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Originally Posted by Maverick Seriously, with the loss of Nagy, Thornton, and Willsie wouldn't you think that the addition of Palffy as a veteran and offensive mentor be a good

**ianmonsta** · March 11th, 2008, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Maverick

Seriously, with the loss of Nagy, Thornton, and Willsie wouldn't you think that the addition of Palffy as a veteran and offensive mentor be a good acquisition? I think they should sign him back for a 1 year 2.5 million deal in the offseason depending on how he performs in the World Championships. Or at least get him in the King's training camp as a tryout and give him a chance.

Wouldnt he still technically be property of Pittsburg if he made an NHL return?

**PPharoah** · March 11th, 2008, 01:58 PM

Nice update, hope DL is paying close attention.

borinka99 · March 11th, 2008, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by imamonsta

Wouldnt he still technically be property of Pittsburg if he made an NHL return?

His "contract" is up after this year, so he would be unrestricted. If he came back this year or earlier, then he would be property of Pittsburgh.

**ianmonsta** · March 11th, 2008, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by borinka99

His "contract" is up after this year, so he would be unrestricted. If he came back this year or earlier, then he would be property of Pittsburgh.

Thanks for the clarification

demo05 · March 23rd, 2008, 02:42 PM

Guess what, something improbable happened for the fourth time in ice hockey history... The team of Trencin, after trailing 0-3 in their playoff quarterfinal series, managed to turn things around and win the series 4-3. This only happened 3 times before in hockey history: twice in the NHL and once in Switzerland.

The result meant that Ziggy Palffy's team Skalica can now avoid last season's champions, and this year's regular season winner, Lubo Visnovsky's former team, Slovan Bratislava.

Instead, Skalica takes on Kosice (2nd in the regular season), the top Eastern Slovak team, where Ladislav Nagy and Vladimir Dravecky are from...

Here is the update on this semifinal series after 4 games:

GAME 1: (road) Skalica 1, Kosice 4 (Palffy: 1 Assist; 0)
GAME 2: (road) Skalica 1, Kosice 3 (Palffy: 1 Assist; -1)
GAME 3: (home) Skalica 3, Kosice 0 (Palffy: 1 Goal; +2)
GAME 4: (home) Skalica 4, Kosice 2 (Palffy: 4 Assists; +3)

So, that's 1 goal and 6 assists = 7 points in 4 playoff semifinals games so far. The series is tied 2-2, and Game 5 is played tomorrow on Monday, 9 a.m. LA time. The game is shown live here or via SopCast.

Here is the video of Ziggy's only playoff semifinals goal so far, and a controversial one at that. In Game 3, Skalica was awarded a controversial penalty shot in the final minute of regular time, when Skalica was already leading 2-0.

If the call was controversial, Ziggy's execution of the penalty shot turned out to be even more controversial... It took a long time for the referees to determine whether Ziggy scored the goal, and finally they said he did. It looks like they and the video referee were mistaken! Anyway, watch for yourself:

YouTube - Palffyho neskutocny gol