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Either that, or they power it up and include an American team. Maybe Montreal/Boston and then the other 6 play each other....or Toronto/Detroit

Let Ottawa have Marc Crawford.

Gilmour, Barasso, Oates, Belfour.

When I read this, I thought of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPBr3Up8OXY

Boston in 6. Vancouver's best chance here against the big bruins and Tim Vezina is speed. If the Sedins/Burrows/Kesler/Raymond wake up and turn this into a track meet, they can win it. Otherwise, D is Deep on both sides, Thomas > Luongo, due to Lu's history of s***ting the bed, and the Sedins won't match up physically with the Bruins (Lucic, Ryder, Thornton, etc)

Paul MacLean is an excellent coach, and I think he'd be a great head coach somewhere, having seen him during my formulative years as the bench boss of the Quad City Mallards. That said, KENNY GIT R DONE!!!!!!

You live by the lucky bounce. you DIE by the lucky bounce. Go home San Blows Eh!

Let's use some hard attendance figures from this past year comparable to the hard number for the MTS Centre which is 15,015. Estimate in Standing Room and i'll put it at 15,500 Link for this years attendance -> http://espn.go.com/nhl/attendance Teams that are above 15,500: Florida, Nashville, Carolina Teams Below, and related issues: Dallas (owner is going through bankruptcy proceedings) Colorado (unknown what owner's stance is at this point) NJ (Jeff Vanderbeek, who got out of Lehman Bros in 2002, he's probably flush with cash until he's dead) Anaheim (Just won a cup in 07, owner is not Disney anymore, don't know how much traction they can hold) Columbus (Owner is probably using the team as write off for his steel fabricating business, plus the arena is wholly owned by Nationwide) Atlanta (Moving to Winnipeg, will probably be announced after cup final) NY Islanders (Wang wants out, especially if his last deal to renovate/expand the Mausoleum and the surrounding area fails the county's vote)

Blues have ownership issues. Prime #1 right there is why they do not currently have a brighter future than the Wings. The Ilitches are rocksteady. Checketts and Co. want out of St Louis. Actually, there is where Hulsizer and Reinsdorf should be at. Blues have sold out every game at the 19,150 seat Scottrade Center, despite missing the playoffs this year. Definite fan support there. Steal of the year on offloading Erik Johnson and Jay McClement for Shattenkirk and Stewart. If I had $150 million, i'd buy the blues. Certainly have a good future ahead of them now. Better than the Wings? Not at all. http://www.nhlnumbers.com/teams/STL?year=2011 Almost 15 Million in Cap Room this year and average team age of 25-26. Until they get a big time foundation who is willing to use up that 15 mil smartly, the Blues Go Nowhere.

I'm quite surprised that the forum hasn't devolved into that already

This is how I would re-align the divisions. Sensible. NW: Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Colorado, Minnesota PAC: Vancouver, LA, Anaheim, SJ, Phoenix (Wouldn't THAT be competitive) CEN: St Louis, Columbus, Dallas, Chicago, Nashville NE: Detroit, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Buffalo ATL: NY Rangers, NY Islanders, NJ, Philly, Boston SE: Tampa, Florida, Carolina, DC, Pittsburgh (just so we can have that Sid vs Ovi man-love fest for the east coast while an Yzerman-built team demolishes both of them) Now THAT is sensible, Competitive, and great for ratings!

SAY HELLO TO THE 2011-12 STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS! ALL ABOARD THE BANDWAGON TRAIN!!!!!!!!!! :siren: :siren: :clap: :yowza:

LET'S GO RED WINGS!!!!!!

I Believe in the Denizens of Joe Louis Arena. I Believe that 20,066 screaming heads can't be wrong I Believe in Mikey Mo, SuperHudler for Mayor, and FLIP POOLA. I Believe that I'll Smile in June. I BELIEVE IN THE DETROIT RED WINGS AND I BELIEVE THE NEXT STOP FOR OUR AIRPLANE IS IN VANCOUVER.

SuperHudler, if you score the game winner tomorrow, I will vote for you for mayor.

It is time to UNLEASH THE MO. LET'S GO RED WINGS!!!!!!! :siren:

Enough of that Inception s***. WINGS WON COMING BACK TO DETROIT.

I happened to pick up on this when I was up in Troy MI at Penguicon last weekend. and got to fistbump Joe Louis's fist.

GET IT BACK TO THE CORNER OF JEFFERSON AND STEVE YZERMAN DR.

I BELIEVE IN RED I BELIEVE IN HOCKEYTOWN I BELIEVE THE WINGED WHEEL I BELIEVE IN PAVEL, THE MULE, Z, AND JIMMAH I BELIEVE I CAN HEAR A GOAL HORN...........*BROOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNGGG**** I BELIEVE IN SINGING ME SOME JOURNEY! JUST A SMALL TOWN GIRL......LIVIN IN A LONELY WORLD!!!!!!! SHE TOOK THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN GOING AAAAAANYYYYYWHEEEEERE JUST A CITY BOY!!!!!!! BORN AND RAISED IN SOUTH DETROIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!! HE TOOK THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN GOING AAAAANYYWHEEEEERE!! and FIRE MCCRIMMON.

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Can we trade salei for Lilja? how does a puck travelling 1/2 MPH go through your stick 4 times and your feet and you let it slide 2 feet over the blue line?

I was just at the joe this weekend! And drove around the private parking lot a bit....Friday night at 9:30 Eastern time....Funny how arkansans driving large Chevy trucks aren't exactly disturbed driving around downtown Detroit...and getting lost near Cobo and some riverboat......and Jefferson.....and almost getting routed onto the bridge to Canada. Wings 4 Sharks 2 The lucky f***y bounces for the Sharks stop now.

We are owed after the dumbf***ery of refereeing that was last year's series vs SJ. Remember how many 5 on 3s we had against? oh yea, and this time we DO NOT HAVE BRETT TURNOVER LEBDA ON OUR D PAIRS.