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Seems like most people have forgotten, there are 7 games in a playoff series. It's first to 4 wins, not 3. Obviously the odds are VERY LOW, but it is STILL POSSIBLE. I think we have the skill to pull off a miracle. How about you guys? LET'S GO WINGS

Welp, we had a Cup win two years ago and a near miss on it last year. Even if we get knocked out in the second round this year, I'll still be satisfied. One can't make it deep into the playoffs every year, and we've been lucky to see the Wings make it deep for the past three seasons. Go Wings! Edit: Note that I'm not giving up until the horn sounds on the final game of this team's playoffs. Edit 2: It's also pretty hard to win a series when all of the calls are going the other team's way.

Some of you sure are: 1) Fickle 2) Spoiled Get with the picture.

You'd be huffing too if you got that much tail every night.

IF? IF, Zetterberg scored on the penalty shot, we would have atleast two more games IF, Howard didn't allow a few easy goals, we would have atleast two more games IF, the refs were not completely incompetent in game two, we would have atleast two more games IF, our own players would stop taking penalties (cough, cough Holmstrom), we would have atleast two more games IF, the Mule scored 17 goals tonight, we would have atleast two more games You win as a team and lose as a team.

HAHAH You know nothing about coaching. You can't roast your team in front of the media, especially with the players we have on the Wings. Babcock just plays the middle ground in interviews, if the Wings have a good game he'll tell you what they need to improve, if they have a bad game he'll tell you what they did well. It's not rocket science, and expecting a coach like Babcock to take off his pants and s*** on Lidstrom's jersey in an interview is just ridiculous.

People act like Howard came out of nowhere. This guy has been among the elite goalie prospects since '03. The potential is there, this was a very successful first season. He's clearly not had the best playoffs, but the Wings just aren't a Stanley Cup caliber team and that can make it look like it's Howard costing us more then he probably is. It's not like he is putting on his Cloutier mask and letting in 60 footers. He's made some huge saves, and has kept the Wings in close games. He may not have out dueled Nabokov, but for a first playoff experience it could have been far far worse. It's not time to give up on him, he's going to get better. Now I wouldn't give him a whole lot of string to work with, but he's earned a good chance to be the goaltender for this team. He was far and out our regular season MVP and we should all look forward and cheer for him, because the sky is the limit.

I have faith in the team and will always cheer my heart out until they are officially out... I still believe no matter how dim the light may be. Not everyone will share how i feel.

Ericsson hasn't been the same since he met HR40

You can't get on Howard for the OT goal. It's a s***show when they get a break like that. Maybe you get lucky, maybe you don't. However, that soft goal at the end of the 1st and the soft goal in the 3rd are unacceptable. I feel infinitely more justified in suggesting that Babcock screwed up with the goaltending. It's just stupid to put so much on a rookie when you've got a guy like Osgood there. He never was given a fair shot, and that's a shame. As I've said since November, it's stupid to put so much on Howard. It's not fair to him. He was set up to fail or be Patrick Roy, and the latter was unlikely to happen. He hasn't been good enough in the playoffs and he lost this game for us. I don't blame him though. I blame Babcock. He's been making poor coaching decisions since November, and now we're suffering through the result of those poor decisions, and most unfortunately, so is Howard.

We need some rest from the past two long seasons. Howard got his first taste of the playoffs and now we can mix up this team and remove the lazy players. Bert, Lebda, Ericsson, Williams, f*** you.

I want Ozzy to start game 4, and win 4 straight.

Thank you Williams for missing the net by 50 feet and leading to the Sharks game winner. It was great to have you back in the lineup. Please do not come back next year, from all Red Wing fans!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin_Setoguchi

PenaltyShot 96 had the idea, I did the photoshopping.

Mindfly gets angry if the Cup celebration doesn't go off as planned.

Fact: That Sharks goal sucked and our D should have played strong through the end of the period. Fact: Howard should have stopped that goal. Fact: The calls in this game can only be described as weird and dumbfounding, but atleast thus far, in this game, they are kind of in our favor. Fact: We have outshot the Sharks, outhit the Sharks, Outtakeawayed the Sharks and aren't losing to them in faceoffs. Most importantly, we have OUTSCORED the Sharks. Fact: There's a lot of hockey left to be played, but this is our game to win. We are an organization other teams fear for a reason. When we are on fire, we are really on fire. As fans, we just have to have faith and support in our boys.

Howard will bounce back just like the Fiddler faceoff goal

Despite the late goal. Great period. Best period of hockey we have played against them so far. I wouldnt worry about that late goal. We are still up by one, and if we keep playing the way we did this period we will win the game. ...and if we dont continue to play the way we did, we wont win and THAT would be why we lost. Not because of a late period fluke goal.

What the f*** are you even talking about? Do you spread this idiocy to the general public?

your an idiot

There have definitely been people dropping the cliche of Osgood getting by on stacked teams. It's typical BS Osgood analysis around here. When Osgood plays well, it's because of stacked teams. When anyone else struggles, it's the team's fault. Meanwhile, in the regular season, when the team plays poorly, it's because they're not confident in Osgood to make the save. Then someone else comes in and plays well (and perhaps the team gets a wake up call and picks up their game too...) and suddenly the teams playing better because the goalie's giving them confidence. And that does bring me to a point about Howard again. If we're going to go with the idea that strong play from a goalie makes a team play better with more confidence, and then that weak play makes a team play worse with less confidence, you've got to question how Howard's play in the post-season is influencing this team. And while I'd agree that he certainly hasn't been the only problem, he's most certainly not been a strength for us the majority of the time thus far. He's struggled to hold leads and oftentimes given up the leads early. On multiple occasions he's surrendered the lead/let the other team tie it up merely moments after we tied it up/took the lead. And that boils down to the one thing I very much agree with Eva on: Howard's timing for giving up goals has been terrible, and far too often these goals are either stoppable or blatantly soft. Here is a stat that to me is fairly stunning: Howard's given up goals in pairs (or more...) just a few moments or less apart, in 6 out of 9 games. While the circumstances are obviously different given how much Osgood's played this year, if this were 2008 and Howard started and played as he has this year, he absolutely would have been pulled by now. The biggest reason we pulled Hasek is because he kept giving up goals in pairs, surrendering leads, and generally not stopping the puck at the worst times. Howard's absolutely had the same issue, and for as well as he's played at times (and bear in mind, I gave him a ton of credit for his Game 2 recovery and don't hold those 3rd and 4th goals against him), he's also played downright poorly at others. As I've said all along and all season, I like Jim Howard a lot and I'm very happy for all he's done this year and I think he's got a lot of potential if he keeps his head straight and continues to improve on his fundamentals. But at the end of the day, I'm not going to sugarcoat anything about the post-season: he hasn't been good enough, not even close. If Osgood were in game shape, I think Howard would have and probably should have been out in the first round. Far too often he has not played well enough to allow this team to get any kind of momentum or swagger going. When you're constantly giving up goals in pairs, giving up leads early, giving up leads or ties through the game, you don't give your team any chance to get going. Again, I'm not saying it's all his fault by any means, but you've got to sugarcoat it and some to say that he hasn't been a glaring weakness in the post-season far too often. And to suggest that he isn't helping the team play better is no stretch either. And while I get that it's real hard to put Osgood in at this point for other reasons, and while I get that Howard's finished games better than he started at times, it doesn't change the fact that we've lost more games than we've won and Howard's most certainly one of the reasons that is the case. So while it's not so cut and dry for me, I certainly understand why many are ready to yank Howard and see if Osgood can get it done again. This isn't just slappy's on the forum. It's the radio hosts, it's the journalists, and it's not a brand new suggestion after game 4. While I get that Howard is a rookie and I'm not going to hold this against him in the future, I don't think anyone is being honest if they suggest that Howard hasn't been incredibly disappointing in the post-season so far. The whole reason we went with Howard over a 3-time Cup winner down the stretch is because he played so great, at times looking utterly dominant while putting on a one man show. He absolutely has not played anywhere close to that level in the post-season. How can you really expect people to be happy about that?

Why on Earth would you trade Flip for Price when we already have Howard?