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Why does Holland insist on bringing in half-ass "tough guys"??? None of those 3 guys either use their size effectively (Sopel, Cullimore) or always seem to get their bell rung everytime they engage in a fight (Downey)

With all due respect to what Scott has accomplished in his hockey career, but this is just getting rediculous. I can understand that it is a hard decision to make but its just getting to the point of Neidermeyer making himself look selfish. The ducks really need to know what his situation is. Their team without Scott is a lot different than with Scott. Make a decision already Scott. Stop being so selfish and give the Ducks the respect they deserve by giving them a decision within the next millenium.

EJ Hradek's Take Anyone an insider or know of someone who is an insider for ESPN.com? I'm curious about why Hradek feels we will be less successful this coming season. Any help is appreciated!

Samuelsson, OK, I can understand that one. He is pretty bad when it comes to playing in his own end. But Hudler? He exceeded all expectations last year with his defensive performance. He was solid in his own end and managed to finish the season +16 and +2 in the playoffs. How can you say that is lazy?

Thanks a lot eva...I gotta disagree with Hradek on his take. We are better without Lang, Calder, Bertuzzi, and Schneider. That frees up a lot of salary this season and gives us the opportunity to use our young guns more frequently. If anything, we will be better because of the hunger and energy that the young guns on this team have.

All home games for the Red Wings were in HD last year on FSN Detroit. Since you live in Portland, that doesn't really help out any since I'm not sure if Center Ice is an HD feed. Another thing is you don't always get the FSN Detroit feed for the game on Center Ice. You may get an HD feed every handful of games or so, but I wouldn%2

Being into body building myself and really looking up to Arnold makes me like the picture. I was really thinking it was actually gonna be Pronger who was in teh pic.

I was looking over at NHLnumbers.com and saw how close to the Cap the Ducks are at the moment and it got me wondering what would there team look like if they match the Penner offer. Are they really in as bad of shape as people are making them out to be? I don't think so. Lets say for the sake of this topic that Selanne and Niedermayer do in fact retire or Teemu goes to another team and offer sheet for Penner is matched by Burke. As of right now the Ducks commitment to next years cap is $48.224. if you subtract Niedermayers salary of $6.75M then its becomes $41.474. Then add in the $4.25M offer sheet for Penner and it becomes $45.724. Now they have to look towards the future, I.E. Perry(RFA), Getlaf(RFA), and Kunitz(UFA). That means shedding salary this season in order to have money for those 3 guys next season. My guess is that Bryzgalov is gonna be kicked out the door the first moment Burke gets an offer for him. Same goes for Marchant and his $2.5M salary. Todd is often injured and on the downside of his career. Moen, Pahlsson, Rob Niedermayer, Parros, and May are just as tough, if not tougher than Marchant, and most of them are younger, as well as cheaper. Marchant is a a guy who for whatever reason always finds a team interested in him so I see no reason why Burke couldn't couldn't find a team who wants him. After those moves their salary could come down to $42.025 with this line-up... Kunitz-McDonald-Bertuzzi Penner-Getzlaf-Perry Moen-Pahlsson-Niedermayer May-Carter-Parros Pronger-Beauchemin Schneider-O'Donnell Huskins-Jackman Giguere Hiller Now, it's not as scary as a line-up as last year no doubt, but they are not in as much hell with the cap as people make them out to be and have a ton of room to fill in the 4th line and 3rd pairing on defense with quality players. Burke will make it happen and this team will be pretty tough next year again.

I would absolutely cream my pants if that became our division. Playing against Crosby and Ovechkin 8 times a year each, plus having the oppurtunity to see them play in person 4 times a year each (Bettman will never let my dream come tru though because we are too important to the survival of lousy NSH, PHX, CHI)

Not even close. Penner is 30 pounds heavier and 3 inches taller. Penner also did a hell of a lot more in the AHL than Ryan has. Ryan hasnt even played 10 games in the AHL I believe. If the Ducks were smart, they would send Ryan to Portland this season and have him get comfortable there before bringing him up to replace Dustin Penner as a top six forward. No way Ryan replaces Penner for atleast 2 seasons.

If they didn't let Ovechkin do it, their not going to let Tavares do it...

Confirmation over on TSN.ca "The Anaheim Ducks have decided not to match the five-year, $21.25 million offer sheet tendered to Dustin Penner. As a result, Penner goes to Edmonton and the Ducks receive the Oilers' first, second and third round picks as compensation."

***630 CHED is reporting that Dustin Penner's agent has told them that the Ducks will not match the offer...waiting for an official word from the NHL...*** ***Team 1260 in EDM is reporting that Penner's rights have been transfered to Oiler's reserve list...***

The Russian Five Great blog about how The Russian Five changed the NHL for players not only from Russia, but globally as well. As good as the Swedish Five were a couple seasons back, they cannot hold a candle to the dominance and instinct that the Russian Five had playing with each other. Each one knew exactly what the other 4 were thinking when they were on the ice. Really brings back some great memories.

Illitch is completely missing the boat on this one. It's not that people don't know that their are tickets available or when the Red Wings are playing. Everyone, except Illitch apparently, knows it's the fact that the tickets are more money than most people can afford, plus the cost of parking, concessions, etc...

I was talking about the way Fischer was treated on these boards, not how he was actually playing. All I ever remember is all the bitching and moaning people did when he would take a stupid penalty or get caught flat footed, until he went down and all of a sudden was talked about as if he was the next Lidstrom...

These boards are laughable. When Fischer is healthy and playing for us he is treated worse than Lilja as the team's human pylon but when he goes down by a freak accident he is suddenly almost as important to us Konstantinov was...

The Red Wings have the choice of placing those bonuses on this years cap or next years. My guess is they will take care of them this year. I guess there will be a little bit more separation once Zetterberg makes an amount of money he is worth. This is what I have this years roster at right now: Chelios - 1,150,000 Cleary - 662,500 Datsyuk - 6,700,000 Drake - 550,000 Draper - 2,128,000 Filppula - 733,333 Franzen - 941,667 Grigorenko - 858,800 Hasek - 4,100,000 Holmstrom - 2,250,000 Hudler - 1,015,000 Kopecky - 500,000 Kronwall - 3,000,000 Lebda - 650,000 Lidstrom - 7,600,000 Lilja - 1,000,000 Maltby - 883,333 Osgood - 850,000 Quincey - 520,000 Rafalski - 6,000,000 Samuelsson - 1,200,000 Zetterberg - 2,650,000 ------------------------------ Total - 45,942,633 Trade Deadline - 2,000,000 (Very Generous) -------------------------------------------------------------- Total Salary - 47,942,633 Available - 2,357,367 I say we still have enough money to sign almost anyone out there since Kenny has said he would dip into the deadline money if that was the difference between landing a player or not. We are in pretty good shape if we get that one top-six forward, Lilja is consistant like he was in the playoffs, minus that one mishap in game 5 against ANA, and Quincey proves to be a quality depth/7th defenseman incase anyone goes down...

We should have some kind of counter here saying "It has been X amount of days since someone said "We should have some kind of counter here saying "It has been X amount of days since we've last had a Sergei Fedorov thread".

Anyone else think it's weird that we have spent pretty much as much money on D as we have on offense? 12 Forwards - $20.214 7 D-Men - $19.100

In the article it is stated that Forsberg is not close with any of the Swedes on our team so i don't think that is going to have as much influence on his decision as you guys think it will.

Don't diss "Saved By The Bell"

He palyed against the best players outside of the NHL for almost 10 years. He didn't had a leg up on the competition for Calder that year.

I thought the same thing when I read an article about Grigorenko's situation a couple weeks back. This is the most European team in the league and yet we had a player who couldn't make it to camp for a valuable learning experience as well as personal experiece because he had problems with a visa.

Buffalo is in trouble is Roy and Connolly are their #1 and #2 Centers.