BillDineen

I don't see how anyone could not love this trade. Upgrade was needed in the forwards and it cost a good fourth liner-PKer. Downie brings it every night, unlike many of his new teammates. 

Voracek has been the offensive leader this season. Not Giroux.

Giroux has also been very average 5v5. He has as many points as B. Schenn and M. Read (Read with fewer games). Voracek has 17 even strength to lead and Giroux has 12 points.

That equates to .388 pts per game even strength vs .688 pts per game even strength last year.

Overall, this team's problem is 5v5 and Giroux's production is a major reason why.

Sorry that's Bobrovsky. Imagine the possibilities with a little patience.

You mean goalies can have a sophomore slump as well? This is shocking news. Does that man Couturier should not be traded for a 2nd and 2 4ths?

The legend returns!

Malkenstein is a 230 lb pu$$y, he is a cheap shot punk and as big as he is, he wont fight. That was a deliberate head shot. Now we are without Bourdon, Grossman and Mez. Kubina and Lilja are slow and absouluely horrible, the Pens are gonna exploit them big time. Its unreal how every year we end up with all these injuries to our defense. It think the team has to sacrifice JVR for a big time young dman and also draft a good dman in the draft this year. We have to realize Timmo has one year left ,and Pronger is not coming back, so we gotta stock up on defense.

Take a look at this kid Dalton Thrower, I havent seen a skilled dman with fighting ability like this in a long time, he is a righty too. This draft is loaded with defensemen, and its high time we got a good dman in the first round.

Notice he has Sbisa's number as well. Take him!

I gotta say I fully support Thomas' decision if he decided not to go for political reasons. Saying that it's not the right time to do it is exactly why it's the best time to do it.

If Thomas wanted to maximize visibility to his issue, then he succeeded.

I view Thomas' decision in the same light as when Sean Penn goes to Venezuela to see Chavez, both are retards, except Thomas is probably worse because he is putting himself above his team. Thomas is dumb enough to think a rich hockey player expressing his political view has any affect and Sean Penn is dumb enough to think a wealthy actor expressing his political view has any affect.

If Thomas is political, he should do things on his own time, not at the expense of his team.

http://www.firstrows...ton-bruins.html

Thanks.

My NHL Gamecenter is blacked out even though I live in Europe and it is not on tv.

And now for something we can all agree on.

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I finally got a decent avatar pick out of it!

Walker would have to clear waivers in order to be traded. Unless Homer is using this as an example of waiver issues that need to be addressed in the new CBA, this is just a throw your hands in the air " what the hell" type move.

Horrible move. Why risk a 850k cap hit this year and next for little (if anything, ie. Walker's play) in return?

Brutal. Someone should claim him by re-entry at latest. Shelley

I'm just curious to see what Flyers fans want to see different in the new CBA for next year. A couple of things I'd like them to change is

1) get rid of the 35+ contracts counting against the cap if the player retires.

2) make the maximum years for a contract or contract extension to be 7 years no more 10, 11 or 12 year deals

3) depending on the length of the new deal, each team is allowed a buyout of one contract that doesn't count against the cap in future years.

I think 1) is possible. I do not think the NHLPA would sign off on 3 in any scenario. I think bonuses against the cap in the final year of CBA (as in this year) has to be eliminated. They will likely put something in that the highest X year average salary be within a % of the lowest X year average salary (or something along those lines) to avoid the super long contract with add on years solely to lower the average.

Well, I am glad no one is saying Versteeg or Lupul after their strong starts. Good riddance! I have to say Williams and Downie for me.