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LetsGoWings.com Official Game Day Thread - - Game 46 - - VS. Final Score: Penguins 4, Red Wings 1 Penguins take advantage of turnovers against Wings Start time: 7:00 EST Consol Energy Center - Pittsburgh, PA Available On: Tonight's Stream http://www.letsgowings.com/forums/index.php/user/15741-drumnj/ (Directions in profile) Official Game Preview: Injury plagued Wings head to Pittsburgh - - *Opposition GDT* From LetsGoPens.com - - Langenbrunner plays 1,000th game Willie O'Ree breaks color barrier All-Star jerseys revealed Western Conference Standings Forthcoming RED WINGS 45 GP, 28-11-6, 62 pts Last Game: Defeated CBJ 6-5 (OT) PENGUINS 46 GP, 28-14-4, 60 pts Last Game: Defeated BOS 3-2 Last DET-PIT Meeting: 3/22, PIT 1 at DET 3 Recap - LGW GDT Highlights Goals DET Johan Franzen: 19 PIT Sidney Crosby: 32 Assists DET Henrik Zetterberg: 34 PIT Sidney Crosby: 34 Plus/Minus DET Brian Rafalski: +16 PIT Chris Kunitz: +21 ---- DET Jiri Hudler: -7 PIT Zbynek Michalek: -5 PIM DET Jonathan Ericsson: 50 PIT Deryk Engelland: 76 Franzen-Zetterberg-Eaves Hudler-Filppula-Bertuzzi Draper-Helm-Miller Tatar-Abdelkader-Mursak Lidstrom-Kronwall Ericsson-Rafalski Salei-Kindl Projected PIT Lines Kunitz-Malkin-Dupuis Cooke-Staal-Kennedy Conner-Letestu-Rupp Adams-Talbot-Asham Orpik-Letang Martin-Michalek Goligoski-Engelland Joey MacDonald Record: 1-1-1, 2.36 GAA, .907 SV%, 0 SO ---- versus. ---- Marc-Andre Fleury Record: 20-11-2, 2.29 GAA, .920V%, 1 SO RED WINGS Tomas Holmstrom (broken hand) out, Jimmy Howard (knee) will not play, Brad Stuart (broken jaw) out, Chris Osgood (groin) out, Dan Cleary (broken ankle) out, Pavel Datsyuk (broken wrist) out, Mike Modano (severed tendon) out ---- PENGUINS Sidney Crosby (concussion) out, Ben Lovejoy (illness) questionable, Eric Godard (nose) out, Mike Comrie (hip) out, Alex Grant (wrist) out On Deck 1/19, Red Wings at Blues; 8:00 PM

technically Zetterberg wasn't selected for the all star game which means him not going violates no rule at all

Who cares about Crosby and the East. It's nice to see Lidstrom named the West captain. Despite it being the all-star game, it is still a tremendous sign of respect towards Lidstrom.

Doc, he's a fourth liner because he's a small player who's only an average skater, haven't you learned how the haters think? Doesn't matter if he scores 1 points or 100 points. Sure, he hasn't played up to his skill this year offensively, but he has been decent defensively (and gotten NO CREDIT) and has worked harder and been much more present in the corners and in front of the net than the haters give him credit for. When I see Hudler as the first Wing, or at least Wing forward, on the backcheck, that tells me he's working hard on defense and in general. And I've seen it quite a few times. Hudler is one of the slowest forwards on the team, yet has managed to be one of if not the first player back on the backcheck as often as anyone he plays with. But people ignore that, and instead simply say "Hudler is a slacker, he sucks, he'll never work hard or play defense" just because the points aren't coming his way. If Hudler was on a 20-game scoring streak with 35-40 points in that span right now, you wouldn't hear a peep about him sucking.

at first i was like but then i was like

Hoping for a balls to the wall win from the Wings. My friends and I are going to the Motor City Casino for the viewing party (managed to snag a few of the 400 tix before the "sold" out). They won the last time there was a Viewing Party, hopefully they win again

Yeah; we're gonna see Joe Kocur paired up with Chun-Li to fight Ryu and Wolverine in the next Marvel vs. Capcom game.

Those are the popular names but they got wayyyy more guys than those two. Sometimes it seems like it's just what's his face and everybody else around him is supposed to protect him or "scare off" any potential cheap shotters.

Edi's version of a Red Wings guardian would simply be Lilja's beard.

Like the rest of the guardians...stupid. I like the GP concept, but for something supposedly several months in development with allegedly professional comic writers involved, it's been disappointing. The whole thing seems like some college art student spent the whole semester partying, and had to cram the whole project into one weekend.

there are still hudler defenders? really?

The Red Wings are to the NHL what the Yankees are to baseball, what the Patriots are to football, and what the Lakers are to basketball. Any chance a "writer" has to criticize a player from any of the above-mentioned teams, they'll take it. Why? They're guaranteed readers/debate/discussion. The same happened in the late 80s and 90s with the Chicago Bulls and the Dallas Cowboys. We really ought to be happy that someone from outside Detroit knows who the hell Hank is, considering the NHL markets only two players.....and he ain't one of them.

Chris Kunitz... Ugh... "Hey I'm just gonna jump Darren Helm for no reason other than maybe because he's never fought before and I can bank away a win on my fight card... Yay..." I mean, with all those disgusting names it really makes me wish that Tardif was in for the game. Not to "answer the bell" but to perhaps send him as a kamikaze to Cooke's ACLs.

Kunitz will slew-foot Franzen Cooke will sucker-punch Kronwall from behind Letang will jump Hudler Lidstrom scores a pair, 2-1 Wings win

No Crosby? Zetterberg can focus on offense and score us some curly fries!

Boy Zetterberg sure is going to be lonely out there without Crosby to bug.

plus 1 to the post above me

No... no one did. Those who actually read the article, read this:

Totally agree with that 90's jersey's were the best!

So let me get this straight. The Red Wings ask the NHL not to invite Z to the ASG. The NHL grants the request, Z is not chosen. This guy wants the NHL to fine Zetterberg because his club dared make a request and the NHL complied. Surely the guilty party here would be the NHL, seeing how they're the only ones why actually made a decision in this chain of events. Maybe next they can start giving out fines to players for bad calls...

i like this one:

I'm assuming the author is Canadian. How about he spends his time bitching about the plethora of Canadians that cannot muster enough strength to go play for their country at the World's after their NHL season is over. At least, those games have meaning.

I think a 10 game suspension will be sufficient. Hank will have to learn that nobody crosses the boss.

I think thats stupid. What wings fan would want a 19 year old Yzerman being the one to have to stick up for himself? No one in their right mind, neither did management so they got him Probert. I understand not liking the fights after clean hits (even though it is often hard to determine whats clean and what isn't, the players dont get to watch youtube 3 times to decide.. they have 5 seconds to react) but its an age old thing where if theres gonna be a fight, a 19 year old star is not the one who should have to do it.

This is exactly what I am talking about. Hudler has become this year's whipping boy so people have blinders on when looking at his game. If people would for one second look at thing objectively you might gain some perspective. Hudler was never the most defensively skilled forward so to expect him to suddenly make a vast improvement to that area of his game is being unrealistic. Maybe you should take note of the turnover he created, in Saturday's game against Columbus, at our blueline that lead to Filppula's goal. Not the greatest defensive play in the world but it was a solid defensive play none the less that sent the Wings moving the other way and turned the momentum in the Wings favour. Secondly, you want to quote strength. The guy is small and always has been. Again, you can point out the negatives to the guy's game that have been there since the day the Wing's drafted him all you want. If you want you can also point out that Lidstrom isn't a physical defenseman that is a real bummer because the 2010-11 Wings team, according to so many on this forum, lack team grit but it doesnt mean that Lidstrom doesn't have other redeemable qualities. Pointing out someone's flaws (Hudler's lack of defensive competence and strength) doesnt diminish his positives. It's just a weak attempt to hide his redeemable qualities. No one is going to say that this year has been a good, or even decent, year so far for Hudler. But whipping boy or not, people need to learn how to look at things objectively. With the bad comes the good at times and people should give respect where respect is due. Over the course of the last 10 games Hudler play has improved (and yes there is still room to grow). He has stepped up and done a part in the depth scoring that the Wings have needed while the injuries have piled up. For the record, I'm not even a Hudler slappy