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Becauae he's been good.

Samuelsson being out

Really liking Tatar's hustle.

The fact that they seem to win in spite of the absurd lineups Babcock seems to favor.

Our third and fourth lines look immensely better in the offensive zone than our top two lines.

Kindl has a very underrated shot.

Tootoo = end of the shift Brown = fresh Wait for the 2nd round

Meh game so far.

Cleary and Abdelkader on the second PP unit. Is this real life? Down goes Brown, you mean

I'm only upset by the helm filp and smith injuries mostly and partly the Bert one

Your subject line is true for 96% of the league, so, nice prediction. Dynamite. I do agree with your sentiment about the Wings staying put. I think that as fans, across any sport, we love to play GM and draw up all these hypotheticals that most of the time are simply pipe dreams and just will not happen. Especially trades. If you want to get rid of all these players, you're assuming that other teams will them. Like Sammy, Cleary, White, you can't just move them at will. You can't just implode the team and automatically stay competitive. The Wings are competing right now. They're doing what they can with what they got. Do you have to ask for more? IMO it is not realistic in this salary cap age to think your team will just be lights out every year. Take a step back and realize, like the title implies, your team cannot be above average every year. There's no reason to overly negative about it.

Who are you guys? Nostradamus?

Huskins-Datsyuk-Gustavsson

Note to Kenny: Kids needs to stay in Detroit Get rid of Samantha, Bert and Cleary

Kinda what i was feeling....Looked like Toots was just keeping his head down waiting for that jack hammer to run out of steam so he could start his up.

Emmerton! What a snipe!

Brown was just scared that Toots was going to kick his ass.

well karlsson is out now , shea weber hasnt been the same without suter , suter hasnt been the same i never thought of it but kronwall is a good pick , he had to replace lidstrom the best defensemen in the last 20 years and i think is leading the nhl in defensemen points right??? plays alot of minutes and redwings had to deal with injuries all year long id have to say hes been the most valuable player for us if he was hurt instead of coliacovo our defense would of just been destroyed and wed have lost more games for sure

I never thought the Wings had a snowball's chance in hell of winning the cup this season. Not after a first round knockout last season and then losing all the key players that you mentioned. I've been content with watching the kids develop this season and they've been a more than pleasant surprise.

Howard will and should get 4.5 to 5 million for 5 or 6 years. Putting in a 20/21 year old in net is a sure fire way to lose 50 games per year. he isn't ready. As for Golaies being over rated, please! What would the Preds be without Renni? How far would have the Kings got last year without Quick. G is the most important defensive player on the ice. many RW fans have a skewed idea about G's because we had Nicky here for 20+ years to cover up for average ones. Now we don't, and the chances of finding another one anythime soon isn't very good. I could go on about Miller carrying the sabers for years, or Thomas winning the SC for Boston, but most of you know that. You are just blindly believing a myth.

Imagine if Tom Brady had all crappy receivers. Thats Pavel's life. Wayne had Jari. Pavel has Dan Freaking Cleary. Its sad.

To me the league would be nuts to use a wildcard playoff format. Stick to 16 teams. Top 4 teams from each division make it in. Then there's no advantage or disadvantage to having one more team in your division since 4 make it in across the board from each. 1 vs 4, 2 vs 3 in each division. Winners play each other in round 2. 4 remaining division winners play each other with whatever seeding. Winners face off in the finals. The Cup is the toughest championship to win and a big reason is the fact you have to go through 4 rounds of 4-7 games. It's grueling and that's what makes it worth it. That's mostly what gives it it's credibility and status. To try and emulate an NFL style wildcard system would easily cheapen the title. There's nothing in sports like playoff hockey. DO NOT CHANGE THAT.

You may be the only two then.... Wings belong in the East. Even throwing tradition of the O6 out the window, they are in the Eastern Time Zone and need to be in the East. Plus it will force Holland's hand to adapt this team to a larger type player style of team. Today the best teams are in the East and the Wings need to be with the best teams... I am all for it! Even if it means being in that division that would whoop us around for a bit, but like I said, it'll force Holland to change his team to compete in an Eastern Conference type of game...

The story around the hit makes it even more beautiful. I can't remember another player who really deserved to get Kronwalled.

I don't always get Kronwalled but when I do, I feel it for weeks. Keep your head up my friends.