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I'll tell ya what. It's only been a few minutes, and we're playing the Sabres...but "I like our team."

Edzo must have a Sasha Grey video cued up for commercial breaks if he's using phrases like "gaping hole."

Because we Turned Up the Awesome, apparently...

If by appetite you mean liquid appetite and if by Humpty's you mean my house, then YES.

Our D is hard as f***. #hockeyporn But seriously. PK is the boobs tonight fersure.

so far weiss is more entertaining to watch than filppula

I feel like Datsyuk and Zetterberg are carrying some retarded kid around on their line. Abby works hard, but his numbers last year on the top line weren't very good. Cleary.

I think this needs to be our unofficial slogan this year. Detroit Red Wings 2013/2014: We Turn Up the Awesome

Nice period. Just keep it up for 2 more periods ... then 81 more games ... then 16 more wins ... LGW!

Like I said, I'm not sure exactly how I feel about fighting being taken out of the game, but the more it gets talked about the more I see there's not a lot of strong arguments to support it. And I'm kind of hoping someone will make one. Because overall I like fighting in hockey. But think of the guys you just mentioned. Cooke and Torres have a long history of cheapshotting players. All while fighting is still a part of the game. It's apparently not an effective enough deterrent for either one of them to stop cheapshotting. What finally got to Cooke's attention was a 17 game suspension from the league. The league's suspensions clearly haven't gotten Torres' attention yet, but neither has any enforcer.

Great attitude. Red Wing class personified. Meanwhile, somewhere, Sammy's getting a boob massage, eating quail eggs, and listening to Robin Thicke.

Bob Duff on Twitter just made me actually LOL: Bob Duff ‏@asktheduffer22m Cory Emmerton hat-trick - assist, missed penalty shot, foolish penalty. #RedWings Retweeted by George Malik Expand

Our penalty kill is our enforcer lol

Homer, is that you?

Seems like a Spinal Tap ish vid could work. These Wings Go To 11....

Babcock trolling the entire Wings fanbase.

Alfredsson with six attempted shots so far. Certainly doesn't look like a guy at the very end of his career.

Stephen Aweissome.

Wow, Pavel scored. After Samuelsson scored I thought for sure it was Lebda's turn.

We have double drinking games tonight! Aw, I miss the Zetterbeard.

Cherry has seen and probably played more hockey than 90 % of this planet he knows what he is talking about and I am glad there are people like him, who don't tolerate the watering down of this great game.

Everybody gets an A!!!!!

In the Dreger article, it looks like Scotty Bowman is all onboard the no-fight train: The "Poll All Players" part caught my eye because as it says in the article, 98% of players polled in 2011-12 do NOT want fighting removed. Some might say don't let the inmates run the asylum, but when all but 2% of the NHL players want fighting left in the game, I think the players know how to handle the on-ice game. Let them play.

I'm with him, and I can accept that 95% of fans (or more) think that view is blasphemy and fighting is an essential part of the game. I disagree. I think the vast majority of fights in today's league do nothing to influence the game one way or another, have little/no motive behind them, and are entirely unnecessary. In short I think its a waste of time. Granted, there are fights that mean something; the battles the Wings had against the Avs meant something, and if the bad blood is there in high enough concentrations, I don't think even a game misconduct will prevent two players or teams from fighting. I do think game misconducts will remove the fluff from the ice, and likely remove goons who can't actually play hockey from the game as well, and I am for that. I realize this is a radical view and one that is drastically different from the philosophy that this league developed within over the past 50 years. I just think it is loony to place an event in a game that contributes very little to the overall team goal and has very little actual value over the well-being of an individual. Sorry LGW for letting you down

School tomorrow and 3 am puck drop here in Finland, but hey it's the season opener can't miss that! Sooo pumped, Go Wings!