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What a career. Just brilliant hand-eye coordination and played his role in front of the crease better than anyone. I can't believe his body held up well enough as long as it did to continue playing. Truly a warrior and a major piece to the Red Wings having four championships. Thanks for the memories, Homer. Damn, I hate losing all of these guys that we have lately.

Tootoo is my favorite acquisition this year. Put Darren Helm's heart into a freight train's body and you have Tootoo. Players like Tootoo and Pronger and so-on are annoying as hell to play against, and they also play dirty, but they do so in a way that benefits the team they play for more often than not. When these guys are on their game, other teams take stupid penalties against them as retribution. They start forgetting about hockey, or their emotions make them do stupid stuff with the puck. Tootoo isn't going to be playing alongside a couple goons. He's going to be with Helm, or Miller, or Abdelkader, or Sammy, or Bert, and they are all capable of taking advantage of a distracted opponent. I think his presence will really help out our bottom six, both physically, and offensively.

My theory on Tootoo is better to be playing with him than against him 6 times a year.

For a guy who can't skate and slowly unlearned English during his hockey with Detroit, he had one hell of a career.

No different to the Wings fans on these boards that react to playoff losses to the likes of Nashville and San Jose by asking their fans how many cups they've won.

No, considering how he played with Datsyuk or Zetterberg at various points in the season. If you can't score more than 38 points playing with those players, you shouldn't be on the top two lines. Just means he was dragging those guys back from scoring even more.

Why the Bertuzzi hate? Were his 38 pts. not impressive enough? He's a complimentary piece, with size, soft hands, and ability to cycle down low. Paired with the right linemates he's still a very effective player. Especially considering he's the only forward we have with any size who is strong on the puck and hard to take it away from. How do you justify putting him on a checking line at 38 years old and without good speed to begin with? Might as well not even play him if that's the plan, and presumably replace him with who? A small skilled forward? Sheahan? There's nobody else.

Smith if he develops into absolute full potential

In a playoff atmosphere 48 game season, I'm damn glad Tootoo will be running the other teams star players as opposed to Z and D. He'll grow on you, guaranteed.

I don't remember if this was posted yet, but here's a neat video by TSN the morning the lockout ended. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OPbuCwcB-k

What I don't get is this sense of entitlement any fan of any team has. It's what made beating Canada all that much better. If the CFL starting developing players in the NFL and they had a tournament in which they beat the USA, I wouldn't go all ape-sh*t like some here have. Just because you may have created a sport doesn't mean you own it or that you're not allowed to be beaten at it. To those b*tching....Grow Up and stop making the rest of your fans look bad.

I know now though lol. Clearly since you are a woman that means you clearly want to hear me make derogatory comments. Maybe something along the lines of making a sandwich or something sexual... I agree with you 100% on your stance of not specifying gender, as soon as men on the internet find out they are talking to a woman they seem to suddenly become incapable of logical thought and assume that they are better than said woman and can say whatever disgusting thing they want.

Really it should be halfway in & halfway out.

Homer decided to retire after realizing that, after Nick retired, he has nobody to eat his ritual pre-game meal with. Poor guy. As usual, all the best to him and his family for his sacrifices to the team. Hope to see him back with the Wings in some capacity.

Does the stupid crease rule retire with him?

I am going to go with the simple fact that Daysuk's English is atrocious, seemingly having never made a solid effort to learn the language of the country he has been playing in for so long. A bit off-topic, and I love Datsyuk in general don't get me wrong, but I am slightly offended at his horrible English. I think if he had even passively tried to pick up English he would be fairly fluent by now, considering how long he has been here. It makes me think he must have made a conscious effort to avoid learning it, to still be so horrible... That... and he's older and would like to go back to Russia. We will presumably get a few more solid years of captaincy out of Z.

Thought I saw somewhere that Homer & the family were going to stay in the Detroit area once he's retired. I'm hoping he takes over Murph's job between the benches on FSD broadcasts.

One of my very favorite Wings, I will miss you, Homer. The goalies in the league celebrate the departure of your large red butt. I will never forget you scoring from every possible angle in 2002, all while falling down or sitting on your afore-mentioned rosy derriere. Best of everything, friend. Enjoy retirement and playing pick up hockey with Nick in Sweden.

I really had high hopes that this thread would be the OP calling out Red Wings names as if he was taking roll in school, and other posters would respond as if they were the Red Wings.... and nobody would respond when OP calls Franzen's name.

Well you have fans like that on every team/nation. People are mad and get pissed off easily it happens Sent from my BlackBerry

The lockout's over? I'm honestly having a hard time getting excited about it. I hope the Wings do well, because well.....that's the point, but my enthusiasm is almost completely non-existent.

If I recall correctly, wasn't the goals scored in that game by NCAA players?

It's no different if Canada beat USA in the gold medal game. There is fans like that everywhere that would post ridiculous things like that, doesn't mean all Canadians think that way. I know most Toronto fans only care about the Men's Olympic team. I don't know anyone in Toronto that watches the Spengler or WC.

You can't expect to win medals in this tournament if you make big mistakes like cutting your best d-man

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