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Third period about to start.

End of second period.

7-6 with Team Jagr in the lead.

Sergei Zubov makes it 7-5.

Hossa's younger brother, Marcel, scores. Team Jagr up 7-4.

Russia scores. 6-4.

6-3. Sergei Fedorov just scored. Wearing #18.

Team Jagr just scored. Up 6-2.

Current score is Team Jagr 5 Team Yashin 2. Game is about half over. Don't know if it is just for the All-star game, but there are very few stoppages in play.

ESPN360. That is all I know.

Hudler scored, again.

Hudler just scored for Team Jagr. Gretzky and Messier were there for the ceremonial faceoff. Also, ESPN360 is going to cover more games. Interesting. I bet the NHL is not wanting any of this, giving some legitimacy to the league.

I am loving this second power play unit.

Oh, now that I re-read that, it makes sense. For a second, I thought that is who they were selling to.

Injured players take a while to really get timing and everything back, especially if they have been out for a long time. Filip is just now getting going. It will take Kronwall, Williams, Holmstrom, Franzen, etc. a little time to get going. Hopefully, by the time the league restarts after the Olympics, we should have everyone back and ready to go. Some of the injured guys could actually use the Olympics as another training camp.

Is that OK as in Oklahoma?

The Wings don't rebuild. They reload. Besides this season was all dictated by injuries. You can't determine much about this season, except how some of the younger guys perform with more ice time.

Team Yashin (Russian stars) Goalkeepers: Georgy Gelashvili (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl); Andrei Mezin (Dynamo Minsk) Defenders: Sergei Zubov (SKA St. Petersburg); Ilya Nikulin (Ak Bars Kazan); Dmitriy Kalinin (Salavat Yulaev Ufa); Anton Babchuk (Avangard Omsk); Konstantin Korneev (CSKA Moscow); Vitaly Atyushov (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) Forwards: Alexei Yashin (SKA St. Petersburg); Alexander Radulov (Salavat Yulaev Ufa); Alexei Morozov (Ak Bars Kazan); Danis Zaripov (Ak Bars Kazan); Sergei Fedorov (Metallurg Magnitogorsk); Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant Mytischi); Alexei Tereschenko (Ak Bars Kazan); Sergei Zinoviev (Salavat Yulaev Ufa); Denis Parshin (CSKA Moscow) Team Jagr (International Stars) Goalkeepers: Karri Ramo (Avangard Omsk); Michael Garnett (HC MVD) Defenders: Kevin Dallman (Barys Astana); Sandis Ozolinsh (Dinamo Riga);Martin Strbak (HC MVD); Lasse Kukkonen (Avangard Omsk); Karel Rachunek (Dynamo Moscow); Jaroslav Obsut (Spartak Moscow) Forwards: Jaromir Jagr (Avangard Omsk); Marcel Hossa (Dinamo Riga); Mattias Weinhandl (Dynamo Moscow); Patrick Thoresen (Salavat Yulaev Ufa); Josef Vasicek (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl); Chris Simon (Vityaz Chekhov); Jiri Hudler (Dynamo Moscow); Ville Peltonen (Dinamo Minsk); Jozef Stumpel (Barys Astana)

The main issue here is about there not being a transfer agreement with Russia. Russia says yes to one, and the NHL will say they will play.

And he played pretty well in the playoffs.

I read that article, but a lot of the same arguments were being said about Howard, when he didn't get a lot of time to prove his worth. Goalies need to get into a groove.

I think their rankings go by who has the most potential, or who can grow the most. McCollum is young, and he just turned pro. Larsson has had experience in the Swedish Elite League.

http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nhl/news/story?id=4861269

DC Sports will have Filppula and Howard, preceded (diffrent day) by Lindsay, Kelly, and Murphy. http://www.detroitcitysports.com/servlet/t...phsignings/Page

Thanks for noticing. I took it out of my original post, so no one gets confused. I just did a big copy and paste. It also makes me wonder about the Lidstrom signing, because no year is listed. I think it is current, but I guess if you plan on dropping something off, call ahead.