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Over the years, Pavel Datsyuk has proven to be an amazing two-way forward. Hopefully, he and the Detroit Red Wings will defeat the Blackhawks, and move on to the Western Conference Finals. Anyways, here's my attempt at a "Datsyukian" Commercial: Comments are always appreciated. Thanks!

Jimmy effin Williams

Pavel normally has one big game per round, and he's due tonight. He breaks out with a goal and 13 assists as the Wings march into the conference finals with a 14-3 win.

Found this on Facebook today :

Yeah, Jimmy Williams sure has the Blackbirds' number. One of the best goalies in the NFL.

Go Wings. Do this. Please.

Red Wings stuck in the brain... Thanks to MidMichSteve for the concept idea.

Hehe... ok I will redeem myself with this. I want to go back to making them feel like this and I wish I got CBC broadcasts... like 10x better opening than NBC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnt-urnBcis

No really his passes were so bad that they were laughable and he was often outta position so much so that lashoff and cola but are better options

Z stepped up to get the wings in the playoffs, then he stepped up to eliminate the Ducks, I have a feeling he will have a great game 6 and eliminate the Hawks.

Over the past five games, he's had a .950 catching percentage and a 1.65 ERA.

Toews Hat Trick... natural hat trick

Tonight's the night boys. Let's get this thing done and over with. Don't need the nerves of two game 7's in a row.

The kid is like a yo-yo, and that gets him a lot of slack from bipolar fans. He screws up and looks generally bad, and then next shift he makes a beautiful pass or uses enough pressure to get some offense going or slaps one home. He's going to be good, he just needs to learn to settle the heck down.

I like the guy, but he clearly has no Finnish.

Absolutely. Look, any direct comparison to Datsyuk is going to sound ridiculous because they will NEVER be another player quite like #13. But if you watched Datsyuk play in that first rookie season (2001-02), Nyquist reminds me a lot of what I saw from Datysuk in those early years. Datsyuk had obvious creativity and puckhandling skills, but he'd string about 2 or 3 ideas together and then would either run out of ideas, run out of time, or get planted on his butt. What made Datsyuk into a world-class star was his work effort, added upper body strength, his dedication to the 2-way game, and the added experience of what he could do with the puck in the NHL. Logic tells you that a 34-year-old Datsyuk can't be as explosive as he was 10 years ago, but his game (like Larionov before him) is so cerebral that I swear there are times he's playing better hockey now than he ever has. Before this year, Tatar was the player that I thought was most "Datsyuk"-like. Over the past month or so, I've become a huge Nyquist fan. That stick check he does is so similar to Datsyuk's, it's almost as if he taught it to him one-on-one. Time will tell if Nyquist has the additional tools to put it all together, but could you think of a better mentoring situation than playing around 13 and 40? The idea that we have Nyquist, Tatar, and Jurco, and if two out of those three could become even 70% of what Datsyuk and Zetterberg are, this team could be in better shape than most people predicted.

I made it real quick.