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Not only should suspensions remove the player but it should also not allow the team to replace him in the games he is suspended from. The organization is just as responsible for his non-hockey action on ice as the player himself and everyone should be forced to deal with the penalty until it's served.

yes

Can we be Swami's anyways?

K. Clifford beginning of the 4th OT

The environment doesn't seem to cater to them. How is it simply a coincidence that the moment they leave all their stats take considerable jumps? The problem isn't the players its clearly the system being fostered in Philly they don't mesh with. All this praise Bobs gets and I still don't think he'd have played as well in a philly uniform as he suddenly started playing in a Columbus one, even if he got the playing time he deserved.

To be honest, the miracle leighton pulled off in the 2010 playoffs I don't think they fully deserved or were ready to be playing against the hawks that year and as it turned out when the second line stopped scoring and the first couldn't start and leighton started coming back down to earth the team was exposed. I just don't think that Carter was in an environment to thrive (outside of Richards). Similar to players like Bryz and Bob, they needed to go elsewhere to make names for themselves. I feel players like Leino and Lupol would have been a better duo to keep(albeit one of them disappeared since he left). Williams would have been one worth keeping as well. I don't think I'd need a barf bag, the guy needed a new scene and with his depature you got to see Giroux rise to prominence. Even if our new young captain sometimes doesn't lead from the front.

Soon there will be a sub-forum simply for bragging about users kids

Every sport applies more weight to something the moment the end result is discovered rather than punishing for the severity of the incident itself. This is a terrible analogy, you attribute breaking 1 law as less serve than breaking 3+ laws. The McCarty fight was far more violent with a lesser result not less violent with a worse result as is the case with Bertuzzi. Should Pronger would be justified suing Mikhail Grabovski for ending his career? After all the concussion he caused Pronger was accidental just like the brain damage Bertuzzi caused Moore. The way it happened isn't important its the end result right?

Doug Williams is a lot like Leino, Nobody knew who the hell he was until he set the play-offs on fire and after that everyone knew exactly how to squash him.

I think everyone is on the same path with Crosby walking away with it. It's also a shame that Stamkos only played 37 games this year.

Most of these players should have been out a year or two ago. But if we are getting rid of homer, can we send Jeff Reese with him?

I think the end result is someone is going to have to beat the Bruins to make the Cup anyways.

Andy Brown

I refer you to Shea Weber and the fact that 38 year old Kimmo outscored him.

Just build the net into the back of the hockey rink like an indoor soccer goal.

Unless we get to the finals, I don't see him coming back for 1 more year.

Hopefully they shine for us and not someone else.

Fair enough, He did manage 5 points against the NJD the following year in (5) games? He seems awfully fragile for a 1st line center as well which could have been another factor in trying to shed him to another team, he was also hurt in these most recent play-offs missing most of the Blackhawk games.

Actually no, my argument never changed, He disappeared in those finals, at least 10 of those 77 points came in scoring barrages in the first rounds he has been in over the years. Was Danny B's stat line that impressive knowing that he scored most of those against MAF but then disappeared against the Devils? I like Richards as a 2nd line guy, but for a 1st line center to score 2 points in 5 games? That's bad in the regular season much less the play-offs. Yes, he did play with heart like Lappy and a few others, but just like with Brindamor, only the fans want players that come to play everyday. Considering one of those goalies just won the Vezina the moment he left? Or that one of them had won 40 games in multiple season before coming here? Or that one of them one a cup after leaving here and is coming back? I dunno, out of all the coaches I think the Assistant coach is being overlooked, Reese is being given the benefit of the doubt and Lavi is being criticized rather than fired. But there aren't that many coaches available to simply replace the staff we have, its easier to just swap players around every year until you make magic happen. Pressure often breaks weaker camels, Jeff couldn't carry LAK in the finals against the Hawks either. Maybe its Blackhawks thing that is poison to Richards/Carter

You never realize how big a player is until you stick him next to ordinary sized humans. Or Martin St.Louis

I don't see where my argument changed or where I brought up Lappy or what Lappy has to do with Mike Richards scoring 2 points against the Hawks in the finals, how you don't think that's a disappearing act is beyond me. Its okay to be wrong and I suppose its also okay to be an Apologist for a man that just disappeared when his team needed him the most. Where as the older 2nd line player in Danny Briere scored 12 points in those 5 games or the Rookie Ville Leino scored 9 points . You still have time to text all your friends and get them back in here to unify your opinions and refocus your assault on someone who challenged the popular opinion.