Lidstrom, Chara, and Dionne Warwick are your Norris Trophy finalists. Yawn. Why don’t they just give it to Lidstrom at the start of the year?

I expect to see Burnsie there before long.

Agreed. Burnsie = future perennial Norris candidate.

Although, did you see that shot that Lidstrom made vs. Nashville the other night??? He freaking tried to make it bounce in. Crazy!

Time to check for Aeros Audio updates. I’m really interested to see where Pouliot gets played. I think Colton Gillies could make Pouliot look really good.

Whoever mentioned putting together a kid line next year for the Wild could be on to something. Sheppard and Pouliot have always been more of the finisher type and from what I’ve seen Gillies can make some nice passes around the net and get the puck out of the corner.

Pouliot is a natural left wing and Gililes and Sheppard are both natural centers. I think all three are a left handed shot so I’m not sure how that works or doesn’t work? I guess with Sheppard’s experience he would stay at pivot and Gillies would slide over to RW.

That line could be a lot of fun, a dangler/sniper with Pouliot, Sheppard is a bit of a sniper/playmaker and then Gillies as the power forward. All three of them can skate.

I expect to see Burnsie there before long.