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It doesn't matter how he is doing on another team. He sucked when he was here. Therefore, he is gone.

Do you make it a habit in your life to not know what you are talking about?

Detroit has been too old for over a decade now........................

The Sharks do not have the makeup of winners. They are a fragile group. Even our former coach, knowing our team well, has shown that he can't always use that to his advantage. As far as I'm concerned, they are the supposed winner as everyone including some Wing fans seem to think we are lucky to even be here. I don't buy THAT, but .. anyway my point is we needed 1 win. And a convincing win is better than us winning 2-1. The Sharkies then would say "oh, it's OK boys, we almost closed it out." Now that they were blown out, they are using the line of "weird game. lucky Wings all night ..." blah blah blahhhh. It's embarrassing to them believe it! Because Nabokov has finally been lit up like he shouldve been at least 2 other games. The floodgates are open. And if I'm a Sharkie fan, reality is, he CAN be lit up again by a Wings squad that will dominate IF we get: -fair officiating BOTH ways -Jimmy NOT giving up deflating goals and just makes the routine saves. The Sharks are no match just like pretty much any other team. Wings cannot be matched when those two things BOTH happen. 7-1? No biggie? We shall see. But I'm betting the Sharks ARE talking a good game right now, but inside, at the same time, the doubt has begun - if nothing more than "geez guys, what if??" We win Game 5. Just 1 more. One game. I predict the series is over!! Unless of course we get the refereeing in Game 7 thats the same s*** calls that had the Sharks up 3-0 a day ago. Fair calls. Jimmy just being solid. This series is ours. And the Sharks know this summer will be a disaster for their team after 4 playoff flop in a row (the last being a blown 3-0 series lead in 2010). Management WILL NOT ice this lineup next October. That's not pressure? Wings lose - noone but US care. The national media in Canada and US had us picked first, to miss the playoffs and second, now lucky to even beat Phoenix. Go WINGS!!!!

Did everyone else die or something?

Whoa, this guy's got more goals in the playoffs than Hossa! Must be a real stud.

Nucks are good but Luongo is way overrated

I could put up points playing with Hossa. Kope is a decent player, but I doubt he be as successful playing with less skilled players.

Sammy says the Hawks can go f*** themselves. esteef

Raffi's stick could have been positioned better. To be fair, it can be argued that Rafalski thought Thornton was going to try to hit Marleau down low and was trying to block that lane while the trailers caught up. Had Howard not set up a lawn chair outside the crease, he'd have probably stopped the shot. Although some blame falls on Raffi, it's mainly on Howard.

Ahh yes, Columbus ... first place I go for hard-hitting and insightful hockey commentary.

Here's an excerpt from the Austin American Statesman, written mainly about the Texas Stars, Dallas's AHL team here in central Texas. Here's what caught my eye: <<..."The Stars may epitomize the relative rise of hockey nationwide. NHL ratings on Versus are up by 20 percent, but Andrews (AHL commissioner) said ESPN will bid for the next contract...">> This is news to me. But I sure wouldn't mind if they did.

I wouldn't be surprised. From what I hear Williams has some powerful connections in the italian mafia.

For the Wings, he was terrible. He was a waste of a roster space during the regular season, and his injuries in the past two postseasons turned out to be positive events for the team. You have been implying that he was a valuable player who should not have been let go. In reality, he was almost inarguably the least useful player on the roster. He excelled in no area whatsoever; in fact, he was below average in virtually every area save size.

So what are we supposed to do in this thread? Agree with the OP and pine for a player that was awful for us, didn't fit under the cap and was generally disliked by almost every Wings fan? The only good thing Kopecky ever did for us was help lure Hossa in for a year. I'd rather entertain a discussion about having Sammy back.

Damn. You're lippy and inspirational.

god... for the third time it's obvious there's way more of those people in the shark tank... it seems like the crowd is just as loud whether a real penalty isn't called or whether they don't know what they're booing about. whereas in most other arenas, you can tell that there are less people booing about something they shouldn't be booing about compared to when something that actusally deserved to be booed happens

Wow...thats a bold statement saying a team won't come back from a 3-0 defecit. This guy has some balls! ....

Someone is mad they got swept.

We've been old and on the way down for 10 years. Eventually someone is going to be right.

If it's not the Wings, anyone but Pittsburgh. For the love of God, anyone but Pittsburgh.

One for some respect of a great player:

Started working on these this afternoon, glad it didn't jinx Game 7: Not Shark-related, but I made Jimmy Howard a new jersey in honor of the shutout, just forgot to post in the Phoenix Photoshop War: