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f*** you NHL. You tried. Try to make it less obvious next time.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I really enjoyed the NBC broadcast without Pierre McGuire. He's on the Philly-Sabres game right now. I really hope he does Eastern games this playoffs and stays far away from Detroit.

And despite all this, the Detroit haters all around the League have the nerve to continue to cry that the officials love Detroit.

Yeah, the Helm hit on Jovanovski looked clean as a whistle to me, but I'm willing to give the refs the benefit of the doubt there since Jov and Tippett were so teed off about something. What I'm NOT willing to let go is that nobody called anything on Jov grabbing Helm's frigging throat. That's un-mofoing-acceptable, and out of all the stupid sh** that happened in the game, that's what's going to stick with me because I still can't believe it. I don't care if Helm cross-checked, slashed, boarded, and then sat on him, that's just not what you do, and I can't believe the refs let that go.

The interference on helm to make it a 5 on 3 was ridiculous

Wings can never make it easy, can they? They were way too undisciplined in the 3rd, I don't know what happened. You can blame the refs but mostly it was just stupid moves by Wings players, such as Franzen's cross-check. The first 2 periods were amazing though, and they did pull themselves together in the end and held on to the win. Series is 2-0 and I'm not going to complain too much. Btw, this was one of the best games I've ever seen Pavel Datsyuk play. He's played many great ones, but wow. Did he make a single mistake tonight? Did he lose a puck battle? Did he miss a pass? Did he not completely dictate the pace of the game every time he set foot on the ice? He is shutting up the people who have called him a playoff no-show, one shift at a time.

Dumb penalty by bert and franzen. Not all are bad calls

Hanzal made contact with Howard in the crease there.

To quote Pronger- which I can't believe I even considered doing - he's "day to day with hurt feelings."

Yeah, without their helpful reporting, I would have followed my natural instinct to run through the window toward the black funnel... The officiating being what it is, the shocker to me was that they gave matching penalties rather than just sending Franzen. But yeah, I hate Doan more and more every game the Wings play the Desert Ballerinas.

Bryzgalov will be getting treatment for his sunburn during the next intermission.

Franzen goes face first into the boards, gets stitches and comes back. Jovo gets checked into the boards and leaves...for no reason.

Jovo's not hurt - he's embarrassed. I wouldn't come back out either.

hey, in case they haven't told you down there, stay away from windows and don't run towards a tornado.

Detroit penalty to #43 Darren Helm, two minutes for playing hockey.

You know what, f*** CROSBY! Datsyuk is the best player in the league. BAR NONE!

one more suggestion. how about writing an open letter to Mr. and Mrs. Ilitch, to Mr. Holland and other owner and GM. Publish it, spread the word around and let fans sign this letter. These are NHL owners, these employs Mr. Battman. May be I'm naive, but if this little lawyer hears something from his employer he will for sure pay attention.

Coke's start last night was pretty promising I'd say.

A Monty Python fan?