NeverForgetMac25

Sorry for the lack of updates this weekend.  I was in the process of drywalling my basement.  That being said, I'll be in front of my computer all day and will be updating as fast as possible through the end of the deadline.


LAST UPDATED (2-27-2012, 9:28 AM ET)

February 26, 2012 (1 Total Transaction)
Ottawa Acquires: (G) Ben Bishop
St. Louis Acquires: 2nd-Round Pick (2013)

February 25, 2012 (1 Total Transaction)
Florida Acquires: (F) Wojtek Wolski
New York Rangers Acquires: (D) Mike Vernace, 3rd-Round Pick (2013)

February 24, 2012 (2 Total Transactions)
New Jersey Acquires: (D) Marek Zidlicky
Minnesota Acquires:(D) Kurtis Foster, (F) Nick Palmieri, (F) Stephane Veilleux, 2nd-Round Pick (2012), 3rd-Round Pick (2013-conditional)

Florida Acquires: (F) Jerred Smithson
Nashville Acquires: 6th-Round Pick (2012)

friends, i would advise against betting him on it.  he will end up asking mods to have your posts deleted to remove the evidence.

Mods don't remove any posts unless they break the forum rules.

Baiting does break the rules.  You might want to read up on that one.

LAST UPDATED (2-24-2012, 10:36 AM ET)

February 23, 2012 (1 Total Transaction)
Los Angeles Acquires: (F) Jeff Carter
Columbus Acquires: (D) Jack Johnson, 1st-Round Pick (2013-conditional)

Find me any good teammate that has said, "this place sucks, get me out of here". Obviously the financial strains in the Devils won't effect Parise if they offer him the money...but they can't.

I was right about every single UFA and RFA this past summer about not signing here. Holland is predictable and has set trends. Those trends say Parise and Weber are not signing here before or during their primes. Quote me on it. Bet me on it. I want Parise and Weber here as bad as the next person, but it's just not happening.

Those "trends" are because the Wings simply haven't needed to overpay up to this point.  When Lids retires, I'd bet anything Holland will do absolutely everything he can to fix the hemorrhage.  When guys like Stuart leave, that's what the band-aids are for.  

No way in hell Holland all of a sudden goes against the cornerstone of his success in his time here.  Defense first, serviceable goaltending and a strong offense: he'll stick to his proven recipe.  Meaning, guys like Suter or Weber will be signed before a guy like Parise is.  Then whatever money is left, throw at the offense.

LAST UPDATED (2-23-2012, 9:12 AM ET)

February 22, 2012 (1 Total Transaction)
Phoenix Acquires: (F) Antoine Vermette
Columbus Acquires: (G) Curtis McElhinney, 2nd-Round Pick (2012), 5th-Round Pick (2013-conditional)

I don't see how you can take Joey Mac out of the net until he loses. I like Jimmy, but as Mickey would say, MAC is "hotter than a firecracker" right now. Lets ride J-MAC until he loses a game!

Yeah, what a s***ty job Babcock has night-in and night-out.  Hmm....which goaltender that can't do anything but win should I play tonight?

Fun Fact: Joe Thorton cries more then Cindy Crosby. Someone should re-post the picture of Mule using a light saber to cut off Joe's legs.

That animated gif was the single greatest Photoshop War win of all time.

Just like last years thread, I'll be making updates as fast as humanly possible. Feel free to post any transactions (regardless of team) within this thread and I'll add it to the chart as quickly as I can.

Note: Transactions involving *only* non-roster players since January 1st are not listed here.

LAST UPDATED (2-27-2012, 4:13 PM ET)

February 27, 2012 (14 Total Transactions)
Vancouver Acquires: (F) Andrew Gordon
Anaheim Acquires: (D) Sebastian Erixon

Vancouver Acquires: (F) Zack Kassian, (D) Marc-Andre Gragnani
Buffalo Acquires: (F) Cody Hodgson, (D) Alexander Sulzer

New York Rangers Acquire: (D) John Scott
Chicago Acquires: 5th-Round Pick

Boston Acquires: (D) Greg Zanon
Minnesota Acquires: (D) Steve Kampfer

Nashville Acquires: (F) Paul Gaustad, 4th-Round Pick
Buffalo Acquires: 1st-Round Pick

Boston Acquires: (D) Brian Rolston, (D) Mike Mottau
New York Islanders Acquire: (F) Yannick Riendeau, (D) Marc Cantin

Chicago Acquires: (D) Johnny Oduya
Winnipeg Acquires: 2nd-Round Pick (2013), 3rd-Round Pick (2013)

Vancouver Acquires: (F) Sami Pahlsson
Columbus Acquires: 4th-Round Pick (TBA), 4th-Round Pick (TBA)

Tampa Bay Acquires: (D) Brian Lee
Ottawa Acquires: (D) Matt Gilroy

San Jose Acquires: (F) Daniel Winnik, (F) T.J. Galiardi, 7th-Round Pick
Colorado Acquires: (F) Jamie McGinn, (F) Mike Connolly, (F) Michael Sgarbossa

Tampa Bay Acquires: (D) Keith Aulie
Toronto Acquires: (F) Carter Ashton

Minnesota Acquires: (D) Tom Gilbert
Edmonton Acquires: (D) Nick Schultz

Tampa Bay Acquires: (D) Mike Commadore
Detroit Acquires:  Conditional 7th-Round Pick

Nashville Acquires: (F) Andrei Kostitsyn
Montreal Acquires: 2nd-Round Pick (2013), Conditional 5th-Round Pick (2013)

February 26, 2012 (1 Total Transaction)
Ottawa Acquires: (G) Ben Bishop
St. Louis Acquires: 2nd-Round Pick (2013)

February 25, 2012 (1 Total Transaction)
Florida Acquires: (F) Wojtek Wolski
New York Rangers Acquires: (D) Mike Vernace, 3rd-Round Pick (2013)

February 24, 2012 (2 Total Transactions)
New Jersey Acquires: (D) Marek Zidlicky
Minnesota Acquires:(D) Kurtis Foster, (F) Nick Palmieri, (F) Stephane Veilleux, 2nd-Round Pick (2012), 3rd-Round Pick (2013-conditional)

Florida Acquires: (F) Jerred Smithson
Nashville Acquires: 6th-Round Pick (2012)

February 23, 2012 (1 Total Transaction)
Los Angeles Acquires: (F) Jeff Carter
Columbus Acquires: (D) Jack Johnson, 1st-Round Pick (2013-conditional)

February 22, 2012 (1 Total Transaction)
Phoenix Acquires: (F) Antoine Vermette
Columbus Acquires: (G) Curtis McElhinney, 2nd-Round Pick (2012), 5th-Round Pick (2013-conditional)

February 21, 2012 (2 Total Transactions)
Detroit Acquires: (D) Kyle Quincey
Tampa Bay Acquires: (D) Sebastien Piche, 1st-Round Pick (2012)

Colorado Acquires: (F) Steve Downie
Tampa Bay Acquires: (D) Kyle Quincey

February 18, 2012 (1 Total Transaction)
Philadelphia Acquires: (D) Pavel Kubina
Tampa Bay Acquires: (F) Jon Kalinski, 2nd-Round Pick (2012 or 2013), 4th-Round Pick (2013)

February 17, 2012 (1 Total Transaction)
Nashville Acquires: (D) Hal Gill, Conditional 5th-Round Pick (2013)
Montreal Acquires: (F) Blake Geoffrion, (F) Robert Slaney, 2nd-Round Pick (2012)

February 16, 2011 (2 Total Transactions)
San Jose Acquires: (F) Dominic Moore, 7th-Round Pick
Tampa Bay Acquires: 2nd-Round Pick (2012)

Philadelphia Acquires: (D) Nicklas Grossman
Dallas Acquires: 2nd-Round Pick (2012), 3rd-Round Pick (2013)

February 3, 2012 (1 Total Transaction)
New York Rangers Acquire: (F) Casey Wellman
Minnesota Acquires: (F) Erik Christensen, 7th-Round Pick (2013)

January 27, 2012 (1 Total Transaction)
Chicago Acquires: (F) Brendan Morrison
Calgary Acquires: (D) Brian Connelly

January 20, 2012 (1 Total Transaction)
New Jersey Acquires: (F) Alexei Ponikarovsky
Carolina Acquires: (D) Joe Sova, 4th-Round Pick

January 12, 2012 (1 Total Transaction)
Calgary Acquires: (F) Michael Cammalleri, (G) Karri Ramo, 5th-Round Pick (2012)
Montreal Acquires: (F) Rene Bourque, (F) Patrick Holland, 2nd-Round Pick (2013)

January 6, 2012 (1 Total Transaction)
Tampa Bay Acquires: (D) Brendan Mikkelson
Calgary Acquires: (F) Blair Jones

i don't think it's baseless.  if i count correctly, vancouver has 8 games remaining against teams in playoff position.  detroit has 16.

it will be a much easier road for vancouver to come out on top, but a regulation win on the 23rd would obviously help the wings' chances.

VAN only has 4 games left against teams that are 10 or more points out of the playoff picture (or bubble, if you will).The Wings have the exact same amount.  The other teams VAN will be seeing are typically close as can be in skill level to the botom 3-4 current playoff teams and will put up a dog fight night-in and night-out in an attempt to make the playoffs themselves.  

Lastly, according to the remaining strength of schedule numbers for the West, the Wings have the 8th most difficult schedule to Vancouvers' 10th.  Not a huge difference there.

i wouldn't worry about the rangers.  the wings will have a hard enough time staying ahead of vancouver.  they'll end up 2nd in the west at best.

Talk about baseless pessimism.  

SFT, you've become Mindy 2.0 here at LGW.

Amazing to think what's transpired in our Central division these past few weeks and its been fun to watch.  While it's hard to imagine the race will keep up at its current pace it stands to reason that 4 of our 5 divisional teams will make the postseason.

More mind-boggling is that the top 3 point-getters thus far in the West all belong to the Central.  On top of that, 4 of the top 6 point-getters in the West are all from the Central.  It's an amazing display of talent, coaching and solid-play by DET, STL, CHI & NSH.

So, prediction time.  What are your thoughts on how the division will shake out come April?  How many of the 4 teams will make the postseason?  What are your thoughts regarding the Wings division?

^ That really sucks.  I was just thinking about him and figured we'd be getting news soon of his return given the initial timetable that was given.

Bummer for him and the Wings, to say the least.

Seems to me that the League is putting their glory and numbers ahead of the chance to help the economy of Detroit.

I shouldn't even be humoring this comment, but since when is it the NHL's responsibility to help the economy of Detroit?

Why do players like Scott Hartnell go on hot streaks at will and yet world-class talents like Datsyuk and Zetterberg look lifeless?

There's a loaded question if I've ever heard one.  Every player, good and bad goes on hot/cold streaks.  I gotta think injuries and tightening-up-grips are affecting them currently.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Probably saw some food.

Easy.  When you were born after 1985, and have several painful memories of Erik Kramer and the QB Rotato, Wannstedt, Jauron, the Dinkpass offense, several running plays right into the nearest opposing lineman for a loss, and near-to-every offensive series resulting in picks or punts.  Oh, and the stupid Buttpackers, and their fanbase which is twice as annoying as any Blackhawks fan.

Then the set up for Good Rex/Bad Rex, where he would lead the league in TD and yards, then throw 4 INTs and fumble twice.  Get to the Superbowl and not win, couple that with the questionable personnel moves by Jerry Angelo over the last number of years, the up and down of the team, etc, etc.  And most recently, the Offensive line jacking around while Cutler runs for his life and can't complete plays, while Martz keeps calling plays like a 14 year old playing Madden.

But given today's game, I wonder if the questions begin for Good Matt/Bad Matt.  After all:

Both got injured in their first 2 years in the league, had to sit out.

Both can throw 90 miles away

AND both were looked at, at the time, as the saviors of their team, QB-wise.

Wah, wah, wah....8-0.