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Yep, we won't do anything at the deadline because Kenny doesn't do rentals, but he also won't do a long term contract, so that leaves bottom sixers to pick up, and we are logjammed with bottom sixers.

I think a lot of what will either entice Nick to come back, or cause him to retire is making some moves to improve the team. If Kenny doesn't do anything to improve the team, either ahead of the trade deadline or in the off-season, I feel like Nick might be more inclined to hang them up. Sort of like what Weber/Suter are doing in Nashville, where the team has to prove they want to get better before they will commit.

Short answer: No Long answer: Nooooooooooooooooooooo

Your edit reminded me of this: EDIT: Formatting

Well, just keep Gomez off the board for 1 more minute, and it won't be a total loss. Wait, yes it will. It will be an embarrassing loss for the Wings regardless.

EROCK! Make sure you derail the comeback!

The most hated player after E-rock scores a goal! Hahaha.

Kronwall is terrible because he couldn't see through the back of his own head? WTF is Jonesy smoking?

Why so much praise for the Habs? They're not playing well, the Wings just don't care.

Conks! Good save.

Jimmy gave up 4 in the first, and is done for the night. 2 of them were soft, and 2 were the D not caring. Conks gave up 2, including a PP marker that was all him. None of the players on the ice seem to care that there is a game going on.

The level of compete tonight makes me think the boys should just stay in the locker room after the 2nd. No use risking an injury in a throwaway game that apparently noone wants to play aside from the Habs.

WOO!!! 6-0. We're cooking now!! Babs really needs to put Ericcson or Kindl in some goalie pads. Howard and Conks do not deserve this garbage.

Errorson!! You go boy. Take yourself off the ice to improve things.

I hear the D singing that old Kevin Meaney song, "I don't care, I don't care!"

Well, looks like none of the players cared enough to show up.

http://www.boston.com/sports/hockey/bruins/articles/2012/01/25/tim_thomass_white_house_snub_no_surprise_to_bruins/?page=full Nothing in this article that backs up that Thomas is on the way out. EDIT: This is the same article on the Boston Globe

Well, looks like the mascot lady got fired over this. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/lightning-dismiss-thunderbug-silly-string-incident-boston-bruins-154442595.html#more-23432 Talk about needing to lighten up, Francis. Guess, if she was gonna get fired for that, might as well have dumped a beer on his head or something.

There's your fireworks!

OH YEAH! CAN YOU FEEL THAT BUDDY, HUH HUH HUH?

If Michalek gets nothing, Ovechkin should get nothing as well. Michalek's was worse IMO

So, you seek out and watch a bunch of swimming and softball now? You're an avid fan of those sports after the Olympics when you weren't before? From a business perspective, it doesn't make sense to just stop the season in the middle of the season and disrupt the teams for this kind of event. On the player's side, of course, you are honored to play for your home country on an international stage. It's definitely not an easy solution, but the argument that the players participating will result in an explosion of interest in the NHL just doesn't have any merit.

I think you summed up why it's a problem to have coaches calling out the officials and league in public. As you said, the public are the customers. If you screwed up at work, would you want your coworkers to call customers and announce that you were not doing your job correctly, and might be scamming them, or should that kind of thing happen behind the scenes? If this happened to you, I can guarantee your first stop would be HR, and I'd imagine it's the same here. Notice how coaches never say "Bryzgalov just screwed everything up, he's terrible, and it was a huge mistake for us to sign him." That's just not how things work in a business.

What a great shot by Franz!

We sure Howie doesn't have vodka in that water bottle?