norrisnick

What's the Cup made out of?

Kerrigan took home silver after she got clubbed. Just sayin'...

No, as Nick and Pavel are just a tad bit smarter than Iginla. Brains matter more than balls. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, the Stanley Cup is decided by the game of hockey and not a dick measuring contest.

Are you aware of the concept of context? Lilly blatantly hauled Weber down in what could be construed as a cheap play. He got challenged and worked in a fight when he got caught quick and couldn't recover or for that matter cover. I don't think a message, or a massage for that matter, is really warranted. Not to mention no one showed up that night. The fight was a meaningless blip in a complete trainwreck of a game.

I do. There's one cup-winning captain listed and he's the blandest MFer in the history of the NHL.

Where am I going...? They're ******* and Iginla put them both on the IR that game when he unleashed his raging intensity on them. They never stood a chance.

How about you go ahead and define that for me. They're skill players, but they aren't soft. Not even remotely close to being soft.

Anyone want to guess which player was flat on his ass two seconds after this picture was taken?

No one expects you to apologize for stupidity.

There's a teeny tiny gap between a blowjob and what you've posted so far in this thread.

Sakic? Burnaby Joe has all the fire and intensity of a moistened saltine.

Because we have the #1 enforcer in the league. http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/stats/byteam?c...=0&sort=447

The Wings need 30 more goals. The "goal" given in the standings for a shootout win doesn't count.

Holmstrom - Datsyuk - Hossa Hudler - Zetterberg - Franzen Cleary - Filppula - Samuelsson Kopecky/Maltby - Draper - Helm Lidstrom - Rafalski Kronwall - Stuart (and hope like hell they remember how good they were last spring) Ericsson - Lilly Osgood Conklin

Chicago is irrelevant in pretty much every sense imaginable.

Zetterberg isn't Russian but Pavel is which is totally unfair because Fedorov wasn't as beloved as Yzerman. That's pretty much what it boils down to for Yzyman.

Hudler and Franzen will probably combine for a salary fairly close to Hossa's. As for the OP, I don't think Leino could effective replace Franzen. Nor could he effectively replace Hudler. But he damn well could replace Samuelsson.

I'm fairly certain he decided that one a while ago. He just didn't tell his coach.

Nope. I just double-checked my first inclination by spending 3 minutes and watching his goals on nhl.com. 3 goals from within 10-12 feet of the net. 18 goals from within the circles. 3 from beyond the circles. 2 EN goals (one from deep in his own zone). Most of them snap/wrist shots. Two goals are missing, but even if you put them on the blueline side of things he still doesn't score a lot from "downtown". That's part of why the Caps have given up 10 SHG. Green jumps down low and leaves AO or Semin, fellow forwards, alone up high.

That's the number Timra retired for him. He'd be wearing it now if it weren't for Robitaille. As for 400... f*** 400! Nick needs 12 more points and he needs them now!

Franzen is exponentially stronger on the puck than Kopecky. Kop is too slight and easily knocked around. He can't bull the puck through traffic like Franzen can. Nor are his hands anywhere near Franzen's. Kop might work his way up to 15-20G 30-40P seasons, but he's not going to score goals like Franzen. Franzen isn't any more likely to leave than Hossa is, and Kop might follow Marian to meet up with the other Marian wherever he goes.

The tangent being that people are arguing that Franzen is a special player. The only argument made and the intent of the thread was to establish whether or not the meteoric rise of Franzen's goalscoring prowess is a special case. And it is. Name one player that has bloomed as late and as spectacularly as Franzen has. Why one season? What is the significance of 82 games from October to April that somehow isn't present in 90-some games from March to March? There is none. It's arbitrary nonsense. Even then he's scored 30 this season. After missing 10 games to injury, with 10 games left to play. That's a top shelf goalscoring rate from a guy that scored 10 in a checking line role two seasons ago. But I guess I've missed the dozens of grinders that turn into 30-40 goal scorers at the drop of a hat.

Read the first post. You're flying off on a tangent that wasn't even hinted at.

No. And I don't agree that scoring goals is Franzen's only conscious effort out there.

The bolded section doesn't make a damn bit of sense.