amazing what an elite goalie can do for a team
- homiedclown

Also amazing having your top 2 d pairing play 82 games together.

Just saying.

LOL

idk.. maybe they didn't play an actual season together but did play together in off-season tournaments then because they obviously were on the ice at the same time.
- JVince11

I think we can all agree that Sid played 1 year there, 2002-2003.


Parise played NCAA hockey for the University of North Dakota (UND) starting with the 2002–03 season.

The other reason this makes sense is that Parise is 28 and Crosby is 24. Their ages are conducive to missing each other in an interscholastic school setting.

Also amazing having your top 2 d pairing play 82 games together.

Just saying.
- JVince11

They were incredibly fortunate on the injury front this year, even more amazing considering the shot blocking whores they were.

Also amazing having your top 2 d pairing play 82 games together.

Just saying.
- JVince11

injuries are not an excuse when you allegedly drastically improve your team in the off season, and have your injury call ups easily surpass any realistic expectations

They were incredibly fortunate on the injury front this year, even more amazing considering the shot blocking whores they were.
- Gunner Staal

hookers and blow

I think we can all agree that Sid played 1 year there, 2002-2003.


Parise played NCAA hockey for the University of North Dakota (UND) starting with the 2002–03 season.

The other reason this makes sense is that Parise is 28 and Crosby is 24. Their ages are conducive to missing each other in an interscholastic school setting.
- Gunner Staal

I have stood in the coaches office and in their weight room for months during my internship there and seen the pictures of them skating up the ice together and congratulating each other after goals with hugs..

I agree with you that it does look like they haven't played a season together.. but they have done something together there...

Do you want to call me out for being wrong again??

Crosby right in the middle.. Stafford directly under him.. Parise up front. Jack Johnson in there too
- JVince11

http://www.usahockeymagaz...hattuck-st-mary%E2%80%99s

"A closer look at the names under the photo would make any hockey coach drool.

There’s the baby-faced Ryan Duncan, the 2007 Hobey Baker Award winner, stretched out in the front row. Huddled around the USA Hockey championship banner to the right is Matt Smaby, the hulking defenseman who is in his third year with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Over his shoulder is Buffalo Sabres standout forward Drew Stafford. Jack Johnson, most recently of the silver-medal winning U.S. Olympic Team, crouches nearby, smiling from ear to ear.


The best of friends at Shattuck-St. Mary’s, Jack Johnson, left, and Sidney Crosby have crossed paths on NHL and Olympic ice.
Sandwiched in the tangled web of smiles and index fingers thrust in the air are Brian Salcido and Matt Ford, who are currently playing in the American Hockey League.

And right in the middle of it all is a bright-eyed Sidney Crosby, who won a USA Hockey National Championship long before he captured a World Junior Championship title, captained the Pittsburgh Penguins to the Stanley Cup or raised his hero status to new heights by scoring the golden goal for Canada in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games."

hookers and blow
- homiedclown

hookers that blow>hookers and blow.

injuries are not an excuse when you allegedly drastically improve your team in the off season, and have your injury call ups easily surpass any realistic expectations
- homiedclown

okay... in your mind we will go full hard at Suter alright.. pay him 7+M.. but he won't even sniff the air in buffalo except as a visitor.. he is not leaving the West... WOULD LOVE TO HAVE HIM THOUGH.

sorry its just not gonna happen.

injuries are not an excuse when you allegedly drastically improve your team in the off season, and have your injury call ups easily surpass any realistic expectations
- homiedclown

Joe Finley.... that is all...

I think we can all agree that Sid played 1 year there, 2002-2003.


Parise played NCAA hockey for the University of North Dakota (UND) starting with the 2002–03 season.

The other reason this makes sense is that Parise is 28 and Crosby is 24. Their ages are conducive to missing each other in an interscholastic school setting.
- Gunner Staal

Classic......

okay... in your mind we will go full hard at Suter alright.. pay him 7+M.. but he won't even sniff the air in buffalo except as a visitor.. he is not leaving the West...

sorry its just not gonna happen.
- JVince11

really, there was a need for that?

Classic......

- LamontSanford

my brotha

really, there was a need for that?
- homiedclown

I didn't even read the sexuality in that sentence until you pointed it out..

i literally just meant we will in your mind go full out for Suter.

I didn't even read the sexuality in that sentence until you pointed it out..

i literally just meant we will in your mind go full out for Suter.
- JVince11

I was kinda referring to the talking down to a suggestion to make the team compete for a cup in a cap era given our top 4 wingers and the money we have left for the cap

http://www.usahockeymagaz...hattuck-st-mary%E2%80%99s

"A closer look at the names under the photo would make any hockey coach drool.

There’s the baby-faced Ryan Duncan, the 2007 Hobey Baker Award winner, stretched out in the front row. Huddled around the USA Hockey championship banner to the right is Matt Smaby, the hulking defenseman who is in his third year with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Over his shoulder is Buffalo Sabres standout forward Drew Stafford. Jack Johnson, most recently of the silver-medal winning U.S. Olympic Team, crouches nearby, smiling from ear to ear.



The best of friends at Shattuck-St. Mary’s, Jack Johnson, left, and Sidney Crosby have crossed paths on NHL and Olympic ice.
Sandwiched in the tangled web of smiles and index fingers thrust in the air are Brian Salcido and Matt Ford, who are currently playing in the American Hockey League.

And right in the middle of it all is a bright-eyed Sidney Crosby, who won a USA Hockey National Championship long before he captured a World Junior Championship title, captained the Pittsburgh Penguins to the Stanley Cup or raised his hero status to new heights by scoring the golden goal for Canada in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games."
- rcostel77

Interesting....

I can see Garf has a nickname for Grigorenko already. How cute.

I was kinda referring to the talking down to a suggestion to make the team compete for a cup in a cap era given our top 4 wingers and the money we have left for the cap
- homiedclown

Adding Suter does not make us "compete for a cup" that easily. We are not just one D-man away from that status. I don't see it.

For all we know Suter has benefited all his career from playing with perhaps the best d-man in the game today Weber next to him.. and he will be the next Wade Redden and be a bust on his next team.

Adding Suter does not make us "compete for a cup" that easily. We are not just one D-man away from that status. I don't see it.

For all we know Suter has benefited all his career from playing with perhaps the best d-man in the game today Weber next to him.. and he will be the next Wade Redden and be a bust on his next team.
- JVince11

Suter didn't use Weber as a crutch, he is a great player in his own right.

Adding Suter does not make us "compete for a cup" that easily. We are not just one D-man away from that status. I don't see it.

For all we know Suter has benefited all his career from playing with perhaps the best d-man in the game today Weber next to him.. and he will be the next Wade Redden and be a bust on his next team.
- JVince11

So, what happened to all the big moves you thought would be done by EOD Thursday - let alone by the Draft?

Nothing happened!

Realism 1
VJince 0

So, what happened to all the big moves you thought would be done by EOD Thursday - let alone by the Draft?

Nothing happened!

Realism 1
VJince 0
- sambarugh

A guy can dream can't he... are you angling for the jacka$$ of the day award already before 9 am?

Adding Suter does not make us "compete for a cup" that easily. We are not just one D-man away from that status. I don't see it.

For all we know Suter has benefited all his career from playing with perhaps the best d-man in the game today Weber next to him.. and he will be the next Wade Redden and be a bust on his next team.
- JVince11

If Suter is so bad, then how come Ray Shero was trying to acquire his rights from the Predators all weekend? Shero obviously doesn't know talent!

If Suter is so bad, then how come Ray Shero was trying to acquire his rights from the Predators all weekend? Shero obviously doesn't know talent!
- rcostel77

WTF???? where did i say he was bad... I just said "for all we know"

wow.. I know you must be used to putting foreign objects in your mouth but please don't put words into mine...

Suter is the best UFA on the market and a great D-man.. all i said was that adding him does not automatically make us a legit threat to the cup.. we need more offensive firepower.

WGR was just discussing the proper way to pronounce the names of our first round picks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us_YeYS2Mac
http://www.youtube.com/wa...q-JTNsxVS8&feature=relmfu

Not sure if this is how I would have done it though

I can see Garf has a nickname for Grigorenko already. How cute.
- likmyass

Why exactly do they call Phil Kessel "The Gender Bender" ?!?!

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...t_of_ice_hockey_nicknames