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The stove is lukewarm! We have a lukewarm stove here!

With Lucic no longer in Boston, Emelin needs a new Bruin to target for some solid checks. I'd like to see him focus on David Backes. What does everyone else think?

Rask has a sore 5 hole? So happy to say I get this on tv tonight whilecruosing the med! Love this modern tech! Havent missed on yet this year unlike last spring... been on the tele or streamed for $20 worth of data. I will pay that. Go habs go

General soreness, jeez based on that I would never get out of bed. Oh and btw....................

Andrighetto gets the empty netter and St. John's holds on for the 4-1 win. Lindgren made 50 saves in his AHL debut. http://theahl.com/game-summary?game_id=1015944

PK with another blast on the PP tonight to make the score Subban 2, Weber 1 Come on, #6....even it up on Saturday night. (I am still pissed that Subban was traded, but am hoping that it's a back and forth battle between these two for most goals by a D-man all season long)

This is a Shea Weber appreciation thread I thought. Why are we still dwelling on Subban's absence? Weber is here EXACTLY as advertised, he is every bit the player everyone, who loves and respects him as a player, say he is. He is a work horse, a man mountain, he is mean and somewhat nasty. He is smart and makes quick passes, he has an accurate and booming shot. He is also going to be this way for quite some time because he is simply a physical specimen who has avoided major inuries in his career and plays his game around assets that will not decline with age. He relies on quick passes, strength, conditioning and one of the best slappers in the league's history. These are the tools he uses to plant himself near the top of the d-men list. The one thing every player loses with time is footspeed, it is literally the aspect he relies on the least to make him elite. Much like Markov is able to stay good with his age because his vision, his passing, his stick work are never affected, he is simply slower than he once was. Weber has allowed for 2 things of great importance that make this team work better this season. He has made is possible to move Beaulieu to the top pairing and accelerate his development, he will be an absolute stud just from studying and playing along side Weber. And consequently the second he has done is allowed Markov to move where it was most optimal for him to play at the minutes that were most optimal aswell. I think we all know if Weber was not here, Beaulieu would not be on the top pair and Markov would be forced to remain there playing against tougher opposition for longer than he should be.

"Hockey IQ" often makes players seem "boring" if you're only a casual fan. Take goaltending as an example: Do you ever notice how few highlight reel saves Carey Price has to make? We rarely see the catlike reflexes or amazing snatches from midair that were the hallmark of 90's greats like Eddy Belfour or Dominic Hasek. And do you know why? Because they were out of position and forced to rely on their admittedly amazing reflexes. Carey Price doesn't have to, because he's in the right fracking spot to start with and makes clueless fans wonder why opposing forwards make it so easy by firing right at Carey Price. The answer to that is he doesn't give them anything else to shoot at. Smart defensive play from forwards and defensemen are the same. You don't need to make that outstanding block, because you didn't let them take the shot. You don't rob an opponent of an incredible scoring chance, because you never let them get into a position to get that chance to start with.

Sweet jesus, cant you post anything without bringing up and relating everything to that ex-hab? There are enough threads already for that debate, this isn't one of those I had hoped.