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Well, if there's no trade in sight, Sbisa might stay the whole season.

we're losing depth here, but i never liked Jones so i can't say this upsets me. so i guess we'll have lines like

Timonen-Coburn
Vaananen-Sbisa
Eminger-Kukkonen

maybe we'll pick up a d-man off the waiver wire. possibly bring back Berard. i'd hate to see Kukkonen get significant time to screw up again.

Man, what is going on with our D? I guess it's looking better (or worse, depending on how you look at it,) for Luca staying here this whole season. While that worries me, I guess we don't really have a choice. He's playing great, & if he can keep it up, it might cover up for our 2 down D-men right now.

Not good. Not good at all.

Maybe we should have held on to Berard for a bit longer?

When did Jones tear his labrum?

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously, he is very inconsistent and not that good. This is good news. He was listed number 7 on tuesday night anyway so more Sbisa time

Ugh I'd rather have Jones then Kukks in there. I dont know why but I never really been a big fan of Kukks. How'd he look in the preseason? Hopefully better from last post season.

Yes to injuries? Are you mad? Lol.

what next....

To randy jones haha. I don't like him and really like Sbisa so had to let out the yes!

Lol, but Sbisa has no NHL experience, it'll be a pretty dicey situation sticking him in. We don't need injuries etc.

Oh crap. I may not like Jones's contract but this moves Eminger one step closer to the second pairing. Come back Berard!

Kukkonen has looked a lot better, I believe he can play well this year.

Obviously, I'm worried about our depth. I was never too happy with it and now with these early injuries are making it look worse. I don't think we can afford to play catchup in our division.

This. With ours being probably the strongest, you're right.

I think Jones was better than Kukkonen last season. I haven't watched enough of the preseason to make any kind of judgment there. Although I don't think either are game breakers I don't like the idea of Sbisa logging important minutes at the start of the year. He's got talent, but he clearly has maturing to do.

Kukkonen was held back last season because he was in and out of the line up then they paired him up with Modry who helps the other team more then his own.

To the idiot cheering on Jones' injury: That's exactly what you are. An idiot. I'm glad you get joy out of a grown man's journey through injury, surgery, and rehab. Keep up the good work........

To the topic of the thread: This is a shame. His experience, though minimal, will be missed. He was a playoff participant and will be needed to calm down the rookies on the ice. And honestly, he's deserving of the #2 pairing. I don't feel very confident with Sbisa and Eminger, but I guess we will have to make due. Who knows, we may bring Berard back (I would love that move right about now).

Losing Jones for this amount of time is not good. Love him or hate him, he's pretty solid.

After this and the Parent story, I miss Jason Smith even more.

This calls for a Bouwmeester trade!

Someone had to start the rumors.

i think you just did. haha

jeez loosen up dude I am joking I am not cheering that he needs surgery and stuff I am just glad it gives sbisa a chance to play and get some early experience. Its not like timo or cobe are hurt its randy jones.. Kukkonen is not bad and it'll help the others now that they have to step up.

so anyone who sees the earlier post.. I joke. Don't bite my head off.

And I'll follow up with a ludicrous proposal:

Jones, a 1st pick, and all of our political threads for Bouwmeester.

That'll be up tonight on Eklund
"Flyers in hunt for Bouwmeester after losing 3 dmen from their roster"

Our poor defense.
Hope Jones gets better soon.

It wouldn't be the first time Eklund posted a rumor based on a post of mine.

I see a trade with San Jose in the very near future.

Its funny how everyone attacked you when in the very 1st response I praise the injury and no one seemed to notice

Bring back Roenick! ...Oh, wait.

This does worry me because we are already thin at D. But i did like what i saw from sbisa this preseason. However...what on earth are we doing with hatch still on the roster dump him! we need monies!!!

He's on LTIR which means, I believe, that his money doesn't count against the cap as long as he's on there.

That's correct. They said his name will come off the roster after Saturday's game. (By off the roster, they mean you won't see his name on the website roster anymore, unless he some how makes a meraculious recover, & comes back to the team.)

this is concerning. Although im not the biggest randy jones fan, this leaves us extremely thin on the back line. Some people are going to have to step up *cough* *cough* (eminger and vaananen) and this really leaves some questions to be answered when the season starts. How are we going to do with a very raw defensive core.

Jeff Friesen was released today.

isnt he a forward?

I was refering to Kyle McLaren.

Don't worry, dude. I didn't refer to the idiot by name. By all means, you fit the description as well. Again. The fact that you cheer on injuries only furthers the stereotype of ignorant, Candian fans. It's a good thing you dodged that bullet.................dolt.

pretty sure i read on prosportsdaily that the flyers are looking to pick up a vet D man.

this tells me Berard must not have been very impressive at all.

I don't believe this. The season isn't started yet and we have d-men dropping like flys. I firmly believe we are jinxed. Maybe Don Cherry looked into a crystal ball when he made his prediction. We truly are cursed.

Cheering injuries is a stereotypical Canadian thing isn't it. Oh wait aren't you a Philadelphia fan? The same people who cheered Michael Irvings career ending injury as he was carted off the field? Ironic you call me a dolt when your are unaware of your own surroundings............. dolt.

calm down guys lets keep this on topic

I'm 21 years old and wasn't watching football when Irvin got hurt, so I don't really care what you say. Regardless, you're a tool for cheering on an injury and this whole "you're city is worse" argument doesn't negate the fact that you're an idiot and have no class. And I never said cheering injuries was a Canadian thing to do. I said that they were ignorant, and you were only perpetuating that by enjoying a player's injury. Again. Idiot.

So you are a classy guy because you didn't watch the game when Irvin got hurt? If you are going to badmouth all of Canada for being 'ignorant' I can put you in the same class as all those classless Philadelphia fans and trust me your lone city has as much dirt on it as my entire country.

Don't even try to talk like you are some class act because you are as classless as I am for that idiotic response you wrote and the one you followed it up with. Congratulation you really showed me how classless I am with your classless response to me.

What about the other guy who praised the injury? Is he a Philadelphia native? If all of Canada is ignorant because I like that Jones isn't playing wouldn't he speak for you also?

Who is a bigger idiot the guy who is happy a player is a hurt and can accept he isn't the classiest guy or the idiot (you SteelyDan) who thinks he stands for class with such moronic responses?

I'm VERY glad he choose to have the surgery now, unlike most other athletes, who say, ''ah, I can deal with this" and then they're f'd later on in the season.

nitty, not so smart. an injury that he's know about for a year... he puts it off all summer? and decided to have surgery during training camp. ?

LOL, I am quite the classy fellow. I am so classy, that I stick up for those who cannot defend themselves from classless idiots. I am the epitome of class. Classic class here. Class is in session. See? I can use class many times in an argument and come off intelligent. Either way you shake it, you cheered a player's injury. Some day, when you're not high from the smell of your own fecal matter, you'll notice that cheering for a player's lack of health is stupid and plain wrong in the grand scheme of things. But that's OK. You keep trying the whole "i have more class than you" argument; I'm just going to drop it at this point.

Class is over.....

i hope randy jones gets better soon. we'll miss him.

Keep it on topic and leave the personal attacks out of it. That's the only warning I'm giving.

Huh I don't get it did he play with this in the Phantoms game he was injured before then and was dressed that night did that game seriously cost us another D-Man?