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If this was a sign and trade, Elias + Clarkson would probably be about right. Elias + Parise is insanity. Keep in mind, the crazy rumor does say that Sundin would be signed to a contract by the Devils before the trade happened.

LOL, Oduya is something. If you had a GM that came out of the woods and hadn't be watching other teams play, you could show him a tape of selected Oduya plays and he would give up the farm. You could also make another tape called "Oduya: The sloppiest defenseman in hockey history."

No. 13 years in the NHL could be 11 with two crippling work stoppages. He could slip on the sidewalk tomorrow morning and screw up his ankle for the rest of his life. Someone could Stevens him. He could get moody in his old age and spend an entire season floating because they replaced his buddy with some Mexican guy from the Devils. Way too many stupid "ifs" for that to happen. I think the league will try to cheese-ify the game in some way or another in the coming years, but the last set of changes didn't work, and these won't work either. As the talent level decreases in the league because of the cap and the growth of European club hockey, you'll see more and more system play. Really difficult to accomplish, they put alot on these kids' plates and they really don't have any realistic way of accomplishing it. But to get into the 900 goal range, that's 45 twenty times. Or 15 years of 60.

But, I don't think they will have the least number of points. They won't end up being a true "3", but won't be a total joke either.

I booed him a couple of times because the puckrat behind me wouldn't stop screeching about how great Nieds was. Then, I forgot to do it and gave up. Wasn't in my heart to do it. I'll wait until we trade a 4th round pick for Bobby. Then, it's time to boo. Didn't think the booing was that intense and it was just kinda "going through the motions". Wasn't like with Gomer, where it sounded like they turned on a "booing machine" every time he touched the puck.

It wasn't that bad, they just aren't that good. They're finding their groove, which is a .500 team. Luckily when they found their .500 team groove, they were a bunch of games over .500 already. Thought they worked hard, the Zajac line isn't well thought out and Parise contracted Elia-its by passing it back to Patty when he was already in tap-in territory. Rupp plays like a beast and accomplishes nothing. Difference was the D, Ducks D was not great tonight, but they clean up messes made by sloppy butterfly goalies. I mean, Giguere was terrible last night. Still, only one puck in the net. They also can hold the point. Our D struggles to get the puck out of the zone, and in general, we get into the box + 1 and don't have the speed to contest for the puck. Just end up with long stretches of possession, not strong possession, but it eats up time and sometimes someone makes a mistake. The play by Oduya and Martin on Carter's second was embarassing. That was their only really serious breakdown, but it was bad enough. Ice was terrible, puck never sat, but that's a draw, because the Ducks had good chances ruined too. Like when Selanne hit the world's crappiest one-timer. They got kept out of the scoring areas for the most part, especially when crappy rebounds were out there. Their D 1-6 might be better than our 1. Well, maybe not O'Donnell. The whole Nieds things was "meh", pre-game reaction was a polite "meh", in game was "meh" booing, whole atmosphere of the game was "meh". Reminded me of my own personal long-promoted (for the unfortunates in my section) Lyle Odelein night. The $100 balcony seats are embarassingly empty. You'd think they'd lower the price considering they don't look like they actually sell any.

Especially since it's clear Carol doesn't like Scott.

Indifferent. Nieds didn't make Lou sign Vlady. No one could have thought that was a good idea. And he did offer him max money and Nieds still said no. Then Lou freezes like a deer in headlights. The panic signings aren't his fault. I mean, the Sharks barely went into the season with a team that year. That worked out good for them. We signed garbage to try and fill the gap. Two of the three were run down, and Mogs was seriously injured. Maybe if we hadn't wasted $9 million+ cap on garbage, Thornton could have been ours. As for Nieds, I was pissed, but that was a billion years ago. So, I'm not going to boo, but I really don't care one way or another.

So, will they be allowed to take chances and *play hockey* in the 3rd? Or more dropping four guys, allowing the Sabres in and playing 5 on 5 like it's a PK, then throwing their hands up when they can't get the penalty call that this particular "system" must get in order to score?

The girls are kinda useless, but at least they got rid of the annoying male cheerleaders. Anyways, from the "it can always be worse" department: Does anyone here remember Claude? I'm amazed at how few people do, let's see if NJDevs.com is any different.

-20%. Sabres are only 8 back with a game at hand. It's a big game tomorrow. Lose, and it's as good as a 4 point gap.

Alot of the yellow STH's fled to other areas of the arena. STH's are a problem, if we did more for them, I guess it would be less so a problem. I think with the STH, the problem is they see it as an investment of sorts, I see it as a donation. I don't care if they charge the same as my STH discount for the seats next to me, or even less. Get asses in the seats. The whole thing needs to be torn down and built up again from start next season, if you break eggs doing it, oh well.

Yep, now they just gotta pressure wash their way on down the block. I should have been clearer, the number was spraypainted 201 and then x'd out and changed to 973.