Prucha – I agree that our young forwards that I’ve seen on the parent club are average. I like our young d though. Staal, Tyutin and co are a solid foundation. Girardi, Sauer and Sanguinetti could make for a good inexpensive group of d men for yrs to come.

Dawes has played around 24 nhl games. I doubt he is going to have 54 career goals in 24 career games.

Prucha had a very good rookie regular season. Since then its been straight down hill with 24 goals in in his next 124 games including a ridiculous 2 goals in 41 games. For a guy that doesnt kill penalties or bring any size/toughness 2 goals in 41 games is absurd.

You can post whatever you want about Prucha because no one is touting him as a top 6 forward. Renney is saying Dawes needs to be on the top 2 lines to be effective, yet when placed there was a flash in the pan.

How does posting Prucha’s stats have anything to do with Dawes not being an NHL player. Dawes needs about 50 more goals to catch Prucha. When he does that, we’ll talk.

He’s the next Ryan Callahan. He had 4 goals people. 2 goals in one game. He wasn’t an offensive dynamo.

The same way everyone predicted Callahan was the next 1st or 2nd line RW, people are saying it about Dawes now too. Meanwhile Callahan has a whopping ONE goal this year.

Here’s what I think. Our forward crop is very average. We have a bunch of guys with a ceiling of 10-15goals down there, and management knows it. Otherwise Hossa wouldn’t be here, Orr wouldn’t be playing every night and we wouldn’t have wasted millions on Drury and Gomez.

Sorry fellas, but this team looks like 2007-2008 is a holding pattern year. They brought in players that made it look like we were making a run, but I think it’s a throw-away year while the wait for Jagr to retire. I think Jagr knows this (the sign was letting Nylander go), thus his completely unacceptable and sub-par efforts on the nightly basis. I’d rather he pull a Jason Kidd and boycott management by just staying home.

I know someone is going to jump all over me for that one.

I agree. I am an English teacher. Dawes’ and Dawes’s are both correct. Since his last name ends in s the ’ comes after the s, s’, but you can also ass another s after the ’, s’s. But since the last name ends in s and it is spelled Dawes’ it is assumed that their is an imaginary s following the ’. Makes sense? It really is all a mater of house style.

But enough of this. Let’s win a game that we should win tonight. Devils lost and the Flyers got a point. At the same time they both play each other today. We need to make up some ground and not fall behind anymore in such a close Division.

Let’s go Rangers.

With all due respect, you are incorrect. Please review Elements of Style by Strunk & White (note the title should be italicized). As a “writer,” you should know this book inside and out. Surely, you must have at least heard of it. Omitting the “s” after the apostrophe in a singular possessive noun is one of the most common grammatical errors made by “writers” today.

Very truly yours,

The Grammar Police