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Stone em Jimmy!! C'mon Dylan!!!!

One of the reasons I love hockey, miller and Howie skating past each other... A little head nod and a glove tap.

It's a real shame people here remember Franzen as soft when in reality he was our only too 6 guys with an edge. Other teams hated plying Franzen, in his prime of course

GDT updated. LGW!

Helm should have just done a wraparound.

Taking bets that we'll be seeing the usual people blaming Howard for this possible loss without having watched the game. Anyone? anyone?

Nyquist should have passed to Pasha

Crap I just remembered Howie is in net, please don't let this go to a shoot out.

That play a few minutes ago where he idiotically went to his backhand and got blocked, instead of shooting a clean wristshot on goal was really something to behold. Oh, and he's a minus 7 on the season.

Smith has the IQ of a rock. Thanks ud

I'm glad sheahans okay though.

LOL there we go. Lucky they got one back and are only one behind. Can still win this fiasco I guess. Anderson scored?!? Hahaha bout time you did something plug.

Someone says this every other game haha

James Russell Howard III save

Vancouver edging Detroit in shots (10-3) midway the first Smith says GTFOTW Ref!

Wow! what a stop by Howard

I voted for you, five stars, ND. Thanks for the GDT! You have been very very (Ozzie) good this year, so the Wings will wrap you up a W tonight. LGRW!!

Kip, I agree with most of what you're saying and I do believe that this is still a little premature. People still seem to forget that we are STILL in somewhat of a rebuilding phase. This is the youngest team we've had in forever and we're going to continue to get younger over the next few years. There are going to continue to be some growing pains. However, I truly do believe that in a year or two, without making any trades, just continue to develop the homegrown talent, this team will be at the top once again. The one thing I will disagree with though is the notion that Blashill is accustomed to laying back to protect leads. He's never resorted to a defensive shut em down style of hockey. Even when he coached in the American League he always stressed going after them. Don't sit back, go get the next goal type of mentality, whether his team was down by a goal, up by a goal or up by 3... That's what I've always liked about him and one of the reasons I was so excited to see what he could do with the Wings this season. I do believe he still has that same sort of mentality, it's just taking a little longer for the whole team to buy in. I think they'll get there, and when they do, look out.

Find it kinda ironic on how Minnesota claims him and now we have snow..

Nice gdt by the way nerve damage. Real nice.

If you're big, and not a goon, people turn on you. Even if he doesn't hit, fight, scrap, etc. size is still an extra asset. It's hard to move big guys. They have extra reach, etc. People seem to miss this and just say "he's big and doesn't use his size." Not every big player should have to have an edge. If they're a goal scorer I don't see why it matters as long as they score (which Franzen did).

Not sure how I feel about this move. We're already pretty deep at center and Oates is past his prime.

Is Oates not coaching anywhere? I love that Blashill is willing to look outside the organization for help. One of the things that I liked about Babcock was that he accumulated contacts throughout the league, and throughout other leagues, so he had plenty of minds to pick when necessary. Seems like that rubbed off on Blash.

The only thing I could say after seeing it last night was "WOW". It's too new and too shiny right now for me to put in any kind of definitive ranking, but it's easily better than all of the prequels. GO SEE THIS MOVIE. You won't be disappointed. The Force is strong with this one.