Vinny

Zetterberg was kicked out of the faceoff circle 9 times last night. Why do the linesman pump fake every draw? Of course your going to get the centreman to bite with that kind of adrenaline. Drop the damn rubber!

Snipers by definition are the most accurate shooters in the business. AO's career shooting percentage is 12.7% compared to Gretzky's 17.6%. Unless they change the definition of sniper to "the people who shoot the most" then AO has no business being given that label...he scored 56 goals last season but it took him 528 shots to do it...not stellar accuracy by a long shot (no pun intended). Ovechkin is currently sporting a shooting percentage of 15.8...which is 1.2% higher than his previous career season high of 14.6% and much higher than his career 12.7% average so he is blowing away his previous seasons as far as accuracy statistics go and yet he still only ranks 25th among all forwards who have played in 45 or more regular season games. Ovie has 3 more goals than Crosby despite taking 48 more shots and has 4 more goals than Marleau despite taking 62 more shots....If you want more bang for your buck you'd be much better served taking those 2 over Ovechkin........I wouldn't go as far taking Marleau ahead of Ovie but you catch my drift.

Apparently he's considered "the best goaltenders not playing in the NHL"... 24 yrs old...Swedish. Looks like he will be choosing between Colorado, San Jose, Dallas, or Toronto.

Anybody hear about this guy?

"Smirnoff Vodka has teamed up with the Phoenix Coyotes to offer hockey fans a chance to catch the April 7th game against the St Louis Blues game when you purchase a bottle of 1.75l Smirnoff Red Label or Flavored Vodka at any participating retailer."

http://coyotes.nhl.com/smirnoff.htm

Limit of 6.

You can take the whole family to the game and tolerate them when you get home.

We were playing a game of monopoly and she got a txt...I went to the bathroom because I thought it was the time to her alone for a second. When I came back she had an unusual stack of money in her hands, and boardwalk was missing.

What should I do?

Toronto now has FIVE goalies?

Toskala

Joseph

Pogge

Gerber

Kolzig

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The Kings

Lombardi gives up one of his few reliable scoring forwards in O'Sullivan for a guy with 3 goals on the season and is a -10 in Williams. What a push for youth eh?

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The Ducks are dumping in the midst of a playoff run.

Had to choose one, which would it be?

Haven't done one of these in a while, enjoy!

Jordan Staal or Bobby Ryan

Bryan Little or Kris Versteeg

Shea Webber or Mike Green

Joe Pavelski or David Booth

Jay Boumesiter or Mark Streit

Kari Lehtonen or Ryan Miller

Anze Kopitar or Corey Perry

Mike Green is getting Norris recognition.

Green is awful in his own zone. It would be a travesty to give this award out to some kid who is incompetent as a defenseman. Mike Green is literally Washington's 4th or 5th option on the penalty kill. That does not scream good defense to me. If I was voting, it would take a lot of points to outweigh someone who was a #1 or #2 PK option for their team.

Green needs to put up Coffey-like numbers to win the Norris, though he might get a nomination just on his points alone.

ALSO: Mike Green leads ALL NHL Dmen in Giveaways. Hes 3rd overall in the NHL in giveaways with 61.

So why is Mike Green getting so much Norris talk?

Every now and then when poring over recent rosters, even for the Cup-winning teams, I look at the team and think "Oh yeah, that guy played for the Red Wings." It's either legitimate NHL regulars or guys the Wings have given a second chance.

I also always think it's strange to think of Ulf Samuelsson, Wendel Clark, and Derian Hatcher in Wings jerseys, even though I remember it pretty clearly.

I could go on... Any others come to mind for your team?

The Stanley Cup Final to be played at neutral site?

I was flipping through this weeks Sports Illustrated and the Pierre McGuire's "In the Crease" mentions the following

"Inspired by the energy of the 40,000-plus fans at the Winter Classic at Wrigley Field Red Wings G.M. Ken Holland will propose that the first two games of the Stanley Cup finals be played at a neutral site with promotional rights sold for millions of dollars. This could create a Super Bowl-like environment at the star of the finals and potentially expand the NHL fanbase."

Dale Hawerchuk or Pat LaFontaine

(A healthy) Peter Forsberg or. Jarri Kurri

Al MacInnis or Paul Coffey

Cam Neely or Wendel Clark

Jean Béliveau or Stan Mikita

Steve Yzerman or Bobby Clarke

Mike Bossy or Mark Messier

Enjoy!

Milan Lucic or Dustin Brown

Blake Wheeler or Peter Mueller

Johan Franzen or Ryan Malone

Devin Setoguchi or Corey Perry

Andrei Markov or Sheldon Souray

Derrick Brassard or Kris Versteeg

Corey Perry or Jeff Carter

Paul Stastny or Zach Parise

Who would you rather have, and why?

Simple question, who would you rather have and why?

"Ovechkin is a great player, but every time he hits me - I don't know why," Malkin said.

Where can we hide Malkin for the upcoming game against Washington, we don't want Ovechkin hitting Malkin now do we?

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php...

Anybody watch Al Stachan on the Hotstove say that if General Motors does go bankrupt the Detroit Redwings will to. Is his statement somewhat true or does Stachan want the Wings out of Detroit before they catch up to his Leafs in Cup titles?

Take every active player in the league, and put them back on the team that drafted them. Which team would do the best?

If you would like put together your teams squad.

Bonus: To the best of my ability I put together Toronto's squad. How would they do in the AHL?

Fredrik Modin - Brad Boyes - Nik Antropov

Alex Steen - Matt Stajan - Alex Ponikarovsky

Jiri Tlusty - Kyle Wellwood - Nikolai Kulemin

Adam Mair - John Mitchell - Shawn Thornton

Luke Schenn - Tomas Kaberle

Carlo Colaiacovo - Anton Stralman

Ian White - Staffan Kronwall

Mikael Tellqvist

Tuukka Rask

1. He his soft with Niedermayer & Selanne. Scotty should have decided by the 1st of July, or at least before August. Well... Teemu was UFA, so not much he could do.

2. He throws big bucks on Schneider & Big Bert. Both did not perform up to par.

3. Gives away Dustin Penner! Instead of matching 4.25M, he gives that money to injury-prone Bertuzzi.

4. Gives 6M deal to Giguere. Sure, he is a great goalie. But the Ducks had Bryzgalov, who has proved to be a top notch goaltender. As the backup they had very good prospect in Hiller. Don't see why Burke didn't trust the two younger goaltenders, when they had the best defensive pairs in the NHL?

5. Burke gives away Bryzgalov for nothing! L.A., Tampa, Phoenix were probably ready to give him a little more then what he had received.

6. He gives away McDonald, who was a playoff beast. Why not trade/waive Marchant, or Big Bert?

I would have never considered saying this years ago, but even though I currently have Yzerman higher on my all time list, I can see this changing when Lidstrom hangs his skates, because he'll have at least 6 Norris trophies, and a decade of pure dominance on defense, plus he's perfect as a player.

Yzerman never quite dominated his era the way Lidstrom has. A lot of that is because of Gretzky and Lemieux, but still, Lidstrom might go down in history as a better player because he's the best at his position for 10 years. Only a few players in history have been the best at their position for 10 years. Also, Lidstrom has been more durable even in his later years, while Yzerman at this point in his career had already began to decline and was riddled with injuries.

Anyway, feel free to debate this topic.