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08:24 AM ET 12.03 | Were this not a lockout season, Brendan Smith and Gustav Nyquist would likely be in Detroit. Having minor league options available, the Red Wings assigned the duo to the Grand Rapids Griffins once the work stoppage began. And the top prospects have been critical to the Griffins' early success. Nyquist has 19 points (eight goals) in 17 games (sixth in the American League), while Smith has 12 points (three goals). ... "Our focus at the beginning of the season was we wanted to make sure that when the season in the NHL resumed, they were ready to be impact players," said Griffins coach Jeff Blashill, a Red Wings assistant last season. "Not to make the team, but to be ready to be impact players."
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What's this...actual hockey news?
Canuck eh?
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Don't you hate it when that happens?
Slapshot
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It is difficult to assimilate after all this time.
Canuck eh?
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So third and 4th liners get no "grooming" ?
Harry Crack
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And sadly, barely at that.
What NHL team isn't grooming impact players in the A right now because the lockout is preventing them from grooming them in the show?
dannylimes
Toronto, ON
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Uuuummm.....uuuuummmm........To***to?
(you knew it was coming)
Canuck eh?
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Only AHL team better than the parent club probably...
dannylimes
Toronto, ON
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I know. But I saw the shot. There was no danger. So I took it.
Canuck eh?
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I was going to say don't the Marlies run a better ship than the Leafs?
Then I was beaten to it...
The Aussie Caniac
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And by a Leaf fan. :-)
Canuck eh?
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no, they're barely allowed to shower
Spiny Norman
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many of them are not old enough to grow anything worth grooming
Garbage Man
Harrisburg , PA
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How do you have to be? My older sister had a mustache at 12.
shiprock
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Those AHL kids will be the only ready to play, the others will be all groin-pulls and such.
shiprock
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And continue playing in the AHL...
Golden Bay
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Just because you can grow one doesn't mean it is grooming worthy. Reference Sid's stache
Garbage Man
Harrisburg , PA
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best spot do do ones "manscaping"
Harry Crack
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I didn't know you were Italian
Spiny Norman
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He is ;-)
Harry Crack
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His sister went on to star in Magnum PI.
Canuck eh?
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