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February's featured players are Conn Smythe Trophy winners Henrik Zetterberg and Steve Yzerman: Widescreen: 1920x1200 | 1680x1050 | 1440x900 | 1280x800 4:3 & 5:4: 1600x1200 | 1400x1050 | 1280x960 | 1280x1024 | 1024x768 Enjoy!

I decided to pull out the dvd of the game, watching it again. Here are some of my observations of a great hockey game... Pushor vs. Severyn - Pushor has no idea what he's doing. Severyn starts it but Jamie doesn't get much but thrown to the ice. Sakic butt ends and holds Yzerman blatently then trips him...old time hockey? Federov is on defence. He goes end to end like his first name's Bobby. Oh, and he stands out kinda like Datsyuk does now, its wild to see these guys in their primes again. Valerie Kamensky scores the first goal. Beautiful, top shelf one-timer off the draw. A big scrum a few minutes later leads to a tussle between Maltby and Corbet. Maltby was theoretically 'fighting'...weird. The highlight: Murphy and Kieth Jones wrestling a bit. FSN vs Versus! Apparently Colorado had won the last four And seven of nine. The guy doing the game with Mickey on PASS sports is annoying. Almost all of our players could hit and fight. Konstantinov, Pushor, Shanahan, Ward, Knuble, LaPointe, McCarty, Maltby... Holmstrom #15 Knuble's 1st NHL game. Then IT happens... I'm still blown away that Forsberg/Larionov sets it off. The play by play guy is talking like its no big deal throughout. Mickey hasn't said anything halfway through, wth. McCarty knees Lemieux in the head when he's on the boards. Vernon/Roy is vicious. I love the off their feet hit between Shanahan and Roy. Kamensky and Lidstrom had each other, never knew that. Marc Crawford looks like he's 27. Vernon's helmet is classic. Deadmarsh/Konstantinov. A whole :30 seconds later. Mickey: "Sticks, gloves, arms, elbows up..." And that was just the first period!!!

To be honest, the entire allure for me of the Wings playing the Winter Classic in Chicago was that it was potentially the only time I would get to see it. Now it would just become an outdoor version of a regular season game. That doesn't sit right with me.

I guess we'll have to wait and see who's career he ends first, his own from drinking (or whatever drug he's doing), or another players with one of his cheapshots.

Alright.. not entirely a Wings-related photo.. but I can't help it! Loved the caption above it when I found it "And they keep making Brett Lebda cry!"

dont like them. There current jerseys are so much better its funny how some of you love every thing tampa does just cause yzerman went there just sayin..

Per the new CBA, if you sign a RFA player to a deal worth 6.4ish million+ it's actually four 1st round picks, a pint of virgin blood, and a vial of children's tears

I've always loved to grab a coney from Lafayette Coney Island (best coney dogs in Michigan). I'm not old enough to go to the bars so my tradition is to grab a dog on the way back down the lodge. I think most people here will agree that this is one of the essential dining experiences in Detroit. You can go there before or after the game, either way you are bound to find Wings fans not only enjoying 2 with everything and a Verners, but also ready to talk about the game. The place is pretty small, but I wouldn't change it, the beauty of the small venue is that everyone eating together is like one big family.

If I were visiting another hockey board and found a Red Wings discussion about a Detroit player with a problem, followed by some of these posts, I'd figure I were at a St. Louis Blues forum. Shameful some of the things said here. No one hates Jordin Tootoo the player more than this guy, but I wish him nothing less than a speedy and full recovery. This is just hockey, people.

Snazzy as ever. Nice touch with the new Bolts logo.

a game like that will never happen again in the NHL, all of these players would be suspended and the fun ruined for everyone. slowly softening hockey up, sickens me.

I worked in a factory years ago and heard derogatory cracker jokes all the time. But then, I found most of them funny. Ultimately, I think you have to acknowledge your chosen work environment and take it with a grain of salt. If you work as a stripper, you are probably going to face some sexual harassment. Join the military and you are in for some verbal, if not physical, abuse. Working any blue collar job is going to expose yourself to a lot of ethnic slurs. Ultimately, I think you do more for yourself and your ethnicity by letting jokes roll off, doing your job and not take every real or perceived offense so literally. In a predominantly black work setting, I probably did more for their perception of whites by being an easy-going guy who could take, and give, a joke than if I was all up in arms over any slight or attempted to sue the company I was working for. Sure, it can be a slippery slope, but a zero tolerance policy for any of the grey areas doesn't seem to do much good and only fosters resentment, further mistrust and only hardens stereotypes. That does not mean you tolerate anything truly in the red, but joking about Jews liking money is a far cry from a truly hostile work environment in which he is being singled out for his differences and abused. Suing in cases like this tend to discredit cases of true abuse, IMO.

It's like my Sakic comment above. I think Sakic got a penalty, for tripping, but only after he essentially butt-ended, interfered with, then literally held Yzerman with his arm, before Yzerman fell. The penalty's weren't really called unless the transgression was pretty blatent. Lots of hooking and holding.

Good news... I can't stand Tootoo, but wish him no harm. Glad he got better, and good on the Preds and NHL for standing up for him and with him as he tries to right the ship. Hope he learned something from this and makes the most of a second chance not everyone gets in life. Now, I hope the Wings beat the Preds' butts on 4/2, because I plan to be there.

Tampa Bay Maple Leafs.

Stevie definitely had a hand in this, you can tell. I am falling in love with this Lightning hockey club.

i definately wouldn't say theyre that low. nashville could change their colors to red and white.

I sent my Wish Application in for the game on the 13th against Boston - it says "LetsgoWings.com supports Children's Hospital." If you're at the game, look for it on the Jumbotron between the 1st and 2nd.

because.............

Doesn't stop people watching East games.

LMAO!!!! I remember when that first happened. I couldnt stop laughing for the rest of the period!

27% of the 318 NHL players polled by CBC/NHLPA voted the Islanders the team they'd least like to play for.

Wouldn't be one of my favorites. Mostly because I'd have to kill myself in embarrassment the first time a Detroit fan blew a train whistle.