Bannedforlife

Unfortunately other teams do have good players as well. This is a professional sports league after all...

What a great "solution". Someone should notify Babcock immediately!

How does one lose their hockey sense?

Wow! You are straight-up dumb. I used to think that it might just be an online persona to go with your username, but you really are that stupid, aren't you? Everything you have ever posted about hockey, or politics, or life in general makes me think that you are a simple, simple person. Like Simple Jack status, seriously. It truly does feel like an honor to have discovered this. I feel like god himself must have put you on this earth to entertain us all with your buffoonery and child-like ignorance. I know we'll probably never meet in real life, but if we ever did I would shake your drool-covered hand and buy you a cold, tall sippy cup. Bravo you Master of Mongoloids!

It would also further parity because only the true bottom half of the league would get the top 14 picks

Yea, but mostly because I usually shower at least twice (I don't smell bad by the way, it's just a little quirk/OCD thing I have.) The person below me spent a little more time on LGW today than they meant to

Brace yourself for a barrage of people demanding "let's make sure we get into the playoffs before worrying about seeding!!!1PMG" Don't say I didnt warn you...

Professional athletes care about one thing and one thing only. Money. Punishing a player for hitting another player in the head by suspending him without pay is the single most effective way to stop that kind of behavior. Matt Cooke will make 1.2 million dollars this year. If he was suspended 25 games for that hit and lost out on 300,000 dollars in salary, do you think he would ever do it again? I know I'd take a beating every day of the week over losing 300 grand.

Chris Osgood will make more money this year sitting on the bench doing nothing than I will in my entire lifetime, no matter how hard I work. If he has a problem with that, maybe he should call Darren McCarty for a little perspective on life. Or Jiri Fischer. Or Vladimir Konstintinov.

I think that New Jersey has been a poor fit for Kovalchuk, I doubt that he would want to stay unless things really improve. I would love to see Holland go after him July 1st, maybe even trade Filppula for the rights to Kovie and Clarkson? Kovalchuk - Datsyuk - Holmstrom Franzen - Zetterberg - Bertuzzi/Clarkson Cleary - Abdelkader - Clarkson/Bertuzzi Draper - Helm - Eaves Miller Lidstrom - Rafalski Kronwall - Stuart Lilja - Ericsson Kindl Howard Osgood I think this would change alot of the negative perceptions about the team (size, toughness, fighters, finishing ability) and make us a very tough team to play against. We would be right against the cap until guys like Rafalski, Cleary, Stuart, Draper came off the books, but I think something big has to be done to make this year the exception, not the norm. FORWARDS Ilya Kovalchuk - $7,000,000 Pavel Datsyuk - $6,700,000 Henrik Zetterberg - $6,083,333 Johan Franzen - $3,954,545 Daniel Cleary - $2,800,000 Kris Draper - $1,583,333 David Clarkson - $1,500,000 Todd Bertuzzi - $1,400,000 Tomas Holmstrom - $1,250,000 Darren Helm - $1,000,000 Justin Abdelkader - $1,000,000 Patrick Eaves - $750,000 Drew Miller - $600,000 DEFENSEMEN Brian Rafalski - $6,000,000 Brad Stuart - $3,750,000 Nicklas Lidstrom - $3,500,000 Niklas Kronwall - $3,000,000 Andreas Lilja - $1,000,000 Jonathan Ericsson - $900,000 Jakub Kindl - $883,333 GOALTENDERS Chris Osgood - $1,416,666 Jimmy Howard - $716,666 CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS ROSTER SIZE - 22 SALARY CAP - $56,800,000 PAYROLL - $56,787,876 CAP SPACE - $12,124

Ridiculous question. What kind of message would that send to your team?

Hopefully Forsberg doesn't talk him out of coming to Detroit...

I was just going to say, didn't some of the players have not nice things to say about Hudler after he left? I seem to remember Chelios saying he was a "weird little dude" or something along those lines...

Tiger paid way more than that...

This would be great news for my fantasy team. I have Toews, Hossa, Seabrook and Kovalchuk! Actually, anywhere he goes would be an improvement, he hasn't done squat for about 2 weeks...

Atlanta's not in the basement this year though

We've plenty of hearsay and conjecture. Those are kinds of evidence...

What about Bertuzzi - Filppula- Franzen? The BFF line!!!

What about the FACT that we had 6 chances to end the game during the shootout and not one of them came close. Even if it was decided a no-goal, I don't have much confidence that we would've gotten a different outcome.

Someone should invent one, and then give it to the KHL.

Kovalchuk - Datsyuk - Bertuzzi Franzen - Zetterberg - Cleary Abdelkader - Filppula - Hudler Draper - Helm - Eaves Miller

Game winner too

You forgot the Oakland A's

So.... who's going to center the second line now? and the third? and the fourth?

We could've gotten Steve Mason instead. Drag