Electrophile

put down the xbox controller

I'm gonna pretend Datsyuk is going to play forever like I did with Nick and just deal with that very horrible day when it comes.

Our desire for new toys doesn't negate the fact that the loyalty we show is very appealing to players. We don't treat our players like video game characters or trading cards and that makes us look very good. We take care of our guys.

Im getting a little fed up with soreness issues.

Have you tried Midol?

Yeah, and my great-granny squatted in the barn, dropped out a kid, and went right back to milkin' Old Bossie.  Sure, the infant and maternal mortality rates were triple what they are now, but hey- those old mothers were tough!

 

It makes a great story when a guy loses all but his canine teeth and keeps playing, or when a guy gets speared in the yambags, gets sewn up, and comes back to get a hat trick with 37 stitches in the family jewels, but times have changed, and so has modern medicine.

 

Blood was once something you played through, now it's a biohazard.

 

Concussions were once something you just shook off and played through, and then told stories about later.  Now we know the long-term effects.

 

Remember when Z had all those back troubles and people were complaining about his lost ice time?  I'd bet you dollars to donuts that if he'd played through it, he'd be a shell of the player he is today, if he was still playing at all.  I'm sure the lovely Emma is glad he took care of his back.

 

Medicine has come a long way.  As much as I love a good story and testament to the manliness of hockey players, I'd rather see a guy sit now, and go on to play longer and live better afterwards.

 

If we need good stories, we'll always have Gilchrist.  Ouch, man.  Just... Ouch.

Really, people?  This is how you show gratitude and respect for the guy who took a heartbreak of wreckage, turned it around, and gave us four more Stanley Cups and made us the envy of the league?

 

Not to mention whatever he's done with the Tigers and for the city of Detroit and his charitable contributions.

 

I hope some day you get old and see how you like it.

 

Kids these days.

Zetterberg is now peeing in the OP's Cheerios.

don't care. he was a great hockey player, but you can't take anything he says about hockey seriously anymore

 

Sounds like someone wasn't invited to Wayne Gretzky's Fantasy Camp.

Red Wings looked like Jackman's penis tonight. 

 

Small, soft, and manhandled by the Blues roster.

This is appropriate right now.

 

I have an idea for a fun game.

Everyone guess

a) which Wing will score first

b) who will get the first assists

c) which month it will happen in

You know what I want them to do for the fans?

 

Win the Cup.

 

 

Then let each of us spend a day with it. (Not holding my breath on that one.)

Slighty off-topic, but does anyone know when Nick's number retirement ceremony will be?  Will they have it sometime this season, or wait until the start of next season in the fall?

 

Next season. 

 

Should be pretty nice now that they have a lot of time to plan for it.

 

http://www.letsgowin...red-next-season

Shocking. In other news, the world isn't flat!

These crybabies have no clue how many people they have impacted whining about who gets the bigger piece of their multi-million dollar pie. How about the employees that didn't work during the lockout? Not one mention of them by the league or the players.

This lockout has displayed their true colors. The NHL is nothing but a corporation that will put anyone and everyone at risk to ensure that they make as large a profit as possible. The blatant disregard for the fans and the hourly employees is both offending and intolerable.

What a magical last-minute deal to ensure that they can continue to pocket their millions. They didn't do it for the fans, they did it because they were feeling increased pressure from their corporate sponsors to get a deal done.

"Thank You Fans!"