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A bit late due to being in rehearsal, but... via Imgflip Meme Generator Anyway, what's the short recap?

AA will get the OT winner, don't worry.

I'm about to add Ericsson on my fantasy team for PIM alone.

Big E got knocked the eff out!!

Don't worry guys, I called an exterminator to get all of these crickets out of the GDT.

Good persistence led to that goal for Tatar. Keep that intensity ramped up.

Tatar Tots!!!

Tats the way to do it!

LW C RW Dylan Larkin Frans Nielsen Tyler Bertuzzi Tomas Tatar Henrik Zetterberg Justin Abdelkader Andreas Athanasiou Darren Helm Gustav Nyquist Riley Sheahan Luke Glendening Steve Ott Defensive Pairings Dan DeKeyser Mike Green Jonathan Ericsson Alexey Marchenko Niklas Kronwall Brendan Smith LW C RW Matt Read Claude Giroux Wayne Simmonds Travis Konecny Sean Couturier Jakub Voracek Michael Raffl Brayden Schenn Dale Weise Scott Laughton Pierre-Édouard Bellemare Chris VandeVelde Defensive Pairings Michael Del Zotto Shayne Gostisbehere Ivan Provorov Mark Streit Brandon Manning Radko Gudas Starting goalies Jimmy Howard, Steve Mason. Sorry for the crooked formatting, I had issues with the copy and paste from the source site. I just wanted to get the GDT rolling here. LGW!

Z line sucking but lets keep it togther larkin helm abs terrible line too. might as well have ott and glendenning damn howard saving the game

Nah, this AA kid is no good, let's bury him on the 4th line and then bench him again in 2 games.

Boy that AA just is not good enough...

Ericsson fighting Simmonds and E went down early

ericsson gets knocked out

E fighting Simmons

only two shots on the PP... but it still looked pretty good

Fun fact, the first game that Detroit LOST in Philly in March 1998 to begin this streak, I was there at that game. they lost 6-1. It's all my fault.

Go big or go home. 7-0 W 4 goals from little Bert, Auston Matthews style. Howard 51 save shutout. LGW! Really though, just please win.

Let's go Wings! End this lame never winning in Philly stat.

We are all Jeff Blashill now. Illuminati confirmed. (Blashilluminati?)

No argument on the treatment of Cujo, he definitely got a raw deal. Much worse then Howard. What did Howard "bring on to himself"? Howard is an average starting goaltender, who is paid like an average starting goaltender. According to sportstrac, he is the 17th highest paid goalie in the league. http://www.spotrac.com/nhl/contracts/goaltender/ Sure he lost him job to Mrazek, but that is because Mrazek is the future and Howard has had injury issues. Howard still has the skill set to be a decent starter in this league. When healthy, he has shown that. If Howard was the highest paid goalie in the league, or even top 10 I would get the extreme negativity towards him. However, in reality he has played exactly to his level of skill....average. I am not sure why fans expected him to become Lundqvist or Quick, he is not that. He has played over the last 7 years here in Detroit just like he is paid, an average/slightly above average starting goalie. When I say Howard gets a raw deal, what I mean is that fans expect more out of him then he is paid, or able to provide. It would be like getting upset with Nyquist for not get 90 points. He is simply not a 90 point player, nor is he paid like a 90 point player.

Agreed, there is definitely a double standard between the two. Some fans are so fueled on emotion that anything that happens when Howard is in net becomes his fault because they feel they have been burned by him in the past, while with Mrazek he is the one that makes them feel optimism. They dont want to believe that he can do anything bad so they find excuses for him. I have always been a fan of Howard and felt he was given a raw deal in Detroit, and Mrazek I do believe has the makings of an elite goalie. But right now, Howard is playing like the better goaltender.