Game center live is only $160 for the entire season (or $100 if you can trick NHL.com into thinking you're from Sweden)? You might be talking about Center Ice...which yea is hands down the worst thing possible.
- rangerdanger94

I take Center Ice over GCL every year for two reasons.

1) Not dependent on internet connection speed.
2) No delay. The few-second delay on GCL drives me nuts, especially as I tweet during the game.

That being said, I think GCL is great for going back afterwards and analyzing, re-watching, etc.

I am not taking away from MSL accomplishments as a player. His resume is truly impressive and he is future HOF material. No arguing any of that.

As a Lightning fan since day one, I through MSL was great when he played for us.

My problem (and likely others) is how and when he left the team. Playing for a sports team is playing for a corporation. Amongst other things, it's work and it's a business. We have all worked for arseholes and tools we disliked or possibly hated. We kept going at the job because it gave us a paycheck and we liked our coworkers. Under fire, we formed friendships and bonds with our coworkers. The arse manager would eventually go and get promoted or transferred. You ride out the wave and keep going. This is true for $15 an hour. It should certainly be true if you are getting paid millions of dollars per year.

I've worked for bigger tools than Steve Yzerman and got paid a lot less to do it. The fact the Stevie Y. snubbed Marty on the Olympic rosters is moot. Steve put together the best roster to give Canada the best chance to win - there is no favoritism or grudges there. Marty is a great player, but he didn't make the cut on a roster that was heavy with firepower.

What I do understand is Marty's desire to be closer to home and his family. If that had been the reason, then I would be fine with that. But, the timing was also a D**K MOVE. Right during the run-up to the playoffs when your top gun is injured? During the playoff chase, you decide to pack up and leave. Jump on the next flight out of town and screw the guys you have been working with for over a decade. That is what I have a problem with. That is not being a professional, that is being selfish.

MSL - great player, dangerous with the puck, never takes a night off, leaves it all out there on the ice, great veteran presence. Tool. Midget Selfish Tool. Deep down inside, there is a little bit of Sean Avery in MSL and that is what disappoints me.
- GalacticStone

I'm very glad it happened because would stralman boyle and callahan be on the lightning roster right now ? idk if they would ?

i think its fair to say already the lightning won the trade , add to the fact yzerman only had 1 gm to work with , and that gm knew that, its even more impressive.

it is a shame marty asked to go, marty is a hard worker, hes a good hockey player, but i am extremely happy with what we got in return and not so happy with marty anymore so overall , for me, its a win for us.

i think marty made the wrong choice, i said it before he was traded and im saying the same thing right now . if he wanted to win before he retired, he probabaly should have just stayed in tampa bay, because at the time i said in 2-3 years, he will be winning.

you guys can tell me it was about his family and what not, but he was hard on the lightning franchise before he left, and he never stopped once he got to new york, talking about winning , cups, and big hockey markets. kind of happy to see him get so far to winning the cup just so it hurt that much more
- RileyB77

Some of you guys are awfully sure that your
Team's good start this year translates into
Many years of high level success. A bit premature
If you ask me. Also to discount the fact that
NYR went to the finals last year as though
It's meaningless. How often do teams get that close
No matter how great they look and how well
They seem to be building their team? Look
At the Blues; they have been a perennial
Upper echelon team -built from
Within- for quite a whole now and what do they
Have to show for it? It's not automatic by any
Means -no matter how good you appear to
Be at the moment. Got to strike when you get
The chance which is what the Rags did.