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Both GAA and Sv% stats depend on the team in front of the goalie, as well as on the goalie himself. A team that is playing very defensive hockey would reduce the GAA and increase the Sv% by forcing the opponents to shoot from the perimeter. A puck-posessing team would reduce the GAA but decrease the Sv%, because more of the opponent chances would come on a fast counter attack. A team that is bad defensively will reduce the GAA, and will have an uncertain effect on the GAA. So both GAA and Sv% stats have their respective shortcomings. But when one goalie has the Sv% that is .020 higher than another, that is always significant. 0.910 is solid NHL starter stat. 0.890 is the third string backup stat. Again, there is at least one better goalie than Theodore ON COLORADO'S ROSTER. Theodore is ranked 38th in GAA and 39th in Sv%. Any way you slice it, Theodore sucks. You think he has great potential, but he is 30 years old and heonly had 2 seasons with "good" stats in his career. That is Sv% over 0.910 and over 30 GP. Jim Carey also had 2 good seasons. Lets bring him back. Hasek spent less time than Osgood on IR this season. That is what Imean by being more durable. He satrted in 53 games this season. That is 18th in the league (there are 30 teams in NHL BTW). So what do you mean by "Dom is not even a true number one anymore"? EDIT for typos and crlarity.

Here are the stats for the three goalies. Goalie_________GP_W_L_OT_GAA_Sv%_SO DOMINIK HASEK_ 53 36 11 5 _2.09 0.910 _7 JOSE THEODORE 32 12 15 1 _3.27 0.890 _0 CHRIS OSGOOD_ 18 _9 _3 5 _2.52 0.904 _0 This suggests two points to me. 1. Theodore's stats don't belong anywhere near Hasek's or Osgood's. Theodore lost the starter's job in Colorado to Budaj this season. You might as well argue for Jim Carey to be signed. 2. Hasek's stats are is better than Osgood's, and Hasek has been more durable this season. His health remains a concern, but less so than before this season.

Technically, Annaheim never had a chance to play the Red Army circa 1970. Also, the Soviet philosophy then was to NOT fight back and punish the dirty play with goals instead. I wouldn't think that beating the crap out of an opponent, who is not allowed by their coaches to respond in kind, while the friendly NHL referees are doing their best three blind mice impersonation, is that much of an accomplishment. CSKA coaches took the team off the ice to protest against the lack of calls, more than against Philly's dirty play.

VAN has 99 pts, DAL, MIN and SJ 98 pts each. It's way too early to start picking the first round opponent based on those standings. However, the top team in the conference gets to play the Flames with a decent degree of certainity. And the Flames this year are not nearly the same team as they were last season or in 2003/04. I say let's beat Nashville for the first overall.

Bigbear, the subject of Bertuzzi has been exaustively and repeatedly discussed on this forum. There are some posters who share your opinion, to greater or lesser degree, and there are some who disagree. Here's a link to thelatest discussion: http://www.letsgowings.com/forums/index.ph...amp;hl=Bertuzzi

Same reason they show only few games a year, the ratings are too low. We are lucky they showany hockey at all.

If a player suits up for at least one game a season, the team has to pay him his whole salary for that season. If the player is injured for the entire season, then insurance picks up his salary. Although, I wonder how much the insurance on the 15-year contract have cost the Isles.

Quit shattering people's delusions Since when did signed contracts or no trade clauses matter to anyone on this site?

Hannan is 10 years younger, 2 inches and 30 lbs bigger, but he has -1 on a very good Sharks team, and only 22 pts, to Schneider's +11 and 50 pts. I'm not sure Hannan would be an equal replacement. And who would then be on point for the second PP unit? EDIT - Is Hannan a UFA after this season? And if Chelios opts to keep playing, he still will be available for fewer games next year, and he will have lost a few more steps off his skating speed, so it will be even harder for him to keep up, especially in even strength.

With Schneider being a UFA and Chelios hitting 60 ( or 46 which is about the same in hockey years), the Wings will most likely need 2 top-6 defensemen next season. Assuming they keep Lilja at #7. Even if Kindl is ready, they would still need 1 more D. Who is available that is better than Schneider and won't cost more than 3.3-3.5 mil.? Unless the Wings scouts pull out another draft miracle, I don't know who that D-man could be.

What natural limit? Every next generation of people is bigger and stronger than their parents. The training methods are getting more and more efficient. The players in the NHL now are an inch taller and 10 lbs heavier on average than their predecessors 10-15 years ago. Why wouldn't the fighters follow the same trend? After all, they are selected for strength (correlated with size) more than any other attributes. I don't think fighting should be banned. But the above quote is ridiculous. Fighting (arguably) is needed to intimidate opponents into letting your stars play freely and not be cheap-shotted, run and hooked all the time. If that is true, then elimination of fighting would lead to MORE dirty play and LESS room for the talented players to shine. One should not confuse fighting and physical play. There are physical players, heavy hitters, and there are fighters. The two types are not necessarily the same players. Different skills are required.

Bacashihua has .895 Sv % and 3.35GAAin 11 games. That isnot very good. Certainly not good for a starting NHL goalie. Counting slowly to ten usually helps me to calm down enough, so I can think (and post) rationally not simply react emotionally to, for example, the Wings losing.

And he is full of it, as usual. Checkthe stats for Semenko, Probert, Kocur et al. Only rarely willyoufind someone much over 6'1'' or 6'2''. Now, fighters seem to start at 6'3-6'4''.

Yeah, Smyth'd be the only Wing scoring then, instead of Datsyuk. You picked really poor moment tohate on the only player who is carrying the Wings offensively right now.

BS call, but the Wings should have won in regulation. It's their own fault for putting themselves in that position. Even in points and games with Nashville now.

Neither Pronger, nor Jagr, nor Comnrie, are being booed in Detroit. That is what I meant. Of the 900 NHL players, only Fedorov gets this treatment in Detroit. Does his "injury" to this team rank worst among other players? Even Claude Lemieux, who wasn't booed as hard or as long? And to answer your questions, a lot of players did some or all of what you list. Fedorov is by no means unique in that respect. Off the top of my head, Pronger, Comrie, Roy, Chelios, Hall, Shanahan (from Blues), Hall Sr., Hasek, Smyth, Weight, Tkachuk, Sakic etc, etc, etc. did something comparable. So quit acting like Fedorov did something unspeakable or even unusual. When a free agent signs with another team, that is their excersizing their labort rights. That is all. I don't have the stats, but I'd bet that more UFAs sign with a different team, then stay with their old one.

Ok, if the fans at the Joe are angry about losing to Anaheim that year, why don't they boo the players on that team? Giguere, who, some say, singlehanded;ly knocked the Wings out? The point is, Fedorov is the ONLY guy in NHL singled out for this treatment. Does he deserve it more than any other player in the league? If not, then either stop booing Fedorov, or start booing other players, who "wronged" the Wings more over the years. Forsberg, Pronger, Kiprusoff, Giguere, Sakic and many others. Or the guys who left by their own choice like Lapointe or Shanahan. Otherwise it just looks malicious and rather infantile.

Friday: Toronto @ Buffalo Los Angeles @ Chicago Colorado @ Edmonton Dallas @ Anaheim Saturday: NY Rangers @ Boston NY Islanders @ Philadelphia Atlanta @ Pittsburgh St Louis @ Detroit Buffalo @ Toronto Washington @ Montreal San Jose @ Carolina Ottawa @ Tampa Bay New Jersey @ Florida Los Angeles @ Minnesota Dallas @ Phoenix Nashville @ Edmonton Sunday: NY Rangers @ NY Islanders Boston @ Pittsburgh Calgary @ Chicago St Louis @ Columbus Colorado @ Vancouver

You are right, the booing is a part of the game. Booing the opposition as a a whole, or particular players for what they did in the game, or in recent memory. Booing a blown call by the refs. Except yesterday, there was none of that at the Joe. The only booing was against one player, near every time he touched the puck, years after he left Detroit. That is what I'd expect Nashville fans to do, since so many of them don't know enough to boo or chant "you suck" for a hockey related reason, rather than because someome else is doing that. It's annoying, when the fans boo Fedorov, and only him for a reason half of them probably don't really understand, because if they were real hockey fans, wouldn't they have found at least one other occasion to boo, other then Fedorov touching the puck? EDIT I mean by all means boo when Fedorov's name is announced, or when he first steps on the ice. But to boo him every time he touches the puck, and to do that to NO other player, makes Fedorov the public enemy number one in Detroit. Does he really deserve that distinction? Was even Claude booed EVERY time he touched the puck? I don't believe he was.

In other words, Shanahan and his agents are much better in spinning it for the media. His speechwriter should get a nice bonus for the " It's time for new blood" angle. Bottom line: both left for less money to play in a bigger media market. But Shanahan spun it so much better.

I don't think "clear bulls***" is correct, ... in English language, at least. s***-for brains, yes, don't know s***,certainly, dip/deep s*** yes, but "clear s***"?

I've never been notorious before. How interesting. I wanted to ask, what does "clear bulls***" look like? And what kind of cow produces such? Afftar ubei sibya ap stenu.

And Nashville loses in OT. We are back to being 1 point behind with a game in hand..

Ooohh, you do care I was replying to someone who replied to my post about booing Fedorov. If you read the thread, before you blast people, you may realize that it has nothing to do with you and only inirectly concerns your bo..., err Bertuzzi. And now, go jump in a lake somewhere.

Oh, I see. The Wings fans welcome Bertuzzi, who crippled a guy, but can't forgive Fedorov for choosing another team. That's so classy.