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WHOOO HOOOOOO!!!!! Screw you waffle fans!! Screw Badcock too. I say he didn't

April Fool! None of the regulars has posted a GDT! Everyone must be watching the Madness that is March (in April).

We are a bad hockey team. So sorry fans at the Joe. There are more Leafs fans there anyway, from the sound of it. What a shame....

How many jersey's has Montreal up in the rafters??

Maybe, but ultimately anything he says is going to be "PR". Blah blah blah I want win the Cup every year, blah blah blah Billy's GM let him win the Cup, blah blah blah I hate you, Kenny, dumb doodoohead!

Cherry is so loud and I don't just mean his jacket

Fedorov was one of the best players in the NHL in his prime. The fact that he wanted to get out of Detroit for so long tarnishes him a bit, but I think eventually 91 goes up. Datsyuk and Zetterberg are linked together, I think either they both go up or neither does. Osgood is #2 in just about every category in Wings all time goal tending stats and is pretty under rated. Too many people put all of his success on the team in front of him, but then heap praise on Roy, Brodeur, Fuhr, et. al. ignoring the fact that they put up their numbers behind great teams as well. Yes, Osgood let in some bad goals, but so did everyone else (Patty Wah Statue of Liberty play anyone?) and when he did, he came back even stronger. That OT goal from center ice against Dallas was followed by a shutout. He still doesn't go up though. He turned down a big deal, held out, and signed an offer sheet from a non playoff team designed to make it extremely difficult for Detroit to match after saying he'd never play for Detroit again, then as soon as he hit UFA status he bolted to somewhere he could be the man. He wanted out.

Dear NHL.tv, F*** you. Dear NHL Network, F*** you.

I wanted to watch. The s***-heads from the NHL put this one on NHL.Network. I cannot get that here. I also cannot find a stream. I give up. It's been like this ALL SEASON. Center Ice is horrible, I have seen exactly five games this season on that service, thanks to mismanagement. Happy for you if you can watch. I can't. Go Wings!

Man I'll be so glad when this season is over. It's getting annoying now.

We can't even play spoiler. Appropriate since we give so many their first NHL goal or break their droughts.

If he gets a goal then my prediction will come true, especially on April's fool day.

Dickie and Jonas get -1 for their terrible rebuttals today.

Goose! Nice start

Sometimes I think WIIM exists solely to ensure that the internet doesn't run out of stupid. How many Cups have Edmonton and Toronto won in this century? Maybe we should wait until they have some success before praising their success. Also, Chris Ilitch has been CEO of Ilitch Holdings since 2010. Nothing about his authority has changed. And finally, in regards to the "rebuild" and the comments of Holland and Devellano, you have to look past the semantics. There's no such thing as a "real rebuild". The fact is every single team, whether they want to or not, is constantly evolving. Declining in some ways, improving in others. Whatever label someone wants to attach to the process, we have in recent years been building toward the future. Trying to stay competitive and trying to build for the future are not mutually exclusive. Think about it. What players currently in the system does everyone point to as potential building blocks? Pretty much all the guys we've added in these recent years when Holland was supposedly ruining our future for the sake of the streak. Would we really be any better off if we had Drouin, Bennett, and Strome instead of Mantha, Larkin, and Svechnikov? Even if you get a top pick it doesn't guarantee anything. Johnson, Hall, RNH, MacKinnon, Yakupov...even stars like Ovie, Stamkos, and Tavares haven't won anything or even been good enough to make the playoffs every year. In fact, of the 26 1st-overall picks made in the course of the Wings' streak, only 3 ever won a Cup. That's part of what Holland means in saying there's no guarantees with a rebuild. Ovie is the 2nd best player of his generation, Washington has the 5th best cap-era record, about to win their 3rd PT, and never been past the 2nd round. Every team in the league has "rebuilt" multiple times since the Wings' last missed the playoffs, and most have nothing to show for it. So no guarantee that tanking will get you the top pick, or that the top pick will be a great player, or that a great player will bring you a cup.... meanwhile, the Wings and Boston built Cup winners without really tanking. San Jose and the Rangers haven't won anything, but at least built good teams. There are still very good players, even stars, found outside the lottery picks. Just have to get lucky. Sure, looking at it in isolation, "hope to get lucky" seems like a s***ty strategy, but in the context of reality...where every strategy requires a fair amount of luck, it's not nearly as foolish as people try to act like it is. The one thing we could have done that might have put us further ahead now is the one thing that no one would have wanted. Trade Datsyuk and Zetterberg when Lidstrom retired. We would have been terrible for a few years probably, but maybe now we'd still have all the good young pieces we do, plus maybe a young star or two. Would it have been worth it? I don't know. I think I'd still rather be us than Edmonton, and odds are tanking wouldn't have landed us McDavid. Definitely rather be us than Buffalo.

Only #40. Same reason to raise it as for #5.

Great rebuttal. I don't think you understand the relationship between the GM and ownership and PR.

He signed an offer sheet in 98.....is that not trying to leave?

If there's any confusion, my post to bump this thread quotes Holland saying that "Zetterberg's jersey will go on the rafters". If this really is Holland's quote then it's 100% that #40 will be retired. The question now remains of #91, #13, #30

Call it petty or whatever, but I think that anyone who tried very hard to leave the team should not have their number retired, and that would include Fedorov and Datsyuk. Which sucks for Zetterberg, because I feel if you retire one you have to retire the other, and I don't think they'd retire Z and not D because that would be an obvious slight and create a maelstrom of debate.

Wrong! it's a full a** grown chihuahua, this is a pupper and this is an EmDoge

30 no 91 no 13 no 40 perhaps

Thats clearly a pupper, not a doggo. Know the difference.

I'm not sure how legit this is but.. Just ask GM Ken Holland. Speaking with THN’s Ken Campbell on Thursday, Holland made it clear he has no desire to move Zetterberg and chances are he remains a Red Wing until he decides he’s done with the game. If that’s not enough, Holland said, “Zetterberg’s jersey is going in the rafters.” Enough said. http://www.thehockeynews.com/news/article/active-nhlers-who-are-a-lock-for-jersey-retirement-as-devils-announce-honor-for-elias1