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Wow, what an effort by Z, practically shooting from his knees!

Nice play Flip!!! Right place, right time, in the net! Way to tie it up!

Big chance on the hooking call there. Grab the tying goal here guys!

Wow, big save on Stuart.

Ouch... That's a tough goal to swallow... Bad tip in off the skate of Lids...

SAMMY for Goalie Interference?!

Heart skipped a beat there...

Hossa!!! What a move to split the D! Ozzie with the assist!

Oh wow. 5 on 3 for 2 minutes!

PP upcoming. Grab the equalizer here boys!

Another PK. Flapjack's off for holding the stick.

PK. Lebda's going off.

He's out 3-4 weeks, that's what Kenny Holland has been saying, and all the media outlets are saying the same. And that's just an early guesstimate based on the initial diagnoses of the "Grade 2" sprain on the knee. Franzen went back to Detroit after the team left for L.A. He's going to let the swelling go down (takes a couple of days), and then they'll reevaluate where he is at. If he shows improvement, he might be back in sooner than the 3-4 weeks stated earlier. If it looks like it will take the expected amount of time, then they'll place him on LTIR and call up Leino. Holland's doing it right, IMO. No harm done at all in waiting to see what (if any) improvement that Franzen shows. We still have 12 forwards with us, so we're not going into any game shorthanded.

Still nothing out there to substantiate the claim the Leino has been called up. Though the thread title will be changed gladly if he does get the callup. There's really only 2 ways that Leino would get called up... 1 - Putting Franzen on long term IR, which means he has to sit out 10 games/24 days. Or... 2 - Sending McCarty back down to GR. Doing either of those would clear up the cap space to bring in Leino. Though, they gain nothing in the end by sending Mac down (since they'll still only have 12 forwards on the road trip). At this point, Detroit's wanting to wait to see the true extent of the Stein's knee before making any decisions on calling anyone up. From Mlive...

GM Talks in Chicago Interesting that Kenny Holland was one of the GM's who was talking about the potential new rule. Nothing set in stone though, just a topic that was brought up... Also mentioned in the link is talk about possibly making heart & health screening mandatory for all teams and all players. The Blackhawks seem to be championing that topic...

Yeah, I can only see this being more of a headache than it's worth. How do you determine in the space of less than a second that a skate is on the ice? How do you define skate on the ice? Just part of the boot such as the side of the skate, or does the blade of the skate need to be touching? Too many question marks to outweigh any positives, if you ask me.

Hossa and Conklin aren't marketable. Sid is. That's why he's the one in the commercial.

What was with the head first dive into Conks, and then the net? Lol.

Big collision behind the net...

Damn. Had to happen eventually. St Louis has an unbelievably high PP%.

And back to the PK. Hooking on Kronner.

CAPTAIN LIDS!!!! Manny had no idea where that shot was going!

PP. High sticking. Let's grab the 3-0 lead here boys!

Good kill boys!

PK. Tripping on Stuart.