GMRwings1983

Correct me if I'm wrong. Every game 7 the Wings have played since 1994, the team that scored first won. So scoring first is huge tonight.

I want to see Cleary give a Messier like guarantee for tomorrow's game.

Sounds about right. Filppula with a monster game.

You want your number one defenseman to score more than 1G, 5A in the 25 playoff games he's played since Lidstrom retired. So no, he hasn't been very good.

To answer the OP's question, Holland will never be fired by Ilitch. If his sons want to fire him, then they need to make that move. I wouldn't mind seeing a new GM with fresh ideas, much like the coach. Holland and Babcock have reached their peek and did some great things, but at this point someone with fresh ideas on how to grow the team would help. I don't think this team can improve anymore under the current regime. Yeah, we got some nice prospects, but none of them are star players and that's the hard part about not drafting high every season. It's hard to build stars through the draft when you draft mid table every year.

If he scores a goal, I will be happy, but won't change the overall thinking about him. He is what he always has been. A guy that can move the puck and shoot, but can't play defense and turns pucks over.

That team didn't have Zidlicky. Close thread.

LOL. There's as high a likelihood of that happening as me hooking up with that girl on the white horse on the beach in that DirecTV commercial they always play now.

Woke up this morning kind of ticked off that Chicago, Minnesota and Calgary could all win their game 6's at home, while our weak team has totally squandered its home ice yet another season and has to play game 7 on the road. So much for that thread about how tough the JLA is to play in. My ass.

After Lidstrom and Kelly, he's the best defenseman in Wings history. Eleven time All Star and big member of those four Cup teams in the 50's.

Babcock hates line changes. Helm is Datsyuk's conjoined twin. If Datsyuk goes to play in Vladivostok, Helm will follow him to play on his wing. The defense is bad enough where no matter what changes you make, you'll have at least one bad pairing.

Not yet.

Oh come on.

How about Dano?

Aren't you a Lightning fan now that your boy plays there?

It figures Holland would sign someone like this.

I'm just thinking about Lapointe and that cool goatee right now. Can't think about anything else. Drove all the sex-starved women in the "Water Cooler" crazy.

Why? Do 35 year old returning from back surgery usually dominate? He's done being a dominant player. What he does need is talent around him like Yzerman had late in his career. Problem is, we don't have that kind of talent around him. He's relied on to carry a team that he can't carry.

Lapointe was a Hall of Famer?

We're supposed to have more leadership than Tampa, but I'll take talent over leadership any day.

So should the league. We need to get the calls in this next game, because we'd draw more ratings than TB vs. Mon

A New York vs. New York matchup would have been more interesting.

So did Kyle Calder.

You'd think the team would have done a pretty good job of that by now.

Hussey, Langfeld and Ellis is one of the bst "bad" lines ever.