Just because Mayers is being ill-utilzed in Toronto, doesn't mean he's a goon - Unless you consider all 3rd-liners goons, by virtue of the fact that they're not "elite".

He's a right-handed player who has playoff experience, with the Blues - He's a heart and soul guy, in the mold of Mike Grier. He's a very tough player who stands up for his own, and a team-leader with a very sound work-ethic.

I put him in the same type of grouping as Nigel Dawes, Dominic Moore, Chris Drury, Dustin Byfuglien, Jason Blake, Milan Lucic...

I mean to say: He's a Hockey player's Hockey player. Great fundamentals, nothing fancy and a very hard worker. Leads by example.

Personally, I always make suggestions that would steer the Sabres' roster toward a Calgary-type paradigm. Well-rounded players, with a great degree of accountability; a tough, lunch-pail type of team. Top to bottom.

Team concept - No danglers.

He leads the team in PIMS, he has only 1 assist, minus 4, and obviously he doesn't work hard because if you lead the team in PIMS it either means your a goon or a freaking lazy bastard.

...or, you get sent out there, by your coach, to cause shit. And typically sit, otherwise.

If you watched him, on the St. Louis Blues, you would know otherwise. He wasn't a goal-scorer, but he got his share - Even had a 15-goal season...

And, leading the team in PIM's means no such thing...

It means you take a lot of penalty minutes. Taking penalties either A: means someone dived or faked it, which usually doesn't happens, B: Your lazy and you hook, trip, or slash the guy or C: You fight a lot AKA goon.

And if you get sent out on the ice to start stuff and cause stuff, you are a goon. A lap dog. Which if the coach does that he can be fined.

You just like to fucking argue, don't you?

Patty Kaleta 54 min PIM - So he's a fucking goon?

Here's a list of "goons":

Alex Ovechkin 46
Eric Boulton 46
Rick Rypien 46
Sean Avery 46
Jamal Mayers 45
Bryan Allen 45
Jay McKee 44
David Backes 44
Paul Mara 44
Shane Hnidy 43
Craig Rivet 43
Matt Walker 43
Chris Pronger 43
Martin Hanzal 43
Adam Foote 42
Alexandre Burrows 42
Steve Ott 42

Jamal Mayers 45 min PIM... He must be a goon. Right? And, for your enlightenment, Colton Orr leads the Leafs, with 75 min PIM

The overall number means nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. And as for your lap-dog argument...WTF? If the coach wants to spark the team and tells you to go out and pick a fight - You go out and pick a fight. Or if your goalie gets run, you turn around and smack the fucker that ran him.

Team? Ever hear of that word?

Have you ever even played Hockey? Where do you get off making such bullshit judgments? STFU.

Jason Blake is a cancer.

I'm going to stop here, as your being a fucking shithead about it. You love to act tough over a message board? Because you wouldn't in my face. Learn how to argue like a human.
Yes, I have played hockey before. Millions of times. I have been a goalie and a forward. I know the game. MAYERS IS A GOON.

Jason Blake is a cancer.

Yay, for you.

You're obviously unintelligent and you still don't understand the game. And you're a rude and obnoxious infant.

Get lost, and don't come back. No love lost here. And you wouldn't know "tough" if it bit you in your fat ass. I've tried to argue reasonably with you, and YOU call me a shithead. Who's the tough guy??

Buffoon.

Jay, Malone is second on the team in goal scoring. He isn't going anywhere.

Ya, apparently he hasn't been following Malone lately. He's paying off in spades now. Thinking they'd take Hecht to "get rid of " Malone is absurd, even if ya gave 'em head too.

BTW...that's not funny, and quite cruel and tasteless.

Why? It's not like he had real cancer. He was a piece of shit before he had cancer and he's still a piece of shit.