Nev

The Hudler rebound season just in full effect.

I think the phrase you're looking for is contract year

History shows that there are plenty of stupid GMs out there who will trade star players for not a whole lot.  What did Hossa go for?  A half decent player, a bit-part player, a prospect who isn't panning out and a bad 1st round pick.  What did Roy go for?  Thibault, Rucinsky and Kovalenko.  Yashin for Chara and Spezza.  

All hockey fans massively over-rate their own prospects, and tend to under-rate their own movable pieces (or massively over-rate them in a few cases).  Wings fans hate on Ericsson for his bone-headedness, other GMs and fans see his size, see he comes from the Wings puck moving system and like the look of him.  And we WILL need to move roster players, even bit part players, simply to make room on the roster for any new arrivals.

Franzen and/or Filpulla if part of a package for a legit top player.

Hudler, Abdelkader, Miller, Eaves, Emmerton, Mursak are all replacable.

Stuart if part of a package, most probably with Anaheim

Ericcson, Kindl, Commodore are all replacable.

Any prospect not named Smith or Nyquist.

Nick Lidstrom doesn't do push-ups, he pushes the Earth down.










And he still has both testicles.

It should be a player's choice to wear one or not. Hall knew the risk he was taking by warming up without one on. Every player that doesn't wear a visor knows there is a small chance he could get clipped, etc. It's the risk you take. Let the players make up their own minds, even if their decision is not popular.

Should it be a drivers choice whether or not to wear a seatbelt?  Sometimes people need to be protected from themeselves.

You know why Burke won't allow 24/7 into the locker room?  He's scared the rest of the league might discover Ron Wilson's secret motivational techniques....

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I mean, seriously guys, are we taking our under-sized, under-weight, aenemic, bow-legged, pidgeon-toed superfreak for granted these days?  Played with one winger the entire game and was still the best player on the ice.

The Todd:  "The best player I've ever played with"

So excited, first Wings game I can watch live since forever

Wings win 14-3, Datsyuk with a goal and 13 assists.

C'mon Pav, only another goal and 11 assists to go

Am I the only one who gets scared with such a disparity in shots on goal?

no, but I'm less scared now.

So excited, first Wings game I can watch live since forever

Wings win 14-3, Datsyuk with a goal and 13 assists.

Well for what it's worth - someone here had the luxury of attending a Tigers game in Mike Ilitch's suite...Can't remember who it was, but he said that a somewhat intoxicated Ken Holland was there as well...Being a Wings fan this poster chatted with Holland for some time; eventually telling him that Modano was gonna become a Red Wing.

Now I personally don't think Hank is going anywhere soon, but ya never know.

There was also the guy who was on here telling us we were getting Brad Stewart at the trade deadline, and got flamed to hell and back for it......then we got Brad Stewart at the trade deadline.

He didn't reveal his sources though, no matter how tenous

Being a huge Helm fan I remember in 2008 when he was called up for the Cup run, he had a thing going with Brooks Orkpik......whenever Orkpik took a few liberties with young Helmer, McCarty was right there right away to make sure things went "smoothly". This is something this years team misses badly!

Funny, cos I remember Helm being taken out by Orpik in Game 6 with a knee on knee hit....

Well, apart from saying Probert was on the cup winning teams, and saying Downey "was there" (he wasn't), and apart from being the guy who thinks Lidstrom is no good because he doesn't hit, apart from that, I guess he has a point, that we could do with a LaPointe/McCarty/Drake type player.

Franzen was OK until he took an arrow to the knee (sorry, couldn't resist )

Again... why on earth would Holland want to acquire yet another playmaking center? And, more, why would he trade one of the team's best goal-scorers for such? This would lead to a net decrease in goal scoring.

Wow, I wasn't aware that the NHL was such a simple, logical place.  The great goal-scorer Franzen has broken 30 goals just once, is past 30, picking up injuries, and signed to a monster contract that rewards him with $$$$$$$$$$$ whatever he does (which is often as little as possible).

Getzlaf is an all-star, Franzen isn't.  Datsyuk-Getzlaf gives us a 1-2 punch that would give the rest of the WC kittens.  Anytime you can aqcuire a top, high-end player for non-star players, you should.  Players of the quality of Getzlaf (or Perry, or Ryan) don't come on the market very often.

I disagree with your examples, as none of them are d-bag weasels of Corey Perry magnitude

  

I can only assume you weren't watching Hockey when Chelios was a Blackhawk and Samuelsson was a Penguin?