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Pretty accurate prediction I must say! lol

Who is this guy!?!? How can he keep predicting the correct score??

Val needs now 6 points in 9 games. Anyone care to delete their votes?

WAY TO GO, UNKNOWN 1!!!!

You were saying?

Yes, my frustration level is about the same as it used to be with Sammie

If my only options are death of more Bettman than, as much as this pains me to say, I gotta say more Bettman. Trust me, I hear what you're saying but to want some one to die for purely selfish reasons is too harsh in my eyes; especially when those reasons are just for how a sport is run. As much as Bettman's crap is annoying the NHL is still pretty damn entertaining and even as much as his s*** annoys me bitching and complaining about it is fun at times. There's always a silver lining. God, i can't believe I just made a case to keep Bettman in place....Stevkrause, what have you done to me?

you guys didn't hear? In the next CBA it will announced that Sidney Crosby will be Captain of the NHL. and since nobody can hold his jock, there will be no Alternate Captains. They have embedded a chip inside of him that allows him to be contacted at anytime during the day to discuss plays and watch replays to help officials make the correct calls.

It would be like a great sports movie the Wings battle injuries and bad play all season long get healthy and sneak into the playoffs, upsetting teams and winning the Cup. I would love to see this happen and wait to see what everyone has to say, after hearing all these people say how the "mighty wings have fallen","time to rebuid" comments it would be sweet.

This is very exciting for me. It's bee a looong time since the Wings were in this position approaching the post-season. I feel pretty confident that the Wings will make it into the playoffs, and it will be so much sweeter if they go deep from the 6 - 8 seed position.

FLIPPPPP... f*** YOU CONKSS

So people...Who think wings will blow this one and lose 3-2? ha ha

Does Bertuzzi still suck? LOL!! HAHA, f*** you haters!

Caught a big one here. Get it fried and battered with some chips (fries) and we've got ourselves a meal here boys. And David Beckham? Please...this isnt the 90's anymore.

Better one than none. Like you're some kind a true Red Wings fan, gimme a break. Go watch your boy Beckham kick that ball.

I'd say Sidney Crosby. Between face-offs and points he's one of the best overall player this season. Kesler and Datsyuk are far and away the two best though. Still think Datsyuk has an edge, but Kesler is closing in.

Glad you could post constructively. Someone asked who other contenders could be. Really Kesler + Datsyuk are so far ahead of anyone there really isn't a obvious pick. Just calm down. It's just text.

lol The same Kopecky who's only got his name on the cup because he played the requisite number of regular season games. If the Wings had the change to take Toews AND Kane or just Keith I'd still take Keith. That's how much better Keith is than those two.

I have been saying get rid of the conference affiliations and seed the teams 1-16 for the last few years. If the Wings were in the east, they would be either the 4th or 5th seed. I think they can get the 6th seed if they play like they have the last 10 games.

Fixed.

WIN THE ******* HOCKEY GAME! THOSE LEAF-LOADED FLAMES DONT DESERVE A PLAYOFF SPOT! (AS IF DETROIT DOES REALLY BUT WHATEVER!) GO WINGS GO!!

The idea that a majority of voters here think Datsyuk is going to win, and a large number think he is a lockc, is absolutely sickening. Datsyuk is a very good defensive forward, one of the ten or twenty best in the league, but despite his two Selkes, I don't think he has ever even been the best defensive forward on his team, let alone in the league. Kesler is the guy who should win it, but there are many other guys whose names could be mentioned as well. I'm not going to bother with bringing up this guy or that because that stuff just starts arguments, but my point is that while Datsyuk might be a candidate, the only reason he ever won the Selke is because he played excellent defense, was a very good offensive forward, and more importantly played flashy, high profile defense. Zetterberg deserved it more than Dats both of the past two seasons, but because Z didn't put up as many points and isn't as flashy, he didn't get the recognition. And even then, there are guys who were probably just as good as Z defensively. But this year and last, to say Dats is more deserving than Z is to ignore one simple fact: with all of the defensively skilled lines the Wings have, Z is ALWAYS put against the opposition's top offensive line, and he is always on the top offensive forward. Z vs Crosby in the finals, remember? When you are putting up a poll about "Is this guy a lock to win the Selke? Will he win it?" you should probably use your team's top shutdown forward rather than a guy who is simply one of the league's better defensive forwards and a candidate because he's a great two-way forward. It's like the reason Doug Gilmour won it in 1993. He wasn't better defensively that year than Fedorov, Carbonneau, Brind'Amour, Francis, Linden, Tikkanen, Kurri, or any of the other top end defensive forwards in the league at the time. He simply scored 127 points, one of only three times he broke the century mark, and based on the 83 games he played that season, 47.4 more points than his career average (he retired as a 2nd/3rd liner still scoring at basically .5 PPG) and 6.7 goals more than his career average, plus 40.7 assists more than his career average. Kesler was a contender for the Selke last season, so his defensive capabilities are already known and considered among the elite defensive forwards. Now he has added strong offensive performance to that. Datsyuk, meanwhile, has performed well below his normal offensive output. Voters will think "his overall performance is below par" while they look at Kesler and think "He has greatly improved." and so, there goes any chances of Datsyuk beating Kesler. Offense shouldn't factor in the voting, but it does. Either highly skilled offensive players are recognized as top players and then their defense is recognized after their team starts relying on them as much as any defensive specialist (Yzerman, Gilmour, Francis, Sakic, Modano, Brind'Amour) or the player is a recognized defensive specialist who has an offensive improvement, gaining them a higher profile and consideration for the award (Lehtinen, Draper, Peca, Madden, Conroy) but only rarely is the player a bonafide top defensive forward who is receiving consideration solely for his defensive abilities. Multiple Selke winner Guy Carbonneau was one such forward.

It really didnt looked bad, didnt hit his shoulder, not fell awkwardly on his knees nor ankles...oshies shoulder hit his stomach...that means.... BROKEN RIBS HERE WE GO

Jesus H Christ that line is on fire

I wanted them to play together several weeks ago, but I can see now that they have no chemistry at all. They've played like 4 or 5 games together, and I don't think that line has scored 1 goal in that time. We don't have time to wait for them to develop chemistry together and I think the line needs to be split. Hank is playing like crap and Flip is afraid to shoot. Cleary and Bert both suck right now. Basically, we have no second line and haven't had it even during this 3 game winning streak.