Nice to know I can take up so much of someone’s time.

Send Rozy and a pick for him. He is the next best thing if we cant have Avery.

Send a 4th rounder for Matt Walker and you address all of your toughness questions.

Cut Redden minutes by 6-10 a game and then maybe we will be more consistent.

Yeah The Yotes are gonna trade a young inexpensive forward for a dman with 5 million a year coming to him over the next few years. My God how silly can you get

i want to see prucha in the line up from now on. i don’t care who has to come out in order for that to happen.

i’ve been saying it for weeks but kalinin has to either be waived and replaced with potter or traded.

whoever said it’s been 8 years and we aren’t any closer – considering how long the hawks were terrible you have to figure that they’d strike gold sooner or later. same thing happened to the pens. we haven’t drafted as well as them and the main reason for that is we’re not getting the lottery picks like both of those teams did. im not defending our draft selections because we did draft hugh jessiman but i think our drafts have gotten better in the last few years. with the loss of cherepanov im left hoping that grachev can develop into a real scoring threat at the nhl level.

that said, slats is a phantom. is trading in a salary cap world really that complicated?

Send Rozy and a pick for him. He is the next best thing if we cant have Avery.

Send a 4th rounder for Matt Walker and you address all of your toughness questions.

Cut Redden minutes by 6-10 a game and then maybe we will be more consistent.

Its great to see you in here!!! I have repeatedly tried to post on the NY Post “Blue Seats” Blog. I tried about 20 times and kinda gave up. Its really great to see you in here. If you are still able to post, have all the regulars come by. Greg, Joe L, Jeff, JHawkey etc. Guys, Fran has a wealth of hockey knowledge & is incredibly witty & whimsical. He will be a welcomed addition to Sam’s Blog.

The Winter Classic was fantastic. I was happy to see the Wings get their bearings 10 min in. Some great excitement and some fantastic play. Mostly individual. And enough “interaction” after the whistle to get the crowd all riled up. After every Winter Classic they should announce which two teams are playing next. But this is Bettman’s NHL.

I have played outdoors in Toronto and Edmonton. Edmonton was in February, it was -20 and it was so bitterly cold that it felt like my lungs were going to freeze and as much as you think drinking water sucks at that temp. Its most essential. 212 is some Rink !!!! LOL

Hope everyone had a great NYE. Here is a paragraph I found quite funny.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01012009/sports/rangers/ranger_hope_longer_practice_makes_perfec_146753.htm

While players may not always be a fan of extra practice time, the reverse is true for coaches. That fact is no different with Renney, who has taken the opportunity to do some different things in practice.

“We might do a little more on individual skill development at the front end of practice,” he said. “We might be able to do something like the power play a little longer, pay a little bit more attention to each drill we do, let them go a little longer. There’s not a whole lot of difference in the drills that we do, but we might let them go longer and might let them get in more of a game-like situation.”

Did anybody else notice that the area behind each net outside today looked bigger than it does on a normal rink? It looked like the size of the pre-lockout area behind the goal line.