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Not mine, but I saw it the other day and it made me laugh.

Insert blueadams joke here. What exactly is a "line combination" website?

Preds are done. Wings in 5.

Hudler will dominate this series. esteef

oh hell, i'll start and show off my very meager skills.

This. Wings can win this series. It's amazing how So many people are already counting them out.

Ansar Khan tweeted that Babs said Helmer will be back for game 2

Datsyuk has Rinne's number. Red Wings are going to school Nashville... Preds are out of their league agaisnt a superior and veteran DRWs.

"If it bleeds, we can kill it."

Our favorite time of year is back! We get playoff hockey, Photoshop threads and we also get to do our Second Annual Money On The Board for playoffs. Last year we raised over $800 for Children's Hospital. This year I thought we'd donate to Ilitch Charities. For those who weren't here for last year's festivities, the way this works is you pledge whatever you want however you want. For example, you could pledge X amount for every series or every game. Some have pledged per goal per certain player or X amount for every blocked shot or every goal scored by the blue line as well to add extra incentive. Money is paid at the end of the series. If you pledge only for a series win and (God forbid) the Wings don't take the series, no money exchanges hands. The money is donated at the end of the Wings' playoff run. Funds are sent to me through a PayPal account I have set up strictly for LGW events. Donations are made in Matt's name. He was very vocal and emphatic about his enthusiasm for this event and made sure Children's Hospital was aware of how the money reached them. The straightforward pledges that are posted here, I can keep track of. If you pledge per blocked shot by a specific player, it will work on the honor system. Let's see if we can break last year's total. Thanks so much to all who participate with funds or in spirit and GO WINGS!!

GO!

This hands down is my favorite part of the playoffs. Right behind the wings winning and everyone else losing.

Pretty much how I feel as well. I just don't see it right now with their inconsistency at present. Would love the Wings to prove me wrong obviously and I'm going to watch every game hoping they win. DISCLAIMER...I'm not saying or going to say so and so sucks, this team is f'ed beyond repair in an angry doomsday scenario. That's not my style. If the above isn't good enough for some of you or I'm not a real fan because of the above, well I'm not really all that sorry and you can kiss my a** for all I care.

Can you predict who my wife will be since you know the future so well?

He'll pick up no one and say "I like our team". esteef

Wings in 6. All you fake fans picking nashville go away.

I guess you don't know too much about Nashville then...they live to do ANYTHING better then the Wings...I assure you they will be 100 times more geared up for this series then we will, we are "The Bar" so to speak as to where they wanna be..and keep in mind they are starting at home in front of their fans who feel the same way..Nobody is gonna "school" anybody in this series. Heck, they are more then thrilled just to finally finish ahead of the Wings for the first time ever, it's a big deal to them. It all depends which Wings team shows up that will decide the series...if its the team that was playing as hard during the home record streak then I like our chances...if its the team thats been around since after the streak thinking they can just flip a switch whenever they want to start playing, then it will be a short series for us.

I don't remember the nucks having many issues against the press last year to be honest lol

Lol? Not sure if serious :/ The only reason why Nashville is close to Detroit in the standings is because Datsyuk, Lidstrom, Franzen, helm, Ericsson, and Eaves have been out for a significant amount of time. They coast 55 minutes per game to avoid, yet, more injuries during the meaningless regular season. Red Wings (when healthy) are by far the superior team. gonna be lots of disappointed folks on this message forum when Detroit flip the switch and come out blazing.

All you that are predicting Nashville to win , please exit right and don't watch anymore because it just won't be worth your time.

i would feel 1000x better about this team if Helm and Eaves were in the lineup :/