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No this isn't me expecting a last game Wednesday. I have been lucky enough to cheer for a team where every year was a competetive year. I arrived in Vancouver in 94 just after the riots and was very interested in this game called hockey. My cousin was watching the Canucks play the Wings and he was being all gooey about how this Canucks team was just one win away from winning the 'cup'. What 'cup'? The 'Stanley Cup'! The cup that caused the riots, he says. In the Philippines, we last took a stand and marched the streets, peacefully, for our rights. What is this cup that can cause a riot? The wings won that day and my cousin was angry. I said to myself: 'I'm gonna cheer for those guys'. I don't want a team that caused riots!. I go to school and I play hockey for the first time. I passed the puck to my goalie and i scored on my own net. My whole team was dejected but they said 'it's ok, we'll score back'. Although I scored another goal on my own net I remembered what it was like to play the game. I watched highlights on tsn and followed the wings religiously. NHL 91 was my very first video game. NHL 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98 all followed. I put my faith in the wings. I prayed for them. I cried for them and I trusted in them. Every success they had, I felt, was also my success. I had something to believe in. 96 was a major year for me and all wings fans because this was the Yzerman goal. I remember me sitting down in front of the TV then jumping uncontrollably. It was 'our year'. Finally after losing last year. Then we face the avs and draper gets hit. We lose the series. I was still in grade school and had been bullied so I just went home, waited for wings highlights and got my taste of success. Then March arrives and mccarty pummels lemieux, scores the winning goal and exacts the full revenge. I felt a sense of euphoria knowing that there's always a next time. We win the cup despite being underdogs to the flyers. I watch vlad's crash video. I was dejected. Next year we play our hearts out after losing a key player and sweep washington. I see Stevie put the cup on vlad's lap and wheel him around while the whole team was behind him. I cried. I get teary eyed even now. They did something more than for themselves. I applied that in my life. Mediocre years came but I still got to watch hall of fame players wear a wings jersey. Fedorov, larionov, coffey, ciccarelli, vernon, shanny, hull, robitaille, murphy, clark, cujo. Then 02. Hasek takes us to the finals and during the year I watched Zata and Datsyuk play alongside Hull...i knew they'd be superstars. 08 and 09 come and last year. I reflect back and realized that I've been very lucky. I watched hall of famers, loved the game and applied everything the wings did, to my life. I go through hard times and know there will be a next time. I go through good times and enjoy it cuz there might never be that chance again. I never regretted anything. Last year was when the last of my childhood heroes left. Lids and homer. I loved them both. Then I look back at this team that they built. They're young and inexperienced still. But, like I did, believed. In a year that 29 teams would have used to tank and get first pick, we go to second round and take the best team to 7. I never once doubted. I prepared for the worst and always expected the best. It has been a joy to watch the new era carry that torch. In retrospect, we should have been all playing golf after the season. But this team made it possible for more palpatations and for wings fans everywhere to still believe. Let's go red wings *clap* *clap**clapclapclap*!

Well said! Somehow, the Wings have strived AND succeeded without Lidstrom, without Holmstrom, without Bertuzzi, without Helm, and without DeKeyser. Somewhere along the line in this shortened bastardized season this ragtag, crippled, makeshift, old and slow, rookie-peppered bunch of hockey players became a TEAM. A team that has taken the number one hockey squad in the world to a seventh game. Still nobody much is talking about them with any sense of what it took for them to get where they are. It simply doesn't matter. Anybody with a penchant for sports history will be talking about this team in years to come, and they will get their due. They are a miracle of their own making. I am so very proud to be here in this moment. To savor their valor, and experience the thrills and chills at their very Trying. I love you Detroit Red Wings. Thank you so much for who you are, and what you have become. And I am so very proud and honored to be one of your fans.

Our guys always played their most effective hockey when they needed to. So I believe. Let's GO Wings ! Shoot the hawks out of their building ! Give Edzo something to mourn !

Score more goals than Chicago. Go, Wings!

Our boyz can do this. Speed, focus, intensity. The talent's already there.

I expect the Blackhawks to win this game. I also expected the Ducks to beat the Red Wings and this series to be over by now. Winning Game 7 is going to be very tough, but if nothing else we have learned this team is resilient and never quits. Big guns need to come through offensively, limit defensive breakdowns, clear the front of the damn net and pray the refs don't have the desire to influence the outcome. Let's Go Red Wings!

It's hard to recognize Toews because he's in profile view but I hope this works.

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

Jimmy effin Williams

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!

Last chance to stay in this boys, make the best of it and make it count. I'm confident that we can pull off the upset and meet the Kings in the conference finals. BELIEVE!! GO RED WINGS!!!!!

We can do this let's go!!! Leave everything out on the ice, we earned this opportunity, let's play like we want it! Go Wings!!!

My hope this season was to watch the Wings at least till June so no complaints....last 4-5 weeks has just been a blast!!!

i guess no matter what happens they did better then expected. i thought theyd get swept.

Well, to answer that question, look no further than my avatar.

Wings need to just come out pissed with the attitude of "f*** you refs", "f*** you whiners (Hawks)" and just beat the s*** out of them and then say, "There! Now shut the f*** up!"

That one goal that Nyquist scored where he had the puck and the whole hawks defense on a string was enough for me to nod and not care if we lose this series. We have a winning future ahead of us and the Hawks can't take that away from us in this upcoming game 7. They may move ahead, but next year, we'll be back for the 23rd year straight.

I can't believe that we're still talking about this. Refs on the ice thought it was the right call. The CBC announcers thought it was the right call. The NBC announcers thought it was the right call, and now Fraser thinks it's the right call. The only people that don't think so are the Detroit fans. We all need to get over it and perhaps ask ourselves why our team consistently gets outplayed in the third period. Despite having frequent leads. And despite at times overwhelming play in periods one and two. If you think that call was what lost us the game, ask yourself this: "Why did he have a breakaway in the third period at all? Why haven't we had any?"

And where was Brunner's penalty shot this series when he got the corkscrew in the hands on a breakaway, or when Roszival two-handed Abdelkader's stick out of his hands on a breakaway that was pointed out in a .gif in the last GDT? Therefore, Mr. Fraser, the call was flat out ******* wrong and by this series' standards isn't even a penalty.

It is the right call.... IF it is called every time.. thats where the problem lies