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Friday: Montreal @ Philadelphia Los Angeles @ Detroit Pittsburgh @ Chicago Minnesota @ Calgary Tampa Bay @ Vancouver Saturday: Washington @ Boston Florida @ New Jersey Anaheim @ Dallas San Jose @ Montreal Toronto @ Ottawa Buffalo @ NY Islanders Colorado @ NY Rangers Carolina @ Atlanta Detroit @ Nashville St Louis @ Phoenix Minnesota @ Edmonton Sunday: Philadelphia @ New Jersey Florida @ Washington Los Angeles @ Chicago Pittsburgh @ Dallas Tampa Bay @ Calgary Columbus @ Vancouver

None of the above. I think most teams fans would be hoping to get higher than 6th so they don't have to worry about the Wings or the Sharks in the first round. Big difference between Wings and Flames.

Nothing more than the typical weird inconsistency of bubble teams, I think. I think Michigan still needs to at least split the next two, and also at least one win in the Big Ten tournament. Do that and they'll be at worst 20-13 with wins over Duke, UCLA on a neutral court, and Purdue. That's a tournament resume, even if only a 12 or 11 seed. The announcers were talking yesterday like beating Purdue wrapped it up, but that's only because they'd been talking up Purdue all night and what tough, gritty, gutsy players Hummel and Kramer were.

Why should I hate him less just because he's older?

I think if people were being honest with themselves this thread would be 40 pages long by now.

Russians these days didn't defect, and they didn't grow up in the age when players had to defect, so they don't feel like they have to keep a low profile.

My uneducated guess is that he didn't run the play he was supposed to at the end of regulation.

Seven. Another stellar performance to keep the single-digit streak alive and well. I might have to Costanza this thing next week.

http://www.letsgowings.com/forums/index.ph...11&hl=aurie I don't know what you heard Mickey say but there's no way he wouldn't know about the #6.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artic...S0104/902200462 It's easy to forget that pitchers are always ahead of hitters this time of year, but I can't help but get excited over what they're saying about Zumaya. If he's healthy and back to the Zumaya of old, the bullpen will be a thousand percent improved. And I see from the picture that Porcello throws a circle change. That's exciting too, if he can throw that consistently and well. A pitcher with Porcello's talent and three good pitches is an ace. I'm really hoping for a September call-up for him.

edi puts me to shame, but I'm still pretty happy with where I'm at: I just, this past week, made it below 170 pounds, which is territory I haven't been to in about seven years. If I stay below 170 for another week, my reward to myself, as planned, is a big-ass Meat Lover's pizza with stuffed crust from Pizza Hut. Mmmmmmmmmmmm I love those things.

I wish the Pistons had an offense that required defending.

Friday: Colorado @ Washington Tampa Bay @ Carolina Anaheim @ Detroit Saturday: Pittsburgh @ Philadelphia Chicago @ Dallas Ottawa @ Montreal Phoenix @ Los Angeles Atlanta @ San Jose NY Rangers @ Buffalo Vancouver @ Toronto New Jersey @ NY Islanders Boston @ Florida Anaheim @ Columbus Detroit @ Minnesota Nashville @ St Louis Calgary @ Edmonton Sunday: Pittsburgh @ Washington Colorado @ Carolina Boston @ Tampa Bay Minnesota @ Chicago Toronto @ NY Rangers

I'm with Reds4Life here.....why does it take "balls" to call up physical players?

Watch it.

Either way it's pretty apt. Avery does seem to leave a crater wherever he goes. We're pretty lucky he hadn't yet figured out you could create such controversy until after we traded him to LA.

I see Uwe Krupp is getting the shaft again. Anyway, my four, in no particular order: James E. Norris Gordie Howe Steve Yzerman Jack Adams I mean, you have to include the builders and founders. If it's just the players, though, Bucci's four is basically a no-brainer list.

Predictions: - 7,467 individual posts including the phrase, or some variation, "Make it happen Kenny." - 3 complete and total nuclear meltdowns by people angry Kenny did not make it happen. - 5 Filppula arguments. - 8 Osgood arguments. - 254 LGWers who want Kenny to trade for a goalie. - 254 LGWers who think that's silly. - Zero goalie trades. - 27 serious "Lilja and a pick for Crosby" suggestions. - 2,700 "Sucky player X for a bag of pucks" suggestions (evenly divided between Sammy, Lilja, and, annoyingly, Flip.) - 1 suspension and/or bannination. - 1 very minor actual trade.

It must be NASCAR season. Tony Stewart (who I'm actually liking more and more as time goes on) is bitching about the tires, and Kyle Busch is once again passive-aggressively whining about someone else driving the way he drives. Li'l *****. Kind of a disappointing finish to the 500 yesterday, but then again any race in which one single accident wrecks up every single car in Toyota's top two teams (except for one, which was already smashed up) is a plus in my book. And for the record, Vickers shares equal blame in that pileup with Junior.

Precisely what I say whenever the argument to retire a number comes up. That said, I wouldn't call this a debate. It's more like a dogpile. One yes and about forty nos. I think it's pretty clear. There are ways to honor these guys besides something that's harder than the Hall of Fame to achieve.

Easily one of my top three favorite days in the entire year in sports.

Friday: Boston @ New Jersey Detroit @ Columbus San Jose @ Buffalo NY Rangers @ Florida Chicago @ St Louis Vancouver @ Dallas Montreal @ Colorado Saturday: NY Islanders @ Philadelphia Edmonton @ Los Angeles Pittsburgh @ Toronto Columbus @ Carolina Washington @ Tampa Bay Boston @ Nashville Ottawa @ Minnesota Dallas @ Chicago Calgary @ Phoenix Sunday: Philadelphia @ NY Rangers San Jose @ New Jersey Washington @ Florida Colorado @ Detroit Carolina @ Buffalo Atlanta @ Anaheim Montreal @ Vancouver

And until then, we're the defending Cup champions and the league's model organization, and being "embarrassed" of the team for not fighting enough is a pretty out-of-whack priority.

I didn't realize they were handing out the Stanley Cup based on fights this year. That dastardly Bettman. And no, it doesn't cancel out the argument just cause someone equally useless is playing. "You can't call Player X useless because Player Y is?" What is the sense of that?

Fort Street? No no no, you're doing it wrong. 94 from Port Huron way is how I come too. This is what you do, starting on 94: Get off on 75 south towards downtown, and keep left to get on 375. Follow 375 til it spills out on Jefferson Keep to the right on Jefferson so you don't get off on the Lodge, and turn right when you're right in front of Cobo - that's Washington. Turn left at the light on Washington - Congress St. It's at the end of Cobo. Follow Congress past a couple lights til you see the ramp on your left. This is the simplest way because you basically just use Cobo as your guide. Drive on Jefferson til Cobo blocks you, then turn, and drive til Cobo ends and turn again.