cubanjd305

Every forward looks like a superstar playing us.

How can you hate on a guy that celebrates scoring like any of us would. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPSq8pzMoCc

Good news....now don't scratch Fayne

If you really think they played "fairly well today" I don't wanna be a "fan". It's a forum...people rant. Don't login after a loss if you dislike it.

Mine's with an A instead of E darn it!

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Greene

Posted this on the "news" thread....but I think it goes better here...... The fact that we didn't know, doesn't mean management didn't know about this. This offseason we traded for one of the top goalies on the league and signed a couple of the best available free agents. This is what made you feel so optimistic, but these very same unusual (for us) signings and trades are (to me) a sign that LL knew what Kovalchuk would do long ago. Also, you have to think that at least Ryder ended up coming here partly because of #17. In Schneider's case...guess what, in 2 years you just became the face of the franchise. He also announced it just as our cap space was small and with Henrique and Josefson still un-extended. It's not his fault we lose next year's pick. First it'd be Bettman's fault for imposing that penalty in the first place, then also Lou's fault for not giving up that 29th pick. It's also not his fault Parise didn't sign here. We had the cap space, the team, and the run to the Cup; he simply wanted to go play in his hometown with his boyfriend. This absolutely sucks, and I understand that many feel betrayed, but I do think this was known by management before the season, before free agency... I'm going to go Moneyball here and say you can't straight up replace Kovalchuk and his minutes and production, but you can build a winning team with the right pieces. This definitively got my mood down, but I'm not ready to say this is franchise ending as some have said. Let's see what happens in the next week...better yet, let's see what happens on the ice. We can't go crazy and really give everything to get Vanek or something like that. PDB should know what he needs to make it happen. We won 3 Cups without a 50 goal scorer and Kovalchuk won 0 while scoring 50 goals. If we add a couple guys that are improvements over what we currently have we'll be ok (and now we have the cap space to do so). We have better goaltending, Clowe is an improvement over Clarkson (imo), we can extend Henrique and hopefully he'll bounce back from his sophomore wall, Ryder will do his thing.... Just not ready to write this season off yet.

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It had to be

Langenbrunner

Clearly there's nothing in our system...and again, who's damn fault is that. My point is still the same, you can't replace those guys with one player. We can't go crazy and really give everything to get Vanek or something like that. PDB should know what he needs to make it happen. We won 3 Cups without a 50 goal scorer and Kovalchuk won 0 while scoring 50 goals. If we add a couple guys that are improvements over what we currently have we'll be ok (and now we have the cap space to do so). We have better goaltending, Clowe is an improvement over Clarkson (imo), we can extend Henrique and hopefully he'll bounce back from his sophomore wall, Ryder will do his thing.... Just not ready to write this season off yet. lol

The fact that we didn't know, doesn't mean management didn't know about this. This offseason we traded for one of the top goalies on the league and signed a couple of the best available free agents. This is what made you feel so optimistic, but these very same unusual (for us) signings and trades are (to me) a sign that LL knew what Kovalchuk would do long ago. Also, you have to think that at least Ryder ended up coming here partly because of #17. In Schneider's case...guess what, in 2 years you just became the face of the franchise. He also announced it just as our cap space was small and with Henrique and Josefson still un-extended. It's not his fault we lose next year's pick. First it'd be Bettman's fault for imposing that penalty in the first place, then also Lou's fault for not giving up that 29th pick. It's also not his fault Parise didn't sign here. We had the cap space, the team, and the run to the Cup; he simply wanted to go play in his hometown with his boyfriend. This absolutely sucks, and I understand that many feel betrayed, but I do think this was known by management before the season, before free agency... I'm going to go Moneyball here and say you can't straight up replace Kovalchuk and his minutes and production, but you can build a winning team with the right pieces. This definitively got my mood down, but I'm not ready to say this is franchise ending as some have said. Let's see what happens in the next week...better yet, let's see what happens on the ice.

Ilya Kovalchuk------- 128 + Patrik Elias----------- 126 Martin Brodeur-------- 22 - Eliminated! Bryce Salvador Anton Volchenkov Krys Barch Johan Hedberg Harri Pesonen Tom Kostopoulos Steve Sullivan Matt D'Agostini Henrik Tallinder Alexander Urbom Alexei Ponikarovsky Peter Harrold Stephen Gionta Marek Zidlicky Jacob Josefson Mark Fayne David Clarkson Steve Bernier Travis Zajac Ryan Carter Andrei Loktionov Adam Larsson Adam Henrique Andy Greene Dainius Zubris

Ilya Kovalchuk------- 126 + Patrik Elias----------- 121 Martin Brodeur-------- 26 - Dainius Zubrus-------- 3 Eliminated! Bryce Salvador Anton Volchenkov Krys Barch Johan Hedberg Harri Pesonen Tom Kostopoulos Steve Sullivan Matt D'Agostini Henrik Tallinder Alexander Urbom Alexei Ponikarovsky Peter Harrold Stephen Gionta Marek Zidlicky Jacob Josefson Mark Fayne David Clarkson Steve Bernier Travis Zajac Ryan Carter Andrei Loktionov Adam Larsson Adam Henrique Andy Greene