While Gleason is busy delivering the thrust.

I'm sure there are other faceoff guys that can play better defense for cheaper. I'd rather find someone who wins more like 60%.

Kritter, this is going to sound insulting.

Anyone who thinks that we can get rid of our leading goal scorer because Benn will replace him is higher than any crack head currently sucking a glass pipe on this planet. If Benn makes Neal expendable, then my child is the elephant man and my dong is made of peanut butter.

No offense.

Eh, no offense taken. And I still disagree with you.

How the hell can you say Neal is expendable because of Benn?

That's like saying we have a good top line, so we don't need any more depth.

Oh lord, it's like a game of "telephone" on the internet. The original point was about hypothetical replacement value on this team, and my point was the Stars have a lot more Neal-like players (five right now in Neal, Benn, Morrow, Eriksson and Brunnstrom - yes, I'm aware they are all slightly different, but ideally they're all scoring-line left wings) than Ott-like players.

I would say four, as I wouldn't put Brunnstrom in that category.

Last night Razor mentioned that Joe Nieuwendyk has rec'd many calls regarding Benn and he's NOT trading him.

As usual, Kritter is wrong, I am right, and everything else is just white noise.

Speaking of Ott, didn't he get suspended for a hip check this year that was almost identical to the one laid by the Caps before the pens 3rd goal? He at least got a talking to.

Didn't see the one in the Caps game, but Ott was definitely suspended for a clean hipcheck earlier this year. That was the game he should have been suspended for a knee-on-knee hit on Crombeen (which means it must have been against the Blues - hip check was against Coliacovo maybe?).

Yup. I remember being astounded that Colaiacovo wasn't injured on the play. That guy is made out of pure nougat.

Ott had an appendectomy and is out for the next three games, at least.

Oh what, we're going to pay this guy all this money when he won't even be fully intact?

I demand our players have all their organs.

Organs or not, we'll see how the team fares with-ott him.

How will Team Canada survive this loss?

His "energy" will be missed.

<Carbonneau21 feints left to avoid the jab and counters with...> he learned those phrases before he met her....and his only mistake was falling for a woman who couldn't keep the dime clenched between her knees. Still would give him $2.75m. So there.

Yeah, I'm a bit behind.