master of disasters

Anyone else think the Nicklas Wallin signing (1 yr. $2.5 million) was ridiculous? Could the Sharks have signed someone better on defense to a lesser or equal contract based on today's signings?

I watch the NHL a lot but want to know a little more about NCAA hockey, just the basics for now.

What are the best programs?

Whats different about the style of play compared to the NHL? Different about the rules?

Best coaches?

Anything you can tell me about it would help.

There's lots of good one-two punches, but I think 3 is a little harder to pick.

My pick would be: Chicago Cubs- Zambrano, Harden, and Dempster

Future pick is: San Francisco Giants- Lincecum, Cain, and Sanchez

Los Angeles clearly can't afford to bring him back next season, and his asking price will be huge: Scott Boras client, gold glover, switch hitter, power/average hitter, in his prime.

I hope the Giants make a push for him personally.

I'm just wondering, is there a correlation between Marleau not being in the lineup and the Shark's struggling.

I think it shows that he is valuable to this team, even if he's struggled offensively just his presence in the lineup makes a lot of difference seeing how they've played the last few games without him.

He's always been a great player, it just seems like he's playing a lot better all-around. Is it because of his new lucrative contract, the fact that Washington is in a playoff race and he has something to play for, or something else?

Give me your top three, bottom three, and an underrated one

Mine are:

Best:

San Diego Padres

Boston Red Sox

Los Angeles Angels

Worst:

Kansas City Royals

Baltimore Orioles

San Francisco Giants

Underrated:

Seattle Mariners

I think its possible because theres a lot of similarities- awesome starting rotation all the way around, one of the best combinations to close out games- turnbow/cordero, and a good all-around lineup that can do it all, they also play very good defense as well.

Other then the household name superstars, who really can help their teams, (no goalies because they're always key). for each team off the top of my head i'd pick these guys:

Buffalo- Maxim Afinogenov

New Jersey- Travis Zajac

Atlanta- Scott Mellanby

Ottawa- Mike Fisher

Pittsburgh- Colby Armstrong

NY Rangs- Matt Cullen

TB- Vaclav Prospal

NY Isls- Richard Park

Detroit- Daniel Cleary

Anaheim- Corey Perry

Vancouver- Bryan Smolinski

Nashville- Scott Hartnell

San Jose- Steve Bernier

Dallas- Eric Lindros

Minnesota- Todd White

Calgary- Daymond Langkow

When a goalie gets a penalty or the team gets a too many men on the ice penalty, how do the teams decide who will go to the box to serve the penalty? do they have a choice? I've seen some teams select their superstars to serve in the box and idk y.