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Hello. I am new to this forum. I enjoy watching the Wings, and have enjoyed seeing them hist the cup in 1997,98,2002, and 2008. However, there is something 750,000 residents of Winnipeg would like to see 100 times more. For the Wings to demolish the Coyotes in 4 straight games. You see, the Coyotes are in financial peril right now. The quicker they go down to defeat, the more favorable the chances of the team moving to Winnipeg in the off season. Ironically, the last Winnipeg Jets game was a 4-1 playoff loss to the Detroit Red Wings on April 28, 1996. It has been nearly 15 long years for our city to be without our beloved Jets. I would love to see the full circle. To see the Wings destroy the Coyotes, and watch the moving vans pull up to the Glendale Arena would be quite the site to behold. So on behalf of everyone from Winnipeg; GO WINGS GO! but more important: DIE COYOTES DIE!

yea sorry I'm new to this whole paint/photoshop war thing I just hope you liked my effort to do the "switch" thing.

A redux of last playoff's: http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/262/legendk.jpg

Here is one I made last year. It is the Wing's third choice Uni for the series.

Last one for now! Good luck guys...

Because I am incredibly bored, I thought it may be fun to partake in a bet for the final game in the season between Detroit and Chicago. Personally I believe the Wings will make things close but end up losing to a Hawks team that simply does not want to go away. My wager is this: I will make a signature based on the outcome. If the Wings win, I will make a signature listing all the people who are part of the bet as *name* > me. If the Wings lose, I will make a signature listing all the people who are part of the best as me > *name*. I might even partake in creating a mini-sig for those who are part of the bet saying me > Doc Holliday or Doc Holliday > me. Of course if someone has a better idea please go ahead and say so. I will also accept any ribbing from fans if the Wings end up winning this and knocking Chicago (potentially) out of the playoffs, so place your bets, if you dare. *Many thanks to a certain someone who inspired me with their happy go lucky posts about the Wings most recently*

Awesome, gutsy, ballsy win. Complaints: The Chicago Blackhawks, for playing PERFECT, INFRACTION-FREE HOCKEY for sixty minutes. Darn them! On a totally unrelated note, Johan Franzen's face, for spontaneously combusting. Keep it together, Johan Franzen's face! We got a game to win! Eddie Olczyk, for confusing "NBC" with "CSN." In his defense, B is a tricky letter.

I love Osgood but it's about time innit? Would have loved to had him healthy this season but it is what it is. It's about that time to hang em up...

Take a hint, dude. Your body is throwing them out all over.

How about coming back this year?

After years of defending the league against accusations of intentionally biased officiating, I'm no longer confident that everything is on the up-and-up. I think incompetence is a factor when bad officiating happens, and I also think it's an incredibly hard job that comes with mistakes. But I also believe there's more to it. Part of it is it seems the league is aware of public perception and attempts to react to it. I think the talk that Detroit was getting too much favoritism (especially at home), backed up by some convincing stats linked to on some very active internet forums, was one example. Since that public discussion, the pendulum seems to have swung to the opposite extreme. Just like foul and penalty disparities at half-time or intermissions seem to always magically "turn around" with calls going the other way to even things up later in the game. I think we're all being naive if we don't think it's at least possible that inequities in market sizes matter. Big market teams get nationally televised games; small-potatoes teams do not. Look at all the major sports and it's the same. The Yankees, Red Sox, Cowboys, Giants, Patriots, Knicks, Celtics, Heat, Lakers, Rangers Penguins and Red Wings all get more attention. They are either playing in huge TV markets or have marketable stars who have appeal that goes beyond the local fan base. So to think that this league, or any other, would never dream of letting that affect how they handle their affairs both on and off the playing surface, is probably ridiculous, even though we've been conditioned to buy into it. Stars get favorable treatment all the time. The top NBA players go to the line when a rookie role player who makes the same play doesn't. Supplemental discipline from the NHL is another example. If it had been Matt Cooke instead of Malkin, would there have been an instigator suspension for the Zetterberg incident in 2009? It's bad business to subtract a star player from the game's premier event. So why would entire teams be immune from the same kind of preferential treatment? But hey, professional sports leagues are in an enviable position. For some reason, everyone believes there is this unassailable sanctity in officiating. It's as if money can corrupt everything except pro sports officials. Sure, the Donaghy thing was a black eye to the league, but has it really hurt the NBA? Even with a guy going to jail after admitting he affected the outcome of games for money, there's this pervasive attitude that it's okay, it was just one guy acting on his own, it wasn't because of a league mandate, so surely it's not indicative of a bigger problem. Even as fans, we tend to feel ridiculous for bringing up egregious "mistakes" by officials. "Everyone gets bad calls sometimes." It's one hell of a cat bird seat the pro sports leagues are in. No matter how bad or one-sided the calls may seem (see the 2002 Sacramento-Los Angeles WCF and the 2006 Miami-Dallas NBA Finals for Exhibits A and B), you'll be dismissed as a whiner, sore loser or conspiracy-freak for saying you think something smells. What would it take to really create an insurmountable problem for a pro sports league? Is there anything a pro sports league couldn't sweep under the rug? I'm not sure. People love sports and they want to believe. All this being said, I'm not 100% convinced that there's corruption going on. I try to take a step back and look at the big picture. Detroit, another team with a huge following, was accused of being on the receiving end of a lot of favoritism. Ironically, I thought they outplayed teams to such an extent that they deserved an even wider disparity in calls for/against. But I'm not dismissing the possibility those accusations had some merit and I just didn't see it. Anyway, huge rant here, but I've been taking notice recently of some fishy stuff that's been going on in the NHL. And my team just won the game that has elevated my own suspicions, so this isn't some sour-grapes rant. It's cause for concern.

Only a bandwagon fan would say some s*** like that. esteef

Biologists and ecologists have updated the coyote territory range for next year

Here's some scouting on the competition...

QFFT

The only good thing that can come from Texas is heartbreak in Chicago.

I hope you mean to show his skills on the ice and not showing the other thing.

Who needs two gloves to score.

not sure he probably won't be around for the NFL playoffs but dunno about the NHL ones

Yay!!! F the haters Osgood....all he does is win. Took us to the cup finals in 09 saves our tail in 08. He's the man gotta love the guy