Never_Retire_Steve

The Atlanta Thrashers: OK I am a little surprised at this one. I honestly thought that you guys may have a chance at winning the division again, looking back at the pre-season predictions from some of the media, it would appear that they thought the same thing. Kovalchuk is absolutely amazing and when you combine him with Hossa you possibly have 2 of the top 10 offensive threats in the game..... after that...... well there's not much up front at all. Lehtonen should blossom into one of the best goalies in the league IMO, it would be a huge mistake to let that guy go. One thing that has been common with the first three teams to be eliminated is that they are also the three teams with the highest GAA. Although I think Atlanta's problem stems more from their lack of defence rather than their goaltending.

Tampa Bay Lightning: How quickly they fall..... Only a few years ago, your team was sipping from the Stanley Cup. Now you guys are fighting over Steve Stamkos. Well, let's look at what's different from your Stanley Cup team: you managed to lock up your big three players, Richards, St.Louis, and Lecavalier. So what was the problem? You kept three of the best players on your team.... only one thing, in the salary cap era, you weren't able to afford any type of supporting cast whatsoever. Khabibulin had an amazing season and left for Chicago and left you with a big question mark in goal. Even your coach knows what your problem is as he is constantly complaining about how bad his goaltending is. Maybe you guys should listen to your coach and get a goalie that can keep a 3 goal lead in the third period. I mean come on! You had a 4-1 lead over Buffalo a few nights ago and ended up losing 7-4 with 15 minutes left in the game! If I could describe your season in one game, that would be the one. Even though having guys like Vinny put asses in the seats, it's goaltenders that can steal/lose you games, remember that next time you lock up half your team's salary in three forwards! Coming later today.......... The Atlanta Thrashers!!

Well as a Wings fan........ I can remember a few from the mid nineties unfortunately and is probably the reason why I dislike Osgood so much.

The LA Kings: Congratulations, you are the first team to be officially eliminated from the playoffs. A lot of fans will often say that "xxxx sucks" about their rival teams and usually do it out of anger and can not be justified. However, when people say "LA sucks" you guys have no right to argue with them.... you do suck. Now, your problems started right from the opening game. Your opening day started was Jonathan Bernier, did you really think that was a good sign that your team would make a run this year? Also the league sent you to Europe to try and send you a message. Unfortunately the league realized that would be too drastic so they sent another team over there to play you guys. Your biggest problem was definitely goaltending. Any team that has Dan Cloutier on their roster is immediately at a disadvantage compared to the other 29 games. I mean the guy can't stop a beach ball! Sure it was photoshopped but still it was a beach ball! Come on Cloutier, I saw them try to do that with Luongo but he stopped the ball. Now your fans can look forward to the "Who is the greatest LA Kings player of all-time" contest that you are running on your website, hopefully this will get your minds off the fact that your team is no longer playing in the playoffs. You guys have some young and exciting players, get a goalie and you probably won't finish in last next year.

OK, diehards definitely remember this day....... now that Mac is back and Forsberg and Foote are back and an Avs vs. Wings first round is possible I just hope that we can have more of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0dr_H6gY2Q

Funny thing is that I was actually listening to that song when I decided to start this topic

I just hope that I get to see the game that he comes back.

I think it will be Downey but it is great to have these types of problems.

Great win, nice to start a good winning streak after a horrid losing streak

chalk up another W

OK, no cruise control this period.

Who is this guy?

Boo to penalties

What happened at the end of the period with the penalties?

Thanks

How old is Cleary?

I hope he gets the nod over Lilja

With Lebda being a healthy scratch does this mean that he will be odd man out come April.

I'm going ccrazy waiting for this game.

I actually like watching Chicago games now, they used to be so boring with us winning 7-0 all the time

Damnit no McCarty

I always thought he played pretty hard, to each their own.

why?

One Wings player that I used to love watching that I haven't seen yet is Keith Primeau

I think it's amazing how an opinion that Don Cherry holds can really influence others. Who knows, maybe it's Bruins fans as well but how people argue for Neely and Orr are really passionate.