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For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield

Lol. Gator goes coast to coast (with a little help) for the goal.

Gator!!! Heads up play. Nice repayment from the CBJ shellackings we had last year.

Oy Vey, Bert. So close, but still can't bury one.

If You Leave - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You - Colin Hay

Stop the Rock - Apollo Four Forty

Road to Nash Vegas - Dan Tyminski and Ron Block

Show Me the Way - Peter Frampton

Misty Mountain Hop - Led Zeppelin

I Want to Break Free - Queen

People Are Strange - The Doors

The Man Who Sold The World - David Bowie, Nirvana, et al.

Amarillo by Morning - George Strait *sigh* song about my hometown.

Foreplay / Long Time - Boston

My exact thought too. I'll admit we could use some scoring help, but i think we could get our secondary guys to step up rather than relying on him in those half dozen games where he wouldn't be injured...

Heroes of Our Time - Dragonforce

The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead - Crash Test Dummies

I Feel Love - Blue Man Group ft. Venus Hum

Sunshine of Your Love - Cream

Well, I'm just basing that off what I've seen previous players recover from this kind of injury. Not that he was ever 100% again after it, but Hatcher came back in early March after an ACL tear in the third game of the year. Though to be fair he was pretty much a pylon from there on out. Take it for what it's worth, I suppose. Which is exactly why we'd better hope that it's closer to 4 months than 6 months...

Unless I'm misunderstanding you (and please correct me if I am), I don't think what you're proposing is possible. Conditioning stints can only last two weeks, and I believe that a player can only be sent down like that once per year. With the 3 to 4 month timeframe that most players come back from ACL injuries, that'd put Franzen back in the lineup around mid to late February, call it early March just to be cautious. That still leaves until April 11th until the end of the season, so even with a conditioning stint, you'd be looking at keeping him benched for two to three weeks? I imagine that if Franzen's in playing shape, then he'll be in the lineup. No way are Kenny and Babs going to let a player with a cap hit of just under 4 million sit in the pressbox until the playoffs. Even if he's not back 100%, getting back in the game will do him more good than being mothballed for 2 weeks to a month.

They've played Wings hockey for the third period of the last three games. Hey, put those three together and that's a 60 minute effort. Which is something we haven't had all season. Had we played all game the way we did in the third, this thing wouldn't have gone to OT.

I'm starting to buy into the idea of firing McC. That said, normally teams won't fire just an assistant coach and leave the rest of the staff intact. Usually it's the head coach that gets the axe, and I don't think that Babs' is the real problem.

Yeah, that's what I was meaning. I don't think they'd be able to make it retroactive to current contracts. It would most likely be imposed on any new contracts signed after the new CBA is in effect.