uk_redwing

Well if he does know him (and I think its very possible and I believe him) surely he can pass on a message from me that I want to see him pound Chris Pronger into the ice when he gets the chance. Im sure Bert could take on Pronger right? They dont NEED to fight....

Ive only played roller hockey with a friend. Yep A friend. Hockey isnt big over here at all. Never played ice hockey and unless I visit Canada I probably never will :violin:

Chris Pronger.

Lilja is amazingly skilled. Leave him be. Praise him even. I say it should be "I cant see any of the goal seeing as im almost horizontal to it, but hey might aswell shoot!" Sammy.

Whoever can put the likes of Tanabe and an ancient Chelios to name some above Lilja is beyond me. If it were up to me (and frankly I can only see a few hundred reasons why it shoudnt) Lilja would be in the first defensive line and made captain. Also we need Big Bert. We just need him. An 100% Bertuzzi is leathal.

To me, I think its really important we keep Bert. I believe with him in the team, our euro-stars will be pushed around and bullied alot less. As for Markov I always respected him as a solid defenseman and I would like to see him stay as with Schnieder, but if we see them too expensive then I wont mind if we go for some younger tougher Dmen who will show grit and give the physical edge we seem to miss in the regular season.

EN-GA-LAND, EN-GA-LAND, EN-GA-LAND nothing like a bit of football (not soccer ) chanting

Yeh but due to the state of the nhl no-one dared to play "goon" hockey in the play-offs. It would have made it more entertaining. Still I suppose youd rather see a penalty being called every 2 minutes thana fight every game, which is fine if you wanna ignore the traditions of hockey, and your idea of a physical game is everyone crashing the net or an intense stare-down face off

Booooo I want a fighter Well I want a fighter who is at least above average at everything else... dont exist much these days, probably ******* Bettmans new nhl to thank for that! Even my local team (Blackburn Hawks) in the English Hockey League managed 17 fights this season...

I think Gary Bettman should have a statue erected of him... as a definition of an ******* for the whole of time to see.

jesus, what has to happen before Bettman kindly goes and dies? :battle:

Markov slightly lost.... and im just saying we might have won more on the road THROUGHOUT the season if we get people to stick up for our smaller guys. And IM blaming the new nhl for these no fights, im just saying more teams should stay more traditional, I can only echo Don Cherrys words but frankly cba, you all know what he said.

(this is a bit :violin: ) Frankly I care. This new nhl sucks are we all know our team is much more new nhl than any other team, and I pine for the good old days of Probert and Kocur and I pine for the days when we were the perenial bad asses of the league. Averaging a fight almost every 8 games simply isnt good enough and we know somwhere Probert and Kocur are disgusted at what at we are now, heck even Shanny probably has lost a ton of respect for us. we need a bit of in out team not :hippie:

Just a quick look back to the Holmstrom incedent against Anahiem when he was elbowed against the boards by Pronger. Does anyone think it would not have been nice to have someone on the team who could have tried to give that ***** what he deserves? As opposed to no-one in the team doing a damn thing about it? I think its about time we moved from being the "softest team in the nhl" or the "EuroWings". Im not saying we become the ducks in that we try and fight anything that moves but we could at least step up one or two levels with an enforcer(s). This season gone, we came bottom in the league for fighting majors with only 10 fights, and whilst this was better than the season before with only 6, half of the 10 fights were by minor leaguers Brad Norton and Darryl Bootland. And I really believe the team would benefit from having an enforcer on board (especially players like dats who seem to get roughed up on the road). Thoughts?

Chalk another one up for the winged wheels world domination

The FA Cup final was awful, boring and in no way an ideal first match in the new Wembley stadium but there we go. Champions League final tonight We're gonna make it 6 times tonight! Come on you reds!!

In my opinion an enforcer or two for the wings couldnt hurt could it?

I thought there had been an actual fight for a second then

the fighting in Ice Hockey has often drawn it a bad reputation. But do you think its good or bad for the sport? I think its a good thing that gives the sport an extra edge. EDIT: Crap I **cked up the poll. lol. Well my excuse is Im new here.