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Just as anytime something special is done for someone that dies, I wished they would have honored him like that while he was still alive to enjoy it. I don't think we show the people who are still with us how much we appreciate them as much as we do once they pass. Think about funerals, all the wonderful things people have to say about someone that's just passed. I always think to myself, I wish that person was right here so they could hear how much people loved them. (Even though you may believe they are there and can hear it). I think more tributes should be done for people that are still around.

Move Atlanta to Quebec, Phoenix to Winnipeg, Panthers to Hamilton... =)

For me, the question is not how many goals he will score, its how many games he will stay healthy for.

tbh that penalty by salei probably saved a goal, the puck was heading in

Our defense hasn't been great but Janik has looked better than Salei. esteef

I trust mine eye to Dr. Rahmani. you should too!

A rare occasion where I'm going to jump on board with you in this one... It seems that no matter how much of a reasonable chance, or should I say utter and complete lack of a reasonable chance, our goalies have to make the save, nice you hit 3-4 GA, the goalie automatically is the problem. It's idiotic. Nothing a goalie can do but hope the puck hits him when your defense sabotages you on plays like the ones we've observed too often with this team. I don't care what you say about this though: our defense for the third straight season is profoundly inconsistent. This team will struggle unnecessarily until they get the defense playing somewhat close to the level they are more than capable of playing at. These issues with sloppy coverage all boil down to nothing more than mental laziness. McCrimmon very well may not be the reason for this problem, but he certainly hasn't been able to offer any semblance of a solution.

I was waiting for a reason to hate the Wings to be 'They got over a million fans at their parade, we only got 10,000... WAH!' I agree the Joe is old, but hate the team because we out-marketed Disney and copyrighted Hockeytown? Hate us because of 2002? I am sick of hearing that the Wings "bought" the Cup back then... Hasek we traded for, as a matter of fact a 30 goal scorer and a first round pick. Brett Hull, is it our fault he took less money to come here? Hell we didn't even sign him until August 22nd of 2001, nearly 2 months after UFA day... Robitaille, NOBODY wanted, NOT EVEN LA! (much like Modano this year!) Olausson, again NOBODY ELSE WAS INTERESTED IN HIM!!! Chelios we traded Anders Ericsson and a first round pick for WAAAAAAY back in 1999. Larionov was on this team for years... Lidstrom, Yzerman, Fedorov, ALL DRAFT PICKS! Shanahan was traded for in 1996 for Keith Primeau and Paul Coffey AND a first round pick! Jesus H! Now what part of that says we just pulled a New York Yankee's and threw a ton of money at a bunch of free agents and BOUGHT the Stanley Cup!!!?!?!?!? Pure Envy is all it is.... Hate the Wings because they are your rivals, simple. Forget all the other BS excuses and rationalizations!

Man, if I'm a bandwagon fan, so be it. Nothing's going to stop me from cheering for the Wings.

As hockey is religion in canada i think canada deserves to have more nhl teams there, would be good for the nhl and the whole world to be honest...

When the two teams have something like one playoff appearance and no playoff wins in a combined 20 seasons of existence, I mean we're talking hard core futility, and the only traditional market that tolerates that level of suck and comes back is Maple Leafs fans.

you mean... Bertuzzi knows more about hockey than people posting in this forum? Who knew?

No offense to Z or Nick, but Howard was the #1 star of the game.

It's not that hard of a concept to understand. It was a very heads up play by Salei, I can't understand why other people are ignorant to that fact.

There is the new record for the weakest hooking call ever.

Anyone notice that Filppula would be an excellent "Y" in the YMCA? When ever Filppula is on the ice, when the Wings score, he is very animated with his Y's.

I'd rather see Fleury go 0-4 on the season.

The JLA sounds like this game is being played at an indoor swimming pool. Just a bunch of echoes.

No matter how many times I see Dats do that... ITS STILL AMAZING! Nice shot by Lids too!

Only if the Wings lose.

Didn't Phoenix have a game last season with some astoundingly low attendance like 3500 or something? Hockey failed in Atlanta before, I don't know why they thought it would thrive this time... that franchise needs to go elsewhere... it's a shame too, because they actually have a pretty exciting, young team...

The fact that ESPN decides to cover nothing but these types of incidents doesn't help..

so it'll be 3 on 1 then?

Rick nash, mike richards and dustin brown