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wow... you just totally 86ed my browser with that

he's going to be a great player... but i feel it might be a bit early for him.. lots of young guns in Phoenix though, if they can get it going they're going to be a force in a few years

i almost got tricked by IWO's over at KK this morning, so i wasn't likely to fall for another one... nice try though

absoultely... the guy was a monster in the playoffs that year... however, he has one goal in 33 freaking games. i don't see an issue playing him in the 1st round, but if we get the ducks in rd2 as we expect to he's going to have no impact what so ever... i'm not agaist rolling only three lines against the ducks though...have a 4th line which sees no 5/5 time but have downey and mccarty if it gets chippy and have hudler for the 2nd line PP unit exclusively...

no place for the true goliaths of the 99 trade deadline? ulf samuelsson and wendel clark?

nice, but no cigar.. IWO wins in the april fool contest this year...the bastard

love it.. love it... love it... nothing quite like beating the dive

win is a win... that was playoff intensity and we got a SO... liking it so far...just get Brad Stuart back and i don't think anyone will touch us

red wings corner has a practice update, but there's nothing there on homer, so i assume he wasn't there http://redwingscorner.blogspot.com/

the ducks will be the #4 seed, so if everything goes as expected we'll me them in the 2nd round.. personally i think we'll have to get past Anaheim and San Jose again, just the other way around this time

damn straight.. BRING IT ON i'm scared though...

it's a good article, but it's very much a rehash of all the stuff the free press and news have been posting about him for years

wow....3 pages already and the games no where near started..you can tell the playoffs are coming

this is the first year it's been publicly released.. they used to only distrubute it to the press. (hard copy)

i know, but it;s happened before.. i think a couple of years ago, though i don't remember the exact situation a WHL team had a player recalled the NHL on an emergency basis. He was there for a while so they made the trades to cover and re-tool for the next year. The NHL team sent him back and the junior team said "no thanks" and he want to the AHL... i think it's only happened once though. one of the weird quirks of the new CBA

great GDT.. Datsyuk with a 5 point night inc 1st career hattrick.. 6-0 Wings

Looks great Matt.. i've just got one question though...before you upgraded the forums last time i was always logged in, it seemed to work via cookies... now it seems to work via Ip adress, since everytime my connection resets itself and changes IP i get logged out.. is this just a feautre of the updated forums, or is it a concious change.. anyway, it would be great if i could somehow go back to being how it was, although i understand if it not possible.. the whole site looks by far the best it's ever looked.. great job

not quite.. the argeement is that if a player is sent to a junior team (regardless of age - so this includes overage players) then the junior team has 1st option on him if he's not at the big club.. ie Steve Mason this year was called up by the Blue Jackets on emergency recall, but was retured to London/Kitchener when he was over.. if they would have said "no" we son't want him back, he could then have been sent to the AHL regardless of age...

it's a good choice... the way Chicago are playing atm they might still be in the running for the 8 seed

i'm a 26 year old guy and i can't grow a beard... literally..it just wont grow...so I think this should include all of us who grow embarassing facial hair..not just the ladies.

since when? he was never going to be anything but a 3rd/4th liner on any team i gotta say, given how much Sidney Crosby was hyped, i've been dissapointed in him also..just look at any Leafs #1 pick in the last 20 years.....pretty much all have been busts

i'd take Nashville over Vancouver anyday... ta

Hasek starts...no doubt what so ever

my god... how the hell you guys can have ANY idea of what the lines for the playoffs will be i don't know.. Utter crapshoot is all i can say

i'm partial to a bit of a Lilja curse myself