Quote Originally Posted by jefferson78 View Post
Not if we can get Suter or even possibly Parisi of New Jersey. The streak will continue, guaranteed.
We'll assume you meant Zach Parise.

Now that Nicklas [[unlike the "Niklas" of this thread title) Lidstrom has skated off into the sunset, maybe the "loyal" fans can stop calling into the radio talk shows and stop calling him Nicklas Lint-strom or Lindt-strom. I know Wojo makes fun of it all the time and it was nearly shameful at the press conference yesterday that they still had to re-iterate how to pronounce his name again to the press.

You'd think that after all of these years of playing the caliber of hockey that he has, winning all of those awards, and just being the poster boy of all that's right with sports- you'd think that the local folks here would know how to pronounce the poor man's last name. Seriously it's only eight letters! We've only heard Bruce Martyn, Ken Kal, Mickey Redmond, Paul Woods, and every other local sportscaster pronounce it properly for 20+ years.

And is it any tougher than Yzerman? Anyone remember the early years of WHY-zerman??

Enough of my rant already. Nicklas Lidstrom's calm presence will be missed. He's still better than 80% of the defenders in the league at this age. I can't wait to see his number hoisted up to the rafters and we can also be assured that he's a first ballot Hall of Famer in a few years too.