- WaterBoy

Pfff Habs can have the league change their minds.

See the Gomez effect.
- WaterBoy

touche

MDZ is indeed awesome, but he gets to be humbled by the presence of Staal, Girardi and Mcdonagh who are all better.
- God_then_kovy

Humbled? You need to watch a little more.
He plays a much different role than those 3 and considering he is the only one of them really capable of playing that role, you could argue that he is as valuable as any of them.

guys can we please at least all just agree right here right now to stop calling him "MDZ"?

I'd give a slight edge to PK defensively and physically. Offensively, pretty much the same.
- Pecafan Fan

The edge in both those is more than slight.

- WaterBoy

guys can we please at least all just agree right here right now to stop calling him "MDZ"?
- dt99999

Sounds like a Lincoln car.

He eats more minutes by necessity.
Being a pest isn't always a good thing. It can be distracting to a team.
Better offensive upside....very debatable. MDZ is a year younger and has a 40 point season.

Physical...ok. I don't really see enough of MDZ to comment on his physicallity but from what I saw in the playoffs last year, the kid is a horse and will only get better.
- stormey

plus as a Leaf fan, you have a very objective opinion on the matter.

plus as a Leaf fan, you have a very objective opinion on the matter.
- scotch_tape

He's right when he says he eats more minutes by necessity.

the same logic that says Jake Gardiner is one of the best young defencemen in the game. how do you still not understand how this works?
- scotch_tape

I'd say PK is better than Gardiner.

Humbled? You need to watch a little more.
He plays a much different role than those 3 and considering he is the only one of them really capable of playing that role, you could argue that he is as valuable as any of them.
- stormey

Wait, we need to watch the games to have an opinion?

He eats more minutes by necessity.
Being a pest isn't always a good thing. It can be distracting to a team.
Better offensive upside....very debatable. MDZ is a year younger and has a 40 point season.

Physical...ok. I don't really see enough of MDZ to comment on his physicallity but from what I saw in the playoffs last year, the kid is a horse and will only get better.
- stormey

Necessity or not he did it well and as for the attitude, he ate all those minutes up in the psych ward that is MTL. The kid has more maturity than he gets credit for.

And Joe mother(frank)ing Colborne.
- Pecafan Fan

Wowowowow. Colborne currently has 9 points in 5 games. Plus he was the player of the month last year in November. This guy is a legit scoring star one month every year.

Plekanec skating with the rest of the players

I know some of you would enjoy knowing the real reason Brian Burke was canned, forwarded to me from my brothers within the Press community:

Contrary to popular belief, the reason for Burke's firing was not his willingness to pull off the Roberto Luongo trade.

Brian Burke outside of hockey is somewhat of a Hound, akin to that of a white Tiger Woods. Burke has been through two marriages, the latest of which is now on the rocks. Combine this with the greatest of personal tragedies as his son announced he was Gay, only to be killed in a car accident shortly thereafter. So therapeutically, Burke is now enjoying to the fullest extent what little time he has left by hopping into the sack with as many wayward Ditchpigs as possible.

Rogers Sportsnet's Hazel Mae certainly plays the field as well. Her marriage to minor league baseball player Kevin Barker is widely regarded as a sham. Her career took her to Boston where she was the Anchor Hog for The New England Sports Network and the Major League Baseball Network. While there, she took the time to grease the poles of many of the Boston Red Sox players.

Upon returning to Toronto in November 2011, she anchored Sportsnet Connected from behind her familiar glass desk. She also worked well under the desk in her spare time, servicing several Toronto pro athletes.

Well it didn't take long for Brain Burke and Hazel Mae to hook up. In the summer of 2012, Sportsnet removed her from the glass desk because she wouldn't fit, insisting that she stand while on air. The reason she wouldn't fit is that she was pregnant. She became so dishevelled looking as the summer wore on that Sportsnet sent her home while they decided how to handle the impending scandal.

Scandal, you say? Well yessirr......The father could have been any number of worthy candidates, but the lucky dad is, in fact, our very own Brian Burke.

So splashdown was back in December. Hazel and Burkie have been at odds as to if, how and when to release the news. Sportsnet still doesn't know what to do with her. On the other hand, new owners of the Toronto Maple Leafs in Bell Canada have little, if any, tolerance for egotistical. belligerent, sex-addicted senior executives and decided to eliminate the problem by gassing Burke.

When you think about it, this makes perfect sense. It had nothing to do with any aspect of running the hockey team, by virtue of the fact that Dave Nonis and all remaining hockey management are Burke disciples. They will take the club in the same direction as before. All the Maple Leaf press conferences dance around the issue of Burke's dismissal, because they can't tell you the real reason that you now know.

Eventually this may all become public. And you can say you read it here first.....

Plekanec skating with the rest of the players
- stinger67

Finally!








TRADE HIM!

He eats more minutes by necessity.
Being a pest isn't always a good thing. It can be distracting to a team.
Better offensive upside....very debatable. MDZ is a year younger and has a 40 point season.

Physical...ok. I don't really see enough of MDZ to comment on his physicallity but from what I saw in the playoffs last year, the kid is a horse and will only get better.
- stormey

All good points, but it's hard to just compare stats when you consider how much better the Rangers are, especially on D.

I know some of you would enjoy knowing the real reason Brian Burke was canned
- RENATO6

Stopped reading there

*throws poop*

- Rayven

You know you're off when you miss a beak of that magnitude

Finally!








TRADE HIM!
- Pecafan Fan

The edge in both those is more than slight.
- habby

Yeah...PK is a regular Rod Langway.

- Rayven

You know you're off when you miss a beak of that magnitude
- Pie

Necessity or not he did it well and as for the attitude, he ate all those minutes up in the psych ward that is MTL. The kid has more maturity than he gets credit for.
- Pie

You lost me there.

- stinger67