WingsallTheway

The kessel thing I imagine is to give staal some support.
And kadri, will be a good 3rd line center for them, I guess.
As for the semin/kessel Toronto contract comment....
Semins only got 3 yrs left on his contract, compared to kessels 19, which will put him around 380lbs

Yeah, I don't know what it is about the knee slide. I really don't. And it's not even like I have a problem with cellys either. I love how pumped Tatar gets. And if I think about it rationally, I lighten up about the knee slide after a minute too. But when I see it happen in real time, my gut reaction is always a combination of irritation and loathing.

haha thats such a near-sighted argument.
No, but I do watch each of the 82 games the wings play, and that includes 29 other teams. I also watch hockey every night and these things do get noticed...
I guess we should disregard everything Bob Mckenzie says since he "doesnt watch every single game"

Zetterberg and Nyquist are the best in the league at holding the stick then diving to get a hooking/holding penalty. fact.
Multiple teams have complained about us cheating on faceoffs and we've even had players admit it. (Draper, i believe?)
We interfere with players on the rush more then anyone in the league. I've noticed recently that other teams are starting to do it more and more as well. (side note, ive also noticed other teams using the same entry into the zone on the PP as us; the one where we drop it to Dats)
Now I wouldn't say were flat out CHEATING, were just milking the rules to our advantage as much as possible. Its a double edged sword as we saw in the first 5 games with all the penalties.
Lets not be biased here, if you don't see these things happening all game your watching with a blind eye. We have experienced vets on our team and these skills have been passed down. Any sport I've ever played, I've bent the rules as much as possible to gain an advantage. Its a skill.

Zetterberg and Nyquist are the best in the league at holding the stick then diving to get a hooking/holding penalty. fact.
Multiple teams have complained about us cheating on faceoffs and we've even had players admit it. (Draper, i believe?)
We interfere with players on the rush more then anyone in the league. I've noticed recently that other teams are starting to do it more and more as well. (side note, ive also noticed other teams using the same entry into the zone on the PP as us; the one where we drop it to Dats)
Now I wouldn't say were flat out CHEATING, were just milking the rules to our advantage as much as possible. Its a double edged sword as we saw in the first 5 games with all the penalties.
Lets not be biased here, if you don't see these things happening all game your watching with a blind eye. We have experienced vets on our team and these skills have been passed down. Any sport I've ever played, I've bent the rules as much as possible to gain an advantage. Its a skill.

He doesn't have attitude problems, he just has monkeys riding tricycles in circles in his head

I think it would be really smart for TOR to draft Strome. Hes a good player and obviously pals with McDavid... I can see in 4-5 years Connor jumping ship to go play there.

Have to think he would be an option if Babs leaves
Yes, I'm aware of Blashill's presence. Blash seems to be a good coach for development and maybe he is best suited in the AHL. If he gets paid like an NHL coach, why wouldn't he just stay with the Griffs anyway?

slightly off topic but, this point made me want to post this
I don't see how we are expected to win a series with the lines we have right now. Maybe its the roster but looking up and down the lineup you have to wonder how we even have a chance.
Zetterberg - Datsyuk - Helm <---- great line and the only threat, if they dont get it done we lose. You could see that in game 1
Nyquist - Sheahan - Tatar <---- Doesn't seem to be able to get it done in the playoffs yet. Turnovers and little offence and a defensive liability
Weiss - Andersson - Jurco <---- possibly the softest and worst line i could come up with on our roster. No puck possession
Miller - Glendenning - Ferarro <---- I'd prefer someone else over Ferarro but this line is what it is and good at what it does
Basically, if the top line doesn't get it done offensively, noone else will. All we can do is hope that we get some lucky goals and win a game by 1 goal. It sucks. Were playing defensive hockey with a joke of a defence and skeptical goaltending.
We need to spread out Z and D to have 2 legitimate lines. The days of our stacked rosters are over, we can't play them together anymore.
Regarding Ericcson, he NEEDS TO BE DELEGATED. He can be used on this team, but with favorable matchups, not the best players in the NHL. He slows down Kronwall as well, who is literally our only offensive threat on defence.
Play Kronwall with anyone else, we don't have another top 2 dman but noone else aside from Smith/Kindl is a liability like Ericcson is.

You don't look at points to see how terrible Ericsson is. You just watch him for a game, on any given night.
You can argue that he looks bad because hes on the top pairing getting exposed, but that explains that hes just a bad defenceman. "shut down" Dmen are supposed to shut down guys. He doesnt do that, or bring offence.
He actually destroys all offence. Whenever we cycle in the O-zone, he just throws it on goal the second it touches his stick. Other team gets possesion, puck goes the other way.

You don't look at points to see how terrible Ericsson is. You just watch him for a game, on any given night.
You can argue that he looks bad because hes on the top pairing getting exposed, but that explains that hes just a bad defenceman. "shut down" Dmen are supposed to shut down guys. He doesnt do that, or bring offence.
He actually destroys all offence. Whenever we cycle in the O-zone, he just throws it on goal the second it touches his stick. Other team gets possesion, puck goes the other way.

You don't look at points to see how terrible Ericsson is. You just watch him for a game, on any given night.
You can argue that he looks bad because hes on the top pairing getting exposed, but that explains that hes just a bad defenceman. "shut down" Dmen are supposed to shut down guys. He doesnt do that, or bring offence.
He actually destroys all offence. Whenever we cycle in the O-zone, he just throws it on goal the second it touches his stick. Other team gets possesion, puck goes the other way.

You don't look at points to see how terrible Ericsson is. You just watch him for a game, on any given night.
You can argue that he looks bad because hes on the top pairing getting exposed, but that explains that hes just a bad defenceman. "shut down" Dmen are supposed to shut down guys. He doesnt do that, or bring offence.
He actually destroys all offence. Whenever we cycle in the O-zone, he just throws it on goal the second it touches his stick. Other team gets possesion, puck goes the other way.

This sounds like an awesome tradition and I want in, so here we are:
$1 for every Euro-twins goal
$3 every time an announcer says "What a Datsyukian deke!"
$3 for each gloves-off fight
$5 for a shutout (...of the other team...)
$5 for every goalie switch (between games OR mid-game)
$10 for every player KRONWALL'D
$15 for every period of OT played
$25 for first two series wins
$50 for Eastern Conference Finals win
$100 for STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS

No need to flaunt your wealth, a hole.

Don't know

If we get swept, we need to make huge changes. Average team at best, the worst thing an NHL team can consistently do is be a fringe playoff team because we don't get high picks.
This is all happening while we have two of the best players in the world...once theyre gone I hate to see how rough we might be
Im sure most will disagree, but we basically got swept last season as well and showed nothing to Boston. As it looks right now, we may get swept again but who knows.

haha i LOLed as well

JVR is a power forward
Tatar is a mexican water bug
Source: Mickey Redmond

I hope the defence looks something like this:
Kronwall -
Dekeyser - Quincey
- -

I seriously dont think Ferarro has won a single battle tonight
play with some heart kid

That third line looks like garbage, though. Blech.

why fix things?
DAYS OFF FOR EVERYONE

Cleary in over Jurco again?
I'm not Jurco's biggest fan but if hes not going to play send him down. Cleary is the worst player i've seen put on the wings uniform since the lockout.... hes so irrelevant I dont understand.
The whole time hes on the ice you can tell his job is to just get his shift done without screwing up