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At 2/18/08 02:09 PM, VeryProudofYa wrote:

well, yea, crawford is pretty terrible. I haven't seen him make a good roster choice yet, and he plays Derek effng armstrong on his top two lines.

I know. The top two lines should involve Kopitar, Brown, Camilleri, O'Sullivan, Frolov, and I guess Kyle Calder. I can't think of anyone else off the top of the head. Maybe Guiliano, but he's more of a defensive player.

Anyways, I'm thinking Patrick Marleau might not be a Shark much longer. He's had a shitty season this year (and sure, I trade for him and trade away Joe Sakic on my fantasy team), so I think that his days may be numbered. The most popular trade rumor I've heard was him for Olli Jokinen. If not, I be he'd be packaged in a deal to go to Buffalo in order to obtain Brian Campbell.

Today's player of the day is: Sean Hill of the Minnesota Wild.

Sean Hill was drafted in the 8th round (167th pick overall) in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft by the Montréal Canadiens. This year, Hill has played only 23 games and has gotten 3 points, along with a +/- of -10. In the past 4 season, he has belonged to 4 different teams: the Wild, Islanders, Panthers, and Hurricanes. In 864 career NHL games, he has racked up 292 total points, with a +/- of -40.

DOWN GOES SUTTON, DOWN GOES SUTTON

also, Mike Comrie, rapin' yo' FAIC.

At 2/19/08 04:43 PM, Buddhist wrote: DOWN GOES SUTTON, DOWN GOES SUTTON

also, Mike Comrie, rapin' yo' FAIC.

I could puke now. He could've done it to any other team, but NOOOOO! He has to do something like that to my team! What a gyp. And to top that all off, it was the #1 top play on Sportscenter, too. You know how that feels to watch that over and over again when it happens to your team? It's not a good feeling.

Also, what about Nabokov? he takes a puck to the nose, leaves the game, and comes back. Now that takes some balls for all the damage he suffered from that puck. Thank god his nose isn't broken, or the Sharks might struggle worse than they are doing so right now.

Man, what an epic collapse by the New York Rangers. You're leading the game 5-0 over the Montreal Canadiens, give up five unanswered goals, and lose in the shootout. I'd be ashamed to be a Ranger fan tonight. I know no lead is safe really in any sport, but honestly, how could lose a 5-0 lead?

At 2/19/08 04:51 PM, Gooch wrote:

At 2/19/08 04:43 PM, Buddhist wrote: DOWN GOES SUTTON, DOWN GOES SUTTON

also, Mike Comrie, rapin' yo' FAIC.

I could puke now. He could've done it to any other team, but NOOOOO! He has to do something like that to my team! What a gyp. And to top that all off, it was the #1 top play on Sportscenter, too. You know how that feels to watch that over and over again when it happens to your team? It's not a good feeling.

I'm sure Buddhist is jumping for joy, though. I can see him posting on the Yahoo forum already...

Islanders... Comrie, FTW

At 2/20/08 11:47 AM, Coop83 wrote:

Losing 4-0 to the Wings didn't do me any favours either :(

That was a major win and a major loss at the same time for Detroit. Sure, they ended their six-game losing skid finally. However, they ended up losing Lidstrom to a knee injury. How long will he be out? Who knows? I tell you one thing though. That's going to hurt the defense corps immensely. When you lose your captain and your best defenseman, you just might be in a lot of trouble. It's Detroit though, so they'll find a way to fill the void left by him somehow.

At 2/20/08 03:22 PM, Coop83 wrote:

Yeah, something tells me that they'll throw in a rookie, who just turns out to be the next Al MacInnis or something similar.

Isn't that the way it always works? A superstar gets injured, a guy who's been kicking it around the minors all season comes up. Then, in the absence of the superstar, the minor league youngster ends up lighting up the big leagues with their stellar play. In this case, I'm not so sure it'll happen. I've never though Detroit's farm system was all that strong due to the fact they always seem to trade away most of their young prospects for older players in order to obtain the Stanley Cup in the immediate future.

EDM loses 5-4 to NSH.... just great.

O man. Went to the Sabres game last night. Thought about leaving with about 5 minutes to go. Glad I didn't. Vanek is finally earning his money with the Sabres. He gets another hat trick, this time a natural one. Seeing the hats fly in was the happiest moment of my hockey life.

I think Marian Hossa is going to Montreal..

Anybody else thinks the same?

At 2/21/08 04:44 PM, DarkSoldier wrote: I think Marian Hossa is going to Montreal..

Anybody else thinks the same?

I don't know. This is possibly the most unclear trading deadline that I have ever come across.

T-T-T-TRENT HUNTER

here to stay 8)

At 2/21/08 04:44 PM, DarkSoldier wrote: I think Marian Hossa is going to Montreal..

Anybody else thinks the same?

Not sure. It's hard telling where he might end up. There's a lot of teams interested in him. I'd personally like to see him in San Jose. One possible trade that's been thrown around is Hossa and Bobby Holik going to San Jose for Patrick Marleau and Matt Carle. Honestly though, I don't think he'll end up in Montreal.

I'm more interested in the brad richards rumors.
He's got a massive contract and a sublime skill-set. A lot of rumors have him headed to C-bus, but I've heard whispers that Edmonton's interested. I can't possibly see Richards waiving his NTC to go to edmonton, a team that's just as shitty as the bolts, but located on the planet Hoth.

Calgary wins 1-0 over Detroit. Kinda reminds me of the 2004 playoffs, and it was like 1-0 almost every game! Exaggeration aside, they won and that's that.

All I should have to say..

What is it this year about team's getting out to huge leads this year and then blowing them? I was watching the Chicago/Los Angeles game yesterday afternoon and saw that the Blackhawks jumped to a 5-1 lead after two periods. Then Los Angeles reels off four straight to send it into overtime. Chicago was lucky to pull out the game in overtime. If they didn't, I think Denis Savard would've had everyone's head on a stake after that near monumental collapse.

Why would anyone watch a game between the kings and blackhawks..The AHL wasn't on?

Oh and since I didn't do it earlier.

Red wings and flyers.

(Yeah they suck now but the broad street bullies are the greatest team to ever lace up a pair of skates.)

Too bad they weren't around today .... I so badly want to see someone go bertuzzi on crosby..

Tampa Bay re-signs Dan Boyle to a six-year, $40 million contract, then proceeds to trade Vaclav Prospal to Philadelphia for Alexandre Picard and a 2nd-round pick. Now it seems inevitable that Brad Richards will be gone by tomorrow.

Whoo-hoo! Brian Campbell's coming to San Jose! It sucks they had to give up Bernier and this year's first-round pick, but Bernier's struggled this year and his playing time's been decreasing anyways. Campbell will bolster the banged up San Jose defense immediately.

Also, in the "Buddhist would like to hear" category, the Islanders give Mike Comrie a one-year contract extension.

Brad Richards on Dallas, that's insane.

I think it's a pretty good fit though. Plus it'll give Tampa some breathing room.

At 2/26/08 12:24 PM, Dobio wrote: Brad Richards on Dallas, that's insane.

I think it's a pretty good fit though. Plus it'll give Tampa some breathing room.

And also a nice goalie battle for the #1 job. In the games he's played for Dallas this year, Mike Smith (the guy is a freaky resemblence of Andy Samberg) has played extremely well, while Tampa Bay is looking for Ramo to be their future goaltender. That ought to be an interesting situation.

Now how about Cristobal Huet getting traded from Montreal to Washington? It looks like the Canadiens are going to ride Carey Price into the playoffs. There's still time for them to pick up another veteran goaltender to bolster the tandem, though. It just seems strange they'd trade away Huet.

But yeah, good trade for Dallas. Richards should fit in that system well, and play well with a new start. Who would he be put on a line with is the question, though.

At 2/26/08 12:21 PM, Gooch wrote: Also, in the "Buddhist would like to hear" category, the Islanders give Mike Comrie a one-year contract extension.

Garth Snow has a real fetish for one-year deals.

I like the re-signing of Comrie, especially given that I didn't want to have him locked up for more than three years. Snow wanted to give him 2nd-line-center money, which I guess is about right. He's not worth $4 million in my opinion, but I guess if we're going to give Trent Hunter $2 mil a year, we may as well give Comrie four. I like his overall style of play when it comes to passing, but he seems to think that his obscene deke skills will net him all these points. You know that goal he scored against San Jose a little while back, where he used the toe drag and went through the defenseman's legs (I think it was Christian Ehrhoff)? He does that on almost all of his breakaways, and 9 times out of 10 the puck just gets poked away from him by the defender; it's only because San Jose is a western conference team, so they hadn't seen that move before. If he passed a little more, or even just tried to score a breakaway without resorting to the toe drag, I'd be a little more pleased with him overall.

Perhaps next year he won't be -20 either... :\

I think the best move was trading Chris Simon though; not only does it rid us of a team cancer, but it allows Jeff Tambellini to come back up from the AHL (where he leads the league in goals with 29) and play on the 4th line with fellow rookies Frans Nielsen and Blake Comeau. I want to see some serious goalscoring skillz.

At 2/26/08 12:24 PM, Dobio wrote: Brad Richards on Dallas, that's insane.

I think it's a pretty good fit though. Plus it'll give Tampa some breathing room.

Brad Richards is like the Kurt Warner of the NHL, imo. Without solid offensive players around him, he can't get things going; I assume he'll be playing on the Modano second line though, as I don't think they'd drop him to line three center.

At 2/26/08 05:27 PM, Coop83 wrote:

Looks like a renaisance for the Avalanche, with the re-acquisition of Peter Forsberg and Adam Foote. Dare I dream of the golry days of 2001? Nah.

I'm half-expecting Ray Boroque to come out of retirement and bolster the blueline.

If I'm the dallas coaching staff, I switch mike ribiero to wing and use richards as the first line center. Richards is regarded as a better faceoff man and two way forward anyway, and it allows Ribiero to have more time and space to create.

The Pens way overpaid for Hossa. Not much to say. Even if they resigned him they're giving up too much. Armstrong's a second line NHLer, Christensen is probably a third liner, Esposito can easily develop into a first line player, and the first rounder will either be a top 4 defenseman or a top 6 forward. Add in the fact that Crosby's 8.7 mil contract extension kicks in next year, Malkin's coming off of his entry level deal in two years, and Staal's due for a raise soon, and there's no chance they're paying hossa what he'll command.

Really poor deal. The pens aren't at their peak, so rushing a cup run and emptying the prospects cupboard is a terrible choice.

The sharks got decent value on campbell, but tbh, I always thought campbell was overrated. He isn't half the skater he's made out to be, and he's never showed me anything that would make me consider him 'elite' at all. He's still a top flight guy, just, maybe a bit TOO regarded for what he's accomplished thus far in his career.

Avs overpaid for Foote and got a good deal for Salei. Ruslan played 26 minutes per game during the ducks cinderella run back before the lockout, and he's currently second in ice time behind Bouwmeester for the panthers. a very underrated defenseman that'll add some grit and responsibility to the avs' back end.

Ducks pretty much replicated last year's acquisitions. Marc Andre is analgous to them trading for Ric Jackman. A good offensive d-man that can capably perform as an injury fill-in. He's also signed for next year, so he may end up QBing the second powerplay unit after niedermayer retires.

Ducks also dealt off Bochenski for a conditional pick, and nabbed JS Aubin for a 7th rounder. Chances are Aubin plays in the minors, much like Sebastian Caron last season.

As a duck fan, though, I'm pretty much glad they stayed put with the roster, The edmonton pick will likely be a franchise player and bobby ryan's set to stay with the big club next season. and with them going 9-1 since selanne returned, there really isn't a need to mess with chemistry.

Deadline winners: Washington. I doubt fedorov does much, but they finally have a top goalie in the net. Kozlig's old and shitty and Brent Johnson just isn't good. Since the lockout, Huet's in the top 5 in save percentage. Good move by the caps.

Dallas: got a proven playoff performer and first line talent in richards, gave up sputtering winger Jussi Jokinen and a goalie trapped behind the incumbent.

Losers: Avs. Gave up a lot for what they got, and might not even make the playoffs. The rest of the team looks good, but anyone with Budaj or Theodore in the net runs a risk of failure.

Vancouver: Did nothing as the western playoff teams loaded up. Had the assets to deal, but didn't.