Aaron Rome for Norris

I know its early to be calling it, but before Leaf fans jumped on the Kessel for Richard bandwagon I thought I would get on this. Rome has been back 4 games and he's scored 3 goals, 5 points even having missed half of one game for an illegal hit that ejected him from the game. If can stay healthy all seson he is on pace to have 76 points by the end of the season. I getting them to take Jeff Cowan off the last Canucks Jersey off and put on Aaron Rome cause this guy is for real!

Sameulsson in an Elevator

Canucks Lineup to start 2011 reg season predictions

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We know kes and raymond wont be starting. Im gonna go out on a limb and say Malhotra is not going to be starting the season either, his eye still looks too swollen shut.

Forwards:

Sedin-Sedin-Burrows
Samuelsson-Hodgson-Sturm/Higgins
Jensen-Lapierre-Hansen
Duco-Mancari-Oreskovich

Defense

Hamhuis-Bieksa
Ballard-Edler
Tanev-Salo
Rome

Goalie

Luongo/Labarbera

Eklund is such an idiot

But we already knew that. What did he do this time you ask? Two things:



1: He annoucnes that the Doughty deal is done just hours after the Russian Plane Crash. This is one of the biggest RFA's in the offseason that people have been waiting for all year. Even if the Doughty deal was done would LA announce it after that terrible news in the nhl? unlikely! So he knew he could get away with faking the Doughty announcement because of the tragedy in Russia.

2. Now Eklund is claiming that Semin is rumored to be going to Buffalo. The team that is already 4 million dollars over the salary cap is going to take on a 6 million dollar salary. Thats idiotic! If Semin actually ends up in Buffalo I will eat my own fesces. Its that unlikely.

Eklund you suck!

-Hark

Sad News

I just heard that nearly the entire roster of the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv was killed in a tragic plane crash. This is terrible news in a bizzare summer filled with tragedies in the world of hockey. A couple years back I covered the Lokomotiv's playoff run and it was a lot of fun, and I am truly saddened by what has happened. For any who remember, much of the coverage focused on Marcus Nilson, but he was no longer on the team at the time of the accident, and was not on the plane. I am deeply sorry for those like Pavol Demitra who were on the plane, and those who were close to them.

Turris to Van and Crosby update

Working on two rumours here this hour. I got one source (Hal) telling me that Turris is coming to Van with Labarbera for Schneider and Oreo. Turris was practicing at UBC today so Mike Gillis and company would have had a chance to see him first-hand to decide if he could make an impact on this Canucks roster. There is another bogus rumour going around that Turris is trying to extract $4 million a season from the Coytotes. If this is true this is good news because any hesitation could mean Turris ends up in Van City. I'll pay the little bugger 3 million a season though because he's gonna take a hometown discount to play in BC.

I got my other source (Hosh saying) that Crosby is planning on announcing his retirement tomorow at 1230am EST and 1030am Mountain time.

I'm not sure if Hosh is legit. Firstly, Crosby has been significantly derailed by his concussion and it seems likely he will not be available to start the season. It seems unlikely he would hold a press conferene to announce that he won't start the season because its just too early. There are still steps for him to follow like attaining on ice workouts with hitting. This definitely should be on the radar by now.

I guess I could see Crosby retiring so the NHL actually has to do something about concussions. I hope not though. I need him in my hockey pool this year... he's my keeper.

There are bums and then there are super bums, and then there is Matt Stajan

How many more years do we have of him? Three?

FUCK