I respect Thomas, I think he's a pretty brilliant tender when he's got the right team in front of him (then again, the same could be said for most netminders), but I wasn't entirely thrilled with his last year w/ the B's, and how he handled the whole thing, and when players start getting political it's just not something I want to hear.  Not only are there better places to get news/analysis about it, but...I like the separation.  I don't wish him ill or anything, though, just glad he's gone from the Bruins.

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I think Minnesota did enough to hold onto an 8 spot in the west. Tough to lose your goal tender.

Ryan miller and steve ott from Sabers to the blues. 

I meant what about it pissed you off? 

Yeah, they're pretty much stuck in 7th/8th since Colorado is too far ahead to get in a top 4 spot and with the new conference standings rules, they can't pass the Kings even if they have more points than them. 

They'll be fine with goaltending I think, Backstrom had been playing poorly all year. Kuemper is doing really well so far aside from a terrible first two games. Will probably be a tough first round for the bottom 4 teams anyway.

blues are a better team now

Goaltending wise, on paper, yeah. Steve Ott is a joke though, adds no serious threat to the team. Blues gave up Stewart who is a much better player than Ott.

I hope the sabers badness follow those two and curse the blues

But to be more specific about what pissed me of is: I would straight trade crawford for miller any day of the week and Stan Bowman made no real moves except for a Dman that we dont really need. They got rid of Pirri (though Q didnt like him much), Hossa is injury prone, Bickle isnt performing for that contract he got, Handzous should have retired, Rantaa isn't dependable backup for a so-so starter. 

When a forward goes down we put a Dman in his place sometime (a mediocre dman at that) and since hossa goes down often now... ulgh. The Ice Hogs arent a good team either so calling a forward up from them isnt really acceptable. We definitly needed to get some depth for forward or backup and instead Bowman got a Dman when our D is pretty much solid 1-6. Sorry, forgot Regin from the Islanders (lol)