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Alfie from Dats for the winner anyone?

Diving should have been called. Forsberg would have been proud there.

Haha, wow. How do your feet go out when you get "hooked" at the waist? That's pure garbage officiating.

Alfie looks great tonight. I like Tatar up with Datsyuk too.

Kindl is actually having a pretty good game...

FINALLY...BORN AND RAISED IN SOUTH DETROIT!

f*** YES f*** WIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Loving Jurco!

Would be cool if this was like wrestling, and McGrattan could punch Hudler, and change allegiances mid game.

Penalties on Jurco and Smith were horses***. Smith is in the box because Brodie skated into him for god sakes.

Two goals in one game. Progress has been made!

They made it to the 2nd round of the playoffs and brought the cup champs to an intense game 7. They are hammered with important player injuries and are on a small losing skid because of it. Coaching only can do so much, considering the circumstances it would be pretty unfair to Babcock at this moment to even consider this his fault and jeopardize his job due to reasons beyond his control. Plus, I sound like a broken record here as I keep saying this, this team is still sitting 6th in the East and that's pretty damn impressive all things considered to be in a playoff position. Granted the Wings lead the league in OT loss points, but in this modern NHL points are points and that's what determines the overall standings. There is one resolution here, it's not the coach, it's not the GM, it's the injuries. Get healthy, and they begin to play better.

My goodness, they call hooking no matter what but Butler gets ten cross-checks in and nothing. Props to the crowd tonight too. Loudest the Joe has sounded since last spring.

C'mon Wings please score!

O'Brien goes down easy..

Great shift by Tootoo.

Awesome crowd tonight.

Where's the penalty on the Flames player for covering the puck with his hand?

Tootoo needs to take a nice healthy run at Smid, acting a bit too tough here tonight.

Big bad Ducks? What year is this? Their team isn't that tough anymore.

Enforcers don't deter anything yet they are everywhere in the league. Why? esteef

If ONLY we had an enforcer to keep that herniated disc of Z's in line... ...and to make sure that pesky groin of Weiss' would be held accountable... ...or that Howard's knee wouldn't dare tweak itself... For the record. Detroit (as of yesterday) sat at 10th in the league in terms of Man-Games-Lost-To-Injury, at 110. The #8 team, Montreal, is at 122 games lost. Yet, Montreal currently ranks 3rd in fighting majors at 22. Columbus is 5th in games lost to injury, 130, and 7th in fighting majors at 20. Tampa Bay is 7th in games lost at 123, and 13th in the league with 17 fighting majors. Toronto leads the league in fighting majors at 26, yet is only 2 spots back from Detroit with 97 games lost. I just did the math. The average # of games lost to injury by any team this year is a smidge over 93 games (93.066666667, etc). Detroit's at 110, which is above average, but not astonishingly so, especially given that Detroit is tied for dead last in the league at 4 fighting majors. As it stands, the statistics don't necessarily agree that having players who are more willing to "enforce" (a.k.a. willing to drop the gloves) translates into less games lost due to injury...

Oh man. Any time I think of "Guys I'd really, really, really like to see in the Winged Wheel," Ryan Callahan and Dustin Brown always spring to mind. Either one would be wonderful. Both, and I'd take back all the bad things I've ever said about Ken Holland. Another guy along those same lines: Wayne Simmonds.