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the rest have gone to ask holland to call Tatar up

Hey, at least DeKeyser is starting to look more and more like a top D man

Cory Emmerton has developed into a very solid role player. One of the few players that has exceeded expectations this season.

I hope Toots loaded up on Caribou pregame and comes out flying and raises and sets the bar for energy and effort for the entire team tonight. 2pts cha cha cha!

Good. Toots brings the energy. Patty could hardly walk when I saw him in Nashville, so I was beyond surprised when he played last game. Perhaps that was a bad idea?? Wings will prevail tonight... I just know it!

Can't wait for the libs to take over this country so that everybody gets a medal. There are no losers. This competetiion stuff is killing me. Not fair.

Someone needs to drop burrows

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Kicking it old-skool tonight - listening to the radio commentary over the internet whilst doing a nightshift. Not done this since, ooooh, 2008

He still has war-flashbacks about the last 2 red wings- canucks games

MS PAINT!!!

I absolutely guarantee that we would regret trading Smith or even sitting him for extended periods of time. As I've said before, this is exactly what people were saying when Fischer came into the league. My lord people here hated him for quite some time. Yes, Smith hasn't been as good as we expected in his first season, but he'll get a lot better. To do that, not only does he have to stay here, but he has to get icetime. Some guys just take a couple of years to really get going. Obviously, especially with our suckage, peoples' patience is particularly short. But we can't be stupid about this - he will be a key part of our future. There's a reason that he's been highly touted.

Watching Dan Cleary play instead of him makes me sick to my stomach, every game.

All throughout the lockout, I was wondering how Bettman was going to screw up this Winter Classic (and, in the process, create another Penguins Classic) and I guess I have my answer.

We won if we were shooting for pads.

told you once i saw so i knew we were f&$## its over guys 21 years and done no playoffs .its a damn shame holland retire please you did this not making moves 3 years ago

what happened to Datsyuk's shootout 2/7 this year.... he used to be automatic

Bertuzzi's the only guy I trust on shootouts these days. Won't happen. But we can hope for him to retire.

This should be the Special Olympics here. IIRC Vancouver blows at shootouts too (except for now of course).

We've played harder than I've seen all season, but still don't have the talent to win in a regular situation. With all these shots on goal no less.

FLIP YOU ARE ******* USELESS!

lol 3 big canuck dives already and simpson is applauding it.

No, but you would spend 333 million to ensure he didn't go around setting up more explosives in random places to kill more people. If you tracked the play by play on the Boston police scanner yesterday, there had to have been 20-30 reports of suspicious items, triggers, other things. And you can't put a price tag on public safety or crowd stability.

I have a feeling that both Holland and Babcock are going to blame injuries and Lidstrom retiring if the Red Wings miss the playoffs. I feel this will be a complete cop out if it happens. No other teams have Lidstrom either and there are a lot of teams that have had more quality players out then the Wings and they are still in the playoffs ( Ottawa). The forwards need a major overhaul this coming off season. You can't win games without scoring and without heart. Z and Pav cannot carry this team. Holland needs to step to the plate this summer or be shown the door. My list of forwards that can go- Cleary, Fil, Sammy, Eaves, Miller. Not because they are bad just because we need better.

I haven't been this mad at the NHL in like...a week.