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Um...What? 1-0, Shorthanded Ottawa, Mike Fisher A bit unfair maybe but Buffalo can't hand Ottawa these giveaways...and Ottawa has woke up

i love don cherry...

Yeah and I've been thinking, he's not exactly a spring chicken. I don't mind old people y'hear! but enough's enough.

You know, the more I think about it, the more I predict Ottawa taking this. It'll be close, but I think they'll do it. Emery isn't on a hotstreak like Lundqvist was but he's good enough and on every other spot Ottawa is clearly superior to the Rangers that, with a bit of luck, could actually have beat Buffalo. Buffalo won't be able to contain Alfy-Spezza-Heatley...There's no chance...

Gonna be a great game tonight! Can't wait! Hope Ottawa win it!!

Well...Not signing another center would be good considering the amount of quality ones we have. On the other hand I'd love letting Lang go and signing, for example, Nylander.

With the team Sweden has right now I think we can be happy with coming top 4. If we do manage to win it'll probably be bigger than last years. Russia seems to be the over-all favourite to win...We shall see. A Canada-Russia final would be cool.

Loved it! Go Wings!!

LOL

Well...Detroit's history is definitely worth mentioning but I actually think the FUTURE is quite promising too...That's what good management does...

Meh. Look I'm caring...

We want a goalie who brings it in the play-offs and at crunch time...It doesn't have to be a goalie who gets nominated for the Vezina every year...A nice Emery/Miller. Obviously a Lundqvist/Brodeur/Kipper/Luongo would be cooler but I don't think we can afford a 6-7 million a year contract. On the other hand we could do that and still resign Zetts to a GOOD contract (6-7 mill a year). We'd be like the Lightning sure but hopefully with a better balance... EDIT: I just realized Liv is a RFA at the end of the season. He'll probably have to have a kick-ass camp to even get signed...Hopefully he will get signed though... Ideally Hasek will be resigned and he'll stay healthy. He'll play 40-50 games. Howard 30-40. Liv might get a game or two. By the time of the play-offs Howard will be kickin ass...How's that for a likely scenario?

Well Detroit isn't really known for sloppy defensive play...Well, sometimes they lapse...On the other hand Hasek is a proven world-class goalie and Backstrom hasn't really proven himself. Marty is amazing and will quite likely have a record amount of records by the time he retires...Roy can go cry in a corner which makes me really happy...

I think Russia really wants to create a top-European league with Russia being the foundation...Also they don't like NHL...

Happy Bday Captain!!

The four teams left: Detroit - Lidström or Hasek. It really depends on Hasek stopping his bonehead plays... Anaheim - Giggy prolly...Maybe Prongs or Nieds but not very likely... Ottawa - Alfy...no questions there...(Emery, Heatley and Spezza are worth mentioning but Alfy has really been unstoppable so far...) Buffalo - Probably the most difficult...Miller, Briere or Drury...Prolly not Briere though...

Yeah...He was also won Best Defenceman during the Olympics...Ahead of, among others, Lidström...

Agreed. We've waited a long time for Howard to get a real shot...

It's both good and bad that we have so many prospects coming up...

Smyth no question. Mainly because I don't want to risk waiting for Bert to reach a decent level...

Nor does Lidströms perfect post-to-post stick-save...Oh wait..He's not even a goalie....

Very true...It's the fact that he's 45 AND that he's playing like he's 25 that is so amazing...

People have been commenting on Lilja because he's really improved in a crunch situation and hopefully he can keep it up. Markov has been stable and great and hopefully he'll be able to continue on this level given he'll probably get more minutes now...

Too bad though, the guy was amazing. Great article by the by.

I was considering leaving my post blank but that would be weird. So I'll just say I'm SPEECHLESS.