NeverForgetMac25

That's great that you hate those lines, but Datsyuk isn't available tomorrow night...thus these lines aren't valid.

Avalanche game postponed due to an inclement winter storm. How has no one made a pun yet?

We did. We beat them 4-1.

I was thinking about this last night and how big of an impact this will have on the team. Were essentially getting back 1/2 of our top 6 in one fell swoop. Obviously Cleary started the year on the third, but when things started rotating around he was in the top 6 quite often.

My favorite three of all time: -Mikhail Shtalenkov (Because its fun to say) -Darius Kasparaitis (Because it sounds like a disease) -Guy Herbert (Because it looks so American, yet is pronounced 'Gee Abear')

Friday, January 21 NY Islanders at Buffalo Montreal at Ottawa x2 Tampa Bay at Florida Dallas at Calgary Saturday, January 22 New Jersey at Philadelphia Chicago at Detroit Boston at Colorado Anaheim at Montreal Carolina at Pittsburgh Washington at Toronto NY Rangers at Atlanta Columbus at St. Louis Los Angeles at Phoenix Calgary at Vancouver Minnesota at San Jose Sunday, January 23 Philadelphia at Chicago Florida at New Jersey Buffalo at NY Islanders Atlanta at Tampa Bay Nashville at Edmonton

No matter what, there was a point to this. We just may not find out the actual one until this offseason.

I have to agree with those stating Holland has something up his sleeve on this one. The chance of Nabby slipping through waivers without a term that scares off other teams is zero, and Kenny hasn't become the best GM in the NHL with such simplistic plans. He may not get Nabby, but this could be a spring board for knocking another contender out of the running for another potential UFA goalies' services come trade deadline time. Even if its something this simple, its an effective plan.

Wow.....

I'm fairly confident Lebda was behind him.

Fair enough...I'm not that concerned about it. I care about the Wings and while I don't cheer on the Griffins nearly as much, obviously I want them to do well since a portion of the team will eventually become Red Wings. McCollum isn't playing well this season, but its not as if he'll be up next year behind Jimmy anyway so he'll have another season to get his act together. With Jimmy back between the pipes in 2 days anyway, he'd have been back in GR tomorrow. Again, this isn't life and death.

Great...but that has nothing to do with what I was talking about.

Losing the 4th in command goalie is not something anyone typically frets about. It's not like other positions that see injury far more regularly.

As long as its not another regular....meh.

You don't honestly believe Ozzie's gonna be between the pipes come mid-April, do you?

I'll take 16 after Friday's mess and missing my x2.

I've said it before and I'll say it again....Retaliation by another teammate immediately following a clean hockey hit should be a two-minute delay of game penalty. I'm sick of this BS stop of play just because someone's ego gets hurt.

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

More like: Zetterberg passes to Netterberg...who "nets" it.

Or Kenny and Co. cleverly using that as the excuse to exclude Z from being picked.

We'll have to agree to disagree then because if one has been playing better than the other, its nothing more than splitting hairs....and if we're strictly talking offense up to this point, it's no competition.

Hudler is no harder of a worker than Bert....and the way things have gone for Huds since his return, there's nothing to show his offensive talent would be near Bert's *at this point.*