davies

hi everybody i am still in brooklyn, i cannot recall why i put nunavut on my profile.... maybe i was cold that day. i really like simmonds and want to see him succeed, and i recall he and couturier actually having some offensive chemistry together in 2012... but i'm still nervous about him pulling off the defensive side of the assignment. maybe if they ever play again we'll get to find out

simmonds on the line that is supposed to be checking the other team's top lines is a little scary...

re: faceoffs flyers were dominating them in the first period of the sabres game then totally lost it in the next two periods

giroux and couturier are both untouchable to me

yup boosh to the ahl i'd prefer him as well

i guess he's going straight to the ahl, just insurance in case of injury i also didn't know he had shoulder surgery last summer

meltzer on foster: Foster, 31, is not a 20-minute player, either. He has not been the same player ever since breaking his femur in March 2008. Never the swiftest of skaters even before the on-ice accident, the 6-foot-5, 226 pound defenseman lost an additional step. Ever since then, he has bounced around the NHL. Last season, he played a combined 51 games for Anaheim, New Jersey and Minnesota. In all, he's played for six different NHL teams, and had two stints with the Wild. Despite his imposing size, Foster is not an especially physical player. Rather, he's an offensive-minded defenseman; rather underrated as a passer and one of the hardest shooters in the NHL. He has a 100-mile-per-hour slapshot when he takes a full windup and is adept at one-timers that he can release faster than most players his size. He's also had as many as 34 assists in an NHL season and had 9 helpers in his 28-game stint with the Devils last year. After the broken leg, Foster has become more of a power-play specialist and sixth defenseman. That's unfortunate, because he seemed to have higher potential that that as a young player in Atlanta and Minnesota. By all accounts, he is a positive locker room presence and has a good work ethic at practice. He just has limitations on the ice.

paul ranger is playing for the marlies, would love to know if he's looking to return to the nhl i'd be interested

i don't mind giving the young guys a shot at all, but not all three of them at once!

when timonen can't start the season he will get that first PP unit time :0 i wonder if c caliacovo wants a multi year contract from somebody and nobody has been willing to give it to him yet i know he's super injury prone but maybe he could stay healty long enough for us to get meszy back... worth a shot

as i just said in the sb, losing more depth hurts one more injury away from mab, gus and manning all in the starting 6... if kimmo can't start the season or coburn gets hurt, you have gervais manning gus and mab ... i am NOT okay with that *yuck*

i am a HUGE mesz fan but if it meant we get weber i'd deal with it... honestly would give them back coburn before mesz. coburn is weber-lite while mesz has a different skill set. but that brings up the problem of the flyers trading away everybody as soon as they sign a contract which i don't want to see happening quite so often 0_0

nice to see you too sir hello to everybody else as well

at 8 am on a sunday, too the world's gone topsy turvy!!