Leaderboard

Let me know when they get rid of the whole shootout.

I wouldn't worry about getting in trouble if you're throwing an octopus in the Joe. The staff are Wings fans too! If I were you I'd save the octopus for the first Wings goal, though. Bring 10 or 12, actually, and throw them out whenever we win a faceoff.

Yeupp. And so do the coaches.

Pffft, I don't know what you guys are talking about, we're going to win today by 10 touchdowns!

Good for Sammy. He looks so cocky too these days when he scores as his Canuck buddies hug him and toss him about. I wonder why he couldn't snipe the corner of the net like he did tonight last year. Funny how these things work.

I'm pretty sure this is what the GDT is for.

Babcock dug his grave some time ago. This is not about Howard or Osgood. It's not about which goaltender we like or who we prefer in goal. This is about a coach who rendered his backup goaltender virtually useless by keeping him on the bench for an unreasonable amount of games. And that's just poor coaching in my opinion.

Chippendales Coyotes Style

I'm a high school drop out, and I find that clip highly offensive.

That was not a kicking motion.

Man I would love to see kings take this series... I hate the kings but i hate the nucks way more lol except for sammy he is ok <_<

Three words: Pile. Of. s***.

Logic is taking a serious beating here. If you put your best shooter FIRST, you won't even get to that point. Say Gaborik was, for the sake of argument, a 90% shooter. Put him FIRST and you increase your chances of never getting to that point where it is do or die at all. ...exactly. You never put out your second best option. If he felt Gaborik was better he would have put him there over Jokinen. See, best players first. Because screw maybe making it to the fourth round with a killer shooter. You have to make it there first (or win, if your BEST shooters are good enough to win it first). Therefore, the better shooter of the two should be put third and the worse of the two fourth. To clarify, I'll go over this point further: You're only changing the order of your goals (or the order of your best chance for a goal really). You want to get as many of those goals as fast as you can. That's how a shootout works.

I don't see how there's situational coaching here. There's only one thing you want the player to do and that's score. If you're not already putting out your best SO players from best to worst, then, as a coach, there's something wrong in your head. You can hardly put out grinders to change the momentum in a shootout. Whatever, I don't really care either way.

Last year Hudler was tied 70th in points (57) and tied 102nd in ppg (0.70) among forwards.There are 3x30=90 "1st line forwards" and 6x30=180 "top6 forwards" in the NHL. Hudler was a 1st line forward in terms of points and still a top6 forwad in terms of points per game. Plus, he did all this playing on the 3rd line most of the time. No matter how you look at it, Jiri Hudler is a top6 forward in the NHL and definitely a good one too.

keepin that bench real warm

I love Ozzie to death but I think this was the season that marked the end of his career as a dependable starter. I mean, he's 37. I think Howard's really only let in one softie the whole series - this isn't comparable to 2006 and Legace.

Detroit does turn on their goalies insanely quickly.

If you ever took time to read posts you would have realized that Doc was never against Howard.

not a shop but good fun anywho http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/yzih5vdXfGxzVmpB