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Time to actually score on the power play

I may regret asking this, but why is it Holland's 'idiocy'? What has Smith done to prove he should be in the lineup over Kindl (or whoever)?

Hoping Klinkhammer gets some comeuppance.

It seemed like he said exactly that to me. He said 'Mrazek is getting the tougher assignments for sure.' Plural 'assignments' indicates that he was referring to the season thus far and not just this weekend.There is also his well established track record of seemingly 100% positivity toward younger players/prospects and 100% negativity toward veteran players.

Love how Stamkos holds Zetterberg's stick to create the screen on that goal. If that's legal, Detroit should implement it.

I think you've made your 'younger automatically equals better and more exciting' opinion abundantly clear.

Darren Helm was also on the 2008 Cup winning team.

3 on 3 time in Tampa Penalty shot for philly Crap... saved

Eichel scores

I agree on all except I'll go for Dallas.

I don't think that's a true sign of the apocalypse.

Yeah, expansion can't come soon enough for Glencross & Co.

Spelling things phonetically? No.... that doesn't rhyme with 'arcasm,' I give up.

Kindl is leading the Wings in ice time....

I'm not sure whether or not this is directed at me, but it reads as a possible passive-aggressive/sarcastic shot fired in my direction. If that is the case, I don't know why my posts have cause aggravation for you, but I apologize for any bother the additional sidebar on Parkinson's caused for you. And, I was not trying to suggest that diseases can only have one cause... or that Parkinson's or any of the other conditions you just brought up are easily prevented.

You are correct that we may never know that Parkinson's is the result of head trauma... and the speculation exists that the conditions may be related. My grandfather had Parkinson's and he was a farmer and a postal worker. My friend's father has it and he managed a book store. No head trauma occurred in either of those cases. I don't know of any significant head trauma that Michal J. Fox had - I don't recall any mention of it in his autobiography. It is possible that head trauma 'increases the risk' of Parkinson's. But, I don't think there is anywhere near enough evidence to say that head trauma causes Parkinson's. I would speculate that the doctor in 1987 overstepped his/her bounds in saying that Ali's Parkinson's was "due to boxing." Perhaps the doctor did not want to say to the nation that he/she didn't know why one of its most famous/beloved athletes got the disease... and instead went with the convenient explanation that he/she thought probably had some merit.

Are you implying that Ali's Parkinson's is a result of his boxing career and related head trauma?

Oh man, I've been feeling somewhat % recently... I'm afraid I might need back surgery.

Did McCarty say he was pissed about this or something?

Yet, if this was a non-core player rather than Kane, I imagine the Blackhawks organization would more than likely rest on their impeccable moral code. You know, like the Kings.

Haha - I did not foresee that interpretation. No, I hope that Datsyuk remains a productive part of the team as long as his former 'professor' did.I was just making the comparison that Datsyuk was about as much a part of the rivalry as Rob Blake was.

Yes, I was sure we would see Blake... even though he barely qualifies as having played during the rivalry years. Maybe Datsyuk will play for the Detroit alumni team.

Have the rosters been announced? I'm hoping that we don't see a Colorado roster of Jari Kurri, Theo Fleury, Dave Andreychuk, Brian Rolston, Dale Hunter, etc.

It was very irresponsible. Just because we all know people who have also done it does not make it better or more acceptable, in my opinion. He put his, his son's, and everyone else on the road's lives in danger. I would not see it as an injustice if he lost his job as a result.

Well, hopefully in a couple of years, the Wings can package him with someone that reminds you of Keith Primeau to obtain a guy that reminds you of Brendan Shanahan.