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Quincey and Smith have been awful together as a pairing from day one and yet Babs continues to stick with them. It's honestly ridiculous and I think Smith's development is being hampered by being anchored with Quincey. Put DeKeyser with Smith and keep Kindl and Lashoff together. Quincey should be a healthy scratch permanently. He's absolutely the worst player on the team.

Ever been curious what it's like to be a Hockey Ref? A linesman gets a GoPro attached to him during a Charlotte Checkers home game, giving us a look at what a Ref's job entails. WARNING, there is some swearing so probably NSFW.

Well, it's the only scoring you'd ever see Cleary do.

Like I said: inexplicable, inane rigidity. Those two have been thoroughly terrible from the moment they were made a pairing, yet they're still played together.

Split Q and Smith for God's sake Mike

This is what happens when you scratch Tootoo! esteef

It just blows my mind. He's won a cup, a gold medal, and a world championship. But yet he continues to play a washed up role player, and pairs up 2 defenceman who are a combined -20 on the season. Just insane. Worst period all year bar none, wake up and start to play. You're on goddamn home ice and the fans are booing you, the Lions did a great job of having the fans turn on them at home this year, don't follow suit!

They should allow checking in the women's game.

Babcock's response- No, no, no, I'm going to leave them paired together and just assume that it all goes to plan. What?

Quincey for the Norris. He helps 29 teams in the league.

If Babcock has a fault, it's his inexplicable rigidity with regards to lineups. Certain players don't get scratched when they should be scratched, or demoted when they should get demoted. Cleary and Quincey are examples of this. Quincey should have gotten the bench for at least a few games this season, and Cleary should not be playing at all.

Decided to go with the retro-GDT look today! LetsGoWings.com Your Official Game Day Thread VS. Start time: 7:30 EST Joe Louis Arena - Detroit, MI Available On: Official Game Preview: Red Wings look to continue success against Islanders ISLANDERS 37 GP, 10-20-7, 27 pts 8th in Metropolitan Division RED WINGS 38 GP, 17-12-9, 43 pts 4th in Atlantic Division Goals NYI John Tavares: 13 DET Pavel Datsyuk: 14 Assists NYI John Tavares: 25 DET Daniel Alfredsson, Henrik Zetterberg: 19 Plus/Minus NYI Three tied at: +3 DET Henrik Zetterberg: +12 ---- NYI Colin McDonald: -15 DET Three tied at : -10 PIM NYI Matt Carkner: 77 DET Kyle Quincey : 43 Forthcoming Projected NYI Lines Vanek-Tavares-Okposo Grabner-Nielsen-Bailey Nelson-Strome-Clutterbuck Boulton-Cizikas-Martin Hickey-MacDonald de Haan-Hamonic Carkner-Strait Evgeni Nabokov Record: 6-6-5, 3.09 GAA, .897 SV%, 0 SO ---- versus. ---- Jonas Gustavsson Record: 10-3-2, 2.35 GAA, .915 SV%, 0 SO SHARKS Lubomir Visnovsky (concussion) out, Radek Martinek (back) out ---- RED WINGS Johan Franzen (head) out, Henrik Zetterberg (back) out, Justin Abdelkader (concussion) questionable, Darren Helm (shoulder) out, Stephen Weiss (hernia) out, Jimmy Howard (MCL) out, Gustav Nyquist (groin) questionable On Deck 12/28 at Florida, 7:00 EST

He's gotta look good for those Corona chugging and bubble gum chewing shots for 24/7.

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Quincey has the least amount of ice time and is a -3. Hellllooooo???????????? Oh and Cleary has the most.

The Isles have had our number for awhile now, Crymson.

1-0 because Quincey is too stupid and Cleary is too slow.

Quincey just makes me cringe every game

ill take eaves over cleary any day of the week

I like the white sweaters at home

Call the fight what you want but at least the women showed some push back on both teams. We have watched our goalies get ran our best players get hammered and nothing ever happens. Laughing at the way this fight happened have you ever watched some of our players in a scrum????? just sayin'

I'm not sure thisis going to help the discussion at all... But if there was less clothing involved most of these posts would've tuned to a different key. AMIRITE?! * winkwinknudgenudgesaynomoresaynomore* FFS! Let's recognize that with or without helmets, and skill of fighting be damned... There's a lot of bad blood between these two teams and THAT is what fights in hockey ARE ABOUT, no?

Sign 'em Kenny!! esteef

I did do some writing today, but it was more the intellectual sort than the creative. I think I used up my creativity during my post-game nap yesterday. I dreamed that a troupe of Shakespearean actors wanted to branch out so they became porn stars but still used Elizabethan English. Shakespeare was kind of a raunchy comic for his time, so it fit. They were doing a play/movie (hard to tell in a dream) about a Roman soldier who is wounded and unable to fight so he's forced to become a dentist despite his dream of becoming a pastry chef. It was Airplane!-like humour in Shakespearean language except during the sex scenes when they often broke into song and chorus-line dance Broadway style. I was cheesed when my alarm went off. I never got to see how it ended. The person below me bought a Megamillion ticket in the last week.