Pskov Wings Fan

 

Drawing in sufficient oxygen with a full glass cage on may also present a problem.

 

Not with that oxygen tank on your back. Just make them all astronauts.

After Ottawa got up 4-1 they had a full 5 on 5 fight. Simply awesome.

 

10 fighting majors at 7:04 in 3rd.

Most of the times I see Wild power play it very much looks like they just do not know what to do.

So is Konopka in the lineup for offense or defense?

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Why, both of course. Left fist for defense, right for offense.

Bob is playing very good for Blue Jackets.

Screw the emotion. Getzlaf, Perry and Selanne left Ducks without their best goal scorers when they were needed the most.

Abdelkader should be told that when Datsyuk is your center your are not there to think. Dig the puck, give it to Pavel, make yourself open and wait for it.

So....how about what just happened in Pheonix?  Nail got the OT winner, he batted it in again...Morris was going after him but threw blows at Whitney instead.  He didn't have a crazy celebration, I didn't think, it was Doan-esque actually.  I don't know, I am kind of starting to get that selfish vibe from him though.  He's basking in this light.  You could even tell his teammates didn't want to join in on it, Hall looked reluctant.

 

So players on opposing teams do not like when Yakupov scores on them and celebrates. Well, this is too bad. Pleasing Phoenix Coyotes is really not his job. The kid is 18. I think it will be rather sad if all the negative attention would make him to follow the "code". I hope he is strong enough to ignore all of it and do as he feels like.

Parise worth every penny. Suter on the other hand so far has not been good. Not a disaster but so far nothing to pay $100M for.

Finesse hockey isn't really what's winning today.  But I'm going to try and reserve judgement until after a few more games.

 

Finesse hockey may or may not be winning today. But it has nothing to do with Wings play yesterday. I do not recall seeing any finesse from Detroit players,

except these players are being paid millions to play a game that most would play for free. such torture

Most of us play for free because nobody would pay money to see us play. If anything, professional athletes earn their money in rather transparent manner compared to other occupations, which pull similar incomes. They get paid because people pay to see them play.

Point taken, however if you look at most professional sports leagues (or maybe all of them) there is some sort of revenue sharing agreement.  The fact that some teams lose money does not mean the league as a whole is unstable.  One could easily say the same thing about the MLB where the league is doing just fine, but A LOT of teams lose money.

I do not disagree on revenue sharing. Rich teams do need opponents to generate their large revenues so they might as well share the proceeds. And fans probably do want to see their team beat up on poor southern cousins once in a while.

http://www.fiveminut...oncessions.html

I think this is the correct way to see who is conceeding what. Compare terms of the proposals to the previous CBA not to other proposals. Previous CBA is the (only) valid starting point.

but without the cba, there most likely won't be guaranteed contracts, pensions, health benefits , minimum salaries, etc. will the players be willing to play for the owners without any of those perks. i doubt it.

here's a good article on the decertification process

http://www.cbc.ca/sp...-questions.html

Lack of CBA does not necessarily eliminate the perks listed above. But it would mean that each player would need to negotiate contract with the club very carefully and make sure that everything CBA used to cover is spelled out explicitly.

I appears that players are starting to seriously consider the idea of union decertification ( http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=410081 ).
If they manage to get it done it would be interesting to see league with its anti-trust exemptions gone. No cap, no draft, every player for himself.