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they obviously havent heard about the athletic's check mark system.

caruso mugs cade. no call.

STAY ON YOUR FEET AUSAR! derozan taking him to school.

thank your lucky stars you dont have to listen to stacy king announce this game.

i would not bust the bank for a 30 year old defensive tackle.

drummond has a better jumper than ausar.

exactly. the only question is when they bite the bullet and trade crosby. not this year obviously. probably not next year either but... they have nothing in the pipeline and are committed to some older players with big contracts. crosby saves them from being a complete also ran. but its the pens. they'll bottom out, get the #1 pick, and get yet another generational player to save a team that was inches short of bankruptcy the last time they didnt have a lemieux/jagr/crosby on the team.

great work by rassmussen too

according to them, pittsburgh is a top contender this year...

asp tearing up the swedish league and danileson doing well after the trade to portland should help too.

my teenage years coming back to me now.

you're really going to have to convince me that monty williams isnt actively trying to get fired.

is muscala hurt?

happy for jrm. i thought he was pretty good last year as a linebacker.

here's the athletic write up on him:

i've seen both. either way its not a match for the wings. and i dont think they need another defense only forward unless they think they can unlock some offense there.

the news on kaako is at LEAST a number one pick plus. so no thanks. broberg is a reclamation project, so maybe over the summer. brogberg is the type of guy i would have wanted as a throw in to a cap space deal for edmonton. kenny gets rid of him and we take on a bigger salary to free them up to make a cup winning trade. something we could have done last year but probably not now consodering the big contracts were about to throw to seider and raymond.

i wouldnt give up a 2nd and a prospect for tanev and that's what i think it will cost to get him.

that's my point on lyon, he's done this before. otoh, didnt he turn into a pumpkin in the playoffs and have to be bailed out by bobrovsky? or was he injured?

the reverance with which the media has always treated the knicks always bugs me. the knicks have never won shiite other than a small run in the early 70s that the knick fans WONT STOP TALKING ABOUT like that was the greatest team since sliced bread. that said, i did roor for them once upon a time when they were battling jordan. but that's it. although i will take them over the nets.

getting patrick kane for nothing has to be one of the transactions of the year. he's a point per game player.

wet blanket is your middle name. but to your point, it has been good goaltending to help them. and? do other good teams not get good goaltending? is it because its alex lyon? he was really good for florida for a stretch last year and got them to the playoffs. maybe alex lyon is actually good? that said, i'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop with this team. seems to me like theyre getting outshot a lot but still winning. and the more talented teams are having their way with them when it comes to the run of play. but theyre winning that's what really matters right now. i think yzerman is smart enough not to trade for a guy to supposedly "put them over the top." he'll continue to build through the draft and make more smart "jake walman" type trades.

kane was probably a little more pumped up than usual (duh) because of the return AND the bedard thing. not only has bedard become the new hot thing in chicago (taking kane's place), but bedard also went at kane a few times. checked him against the boards earlier, and right before that scoring play in ot, bedard was on the boards muscling kane for the puck and winning the battle. kane might just have had a little more oomph in that celebration to tell the young fella that the old guy aint dead yet...

lions got screwed under the old salary structure. that said, mayhew still effed it up.

if we draft another french player del will have an aneurysm.