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Title should be "paging half of this team", although they're hanging by a thread and might still win this series in 6! Isn't it funny how finesse players disapear in the playoffs? The "grind" of it all grates them down to nothing...

No, thanks. I think the Sharks are doing all the ******* for now , or at least until further notice from our beloved Wings...

Sorry that you're bothered by difference of opinion.I think that hints right at the base of the word " discussion" doesn't it? Anyhow, if by "awsome" you mean Canucks Bertuzzi I suggest you pull out some older Vancouver film with a cup 'o' black coffee.He even admits he's a role player right now (as opposed to difference maker).

Yes, I too wish Wings blank them 4-0 or something of the kind , in the midst of an erupting Joe... but let me be the minority persimist around here, I'm good at it: I have a feeling it won't happen.It will be a close , lucky one for the winner. Anyway I think ultimately we should be the"Calgary" of this series and punch them in the mouth a few times , see if those young guys rattle any...

No problem dude, I did not know that, sorry. "Vanity Threads" as you call them ,are a common thing on most forums and just an opinion and nothing more.However it seems redundant since I could've wrote the same message under a different topic name and still had it posted , correct?

I actually had a new topic called " game recap" that got deleted by the mighy of this board... maybe considered too negative? Sometimes the truth hurts... We didn't control anything , they just trapped us the rest of the game and that's all it took. It kind of reminded me of the '95 finals against the Devils.After that Bowman decided to master the trap, and he did...

Let me give you my "game recap" recap , since it got deleted earlier... They got two by us while the old men were sleeping back there and then they turned into un inpenetrable fortress that made us look futile most of the game.What's not to dread about that?

It's not, but if game one tought us anything is that the team making the least mistakes will win this series.And oh, we need Hank back badly! I hope he gets back before game 4...

Well now you can dread all you want! The dreading is official and spreading.

Wow! My game recap topic got deleted! How communist of you , mighty red god! I guess inteligence and debate are at a minimum around here.Oh, well...

I guess that spells deep trouble for us , unless Bertuzzi shakes of the daze that he seems to be under...

Calder and Bertuzzi it is, but you guys are forgetting no Lebda or Holstrom for the first game.That scares me a bit .I would officially like to wish them good luck...

So you think Nabakov will stop most of the 40-50 shots per game that Kiprusoff could not? I also hate this matchup but somehow I don't think goal tending is what's going to stop them... I'd sure like to see them win the first one... very important to set the tone against this Shark team...

Hasek has played poorly like he does since 2002.The play of the team in front of him is what masks that fact.When the D is not there pucks will get by him; he is no more the "human spring& trap" that he once was.On the other side Kipprusoff is starting to carry that team on his back: even the pucks that he can't see he stops.Three words: crash the net.Is the onlt way to get this guy now...

Babcock is a shot in the dark at best, just like most coaches in the league...You don't expect me to agree of this guy after seeing Bowman in action all those years...do you?

If he is gone then good riddance, but... What is Robert Lang of this board going to do then?!?

The only reason we got him is because he beat us in the playoffs a coulpe of seasons ago , then went to the cup finals riding Giguerre and a good D.... That's about it.

He is in my "praises" , can't you read? And I did not mention Cheli... you did. My wanting to nail Langs girlfriend is nothing compared to your wanting of Bert.He don't look too hot with that missing tooth, though... sorry.

Well ,actually there's a lot of truth in what I initially posted: If I was a 39 year old millionare with at least one cup under my wing and dating one of the hottest models in the world, I would probably play the same way he does:like luke warm piss on melting ice. And who's this "we" you're talking about?

I don't really see what you mean by that , I'm sure you don't either, but your Bertuzzi infatuation and your other flailings around this board render you as a ***** in your own right.Let me see what you know about hockey and less about bitching...

I'm with you all the way Winged; This is where the luck always turns ;the skill is there but the energy has not , for a few years now.Did you see Flames players sacrificing the body on that last power play? I remember when WE used to do that...

Lang sucks , he's old and he doesn't care.But... Did you see his girlfriend? I wouldn't care much about hockey if I was nailing a ***** like that either!

I wish I could do that; it's just this new trend of the past 4 years :dead wings in the playoffs, usually in the first round. Don't get me wrong, this team has brought me a lot of exciting moments throughout the 90's all the way to the last cup in 2003.This is just not the killer instict playoff team I've grown acustomed to over the years.

Not enough ; his preseason skate-around style worked in the first period but was a complete waste of space the rest of the game.As well as Lang and a certain 43 year old that's been killing us in the playoffs since 2003...

You people have to come to gripes that this is not Yzerman's champs anymore; it's just the Senators team of the last 10 years or so: kings of the season, selfish old men of the playoffs.If they get out of this one in 7, There's NO WAY they'll get past the second round! ...and one more thing: there was only one Bowman in Detroit that could mix and match his way into miracol.This guy we have now can't compare to a toe nail of Bowman's! Heart was Yzerman,Shanahan,McCarty,Kocur, not...this!