he does but its like he's allergic to going to the net someone has to do it and it mind as well be him because no one else will and no one else has a big body like that to push his way in. The few times that he does go to the net throughout the season he creates outstanding scoring changes even if he doesn't score on them. I get so excited when he does it, but then you hardly see it happen especially when it matter in th playoffs.

Because at least for me he's a one dimentional player thats bearly even one dimentional. If his only talent and selling point is that he's a stick handeling scorer at least put up more goals than 25g playing with Z a lot of the time. If your a small player you with out a doubt have to play much bigger than you are which Hudler doesn't. He doesn't have speed, defense, size, grit, bearly a scoring touch, doesn't crash to the net. I don't honestly know what Holland see's in him even offering him a contract period just let him go you tried to develope him he didn't work out just let him go.

Agreed Eaves has a wicked wrist shot I'd wish det would use him more for shots. If he got that more undercontrol and fine tuned he'd have even more value. I dunno I just like the guy more than those three mentioned he digs hard and grinds as well as having a hard quick wrister.

As much as we love our wings I'm sure the players aren't the same way. They have different mind sets and reasons for their choices even if they are "bad choices" lol, but ya I get what your sayin.

I keep seeing articles popping up about how Pittsburg is now in the race for both Suter and Parise since they are clearing cap space to make some moves... if they get one or both of these guys and Holland doesn't get either omg I'm gunna have to lock my self away for a few weeks and forget about this summer ever happened.