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Maybe I should suspend you for the duration of the game........ The "S" word is NEVER uttered before the clock runs out. Ever.

Go Wings! We need to keep pushing. No letting our feet off the pedal. It's good to be at the top, but it takes as much work to stay there as it does to get there. Weaselbritches with the hattie- just to send Dawn diving into another bottle of wine.

I thought this was written by Kesler

Rules aside..that Kane goal is pretty sick. Made the goalie look stupid.

Subban has a lot of attitude problems. But, hey, if there's any team stupid enough to trade him for Ericsson and prospects--it might be Montreal.

Let's keep winning, on the road that is! Great news about the Winter Classic. I am starting to plan my attendance with my brother. We live in California. I just hope, as some of you have mentioned, that Detroit's sweaters will be mostly red, our color!!! Let's go Red Wings!!! Red Wing 'till I die.

Both team lines have been updated.

I as well actually Kira, I would love to see Dats for an extra half hour X2 on Sundays

Sadly, I doubt any of the Russian 5, outside of maybe Larionov, would make the trip. Kozlov has been gone a long, long time. Fedorov is on the other side of the globe, as is Papa Bear. I would love to see the Prof lace them up again for us, though. I'd bet they dress Valddy, although he obviously can't actually play. I'd think Chelios is a no brainer, and probably Kocur. It might be too soon for Mac, Draper and Ozzie, but I wouldn't mind seeing any of them...nor Maltby. Maybe Gallant? Verbeek? For a no contact, low impact game, it would be awesome to see Fischer again, doctors permitting. Murphy is almost a no brainer to play. Sad as it makes me, I think the previous poster was right about Shanny and Yzerman. It would be a small conflict of interest for either to play. As for Gordie, I think you're right. I'd be he dresses and plays a ceremonial shift. Same for Mickey, although I wonder if he has the lungs for it. All in all, though, I'd give my left pinky toe to see #19 out there one more time. Just don't think it'll happen, given his current position.

Sad he's having a rough recovery. I can only imagine how much it sucks to have your mouth wired shut. Here's hoping things can start progressing for him to feel better, regardless of when he's able to be back on the ice.

I was off by a year in my first comment, sue me. That doesn't change my point. After next year, there will have been recycled teams 3 years in a row in only six total years of the WC. Thanks for the attack btw. Surely you understand why other fans would be annoyed by this? If not, I don't know what else to say. I'm not your buddy, friend. The Blues are on pace for 109 pts...which would be their 2nd best finish in team history behind the 114 pt. President's trophy team in '99-'00...and a better finish than the Conference Finals team of '00-'01. Offensively, yes, there have been far better Blues teams...but overall, few have been better...so far. There is a lot of hockey left to play yet though. I'm not banking on anything yet...too much can happen. Well isn't that the obvious statement of the day. I doubt I'd complain. But I would completely understand if other fans did. From a fan's point of view, the NHL shouldn't recycle teams so quickly. Not sure what that has to do with anything... But wait...oh yeah...I forgot where I was posting for a moment. Woah...hold on... "anything Detroit"?? Hmmm... Why don't you put together a list for me? Seriously. I assume there are a few good places to eat? I guess the Lions were fun to watch this year. And hey, you can see Canada. What else ya got? Look this isn't about the Wings and it's not about Blues fans, so don't make it out to be that. It's about the last 2 years of the WC and next year's WC all having recycled teams when the WC has only been around for 6 years after next year. I'm not saying anything that a LOT of other fans aren't already thinking. But hey, congrats on being in the WC again. Must be nice.

My favorite part of the article is the byline: BY CAM COLE, VANCOUVER SUN? Is the Sun not sure if Cole writes for them or are they not sure that they still exist?

I'd hate to see Stuart go but I guess I'd want to see him traded and possibly get something good for him rather than just lose him to FA and open up the cap-space. I imagine the team will look fairly different next season with a few new faces and some older ones going bye bye but it would be nice to keep as much of our core as possible to have a building block to go on to help us continue to contend for a Cup.

^ That really sucks. I was just thinking about him and figured we'd be getting news soon of his return given the initial timetable that was given. Bummer for him and the Wings, to say the least.

+1 for this. Very valid points made here as well as adding to my already existing concern. This part was particularly funny: then they go on to point out this: So the NHL forced the purchase of alumni game tickets on to fans that were already paying for Winter Classic tickets, and the reason given for not handling alumni revenue cuts is that this was "new to them"??? Correct me if I am wrong, but they would have known exactly how much money they were going to be making if the WC and alumni tickets were a 1:1 ratio.

Why do people want Hemsky so bad? He is basically Robert Lang.

I just don't want the league to make it mandatory to put a helmet on the second you step on the ice for warm-ups. That would be a little ridiculous, in my opinion.

Defenseman from California I'd like to get in return for Stuart: Matt Greene Willie Mitchell Douglas Murray Sheldon Brookbank

Not a chance. Smith could easily be the next Subban as early as next year. I wouldn't trade Smith for Subban straight up, too much baggage already.

Who is this lady Yoko Ono? Edit: I dont feel like talking about Stuart leaving yet. Ive always liked him and feel like he's turning his back on us a little bit. It's not a trade or anything, he just doesnt want to play here.

Holy s*** that was a massive hit, his bucket exploded off his head while his face went straight into an ice scrape. Wow!

I always try to get a De-troit Red-Wings Goal-ie Jimm-y How-ard chant going when I'm at the Joe.

Rumor has it that Pittsburgh is looking to trade one of their better forwards.