toby91_ca

I think a couple guys might not have noticed that they are replying to posts that were made 5 years ago.

He grabbed the kid. He didn't assault him. I'm thinking a 5 game suspension.

Since he has an in-person hearing schedule, his suspension will = MIN 5 games.

With respect to pending lawsuit against him....bulls***.

It looks clean to me, but I have to admit that I'm starting to get sick of seeing another player laid out every night in the highlights. Don't know if Comeau is alright or what happened to him after the hit, but 2 weeks into the season and there are already over a dozen concussions in the league.

I think Ryan Miller was right when he said we need to change the culture.

Comeau is perfectly fine, I suspect he laid on the ice for a bit to try and sell it.

It wasn't blindside, but it was an elbow to the head..

I'm sorry, but are you completely insane???  Elbow to the head?  The closest the elbow came to the head was when Letang's elbow was next to Comeau's elbow when he hit him shoulder to shoulder, other than that, I don't see the elbow as coming even within 3 feet of the head.

This is the bad part of the new rule....you are going to see guys get 5 and a game like this for perfectly clean hits that would never have been called penalties in the past.

top 15 sounds good.  horcoff as a captain in the NHL is embarrasing though.  he's a 2nd/3rd line player on a good team.  guess that's why the oil finished dead last in the league last year.

You don't have to be the best player on the team to be a good leader and therefore good captain.

He's not that good of a player, the value he did have was his size and the ability to stand in front of the net, this decision basically removes that value.

I still don't see how this contract is any better than either of the Miller/Eaves contracts.

I don't see a signficant difference between these players and Pisani's contract is cheaper.

Fast forward to today and all the CONTINUED highlight moves and I can confidently say, WITHOUT hesitation, that Pavel Datsyuk has the single greatest puck control/hands in the history of the game... go ahead and try and argue who is/has been better? It's like the guy LITERALLY has the puck attached to his stick by a string and is a once in a lifetime (possibly history) that you will ever see a player with that ability... and DAMN are we lucky it is happening in the Winged Wheel...

That is a pretty bold statement, which appears to be based soley on watching one player and what he has done.....have you watched other players as closely, behind the scenes, etc.?

Kent Nilsson was pretty slick and I've always considered him to be the best stickhandler I've ever seen.  Kovalev is pretty damn good too.

I think something like this is pretty subjective and you could very well get some arguments for other players, I think it's really difficult to say that one player, without a doubt at all, is the best.

Was Gretzky really that good as a leader? I know he has tons of points but was he good in the locker room as well?

To be honest, you can't really answer that question about anyone unless you were actually part of the team.

The Brett Favre of the NHL!

But did Forsberg ever really announce a retirement?  I don't remember such an announcement.  All I remember is hearing about him trying to play every year and having difficulty in doing so.

On a related note, I was reading Forsberg's wiki page and there is a comment in there about him leading the league in ppg during the 2008 season.  He played only 9 games...I mean, really, do you have to say he lead the league in ppg?  That like someone scoring 3 pts in the first game of the season and saying he is on pace to shatter Gretzky's single season point record.

no love for douggie weight?

I think he's been mentioned, but what argument is there for him really?  he does have over 1,000pts, but you can't start putting everyone in that hits that mark.  He's way below a ppg on his career, he's only ever finished in the top 10 in scoring once (8th), his career best is 26 goals, he only had 276 goals on his career, no awards, etc., etc.

I never said Pronger didn't have skill.  But that you project Fischer would have evolved in to the same dirty player he is and we like him even though you predict that isn't an argument for anything.  There are a lot of players who push the line.  To Pronger the line isn't even a speed bump.  It's not just Wings fans that hate him for a reason.

There is definately no real basis to say Fischer would have ended up playing dirtier and dirtier as his career progressed, but to be fair, Fischer had been suspended 2 times.  At the same point in his career, Pronger had 0 suspensions, was a 2 time allstar, 2nd allstar team, all rookie team, +/- leader and a member of Team Canada's olympic team.

This is all true not to mention the tandum of liddy and raf were burnt out this season due to inj...they will do fine giving they dont have to skate 32min every night all year.

I know you are just exaggerating, but not only are you way off on ice time, I don't think Lidstrom or Rafalski really played overly more than they do any other year.  Neither played anywhere near 32 minutes in regulation in any single game all year, let alone every night.

Rafalski played a grand total of 1 game in which he played 30 minutes in regulation, Lidstrom had zero, he didn't eevn play a single game at 29 minutes in regulation.

Lidstrom averaged 25 minutes per night (well below what he used to play) and Rafalski averaged 24 minutes per night (about average for his years here, but below what he used to play in NJ).

Modano isn't particularly good in shootouts.

"...in the early days of the sport among the upper echelons of British society, the proper term for the sport was “Soccer”.  Not only that, but the sport being referred to as “Soccer” preceded the first recorded instance of it being called by the singular word “Football” by about 18 years.  This happening when it became more popular with the middle and lower class. When that happened, the term “Football” gradually began dominating over “Soccer” and the then official name “Association Football”."

thus proving my original point...

No, it says soccer was used before the "singular word" football, but it was still orginally football.  In fact, it was actually football (the singular word) even earlier, but in that time the word referred to many different sports.

It was referred to as "association football", then "soccer football", then "soccer", then "football", so to me, it is pretty clear that "football" is really the orginal name.