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http://whatthepuck.forumotion.ca/ Hello my fellow red wings fans. I'm apart of a sim hockey league that's looking for new gm's. We use nhl 15 to sim and have played almost constantly since nhl 07. It's a very low key league, you get two teams one east one west, trade players, sign free agents,..sims are weekly. If you are interested sign on using the link above. Or pm me on here. On there i'm fearthemaskedman.

I was going through my childhood things when I discovered a beat up baseball with lots of signatures. Curios I did some digging. Three people I recognize Joe torre Dale Murphy and Brett Butler. There are quite a few other SIG's. I'm thinking it's a team ball. What do I got?

Thank you for your feedback. What exactly about his game makes you think he's a bigger David Clarkson?

I'd love to see grigs and yak. Yak-grigs-foo?

Francis is quietly making quite a name for himself. He took over a team after Rutherford not to unlike our own now. That team is one 1c away from really competing.

Does anyone else think Todd bertuzzi when they see this kid in high lights? Big as hell, pillow soft hands around the net....

You know sometimes I come here for news and insights from people who may have something the regular press doesn't....silly me.

The only way we ever seen to sign guys like this is if they grew up wings fans or are from here or both. His hometown oilers are in the mix too, I just don't see us landing him.

http://www.canescountry.com/2017/1/9/14216488/carolina-hurricanes-place-andrej-nestrasil-on-waivers-elias-lindholm-charlotte-checkers Was doing ok in Carolina, that extension killed him though

Yeah, more or less. The year he was claimed he did very well on a line with J.staal. He did okay the next year, then just hasn't stuck this year. Was a healthy scratch most nights.

You know what makes me incredibly sad? A couple years ago I would have laughed. Today I'm hit with the sobering truth that Carolina is far better equipped for the future than we are.

I live in raleigh. Today Ron Francis gets on talk radio to talk about the canes. He said his management team had "banged on the table for frk since last year". That's a direct quote. Why did we lose him for nothing again?

I wish we did this instead. He was never coming here though....

It was clear that we had no chance of signing him,...but meanwhile... Eric Staal to the wild for 3 years at 3.5 I'd have loved that.

According to this they didn't wear a cougar head for the logo. http://www.sportslogos.net/logos/list_by_team/994/Detroit_Cougars/ It was the Retro D on the winter classic jersey. http://www.hockeylegend.com/_borders/1926cougarsguide5.JPG I could be totally wrong, but the one you posted looks like it's fan made

For many many years we were one scoring winger away from the cup. We got it in Franzen for '08, cup and almost another. I agree with NHL.com, one right handed D man who can take some of the load of Kronner and we'll be in serious contention. The health of Weiss is pivotal. A healthy Weiss presents some serious match up issues for clubs. Really we need another Franzen kinda situation,.......we need a guy like oulette or sproul or hell even smith to come out of no where and hit next level. Achieve a ceiling none of us thought possible.

After strikes one, two, three and evidently four and Hollands comments that "there are some goods deals to be had " I wonder if we're not done with FA. This is helpful:http://www.capgeek.com/ufa-finder/ Doesn't look like there's anything on D that would help us honestly. I could see holland signing Salo or Morris. I'm much more interested in what's out there for forwards, but we have a glutton of those honestly.

Anyone else think a trade involving GR prospects are coming? We've signed a lot of these guys lately.

I would like to thank Mr. Nyquist for almost single handily helping me win my Fantasy league over a penguins fan with Malkin's name in his username. Feels good folks.

As I understand it, the owner of the hurricanes and the owner of the wings do not get along. I believe both teams have made very few trades.

I live in Carolina. Ward is gonzo. Skinner will probably be traded for a D and carolina will regret it. There's no way they trade Eric Staal and not move his brother too. Most people around here seem to think the problem lies squarely with Rutherford who's been the gm of the team since 94.

The problem is, and always has been, when the playoffs start those kinds of calls that refs "have to make" go out the window. You think Ovi gets that call in game seven of a playoff series? Of course not, so why call it now?

Haven't gotten to watch a lot of games yet. How does he look so far?

Blown away no one claimed him. This shows how dire the trade market (in terms of teams being tight fisted with next years cap) if no one will scoop up a 3 million dollar player who scored 30 goals a few seasons ago for free.