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Chelios and Hasek are in a pissing contest who will outlast who - my guess: they will play until hell freezes over

C'mon guys, you're not getting it. Dom and the rest of the veterans (+Z) decided to give the young ones a trial by fire and enjoy themselves some, theyre just waiting for Lids to fake some injury and they're all of to Vegas.

where did the I hate/love Bertuzzi threads go? I can't find them around :-(

actually, he can go down any day ... just like anybody else. Does anybody keep track how many goalies got injured this year? it was quite a few I think - Osgood, Giguere, Vokoun, Huet, Hasek (finger or what?), ....

No one is irreplaceable. Not even Datsyuk. The Wings will be a different team once he leaves town, but if Dats decides he is worth more than around 6 mil. I guess that Holland will let him go - if the former doesnt shine in the playoffs, that is.

wings are energized by the changes and steamroll the hawks 5:1

it is absolutely unpredictable. if Hasek keeps his pregame routine, he can play all he wants.

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a sample title from an Oilers forum "Gather your Pitchforks and Torches!!!!! It's Armegeddon!!!!!!!"

if he resigns ... I wonder what would WIngs have to give up to get Smythy?

I don't like him. Just hope he doesnt kill anyone in Wings jersey :-(

My prediction: Lang just found out this morning that he cannot play any worse so he will give it a go today - three assists Ozzie is fired up and it ends 3:1 wings

Actually, it would be interesting if somebody who goes/watches the games regularly kept a special stat for Hasek only - his successful/failed trips around the ice. That would settle a lot of arguments.

Amen to that. It's comments like "Dom's antics outside the net are pure arrogance." that get me started I would even dare say that he might have gone a bit rusty on his "wandering antics" because he doestnt do it often enough may be if he did it more often he would get his timing back

We are not understanding each other on this one - I concurred that he is not good handling the puck but still somehow manages to be a great goalie. The wanderings on the other hand - he takes crazy risks because he can - he can get away with it, and when he fails, he still comes out as one of the best in the league. That Tkachuk situation has nothing to do with it. ----------------------- And I have no idea why you bring Doms character into this. Nobody is squaky clean - those squaky clean people are called saints and are hard to find among hockey players (and elswhere for that matter). You are only picking on Dom, and you are bad at it. That's all.

you know, ... now that I think of it, you hit the nail on the head here. And, do you know, why is that? Because for long stretches of time, he has been so good at what he does, that few could say anything, other than "wow". Just imagine Scotty Bowman, with Hasek standing at attention in front of him, swearing at Dom somthing like "You little arrogant bastard, where did you get the balls to shutout the Devils only in game 6 and 7 in the series!!! :flamingmad: if you just werent a lazy ....... , you would of done it in games 1, 2, 3, and 4!!! You have no consideration! Cant you see that the guys in front of you could have enjoyed some rest!" :rotflmao: Or in Bufallo after failing to get the third Hart in a row, "Hasek, you're getting a little lazy and complacent, dont you think?" You're not supposed to get worse than that!" (His regular season save percentage in the first year AFTER he won the two Harts was .939!)

Now, that was cheap. The person who questioned him was a journalist who kept chasing Dom and writing nasty allegations about him, if you got someone like that at your heels constantly, you would speak differently. And are you trying to imply that Hasek ever had the power to blacklist anybody throughout the league??? That is more than a wee bit off, dont you think? Who knows what had happenned then - and I suppose that those who made that decisision like the GM or so, who knew all details, could have as easily gotten rid of Hasek, if he was to blame. And they did not.

Crymson might have got carried away a wee bit, but you are certainly guilty of posting some very intelligence-challenged remarks. To berate Hasek for his roamings and stickhandling is kinda strange - the former is one of his strengths actually and he has been no better at the latter in all his mediocre-to-downright-terrible career :violin:

I love what Babcock has said (not exact quote): "The streak has ended, so we can concentrate on playing hockey, finally." Funny thing, how people can mistake strength for weakness. If a goalie plays "arrogant" and "overconfident" like Hasek and knows how to get away with it, it often gets under the skin of the other players, they say to themselves "dang, we should have been able to score on such and such ... and we couldnt. On the other hand, at 42 Hasek certainly cannot be in his prime. So experience must take over when speak is lacking. And so far IMO Hasek has been able to do that. Give or take a few. His wanderings scare me too, it's a shot of adrenaline you get for free, courtesy Hasek you see, you're so pumped up, you even started a thread ... you should be grateful for that, man!

The only question remains, who will be McGeoughed? Yeah, I hope he won't be trying to compensate to the Oilers for that game where he deprived them of a perfectly legal equalizer with just three seconds left in the contest!

I dont get it. What is all that hype? Hasnt Hasek ever faced back-to-backs in his career? Is he headed for his first playoff run? Last time I checked the Red Wings were riding an old-time injury-prone goalie and doing their best at keeping him healthy for the most important part of the season. What can you prove to whom by playing him back to back? I always thought goalie job is not primarily about physical endurance, it is about concentration, quick reflexes and flexibility and that should not change much in back -to-back games. Or does anybody think that Hasek isnt able to cope with back-to-back games psychologically? The only reason I heard about why not play Hasek in Nashville was that he would not be able to go through all his stretching routine to minimize probability of muscle injury. And this is the only real concern there is about Hasek. And then if the Wings beat them with a backup goalie in net, it will gnaw the Preds in the back of their minds knowing that in the playoffs they will have to face the real thing!!!

It shows that you have never been in the net in any sport. To be a good goalie you need to stay focused. I bet that if you asked Dom after the game, he would not be able to recall if there were any girls at all. He is just avoiding distraction.