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Won't be around tonight, unfortunately. Wife's going out of town and her flight's early tomorrow morning, so I'm hanging with her tonight. I'll give a score prediction instead. Wings 3 (Lidstrom, Zetterberg, Hudler) Blue Jackets 2 (Nash x2)

It's because he's notorious for not giving opposing players/teams any credit. His attitude is less "He played a great game and really shut us down" and more "It wasn't a big deal, really, nothing I couldn't do myself." Prime example was Z's infamous PK shift during the 2008 SCF where he basically killed a 5v3 all by his lonesome. And if you want proof? (Emphasis mine)

He'd probably just say that Stuart's chinstrap wasn't tight enough and that's why his jaw got broken.

http://thestar.blogs.com/thespin/2011/01/leafs-run-afoul-of-cap.html Moron. Shouldn't have flaunted it.

Brooks Orpik? Brooks Orpik?!

http://www.ottawasun.com/sports/columnists/steve_simmons/2011/01/08/16813886.html If it gets him off our TV screens...DO IT DO IT OH GOD MELNYK DO IT!!!

Some of these picks, I'm making against my better judgment..no sacrifice, no victory, I suppose. Friday, January 14 Vancouver at Washington Detroit at Columbus Calgary at Ottawa New Jersey at Tampa Bay x2 Philadelphia at Atlanta Colorado at Minnesota Saturday, January 15 Pittsburgh at Boston Columbus at Detroit Tampa Bay at Carolina NY Rangers at Montreal Buffalo at NY Islanders Calgary at Toronto New Jersey at Florida Atlanta at Dallas Anaheim at Phoenix Chicago at Nashville Edmonton at Los Angeles St. Louis at San Jose Sunday, January 16 Ottawa at Washington Vancouver at Minnesota Nashville at Chicago Philadelphia at NY Rangers Edmonton at Anaheim

No idea here. Seems like he just randomly pulls stuff off Wikipedia when he isn't talking about how wonderful Crosby is.

I'm shocked too. That's honestly the first time I've ever heard him give another player credit for, well, anything.

Not a bad idea. Adding the previous season's Conn Smythe winner into the mix might not be a bad idea either.

http://tweetbe.at/nhl-players/trending/1mnyx-that--cbj-d-mike-commodore A little surprised, frankly. Columbus isn't that bad.

And apparently, Luongo was snubbed. According to this article, it doesn't seem like he requested an out: http://communities.canada.com/theprovince/blogs/whitetowel/archive/2011/01/11/luongo-takes-all-star-game-snub-in-stride-while-sedins-kesler-get-the-call.aspx

Shanny confirms that some players requested to not be selected for the ASG. Funny how that's okay this season.

Oops, my sarcasm meter was broken this morning. I've heard whisperings that he may have asked the league for an out to spend time with his baby. Wish Nick had thought of something like that, if true.

Hey, they did last year. Created the Crosby rule and everything.

Nope. Voting just picked six "starters"...that aren't even necessarily starters. Then the league picks the remaining players. Then the pool of players, combined from votes and NHL picks, votes on who the two captains are. I'm assuming it will be Crosby captaining both teams. What I'd really like to see is a conspiracy among all the players to not pick Ovechkin and Crosby until the very end.

I just noticed that Luongo isn't even in there. That's bizarre. Especially considering he was featured in the commercial for the ASG Draft.

These are just the players that have been picked by the NHL. The actual team drafts are supposed to be televised. Not going to boycott. Just not watching. No sense in another Crosby slobber-fest.

Same here. Eh, at least it's not like Brodeur made it in. That would be the height of ridiculousness. Part of me is irked that our boys have clearly been snubbed, but the other part of me is happy they don't have to take part in this nonsense (with the exception of Nick, of course). Gotta admit I would have been psyched to see Helm in the 'Fastest Skater' competition though.

Helm was incredible on the PK. He was all over the place.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=66980&navid=DL|NHL|home Looks like Nick will have to suffer through this joke. The rest of the guys get some rest. I'm befuddled as to how we didn't end up with a single forward on the roster, though.

And in other news, the Pittsburgh Penguins have changed their team name to the "Crosby-less Penguins". Or at least that's what the hockey media keeps calling them.

Yep, because your guy can't hit the net. Booooooooooooooooooooooooooo.