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I've long thought Miller should be a forward. Not sure why he was moved from forward to D in the first place.

That one still hurts. +20 as a rookie D-Man. Toronto persistantly posted clips of his career ending injury on the videotron to rev up the crowd. Classy.

Yes, but that won't be until after we get Lindros and LaFontaine back...

Won't have to pass through waivers if he stays less than 30 days.

I have to walk that back on the basis of a grand total of 2 goals and 13 assists in 15 games for the Leafs? Anyone who watched the Rangers closely from 97 to 2004 knows that Leetch was not the force he had been previously, and the team around him much of that time had pretty good personnel but underachieved.

Leetch was clearly a HOFer etc., but the fact is that he tailed off earlier than most superstars. He was great through 96-97 but then a clear step down 97-98 through 99-20. Then, due for a new contract, he had a big year in 00-01, but it was pretty blah for three years after that.

Greshner, Don Maloney, Giacomin, Villemure, JD, Espo, (Hate to say) Graves, Don Marshall, Messier, Richter, Pat Hickey and Leetch.

Must be something more. Alcohol abuse does not result in termination of a player's contract. They go into the abuse program that is part of the CBA.

If he axe murdered 10 children, the Players' Association would still challenge the termination of his contract.

Hope Hynes enjoys coaching teams that are straightjacketed by massive dead cap space.

The improved play is partly because he shaved his head and partly because he's shooting the biscuit.

Uncle Larry already has word processed and saved his post season assessment after they lose in the first round when the power play happens to have a cold spell for a few games. CK has been a magician in front this year. Last year most of his goals were puts from in close. This year, they have been incredibly skillful deflections that simply no one else can do.

The biggest problem with 3-3 OT and SO is that neither bears any relationship to what it takes to win games in regulation or playoff games. It's about like settling a tie baseball game with a tobacco spitting contest. The other problem is that it encourages conservative play in the third period of tie games and results in many more regulation ties than was the case back before you had OT or SO. The stats bear this out. The number of regulation ties is ridiculous.

Nice job schedule makers. Six days between games and then five in eight days, with the fourth and fifth being afternoon games in different cities, the last against the Bs in Boston. We should be in great form for that last one.

One day in the life of Ryan Lindgren and I'd have to take a maintenance year. I once walked past him in a parking lot of a rink in MN. I was really surprised that he seemed smallish and unimposing.

How many players in the league have the presence of mind in front of the net to make the play that CK did? 99.9 percent of players would have just been wacking at it and desperately trying to get it on goal.

A player does not have to clear waivers if he has been on an NHL roster for no more than 30 days or has played no more than 10 games since the last time he cleared. Thus, so long as Domingue is sent down within 30 days of his call up, he doesn't have to clear (I assume that Domingue cleared when sent down at the end of camp). The rule allows for short term call ups. In contrast to Domingue, Jones has never cleared, so the exemption would not apply to him and they have to keep him up, ala Hajek, who also had never cleared (until late last season).

Louie is a lot like Keith Kinkaid, one of those big goalies who's hard to beat when he's on. But really, based on the playoff series in '22 and tonight, he's got to be better than half of the No. 2s in the league.

The MSL experience at the same age is instructive: He was cruising along at age 38. Upon the trade he scored one goal in 20 games and didn't do much in the first round. He picked it up greatly in the next two rounds, but was a non-entity in the finals. The following season, he was solid for the first third and then went off a cliff and was a hinderance to his team in the playoffs. So basically, we went wobbly at 38, alternating fairly short effective and non-effective periods, before simply going off the cliff. Envision a plane that is flying high, hits a period of turbulence for a while, and then crashes.

They know what Domingue wants, have they got Garland's order yet?

Regarding Wheeler, Coach Hemingway is instructive: "How do you go bankrupt? Two ways, gradually and then suddenly."

Schedule was 70 games for Gilbert's first five years. Kreider has missed more due to injury and lost one full year due to lockout, another half season due to a lockout, and another half season due to COVID. While he's had Zib in the latter part of his career, he has not had a Ratelle long term as Gilbert did.

And if he had 500, you'd be saying if he showed up more often he'd have 700.

Everything the Wild are the Devils are times three. Blanch at the thought Can't see how Wheeler lasts much longer, when it is obvious.

I've been to every game the Rangers have played in MN since the Wild started in 2000, about 25 games, and this was my last, as we are in the process of moving from MN to NH. This was the least gratifiying of the 25. It made Game 7 against the Devils look like an inspired effort. The 1-3-1 strategy is supposed to avoid what happened tonight. The Rangers were rarely even able to get in a 1-3-1 formation, and when they did, the Wild easily broke it.