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Claudia is a hypocrite and a crybaby. I'll take Disco Dan. Absolutely.

Ottawa getting calls on their goaltenders. I'll take Anderson in a heartbeat!

I can see that becoming more of a trend. Sooner or later there will be fewer takers.

True, but I don't think Chicago and Tampa are there because of the goaltending. Lundqvist is the exception to the rule and even he's looked human a few times. Anaheim is arguably the most dominant team in the playoffs so far and they have the cheapest and most unproven goaltender. Crawford has looked terrible, it seems his ability in the playoffs is often questioned. Everybody says he looks slow and tired. He sure does look slow but he'd better be fresher than all the rest. He sat for a few games. He kicked out two fat rebounds last night that cost them a win. Chicago is extremely short on defensemen, most of it because they can't afford more because of their $6mil man. Basically their 5/6 defensemen are riding the bench, what little they've played has hurt them. Timonen was a game worst - 2 last night and he only played 8 minutes. Bishop hasn't been anything spectacular either. Is it their faults when they lose? Hardly. But they sure aren't doing much to help the situation. An extra $4-$5 mil can go a long way to beef up the defense. That's just my short opinion of it. Could be completely different next year. Who knows.

These playoffs are further proving my theory that paying big $$$ for a goaltender has little to no benefit when you can use that extra $$$ elsewhere. Absolutely.

Didn't Toews do the same thing to the Sabres the last week of the season?

Yup

Same here. Time to get with my scouting department.

I still think there are too many people on the ice. The linesmen need to each have their own box opposite the bench overlooking a blue line. They can blow the play dead from inside the box when an offsides occurs but still have the option of leaving the box if the refs need help controlling the game. I've seen way to many instances this postseason where the officials make little to no effort in getting out of the way.

Or maybe he just prefers Toronto over Buffalo and nothing more.

I agree with this. The gap has decreased significantly, not unlike goaltending.

With the 140th pick of the 2015 Superdraft, JJ picks Brandon Pirri.

I've never been impressed with Crawford. He's always looked clumsy, kicks out a ton of rebounds and not very confident in controlling the puck. Maybe if the Blackhawks hadn't spend $6mil/yr on him they could have afforded #5 and #6 defensemen that they trusted with more than 12 minutes TOI after 80 minutes of play.

When Anaheim turns it on there's no stopping them. Incredible, they just know where all their teammates are on the ice at all times.

So basically there's as much to base the criticism on as there was with Nolan yet so many here were convinced Nolan couldn't do it either.

Larsson going back to Sweden? https://twitter.com/diebytheblade/status/602123006685634560

We needed to move on a long time ago. Norman Schwarzkopf?

Are we in a hurry?

No love for Tom Draper?

Nice, forgot about him.

Am I the only one that thinks we're reading way too much into this?

How'd you end up with 11 picks?

With the 124th pick of the 2015 Superdraft, JJ selects Patric Hornqvist.

My bad, I looked over it twice and missed it. BRB

With the 124th pick in the 2015 Superdraft, JJ selects David Backes.