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And pretty much bashes players in the process. Yikes.

Not the best choice of words, Jimmy.

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I will say this, it make take me sometime to comeback to hockey if there is another lockout.

Eklund 2.0 in my opinion.  Throw enough s*** at the wall & see what sticks.

i guess i can understand the ranking dropping if you take out smith and nyquist. they were indeed 2 of our best prospects. its not to say our cupboard is bare, but we have to remember that all teams have guys they are excited about. and unfortunately, outside of lottery players, you cant get truly excited about a player till he is at least in the ahl and playing well. fans too often cite numbers from juniors as some garuntee players will make it.

Holland would be an ******* to sign Doan to some of the contract #'s that are rumored.

Well, since he's apparently not willing to spend any more money, and we still have $16 million, we might as well just offer Doan $16 million for one year.

An offer sheet was the only chance we had of getting Weber.  I'm sure I don't know a whole lot about how the whole front office thing works but I'd be willing to bet there was no chance in hell that Poile was trading Weber to us.  I'm hoping Kenny would be smart enough to realize that as well.  I understand he doesn't like the whole idea of signing other team's RFA's but I feel like if there was ever a time to go for broke and do it, this was it.

Most of them when you get a guy like Weber as a RFA most teams would "Go For Broke" to try and get them.    I would have like to have seen Kenny send an offer sheet.

Pronger 2.0 begins.....

Igor's daughters are classy and refined.  They are Dom Perignon and Gretzky's daughter is a box of white zinfandel.

and from my experience in my early 20's, let me tell you... those girls are a lot more fun, haha

Larionov's daughters are a little less ****-tastic in appearance.

I'd take Larionov's daughters over the Gretz girl any day of the week.

Too bad Kenny didn't think of throwing a 2nd round pick to the Ducks for Lubomir Vishnovsky like the Islanders did. Point man on the PP, done. Next?

You dream too small.

With just a few trades:

Weber - Suter

Chara - Yandle

Karlsson - Byfuglien .... damn straight!

Sutter can S my D

Doan won't come here. If he leaves Pheonix, it will be for a run at the cup. I'd say that's why he's waiting. To see who's the most appealing when the dust settles, as it has today.

Wings are too far off from a cup run to attract Doan.

I think Holland would give too good a pitch. I don't think Doan could say no to Holland... Just like Suter can't say no to Parise... or Parise's wife... or Parise's parents

I wish Feds was here so we could throw him on D.

***this just in***

Former Red Wing Kirk Maltby has just shot down a corporate jet over Lake Michigan registered out of the greater Pittsburg area with a Russian military-spec shoulder fired rocket launcher.  Ecklund reports that he's not sure what surprises him more; the incident or the fact that Maltby actually hit his target.

I'm not surprised that Malts would hit his target.  He was a 50 goal scorer in juniors after all...

I don't blame the guy at all. In fact, I respect him for taking his time and heading home to speak to his family about the matter. It's a huge decision that none of us here truly understand. Don't get me wrong, I'm as anxious to know as anyone, but unless this drags on for over a week, I don't think the guy is doing anything wrong.

The only thing wrong here in my book is people giving these guys s*** for taking their time to decide where they want to call home for the rest of their careers in the NHL, as if that's such an insignificant decision.

As if this is the only time he's had to consider this?  It ain't like he's suddenly been put on the f***in spot to decide the rest of his future.  Pick a team ****** and make it snappy!

esteef