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Was hoping to catch the game at Hockeytown cafe but 'tis closed due to a private party, apparently there's some auto show or something, who'd figured such event could take place in Detroit... might head to Cheli's chili to watch it. Go Wings!!!

A ROAD PP goal by NYQUIST? Is this real life? (Counting on general lack of enthusiasm to prevent a Bohemian Rhapsody event here).

NYQUIST!! Finally!!

Ridiculous if you ask me. Going against his old team, played better all season than Sheahan. Yeah, let's bench him. Good decision.

Hope you are having fun, ND!! Wings are in Dull-Ass, and I am not there... working for a living really sucks, at times like this. Go, Wings, go... someone Ott to be fired up tonight, in his former team's barn. Wings take this one 4-3.

Ott is playing... Game on

So Ott is playing?

Ansar Khan @AnsarKhanMLive Riley Sheahan a healthy scratch tonight for #RedWings. First time all season. Has no goals, six assists, minus-16 in 40 games. Well it's about DAMN time

never heard of it

Finally. I didn't think they would do it!

Vanek has unreal vision.

I am not the only one who noticed this...

I heard Ken's voice get really loud and high, so it must have been.

2 for 61 on the road. Not a typo. TWO FOR SIXTY ONE.

Belle Tire Sour Play, can we please, PLEASE score one?

Can we PLEEEEEEEEAAAAAAASE replace Ott-Glendening-Miller with Jurco-Helm-Sheahan at the earliest available opportunity?

It's a PP! Here's hoping it lasts more than 9 seconds! (Unless, of course, it's a Wings goal that ends it)

It is probably just me, but a shot on goal might nOtt be a bad idea, Wings.

Score a lOtt tonight, Wings... we're gonna need a whole bunch of goals....

This one is the free game of the week at nhl.com for those of you without cable

It's lame and creepy at the same time.

Couple things: Lidstrom NEVER dominated offensively, he was one of the better offensive dmen during much of his career, but he never dominated. The better argument is consistency and longevity I suppose. He did finish top 2 scoring for dmen for 5 years in a row, but never lead anyone else by that significant of a margin. With Orr, dominate is probably not a strong enough word, Gretzky is the only player that dominated the competition like Orr. Orr lead dmen is scoring for 7 straight years with the following points between him and #2 in those years: 9, 76, 76, 44, 47, 40, 59...that's domination. It's also important to understand that 44 more points isn't Orr scoring 170pts and #2 scoring 126, it's Orr scoring 100 and number 2 scoring 56...he was doubling #2's output a lot of years. Scoring was definitely higher in Orr's day, but not as significant as most would think (during Orr's career, GPG was 6.3, during Lidstrom's it was 5.7). Edit: also, I can only go by what I've heard and read and saw people say, but suggesting Orr was all offensive an no defense is false, he was known as one of, if not the best defensively during his time as well.

This doesn't make a lot of sense though, doesn't this mean we should never really have a discussion of best of all-time since the prior eras wouldn't really have a chance. Does this mean Crosby is the best player of all-time? Or is Gretzky still in the conversation since his domination against the rest of the league was so wide? I think it's fair to discount some raw stats for eras, but you do need to factor in qualifiers. I could say that it would be scary to see Crosby playing in the mid-80s against those goalies....but that's not fair...why would he have modern equipment while the goalies are still stuck with their 80s equipment? I know the goalie position has evolved quite a bit beyond just equipment as well though. Point being, you can look at 100pts in 1985 not meaning the same as 100pts today to compare a player, but the best way to assess "best of all time" is to assess how each stacks up against their competition at the time.