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And many, many more (but no more as a Red Wing, please).

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Kicking myself for missing a few, especially since I always choose Val. Detroit Filppula Lidstrom Kronwall Minnesota Havlat

Congrats Teemu. One of my favorites, and very soon he'll pass Kurri.

I can remember way more breakaways, penalty shots and shootout attempts where he's scored than not. Val's really good when it's him on the goalie.

After a dirty hit on someone on your team, yeah. Thats a good hit to me. And I'm one of the few that has no problem with intending to injure someone on a clean hit. And I don't mean headshots. But if you can light a guy up and hurt him, you should do it. Now I'm not saying that Wiz's hit was clean. But I like it. He said "You try to hurt one of my teammates, I'm gonna hurt you right back."

That's what I saw too. Looked like a pretty good hit to me.

That I don't know for certain, but they did give up their 2nd largest city at the time. It's not like they teach the Winter War in school here, so anything I know about it is from the intertubes pretty much. Here's a map of their concessions though. I was, of course, referring to Simo Häyhä, but I'm assuming you knew that. I only say because it's retarded how many people don't know about this part of WWII. And I wish the video in that link actually had a good view of him getting smacked. I wanna know if it was like a BC 2-hander or a 1-handed swing (that's my [likely futile] attempt to have this post count as being on-topic).

A big chunk? About enough land to bury their dead is all they got. Plus the biggest badass in history emerged from Finland during that war.

I'm really diggin' this game, especially with the new system. Thanks.

Haha damn, 232 grand. That's waaaaay higher than most suspensions you see. But I'm not gonna complain about the suspension. I love AO, and I really, really love his passion, but he deserves a suspension here.

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Just because it should. I'm not using any kind of relativism here. A dirty play deserves a suspension, period. And I'm one of AO's biggest fans.

If AO had waited for him to take another half-stride, that would have been a devastating, and clean, hit. Timing's everything. This is worth a game or 2 I guess, but like with all his nasty s***, I don't see any malicious intent.

Pominville got me almost as many points as all 3 Wings I picked. Filppula gave me a goose egg tonight, too.

Yeah I saw in some other video another guy with a gold helmet. He was the captain, and I never noticed if Aaltonen was or not, so I figured it might be captains. Thanks for clearing it up.

^^^^ Yeah, that's the guy. His helmet is so weird. I don't get why you'd want to wear that, let alone why they'd let him.

WTF is up with Aaltonen's helmet (from the top 5 video. Then again, I don't know why I'm explaining, I'm sure you know who he is )?

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I'd definitely play, but I hope you realize the monumental task you're about to undertake as the organizer of this.

There's no doubt Lids is out of his prime, but even out of his prime he's still one of the best, if not the best, defensemen in the game. Like I said in another topic, if I had to pick one player to build a team around for 1 year or for a playoff run today, Lidstrom would be my first pick. People realize how good Nick is, certainly, but I think very few really appreciate how truly sublime his defense is. The little things he does so effortlessly often go unnoticed.

The Wings would still be on the hook for Bert's cap hit if he's on LTIR, it just allows the team to exceed the cap by up to that amount. And, according to CapGeek anyway, the Wings are pretty much exactly at the cap (actually over it except for the LTIR exemption), so any callup would have to be accompanied by placing someone on LTIR or waiving them. I think.

I was (half) joking about that stuff. It will actually be refreshing to see what someone newer to the game thinks about certain players, about the officiating, about everything really. For example, clearly I can't view anything Filppula does with any sort of objectivity. Since I have him in my signature, I must be in love with him. And there's a whole bunch of reasons other people have unreasonable expectations of other players, or aren't hard enough on them. But you aren't tainted by the same things we are yet. Basically what I mean is, it's good to have opinions and share them here, even if you're not Scotty Bowman. You'll soon learn who the trolls are, who the *insert player here*-slappies are, who the stupid ones are, and who the intelligent, knowledgeable hockey fans are. Does that all sound jaded? I feel like it kinda did.

If my memory serves me correctly, he didn't just have a charley horse, he had some calcification going on in the muscle.

Hmmmm, site gets hacked, and as soon as it comes back up, we get a new member? Sounds a little fishy... All (unfunny) kidding aside, welcome to the boards. Don't be afraid to ask questions, the only things you'll get crucified for are: Saying Ozzie sucks Saying Ozzie is awesome Saying Filppula sucks Saying Filppula is overpaid Saying Filppula is great Saying Filppula is OK Saying we should trade Filppula Saying Babcock is a good coach Saying Babcock isn't a good coach Saying we won't make the playoffs Saying we don't deserve to make the playoffs Saying Bertuzzi sucks Saying Holland is the best GM Saying Holland isn't that great, that he's just lucky I'm sure I'm missing some, but I think you get the point Questions about the game and about the team are always welcome though Edit: 8 teams from each conference. The winner of each division gets seeded 1,2,or 3 automatically, then the 5 next best teams from each conference, regardless of division get seeded 4-8.