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Being a goalie in Detroit has to be one of the worst jobs in sports. Calder trophy nomination season top 5 SV%/GAA, 30 wins, a game 7 road win and a .915 SV% in the playoffs and he gets called a sieve. He's faced the most shots and has the most saves out any other goalie in the playoffs, he didn't cost the Wings a damn thing.

Exactly, unless people want to get rid of Zetterberg to get an "elite" goalie that could still just fall apart (Luongo, Theodore etc.), I'm completely content with having Howard make the first save, he kept the Wings close and we couldn't bail him out.

Hilarious. Ovehckin puts 10pts up in 7 games against the Habs and people call him a choker. Crosby puts 5pts up in 6 games and he's still the anointed one.

If by "suspend" you mean "suspend over piranha-infested waters by only his jock strap, then slowly lowered", then yes I agree that's what should happen.

I wish I was as cool as you.

Lidstrom has sons, Datsyuk has a daughter... We have the template for genetic super hockey players right at our finger tips. Bring on Lidsyuk.

i wish holland would make deals for my entertainment

Whoa, no way, a defenseman made a mistake. If only they all were Lidstrom. Rafalski scored a billion goals and was an All-Tournament defenseman for a reason. If he could have scored for the Wings as consistently as he did for Team USA the Wings' would have never lost a game.

Seemed to make the team play with more balls. Had guys like Meech and Cleary fighting while he was here. Hopefully Abdelkader can fill this role as best as he can next season. May had an effect on this team, I don't care what anybody says, they played with balls when he was dressed.

REAL TOUGH SINDEY... Take a cheap shot at the end of the game on a Euro you ******* *****... What a punk. GO HABS GO! OLE! OLE! OLE! OLE!

Whatever the future plans are for this team, they have to stay in the downtown area. The season ticket base has to be priority in their business plan.

Sooo I can't wait to draft lidstrom's son.

I'd rather not have another Leino around here. "Put me in, or else" This McIlrath kid does sound pretty kick ass, we'll see how it comes out though.

I can't believe Carman and I are fighting the same fight for once.

I swear to God some people are delirious, or hate players so much they obsess over some little detail. Rafalski was one of our best players, overall, and he was the star of the Olympics.

Rafalski was one of team USA's best players in the olympics.

Excellent information! I agree whole heartedly that Howard deserves way more respect than he has been given by many of the posters to this forum! The safe assumption is that Howard has learned a tremendous amount during his first NHL playoff experience. And with that experience should come an increase in confidence, and a goalie to build and reshape this team with. He's earned the starting position next season, and it will be up to someone else to perform and knock him out of it. Good Luck to them. GO WINGS!

I could count on 1 hand how many bad goals Howard gave up in the Sharks series. Most goals he allowed was 5 on 3 and 5 on 4 goals. Can't blame Howard because his team couldn't stay out of the box.

After what Howard did this year I'm not going to throw anymore prospects under the bus until they get a real shot with the Wings.

Give me a break. The fact that it was your team that benefited from the horrendous officiating in this series makes all of the above really easy for you to say. Were the opposite to have happened, you'd be crying bloody murder. Oh, and nice job writing up this post after making a totally obnoxious one in the game 2 video thread. Did you not like the fact that the mods deleted that post? He was also completely brilliant at points and stopped shots that would have evaded most goalies.

That took up so much space to say f*** ALL I wanted you to read it again

One more...Detroit's Shark Tank...

We just came out flat in game 1 and never got our footing back after that. I'd say playing so quickly after an emotional game 7, the refs in game 2, and just a pure lack of energy/motivation/cohesion/whatever to finish game 3 have all combined to make this a difficult series. Howard hasn't looked good, the offense hasn't looked good, the defense hasn't looked good, and the officiating has been atrocious. I don't think there's any one thing that you can blame this on.