Ok....wasn't sure and you are Mr. Red Font so I can never tell.

I think they are 2 bodies away, assuming everyone is close to 100% as 1 can be come spring time 2/4/7/19/15/72/88.....

they need a versatile F and a veteran D man who can shore up the bottom pair. Take a hit, not be a turnstyle, and calm down chaos at times back there. If he can kill penalties even better.....but 32 is Old Yeller right now.....give him the puck from his goal and send him to Kim Johnsson island.
- SteveRain

Or Old Kimmo, and he didn't even cost us 2 second round picks!

This x 1000000

Just no reason to risk him in February versus AZ. Just a dumb decision.
- golfbard

Thank you....and again.....where is our media? At least Myers ventured to the dark side and tweeted about the wrap.

Where are the rest? Why not ask Q "With Nik missing the morning skate and then coming off early in the 1st, isn't it fair to ask why he was out there?"

Followed up by......"and seeing that you dressed 7 defensemen, looks like the team had doubts about how effective he would be...."

Then I would see my press pass shredded.

God forbid anyone ask a tough question post game......instead lets all play grab @ss on twitter.....I'm guessing sports editors for papers are dumber then I thought.

Sorry to hear about your wife. My professional life has me do quite a bit of driving.....in the past 10 years I'm well over 550K miles....luckily, knock on wood, no major accidents. Few close calls, and it's scary as hell.

Agreed....made no sense. NONE. If a guy is bad enough to miss the morning skate to 99.9% sure to get treatment, then he probably can miss a Feb game against a bad Arizona team.

This isn't 2011 when they are fighting for a spot. They have some room to air on the side of caution.

Yet, you will never see anyone question that in the media........I'm sure Myers got her hand slapped for tweeting about the wrap on Hammer's back.
- SteveRain

Thanks Steve, as the kids say it is what it is. And I thought I drove a lot when I was a AAA golf pro......

550K miles, to the moon and back fine sir! Anyway, my choice of pain relief pictured here. Also my drink of choice to watch our warriors ply their trade on the sheet of ice.

And I'm sure Myers got her ass chewed out, probably was a direct order of McD.

Whatever happens happens (obviously)...but if you told me that with about 75% of the season completed they'd be in the position they're in starting 5-7 new faces (mostly rookies), I'd have said, "Hell yeah, I'll take it".

I'm enjoying the ride even with the warts and while not shoe ins think they are a legit contender. Would I love a defensive addition if the price isn't crazy? You bet.

And when I say defensive addition that could be a defensive minded forward too wth a bit of scoring touch for the third or fourth line.

Not even sure you can understand me right now, I know you're still high on the buzz you were working on for Kruger's 100th point.
- HawkintheD

I'm enjoying the ride as well.......and I would say there playoff success variance is 50/50.....

They easily could lose in round 1 if the Mr Hyde Hawks show up, or make a run if Jeckyl Hawks show up........No, I don't think they can beat Wash 4 of 7 and probably not Pittsburgh either....Crosby may put 21 pts in a 7 games series with this D zone coverage.

This team is fascinating in that regard to me......always could be worse.........

You realize Trevor Daley also hadn't played a playoff game for quite some time....and was arguably the Pens BEST D man in the playoffs last year.....so how do we explain that?

NHL veterans who are proven NHL caliber players, are quite fine.

I'm confused by all this....
- SteveRain

So are you saying we shouldn't have traded Daley for Scudderi?!

Or Old Kimmo, and he didn't even cost us 2 second round picks!
- BMWChiFan

That might be the worst trade Bowman has made in awhile. Good lord.

You know who saved their @ss that postseason? Q's old Colorado D guy.......Kumiskey.

So are you saying we shouldn't have traded Daley for Scudderi?!
- BMWChiFan

he didn't work out here.......For whatever reason. Just like Leddy.

Think that was more of a cap dump then anything else. Notice how both those Sharp pieces never made it March......not a surprise.

Thank you....and again.....where is our media? At least Myers ventured to the dark side and tweeted about the wrap.

Where are the rest? Why not ask Q "With Nik missing the morning skate and then coming off early in the 1st, isn't it fair to ask why he was out there?"

Followed up by......"and seeing that you dressed 7 defensemen, looks like the team had doubts about how effective he would be...."

Then I would see my press pass shredded.

God forbid anyone ask a tough question post game......instead lets all play grab @ss on twitter.....I'm guessing sports editors for papers are dumber then I thought.
- SteveRain

Lazerus asked Q:

“We thought he was fine, but didn’t turn out so good,” Quenneville said.

Quenneville didn’t have much of an update on Hjalmarsson, and said he’d know more on Friday.

“Not sure the prognosis,” Quenneville said. “We’re hoping that he’s going to be OK, but not sure.”

New blog up boys and girls............

IR him sooner rather than later from some additional cap savings?
- hawkss81

if an injury lingers you can retroactively add a player to IR and save $ too.

It's probably minor then. Hammer likely thought rest from practice would be fine and then it ended up not being fine. He gave it a shot.
- JRoenick97

Agree, he is a player and wanted to play, and it wasn't right to continue, that's all.