Lovin Jiri Fischer

The big tough Eastern Conference is in for a surprise.

This sucks. Now we have to wait for LA to make playoffs before we can make gap-tooth photoshop jokes.

You don't think people have committed suicide over this situation? There are a lot of sad desperate people here and some of them have tried to find a way out. Thank you for joining solely to give us your insight, but until you know someone who has done this or had to go through this than your insight doesn't matter. We have a sense of humor...but this is NOT funny. Why don't you lose your job and life savings as the result of a corrupt industry and put some kids through college then tell me how funny it is.

Hey, you're the one who suggested that people who like sports teams outside their state are posers, Michigan boy.

Peguins are really cute

So people outside of Michigan who like the Wings are posers. You live outside of Pennsylvania and like the Pens. What does that make you? I'm sure some Wings fans in Pitt have been to more Pens games than you...

Win it so these lovelies can go home

My dad was planning to go immediately from work to secure a table for our family since he works close to Detroit. I'm not sure what time he gets out though. But do you think that will give us enough time if he gets there around 5:30 or 6? I can see him leaving earlier than that too since he's a badass at his job and no one will care what he does.

Calimari and octopus are not the same things.

As a Sicilian I gotta say I love octopus. The texture is a little weird if your toungue touches the tenticles, but it's really good boiled. Kinda crunchy and chewy at the same time. Try it with olive oil and some lemon juice.

This would be pretty similar to putting up a sign during last year's playoffs when we played the Aves and make it say something like "Don't let any of your schools get shot this time" or if the Lions played New Orleans in football playoffs and our sign said "How's Hurricane Katrina rebuilding working out for you?"

Come on boys!!! Get it done!!!

Bettman doesn't "face" any question. He has pre-planned answers and never admits mistakes. The OP of this thread even showed it by pointing out that when a caller had facts, the show was "out of time". If he doesn't want questions, he should not be the commissioner of a major sports league.

I think you guys are being unfair. You're holding them to the same standards to which you would hold professionals.

It would be terrible for your child to be brought into a world where Sidney Crosby has the Stanley Cup.

Win it for Bettman to shove it in his face. Win it for the haters who said Osgood will always be a career backup. Win it for all fans of the Western Conference who are sick of the NHL and its love for shoving Eastern teams down their throats. And kind of personal...win it for my mom's friend whose 20-year-old son died in a car accident two days ago.

I have mixed feelings about the picture. On one hand I really don't like Obama and I see him making the auto industry just a little worse every day. So I do agree that this all needs to stop. On the other hand, I don't think it's anyone's place to find humor in Michigan's situation because real people are losing jobs and can't feed their families.

Probably a sore tear gland.

I know I get frustrated with Hudler and Sammy a lot, but they have scored some key goals this season. And even bigger than that, they are really good guys, along with Hossa and Filppula. It's going to be sad to see anyone go, not because we don't want them, but because we can't have them.

So what you're saying is that the Pens should not have been called for gooning it up? Or did you want the refs to start calling some make-up calls against the team that was not gooning it up? The Pens acted like two year olds in that game. And it cost them. Maybe next time they will learn to not commit those penalties.

What are you talking about? That was real.

Oh Lord.

The reffing is not directly related to us losing, but terrible officiating can sure take the air out of some tires. Maybe one team does not score on their pp, but the players who had to kill off that penalty must become even more tired. Especially if the penalty was killed off, it means the team killing it did everything they could and most likely wore themselves out for the next few minutes. It is always the Wings who get the first penalty, and they get their penalties early. The Pens never seem to get their penalties until much later. And I do think there is bias toward the Pens sometimes. There is honestly no way one referee standing at center ice can honestly think "goalie interference on Zetterberg...I can see that 100% clearly even though I'm so far and the other referee much closer doesn't think it's a penalty." And do you guys honestly think the referees couldn't count to six in game three? And let's not forget in the game 7 against the Caps, the Penguins got ZERO penalties. Do you guys honestly think they played an absolutely perfect game without doing a single thing wrong? I don't think any team can. And they came really close to getting a second game with zero penalties the other night. This is evidence towards bias for sure, whether or not the actual league is doing this or just the refs. However, the Wings do need to play better and push through this because true champions overcome any difficulties. They need to let go of the ref mistakes instead of getting frustrated.

I'm having a hard time understanding why you chose a beach ball to make Fleury look sweet. Anyone should be able to stop a beach ball or they belong in the minors. You have him diving all over the place to make a save on a beach ball? I don't get it.

Even if it was Malkin, good old Gary would force him to play I think