PLEASE SWAT THIS FLY

He's back. The most annoying player in NHL history. You know, the guy who reminds you of that fly buzzing around your room at night, keeping you from getting to sleep. It's hot and uncomfortable and that damn fly just won't quit. Then you finally get up, turn on the light and that little bugger is nowhere to be found. Yeah, I'm talking about Claude Lemieux. He's 43 and hasn't played in the NHL since 2003. Now, he's back in The Show with San Jose. Yes, the same Sharks who are leading the entire league! Is there nobody else in the farm system (Worcester) that is better than this? For crying out loud, Lemieux had already won a Stanley Cup before San Jose forward Devin Setoguchi was even born! Now, I know that Lemieux had a knack of getting under people's skin and sometimes playing with an 'ehem' edge (see Kris Draper hit). He also semed to be a guy that ended up on Cup winning teams (Montreal, New Jersey, Colorado). But do you really think that the stars on the Detroit Red Wings are going to give to steaming piles of dog dung that this guy is on the ice? Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg already play against an annoying idiot six times a year (Clue: He plays for Nashville, his number is the same as his name, 22). So if they can handle this guy a half dozen times, I'm sure they'll just laugh at the old man with the cane that's trying to get them off their game. It's obvious that Doug Wilson (Sharks GM) thinks that the road to the Cup runs through Detroit and he is trying to get his constantly under achieving playoff squad the edge they need to get over the hump which is Mowtown. Good news for Detroit. This annoying, buzzing fly will be slow moving and easy to swat.