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OK, all in fun, hope nobody takes offense.

About half of your FACTs are actually just opinions, not actual facts.

Grypho, stop making me feel bad for not participating as much.

either i'm getting smarter or you're getting dumber

http://www.mlive.com/redwings/index.ssf/2011/05/red_wings_kris_draper_will_pla.html Franzen-Datsyuk-Holmstrom Cleary-Zetterberg-Bertuzzi Hudler-Filppula-Abdelkader Draper-Helm-Eaves Lidstrom-Stuart Ericsson-Rafalski Kronwall-Salei Howard MacDonald ...I'm not a big fan. That second line isn't going to score any goals. It's going to be the Zetterberg-Show, with no help. That third line (or some variation of it, at least) has been used time and time again, and it hasn't worked, and it's not going to work. And I continue to be baffled by Bab's refusal to split Pav and Mule, regardless of how much less chemistry they have than Pav and Flip, or even Pav and Huds. I'd go: Filppula-Datsyuk-Holmstrom...Pav and Flip have insane chemistry, and Flip's not contributing on the third line. Franzen-Zetterberg-Cleary...Proven old favorite. Modano-Abdelkader-Bertuzzi...Still a checking line, but with a little more scoring potential (and hunger). Draper-Helm-Eaves...Solid, obviously. Hudler Miller

Game Three, Conference Playoff Format Era (since 1993-94) This is the 37th Game Three in a Conference playoff series. The Club’s record in the previous 36 games: 19W-16L This is the 7th Game Three in a Conference playoff series without home-ice advantage. The Club’s record in the previous 6 games: 3W-3L This is the 13th Game Three in a Conference Semi-Final. The Club’s record in the previous 12 games: 5W-7L. This is the 4th Game Three in a Conference Semi-Final without home-ice advantage. The Club’s record in the previous 3 games: 1W-2L. Game Three in Conference Format Era with Series 0-2 This is the 6th Game Two in a best-of-seven series in the Conference Era with the series 0-2. The Club’s record in the previous 5 games: 3W-2L This is the 3rd Game Three in a Conference Semi-Final in the Conference Era with the series 0-2. The Club’s record in the previous 2 games: 1W-1L This is the 3rd Game Three in a Conference Semi-Final in the Conference Era without home-ice advantage and the series 0-2. The Club’s record in the previous 2 games: 1W-1L Last Ten Games – All-Time Playoff Games v. San Jose Overall: 4W-6L Home: 7W-3L On This Day May 4 This is the 5th playoff game played on this day. The Club’s record in the previous 4 games: 2W-2L This is the 2nd playoff game v. San Jose on this day. The Club’s record in the last game: 0W-1L LGW.

s***, Doc's in the game, gotta step up mine.

Lidstrom understands now why the Sharks are giving Howard snow showers.

If anything, you should be comparing players by salary, not by position in the lineup. Comparing Bertuzzi at $1.5 million to Thornton at $7 million is ridiculous.

Exactly. The last few minutes used to be a nasty dogfight. Now players just skate into the slot, wait till they feel a stick and throw their head back looking for a call. It really is kinda sad what the NHL has become.

Homer is second on the team in scoring behind only Datsyuk in the playoffs. I admire his guts to go to the "HARD" areas of the game and wish Franzen had even half of the courage that Homer has displayed over the years. Yes he is getting old and maybe this will be his last season but I for one will really miss him when we no longer have the BEST net front MAN in the game.

Bogosian is the most overrated player on this forum. As I've said, just sign Upshall and Laich and Hamrlik in the offseason. Play Mursak full time and we'll be fine. Imploding a successflu team isn't the answer and will never be an answer.

2002 against Vancouver, led to a pretty good result that year

this is the worst squirt in my town and look what he did

Now if only they let in Mo for Hudler and Mursak for Bert I would be happy. Considering how non-existent our depth has been I don't see why he didn't do it in game 2.

I trust mine series to Pavel Datsyuk, you should too.

I say because of this Wings start Game 3 with a 1-0 lead.

Blame Canada.

Couldn't resist playing with a variation on an internet classic.

OK, true to my word... Is that something along the lines of what you were looking for?

From today's Malik Report: Yesterday, I reported that Wings prospect Dick Axelsson had indeed terminated his contract with the Swedish Eliteserien champion, Farjestads BK, but he’d whined to Aftonbladet’s Mats Wennerholm that the Wings might as well trade him because the Wings’ contract offer to the restricted free agent probably wasn’t to his liking. Well today, wouldn’t you know, it turns out that Aftonbladet’s Hans Abrahamsson and Emil Karlsson are reporting that the team FBK defeated, Skelleftea, is bidding for Axelsson’s services, though their GM, Lasse Johansson, “declined comment.” Abrahamsson and Karlsson say that Skelleftea has a bigger budget than FBK, so they could offer Axelsson 80,000 more Swedish Kronor a month (or an extra $13,142.00 per today’s Krona-to-Dollar exchange rate) in pay, though FBK’s GM, Thomas Rundqvist, states the obvious in saying that Farjestad was led to believe that Axelsson would be leaving them for the NHL, but people can of course change their minds. Like I said yesterday, you can see why Wings director of European scouting Hakan Andersson told Matthew Wuest of RedWingsCentral that while the Wings will retain Axelsson’s rights because they’re intrigued by his level of talent, they also think that he remains inconsistent and plain old immature. He’s negotiating a contract with another SEL team, and a team which can offer him an extra $80,000-or-so in pay and the opportunity to play with his pal, Jimmie (brother of Jonathan) Ericsson, through the media. Hell, earlier this month I I mentioned that Andersson himself was speaking to the other Swedish sports tabloid, Expressen, when he suggested to Tomas Pettersson that Axelsson’s still the kind of player who’d rise from his seat in the locker room and try to complain to Mike Babcock if he felt slighted or things were going poorly. As Andersson so expertly put it… “It’s enough that if he storms from his locker twice to go to Mike Babcock, he’ll be benched for good.”