flyingelvii {l Wrote}:I still don't understand what you were talking about. I think I just got tired and made myself a sandwich or something in lieu of responding. If the point is around the phrasing of defense versus "defense", then I think there just wasn't a lot of clarity. Regardless, Orpik would look like shit on a big ice surface but that is probably a moot point after Thornton knocked him into bolivian.
I said Orpik was going to make the team and then I said I wouldn't take anyone that played defense for the Pens. Those things do not contradict; I would not take Orpik because he is one of many (though not the worst offender) Pens defensemen that can't or won't play defense for shit - Letang is French for "overcommitted to the offensive zone", but I thought the US would. I made no statement about ice surfaces, and yes it is all a moot point now.