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It counted in 1999. So everything old is new again... ask the Sabres.

Take... these drunken Wings

Mantha! So stay with me here, but I think I just came up with a brilliant nickname for Mantha.. Antman! Anthony Mantha Or maybe i'm just drinking my beers too quick.

At the point of hallucinating eh?

On the bright side, outdoor games seem to be a crap shoot due to environmental factors. So perhaps the Wings have a chance New Years day VS the Leafs when I'm there

Blash's whole strategy in one song Whatcha gonna do with all that puck? All that dump and chase the puck I'm a dump dump dump that puck I dump, I dump, I dump, I dump, I dump, I dump and chase the puck, check it out

That.. should have counted. There was zero contact until he stepped on Coreau's stick as the puck crossed the line.

Hhahahah that was totally a goal but I'll take it

Put Mrazek in.

Vanek says Merry Christmas and gives Nielsen a goal on his stick and he flubs it. For the first time in a while it feels like i'm watching hockey right now. It's an intense, fast, physical period that I have rarely seen out of this team this season. It's nice for a change.

As long as the Florida player gets wrecked, I'm ok with it haha KRONWALLED! YESSS

Dear Ericsson, please hit like that more often. That is all. -every wings fan ever.

He definitely wasn't fine to start the season. He was classic inconsistent Mrazek. And while I can't stand Blashill as a coach, I agree with him at least in how he's handled the goalie situation, although Coreau starting tonight is a head scratcher.

So you come up with the false Swedish Mafia rumors being on free press and now you're coming up with Datsyuk asking to play with Mantha. Whats next? Aliens are real? Tis not the season to lose credibility on an online forum my friend.

Not sure it matters... we can't score goals. Mraz would not have fared any better on 2 of the 3 goals against.

We aren't done in this one, there's a feel to this game that I think they can come back.

Coreau just got sniped hard, no chance. What a rip by MacKenzie.

Keep your head up kids

Mother of God, yes! Love the GDT. Fallout is the BEST! Let's go wings! Time to see what Coreau's got.

And you will known my name is Coreau when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

That quote is so outdated and untrue. Look at every MVP in playoffs and look at every team that's won the Stanley cup the last few years. Each team had maybe 1 actual top D man but the offense is what carried them. Crosby, Kessel, Malkin Hossa, Kane, Toews Kopitar, Williams, Carter Duncan Kieth may be the only notable D-man that was the biggest aspect of a Stanley Cup win. Aside that if it came down to anything on the defensive end it's the goalie. Look at Quick and Tim Thomas winning the Conn Smythe. Regardless of how good your defense is, if the goalie doesn't make saves you don't win. Regardless of how good the defense is if you don't score at least one more goal than your opponent you won't win. It's common sense. What's the difference between this year and 2013 when Niklas Lidstrom left? On paper we have a slightly better defensive core with Green, Dekeyser rather than Colovacio and Ian White. So we're technically better defensively. But what about our offense? No longer do we have the elite offensive guys Datsyuk and Zetterberg who scored 49 and 48 points in 47 and 46 games played. No longer do we have Franzen who scored 14 goals in 41 games. Yet in 2013 we went Round 2 game 7. This year with an anemic offense we're bottom of the league in standings out of playoff picture. What does any of the defense matter when we can't score goals? What does any of Jimmy Howard's 40 saves, 30 saves matter when we can't score a goal and thrn get shutout or very close to it?

If it was "WIDELY" reported...As you stated...Then I'm sure you won't have any trouble finding a couple sources. Heck I'm sure we'd just settle for one lol Just because you BOLD something, doesn't make it true.

He got to play with Datsyuk a good amount of games last year and has been consistently playing with Zetterberg this season, what more can a guy ask for!? Cmon lol. That would be a dream come true for 99.9999% of rookies.

100% agree, most teams backups are UFA signings or minor trades anyways. Just look at our division as a sample size. Only two teams have a homegrown backup. Toronto - *Enroth (UFA) (I put an * as they have gone back and forth with Bibeau these past couple weeks) Montreal - Montoya (UFA) Boston - Khudobin (current tenure UFA) Buffalo - Nilsson (trade) Detroit - Mrazek (drafted) Florida - Riemer (UFA) TB - Vasilevskiy (drafted) Ottawa - Condon (trade)