maxpower

They are, but if Brian Burke keeps whining, you might see some changes. I think Havlat will be around for the taking for awhile, people aren't going to knock down the doors for him in the current environment.

7:00PM starts were supposed to capitalize on Newark's corporate folks going to the games. Whoops. That needs to go to 7:30, do 7PM on Saturday or Sunday. As for the lower level seats, the $95's are far from spoken for. They keep the attendance down as badly as the $100's do.

If they change the CBA rules to allow parts of salary to be picked up by the original team, I'd be willing to take a flyer on Havlat. At a Jagr "half-price" deal, he could be a steal, if not, hey, it's not like Zubrus is doing much more.

Because you have something valueable, and want to sell it for even more. Greed. Also depends on whether the current owner is the original owner, you might have more invested. That dump across the street from the smoking balcony has a 201 number spraypainted on it, it's been for sale for that long.

I'm actually a little surprised with 00-01. But they were sloppy sometimes. 02-03 makes sense. Style of play comes into effect. I don't think you're going to have some kind of crazy spread, say 400 for, 264 against, unless you're running everyone all over the rink. They didn't. And alot of their 3rd periods had no penalties for anyone because they were just killing the clock. As for the C&G, just do what the Penguins do, fall to the ice and pretend your head was severed. Sometimes, fighting through it is dumb.

It doesn't help when they insist on playing Julien-styled box + 1 hockey. They have to go the whole rink and can't because they can't string anything coherant together. What happened to our forecheck and puck possession mantra? They look like a totally different team strategically. They are horrible in their own end and more and more of the game is being played there. Jagr did nothing on the score sheet, but he owned them down there, it was like he was just goofing off ragging the puck. Let's put it this way, what they are doing out there is not what Sutter promised. So either they're not listening or he's drinking the Julien flavored Kool Aid. LINE MATCHING IS BACK! Offensive zone faceoff on an icing against the other team's top line.... BRING ON THE CHECKERS!

The Devils had the better of calls for years. They never got called for anything and always got their fair share of PP's. The refs aren't robots and the Devils are the complainingest team in all the land.