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I won't be an ass about defeatism like I used to be at times, but I will suggest that some of you might enjoy watching hockey more if you had a tad more faith in the Wings.

How many times can we say "GOD DAMN I LOVE OUR 4TH LINE!!"

Quadruple shift? It's a team game. It's ridiculous to quadruple shift him just so he can keep his precious little scoring streak alive. Now seriously, I will admit, he is the best scorer in the game. But he is not the best player, nor is he as great as everyone thinks. I'm a Canadian, and it SICKENS me everytime they show him scoring that goal in the Olympics this year. Crosby's stats are inflated because he only plays 5-5 or on the powerplay, and the majority of the Eastern conference teams suck. What bugs me the most is the Pittsburgh Penguins in general. The team tanked for half a dozen seasons, almost went into bankruptcy, and what does the NHL do? Here, here you go, here's Malkin, Staal, Crosby and Fleury. You deserve them for all those years of poor management and shotty GMing. The NHL should not award horrible teams with the best picks. With the salary cap now in place, any team who misses the play-offs should have an EQUAL shot at the #1 draft pick.

Why wouldn't they quadruple shift him? He is the best player in the world by far right now. The hatred for Crosby makes me laugh. He might whine but he is passionate as hell about being the best. He works at the things he needs to get better at and i'm pretty sure his resume speaks for itself. He's 23 yrs old and won everything. I'm not a huge fan of him because he is a Penguin but saying the refs help them out? cmon stop being such a baby.

Wings win 4-1 Wings: Mursak, Hudler, Kindl, Helm (because that's all that's left) Stars: Kronner breaks a stick attempting to clear. The puck goes off Flip's butt, is fanned by Bertuzzi, the breeze from which redirects the puck and sends it bouncing off Ott's skate and into the net.

PUT EAVES ON THE ICE

OTT! #1 star for the Wings so far.

The other Pens players didn't even seem interested in scoring when he wasn't on the ice. Quadruple shifting him throughout the game and then having him play the first 2:00 of OT? That's not even necessarily caring about the team anymore. If anything, that's opening up a guy for injury, but hey, if that's what they wanted to do to keep a personal achievement going. Then the refs call a too many men on the Isles in OT and why? Because a Penguins player tripped an Islanders player on the way to the bench. You can't deny that - at least in the league's eyes - it was in the league's best interest for that streak to continue. Guess with the Pens, it really is about the name on the back, not the crest on the front. But I digress, because I'm horribly off-topic. Shooting gallery between Phoenix and Los Angeles in the first period, yikes. 4-3 Phoenix after 1.

Oh, look what happens when you shoot the freakin' puck at Dallas' goalie. Gah.

"Ott" and "ass" are both words that begin with a vowel, followed by two consonants. Coincidence?

You know, I've debated this one internally for a while and finally decided on a way to answer it: "If Ozzie's number was raised to the rafters, would the Ozzie chant in the Joe be thunderous?" The answer to that question is my answer.

Yzerman, Lidstrom, Shanahan, Fedorov. You could argue about Vernon, Chelios, and Konstantinov being better during those years. Try again.

Uh oh, Eaves hatty incoming!

DRAPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL~~ Lehtonen channeling Turco in net. Oh, hell yeah!

Fixed.

What a fortuitous broken stick. Of course, the referee that was at center ice thought it was a slash. Looking at the replay, oddly, he was right.

Wow Pulu is amazing! I love this kid!

Ericsson at forward for a few games, if needed, sounds like a good idea.

if rafalski plays and z doesn't jsut play ericsson at forward

I wonder if theyll rush someone out from GR. Not sure about Emmertons injury status but would be nice to see him get a game. And yeah I would rather him then iFlip. Emmerton is a young gun who has more of a future then Flip and Flip would be useless in a 4th line role. Emmerton is solid defensively and could be a pretty good 4th or 3rd line guy for the wings in a few years. Hell maybe even Andderson with the way he's been playing lately could get the call to play in the bottom 6

Hockeytown should be licking his chops right now, I picked up a bottle of Infinium for after my finals today

The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo - Steve Martin.

have you watched any of the games? he hasn't been as bad as the stats suggest. a lot of the INTs are plays where his receiver runs the wrong route or can't handle the pass. the whole team isn't doing as good as they were last season and i think it's unfair to put it on him. either way, favre is the NFL all-time leader in every meaningful category for QBs. to suggest that forsberg is/was a better hockey player than favre is/was a football player is ridiculous.