norrisnick

Easy. Offer him a deal like Cleary/Kronwall THIS summer and don't worry about the contract year. If he's offered 5 years near $3M/yr he bites. He'd be stupid not too.

And the Vezina.

Perfect play. Too perfect. He faked Sergei out with it. During the wind-up Sergei turned his head from Alex towards Biron anticipating the shot on net and a potential rebound. Chalk it up to a lack of chemistry and only playing together a handful of games, but had Sergei known it was an option that would have been the winning goal. Had they spent longer playing together some sort of unspoken signal could have been used. Live and learn.

Where were you after games 3 and 4? The bulk of LGW could have really used you then.

More importantly Calgary allowed 224 whereas the Wings allowed only 179.

Exactly. So what's the point in spending $5-6M/yr on a goalie we don't need? Jimmy was better at Maine than Miller was at State. With the Wings in front of him Jimmy is going to be phenomenal.

Neither finalist has made it out of the 1st round in 5 seasons.

Did you miss the last few weeks of the season that he was sitting out due to a broken finger? He's got it taped to another finger and is playing through the healing process. All bets are off for the playoffs. Nichol broke his thumb in game 1, had surgery and came back several weeks early to play in game 6. A couple years ago Henrik Sedin fractured the end of his finger towards the end of the regular season and rather than sit out the rest of the season/playoffs to let it heal he had the end of his finger amputated so he could play only a couple days later.

It doesn't matter. We have plenty of cap space for the bonuses to be applied to the current season and not be carried over.

That's the name of the thread, yes.

I'm not sure that game 6 counts. It was our second crack at it. We've finished 11 series on the first opportunity.

Among forwards who is better offensively than Hudler apart from Z and Pavel? No one.

Eleven.

Unless things have changed, Nill doesn't want to go anywhere else. He's commented numerous times that he likes his role here with the Wings. It's GMing by committee. Kenny holds the tiebreaker if it comes down to it, but he and Nill have a very good partnership that works because both sides are good and enjoy what they do. Nill runs the draft and player development and Kenny deals primarily with the NHL roster changes. Bowman advises and Stevie is learning from everyone. There is no reason any of them have to go anywhere. And I doubt any of them want to go anywhere. Bowman flirted with the Leafs but his terms were never going to happen (ie full control over everything) so no point and he can continue to enjoy his very lucrative semi-retirement.

First European born/trained Hart winner? Fedorov as a Wing. First European born/trained Selke winner? Fedorov as a Wing. First European born/trained Pearson winner? Fedorov as a Wing. First European born/trained Norris winner? Lidstrom as a Wing. First European born/trained Cup winning goalie? Hasek as a Wing. First European born/trained Conn Smythe winner? Lidstrom as a Wing. Noticing a trend here?

I'm perfectly calm, Dude. Calmer than you are. Calmer than you are....

That he's petitioning the NHL to have Dom Basil Pocklington'ed.

I'm fairly certain that since Dom is a player and not the coach that he really doesn't have much of a choice in the matter. He tells it like he sees it. Slight difference.

Credit for what exactly? Allowing back-breaking goals on consecutive shots four times in three games? Yeah, good job there, Dom! Way to go! As you so aptly put it, to what purpose? Why continue to drag him around propping him up when the positives are all long gone in his admittedly sterling career? If he were still capable of being the Dominator and showing it out on the ice, there wouldn't be anyone tearing him apart. He isn't, he's not, so they are. That simple. That last sentence was also very well put. You can use it here if you'd like.

So he's like Yzerman... Yeah, you're right. Bad idea from the get go.

Question time. What's the point of carrying Dom's creaky carcass all season long if the defense has to be perfect in order to prevent goals against? Isn't that what having 'The Dominator' around is for? /rhetorical

Hull & Oates had a couple hits back in the day. '90 Hull 72G Oates 79A '91 Hull 86G Oates 90A '92 Hull 70G Oates 59A

I guess injustice is one way to put it... "Zetterberg, to me, is probably the no. 1 candidate for the Selke." - Barry Trotz "So I asked the coaches to pick the best Selke candidate from their conference only (the truth is coaches will be the first to tell you they know little or nothing of the other conference). In the West, Detroit's Henrik Zetterberg more or less ran away with it," - Bob McKenzie of TSN

The Joe should try something like this clip for our PPs.

Lidstrom, Rafalski, Kronwall, Campbell? Kenny forgoing a 2nd line and having all the secondary scoring come from the blueline? Those four were just barely outscored by Pavel, Z, and Homer.