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We all know your sources are as reputable as Hudler's female friends...jk Be hard to tell Gretzky and Coffey no...at least until you actually watch the Oilers play. I really hope him being from here makes this Parise/Suter 2.0 but we have the hometown advantage. We really can offer him top 4 minutes too, our D ain't nothing to write home about.

Just reminded by Wife about this game. We met online because we were both Wings fans...she actually told me about LGW. This game was within two weeks of our first date. She taped it but I got to see it live, think she had to work. This is the craziest game we had with a team that wasn't the Avalanche. I've always remembered when it was because of the sequence of events of that time Btw...How bout those few rights in a row by McCarty...dang. I miss Jiri for real.

I somehow can stand him but I understand how he can drive people nuts. That was funny though man, well said. By the way, anyone catch Chris Therian on NBC...terrible and one goofy lookin dude. Murph could take his job in a second.

We really need to sell unless Kenny does something monumental and acquires an elite defenseman. Otherwise I really believe we need to maximize Filppula's value to us and the options are to sell high on him at the deadline or sign him to an almost certainly bloated contract for 5+ years and likely watch him immediatly disappoint on it. I say trade him. Yes.

+1 Lets storm the castle...I call dibs on taking out that skinny Justin guy that's on there sometimes. In all seriousness though, I think they biffed big time. We seen Murph doing the game up on the FSN perch at the Joe one time and I think everybody chanted "hot dogs" at him...priceless.

I have found that a few of us around here live Red Wing fandom like its 50 First Dates...Someone had to of bought an Abdelkader jersey online after the game and laid $200 that Abby pots 15 more the rest of the year.

This is stupid...he terrible when he started but I think he has come a long way is is actually quite good now. If I'm not mistaken he's done NHL network games and I am almost positive he will be hired by another/team network right away. Someone will eventually have to replace Mickey and I think Larry, while he can't replace Mickey timeless awesomeness, was in line for it. That said, I think he will actually get a bigger job. What a stupid excuse...as if Murphy somehow makes people change the channel. Lame. Bahaha...

If Kindl, Emmerton, Ericsson, and Abdelkader all do 180's this year and learn how to play hockey I might piss myself...

ROTFL

I.love.Mickey.

Why you don't play Tootoo when Perry is on the other team is beyond me...if that goof is gonna fight someone let Tootoo go at him. Perry vs Dats 2.0 is a dream but a nightmare if Dats break his wrist or something

They just showed the replay of Abby's third...one heck of a one timer. What a game.

Did he actually say that? Thats awesome.

That would be glorious. So long as Datsyuk doesn't hurt his glorious hands.

One of the most surprising anyway...I hope he pulls a '07-'08 Franzen and suddenly becomes a legit threat to score everynight.

Is this seriously happening...he must be deinking whatever Ericsson's been on lately.

No. We need Smith to become Kronwall 2.0 as quick as possible. We need defense, an offense from defense, more than we need Gaborik. I'd like to know what the asking price is for him.

Let's aim to go out there every night and have a consistant effort from every player. I'd rather watch that and have us miss the playoffs than watch some of these entitled loafs float around the ice.

"So your determination of what constitutes a #4 versus a #1 guy isn't determined by what they do on the ice?" Give me a break man. I can't figure out how anyone could get that out of what i said. I have been passionately playing and watching this game for essentially my entire life. I have studied the game and the older I get the more I look at it from a more analytical scrutiny, less of a fan perspective and more of a game philosophy perspective. It's all about what they do on the ice. Actually Ericsson has been judged by others for his whole career by other factors such as potential or size. People wouldnt just come out and say that even though he's young, big, and been playing in the NHL for years that he was actually not performing up to argueably even having a starting 6 job in the NHL. He was given a contract based on potential, because he certainly didnt deserve it. My main point is that just because Kronwall is our best offensive defenseman and Ericsson is our best defensive defenseman (for 30 whole games of his career mind you) that doesnt make either of them more than they are in the scope of the entire NHL. You are correct, I would say that Scuderi is a #5 and Mitchell is not a #2. Also, there are not 30, #1 defenseman in this league which may be part of the confusion. My definition of a #1 defenseman is more what you'd call a franchise defenseman or an "elite" player, the type of guy you build a team around. Keith, Weber, Chara, Karlsson (if he continues at this rate), Suter are these guys. Pietriangelo, Letang, Burns, and maybe a couple others could be considered #1 guys. Kronwall is on the bubble. If he steps up defensively and continues hitting he will be a legit #1. Byugflien, Cambell, Yandle, Seabrook, and Del Zotto are #2's and so on. If Ericsson continues being this good (which would prove to be one of the most remarkable turn arounds in recent memory) he could be a legit #3. I guess i can see where this might not make sense to someone looking at guys and saying that there are 30 #1, 30 #2 and so on. I would be interested in looking at it that way, see what those lists look like. I dont like lumping the elite guys with secondary guys though, probably why i do it that way. To me a #1 guy is the Lidstrom, Pronger, Niedermayer...the guy you put out there and have complete confidance in when the game is on the line. Kronwall is not that guy. My nightmares are made of Ericsson being our most relied upon shutdown defender unless he really has become an altogether different player.

That wasn't even vaguely my point, but yea, I think we all know that. The bigger issue was just saying that even if Ericsson plays the #1 pk and he's our best defensive defenseman, he's still a #4 guy. We just have a very weak defensive core. You could argue Howard is the biggest key to our defense now; oir best defensive "cog".

He was my whipping boy because I watched his game closely. Because I was blown away by the way people overhyped him, how many chances he got, and his current contract. If the guy would have just used his aize like he could of over the last few years I wouldn't have made such a big deal, but he just refused to. I'm very glad to see the guys thay were underperforming step up. Kindl has also turned it aroind in a big way and I'm glad for it. I hope they both keep it up.

He is a #4 guy...because we don't have #1 or #3 type guys. My ratings are on the type teams we've had or a Championship caliber team.Kronwall #2 Ericsson #4 (if he plays like this) Smith #5 (potential #2) White, Colaiacovo, Quincey #5 Kindl #5 (right now) Lashoff #6-7 For reference... Lidstrom #1 Rafalski #2 Fischer, Schneider #3 Stuart, Markov #4

Lol..."Doc and Enzo, we talk about hot guys..." - Pierre Lets get past that...Semin was a 163lb Johan Franzen primadonna before he started scoring this year, it didn't make sense for us to sign him.

Look at Z trying to be Datsyuk....cute.

Its only going to get worse too...they have a super deep farm system/young prospects right now.