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Hey guys I got tickets to the game RIGHT NEXT TO THE BOX! And guess who just stepped in?? KRONWALLLLL!!

@Bill_Roose: With two goals tonight, Pavel Datsyuk (853) has tied former #RedWings Slava Kozlov for fifth all-time in points among Russians in the NHL.

Just heard them mention that big E donates $50 per hit to charity helping under privileged children. That's so awesome.

I was wondering today who would step up and how the Wings would deal with Hank being out. I know now, they are supporting each other beautifully - and Datsyuk is an amazing, amazing player. LGRW!!

It's hard for me to hear the name Lovejoy without thinking of:

Is everybody awake?! LGW!

Finally, a weekday game at a decent time

Interesting article by the professor! http://www.theplayerstribune.com/miracle-on-ice-hockey-russia/

I've said it before and I'll say it again--Pav is the kind of player you actually realize how lucky you are to be witnessing as he's playing. We are so damn lucky! *fangirling*

That's ridiculous. Everyone knows that the Wings are the only team that gets screwed by the refs. *scoffs loudly* Haterz gonna hate

If we traded for cogliano, he'd be out for a year in no time.

Fighting doesn't have any impact on the sport? March 26, 1997 called to disagree. "This is a game that brought the Red Wings together," said Vernon, who picked up his 300th career win. "Whether it was the first-period fighting or the overtime goal, a game like this only helps give you confidence to go into the playoffs. When you go to the playoffs, everybody has to be ready to do the job and stay together. Tonight showed the guys were willing to pay the price." http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/scores97/97085/97085360.htm "Certainly, I think that was the turning point as far as the Red Wings' success went. Up until that point, the Red Wings were close, but never tasted victory, and by that I mean Stanley Cup victory." http://www.mlive.com/redwings/index.ssf/2012/03/ken_kal_on_wzam_if_claude_lemi.html "After postseason heartbreaks in 1994, '95 and '96, the Red Wings finally developed a swagger on March 26, 1997, one that would carry them to three championships in six seasons." http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=neumann/070326

And Brunner's.... Such a beautiful series for Wings fans. Had it all

Great period (the kind where hockey guys skate around and try score goals, defend their goal, and not go to the box and feel shame)

PAV X2!!!!!!!!!

Stole the puck on the boards, got past captain 8 ball and sniped it glove side.

Not that kip needs defending, because he doesn't. But I feel like sometimes people lose the bigger point he's trying to make in all of his *insert tenacious breed of dog here*-with-a-bone...ness, and I think it's an important one. He's not telling people they can't have an opinion, he's invalidating the faulty logic people use to *justify* these opinions. Is it ok to have an opinion that other people disagree with? Absolutely! Is it ok to misinterpret facts and create statistics and deny research/science and use logical fallacies to support said opinion? Nope, and someone who appears to be as familiar with logic as kip is is going to call you out on it every time. Cognitive dissonance exists as a concept for a reason--we all do it. I'm intimately familiar with traumatic brain injuries and how they affect the lives of those who suffer from them. I'm also an emotionally reactive person who enjoys when someone who pisses me off gets their ass beat (um...on the ice). Difference is I don't try to justify this enjoyment with anything other than nostalgia and personal warm fuzzies because the reality is no argument otherwise holds water in the face of fact. Seriously? I just posted a novel saying the same thing and you cut in line with TL;DR.

I'll be here all night

That's what I told my girlfriend edit: because she designs fonts.

You're an evil bastard.

Given the option of Marchenko and Oulette, I'm really feeling Marchenko. GOOOOOOAAAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!!!!

yes, though you underestimate our level of laziness plus sometimes it's kinda cool to follow the game through the posts

Ok we get it. You don't like fighting. Ad nauseum.

Well as interesting as a bunch of anecdotal evidence is, actual scientific research suggests that fighting has no positive effect on the outcome of the game. The ol' eyeball test is good for finding a date on a Friday night, but if you want to find the truth about real world phenomena...you have to use science. Bummer. https://georgetownsportsanalysis.wordpress.com/2013/10/13/the-true-impact-of-a-hockey-fight/ "We can see in all four of these data sets that there is no evidence that winning a fight leads to better results in the immediate aftermath of the fight. In fact, it appears that the team winning the fight will score slightly less goals in the game than they did previously. In all four groups, the percentage of goals scored by the winning team is within 1.96 standard deviations of the percentage of its total goals scored, indicating that the results are negligible. Thus, we cannot reject the null hypothesis that winning a fight has no impact on a team’s momentum and goal differential." http://blog.philbirnbaum.com/2012/01/do-hockey-fights-lift-teams-performance.html So, I guess, our overall conclusion from this study isn't completely certain. We wind up with a summary like: 1. The effect doesn't seem to exist for run-of-the-mill fights. 2. When a goon fighter on a goon team fights when his team is down, it seems to benefit that team by 1/8 of a goal, or a bit less than a normal power play. 3. But, that effect isn't statistically significant, so we have some doubts that it's real. 4. And, with only 364 such datapoints qualifying out of around 5,000, only a small percentage of fights match the criterion for that kind of boost. If you had to reduce that to one line, it might be: At best, there might be a small effect in certain specific circumstances ... but much, much less than sportscasters make it out to be.

Great article. No idea what stick crawled up the behind of the poster above me. Take a look at this clip which accompanies the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv3B-MLt8q8 I miss the 90s when the Wings played like that on a regular basis. What a beautiful thing it was.