norrisnick

Players don't progress at the same pace. What set Sid apart from his peers is that he's matured as a player far earlier than most. But that doesn't mean there will be a relative progression from where Sid is at 21 and where he is in his late 20s. He simply doesn't have much room for improvement left. There's no way in hell his development takes the exponential leaps that Pavel's has taken from age 21 to where is now. He'd have to score well beyond 200 pts and that simply isn't going to happen. Take Wayne for example. For all intents and purposes he peaked at 21 when he put up 212 points. His career high was a couple seasons later at 215 but he never hit another plateau. If people would have wanted to apply say... Esposito's development curve on Wayne he'd have put up 500+ points in his late 20s.

They're wearing hockey pants which look like overstuffed soaked diapers half the time. But whatever floats your boat...

When you've got an extra 20-30-40 jerseys to make up for preseason games/scrimmages it's easier to use the flat nameplates than the usual individually stitched letters on the regular jerseys.

Every year...

That deadline to make a decision is in May of '09.

He said that a puck to the face can hit just about anything and cause a lot of blood or damage. Nick lucked out 4 times during the '06 season with pucks to the face. Here's hoping he has more left in him.

Please not the eyes... please not the eyes... please not the eyes...

f*** f*** f***

Georges Laraque, but he's not playing.

With Ken and Paul doing the audio I'd guess it was the JLA feed merged with the radio feed. So nothing that would have been broadcast anywhere.

Because it's preseason and mistakes happen. Considering Carle was ktfo it was pretty clearly a hit to the head. The question remains whether it was an elbow or shoulder. Since there is no tv coverage there is no replay. No penalty on the play so it was probably shoulder or a very subtle elbow.

There is no bonus cushion this year because there is a slight possibility that the PA might opt out of the CBA so there can't be any carry-over. Teams have to treat bonuses as if they were guaranteed salary until a bonus is no longer attainable.

How in the world do you prevent that injury? It's not like he fell off his dirtbike after an afternoon of drinking or something stupid like that. He took part in an activity that geezers with replaced hips enjoy on a lazy day.

Wow, yeah that's the one. Nice work finding that in 4 minutes...

I wish I would have saved it when I first saw it, but the HHOF website had a special gallery once of pictures with players at their homes with the Cup highlighting the tradition and Nick had the Cup, Conn Smythe, and Norris stacked on the hood of a Volvo stationwagon.

Exactly. A Continental GT suits Nick to a T. Just like Sergei's Enzo suits him to a T.

This one beats the hell out of the candy cane, IMO. '26-'27 Detroit Cougars. The first time there was an NHL team in Detroit.

The intro to one of the greatest games ever.

That's what you get for doubting me...

You're missing the point, eva. Even if Schneider suits up for the Iowa Chops he will count against the Ducks' salary cap. Unless I'm misremembering the league's actions dealing with loopholes after what Lou pulled a while back, I'm pretty sure Matt could drop dead tomorrow and still count against the cap.

That won't help, eva. Schneider was well past 35 when he signed that contract. He counts against the cap no matter what. He needs to be traded as I believe the league did away with Lou's LTIR exemption he pulled with Mogilny.

What? Are you saying that if Hudler gets traded he wouldn't be on the team anymore? LIAR!!1

I just don't see Hudler losing his spot to a guy that, at best, is where Jiri was a couple years ago. In my perfect world it would be Lebda and Chelios, but I can live with Lebda/Sammy.