norrisnick

Could someone kindly tabulate the top playoff goal scorers since the lockout and figure out who sits at say... the top 2 spots? Thx!

Igor's HOF career has almost nothing to do with what he did in the NHL. Igor was pretty much a 40-60pt player in the NHL. Igor was a solid middle 6 scorer for the Wings. Good enough for 2nd line duty, but did most of his work from the 3rd line and 2nd PP unit. Thats where Jiri is now. And where Igor was slowly but surely declining, Hudler has been, and will be improving for a few more years as he enters his prime.

Hudler is Larionov. He's the offensive lynch pin for the middle 6. Kenny figured out in a hurry that letting him leave via free agency was a mistake.

Why? Because you'd like to see the PP fail?

Hudler was the 5th leading scorer on the Wings that spring. Top 6 or not, he produces.

The biggest tell is that it's apparently a two-way contract. What UFA signs a two-way contract? Especially one worth nearly $7M in total.

1. It's a few 100K high. 2. It's a 3 year deal. Which leads to... 3. He's 35+ so you can't make the cap hit disappear when you figure out that a multi-year deal for a late 30s scrapper is a really really bad idea. Ian's deal is crazy.

Because he sucks and has a nearly $6M/yr cap hit?

Back in January I picked the first week of June as one of my vacation weeks (I work nights and would usually miss most of the 3rd and any OT). I lucked into that working out perfectly last year so I tried to match it up again. I was on pins and needles for a while when there was a chance the Final wouldn't start until the 5th. Then the second the schedule came out I requested Tuesday off so I wouldn't miss a potential game 6 (I work Sunday through Thursday so a Friday game is good anyway). With careful planning and a little bit of luck you don't have to miss a game!

Fedorov. Easily.

Funny you should mention Vernon's Conn Smythe from '97. Fedorov should have gotten that one.

Meaningless, IMO. Z wasn't a star in either game, and those two games are precisely what put Z ahead of Oz for me. Oz got to make 30 saves and only give up 1 goal, but Z didn't get any sort of fancy stat for what he did to Crosby. Zetterberg has gone head to head against the opposition's best from game 1 and has come out on top every single round. Defensively he's been better than he was last year and offensively he's only 3 points off of what he put up last year. 21GP 11G 13A 24P +14 22GP 13G 14A 27P +16 The head to head battle with Crosby, who was tearing the playoffs apart to the tune of 14G 14A 28P +14 in 17 games, will be the tipping point. 2G 4A 6P +4 for Z vs 1G 2A 3P -2 for Sid.

Yes, the Conn Smythe isn't for the Final only, but the Final should hold the most weight. I had Oz ahead by a hair through 3 rounds, but Z has been beastly so far against Sid (not that he was a slouch in the first 3 rounds). Zetterberg gets my vote as the repeat Conn Smythe winner.

Kenny will probably trade the negotiating rights to Hossa for a mid level pick. The Preds got a 1st for the rights to Timonen and Hartnell.

Link doesn't work anymore, but I've been listening to that album nonstop for a week now. Here are a couple cool live clips off Crack the Skye.

This one's better...

Helm is ineligible for the Calder. It's 20something+ GP in one season or 6+ GP in any two prior seasons.

Ericsson out. Meech in.

One needs to remember that Fedorov and Bure were linemates before joining the NHL. Those two along with Mogilny made up one of the most explosive Junior lines ever. Plus they all played for the Red Army team (along with nearly ever other quality Russian).

I think you completely missed the point of that story. The Wings were doing anything and everything in their power to keep people from noticing Lidstrom. If they could they'd have pulled "these aren't the droids you're looking for" on them.

Riding shotgun with Wayne during your prime and subsequently putting up gaudy numbers doesn't automatically vault you to the top. Bobby Hull and Ted Lindsay are fairly unanimously hailed as the top 2 LWers ever. You've got guys like Frank Mahovlich, Dickie Moore, Bucyk in the O6 era that relatively were better players than Luc. Then you've got guys in the pre WW2 era (Joliat, Denneny, Toe Blake) that historians swear by. Contemporaries, I consider Shanahan a better LW than Luc. Guys like Goulet and Propp were every bit as good, just didn't play into their deep 30s to put up high career totals. People may scoff, but Luc was never better than Ovechkin is now. Arguably the same could be said of Kovalchuk/Heatley who already have higher relative goal/point finishes than Luc who never finished higher than 4th in goals or higher than 5th in points in any season. So yeah, maybe sneak him in towards the bottom of the top 10, but not close to being #1. EDIT - Ron Francis is the #3 Center in points. I'd love to see someone attempt to put him in the top 10 of all centers.

Golfing very soon... That's fine. The funny part is I've lobbied for Artyukhin several times. I'd be hesitant to part with a 2nd without an extention, but I'd absolutely love to have him on the team.

I know. Luc might crack the top 10. Maybe.

Honestly? It's not as if these guys have a winning pedigree. They didn't help their cause very much, or at least enough to delay their tee times.