Frozen-Man

I think putting money on your team is bad luck.. I will bet but never on or against the Wings, anything else is fair game

That always makes me laugh. I assume that some fans of each team in the playoffs will bet on their team to win the playoffs. I never understand is it bad luck for all the teams then, and if so which team has the most bad luck? Is it the team that has the most fans bet on them or the team whose fans be the most total money on them?    j/k

I cannot stand the Capitals because of one person, and one person only.

Bruce Boudreau.

I cannot stand how he looks, acts, speaks, whines, eats, and most of all coaches. He's never going to have successful in the playoffs until he instills at least some defensive mind into his top players.

Backstrom could be so much better of an overall player if he had a different coach...

Yet you love Crosby? I'm not one to say that Crosby is not talented, he is exceedingly talented BUT in my mind there is doubt he is a whiner. Remember when he asked the refs to make an announcement for people to stop throwing hats onto the ice after Ovechkin's goal?

My understanding is that it can't happen. He had to be on the roster at an earlier date I believe.

Also, why does this have to be addressed to "Hudler slappies"?  Do you considered all Wings fans who like Hudler "slappies"?  That's just stupid.  I have to chuckle at how some Wings fans will do anything they can to diminish Hudler's perceived value to the team.  The stats don't lie-- we could really use his offense right now.

QFT

No, it isn't.  Nobody is 100% consistent throughout an entire year.  Last year he had 40 points and had a stretch where he had only 1 point in 10 games.  It happens, it's a slump, it's not a big deal.

I agree no one is 100% consistent throughout an entire year and also 10 games is a pretty small sample my post was in response to this one:

2 points in 10 games doesn't seem too out of the ordinary for someone that usually has 30-40 points a season

All I was saying is that it is out of the ordinary for a guy to have streaks like that and be a 40 point per season player, its not impossible but it is out of the ordinary. Again, look at the numbers he has a 10 game stretch where he scores .2 points per game and then for the other 72 games has to average .527 points per game to reach 40 points. Impossible . . . no not at all but definitely not ordinary.

He would have gotten top 6 minutes for sure rather than 13:30... you realise if you gave him Filppula's minutes with his scoring rate from last year and he'd be prorated for well over 70 points this year right? You do realise that last year he had a better scoring pace than Franzen, Zetterberg, and Filppula right? Don't try to argue, I have the stats prorated for ES, PP, and Pk time, and if Hudler switched any of their minutes he would outpreform them substancially (well Franzen by 2 points, but Z and Fil by 10+ points)

I like Jiri a lot and would be glad to have him back on the team however, you can't prorate out what a player would have if he had been given more minutes. Who knows if the would have been more worn down, less energetic than he was when his time was limited, would have meshed well with other players who also got those big minutes. There are just to many variables to say for example that if a player scores 1 point averaging 5 minutes of ice time he will automatically score 4 points when given 20 minutes of ice time. It's not a static situation and therefore not adept to static numbers.

2 points in 10 games doesn't seem too out of the ordinary for someone that usually has 30-40 points a season

2 points in 10 games comes out to 16.4 points for the season so it really is fairly out the ordinary for a 30 to 40 point player.

Is anyone else getting stupid down-votes on their profile due to people spamming the + - buttons for replies?  Fight back by adding a + on good posts you read.    I'm doing it but obviously I can't + my own posts.  

Good point +1 for you from me.

Yeah, there is no hope. People are just going to downvote things the disagree with.

So unless you want to agree with everyone, you're going to have a negative reputation unfortunately.

I don't agree with that statement -1 for you.       

I have a quick question. I live over in England, so I don't ever hear much about the Red Wings prospects, draft picks, or the Griffins etc. Where's the best place to get that sort of info?!

Thanks a bunch

I usually either look here or here. Hope that helps!