GMRwings1983

If there is a God, why does he allow this Crosby thing to continue? How can we explain this injustice?

Interview with Crosby coming up folks!!!

Put Janik into that group as well and I'm sold.

Seems like every poster has started a thread comparing us to the Pens last year. Guess what? In 2006, the Edmonton Oilers were in a similar position, made the playoffs as an 8 seed and went to the SCF. That should give us hope right? Oh and it's been pointed out before that the Pens made some deadline moves acquiring Guerin and Kunitz. The Wings don't have the cap space to make any big moves.

Since when was it a GM's job to motivate his team to play?

As long as Bob Costas isn't doing the games, I'm fine.

May didn't play in the game Kronwall was cheapsotted, which was ironically the only injury all year to occur from a cheapshot. In 2008 we had some tough guys on our 4th line like Downey, Drake and McCarty most notably. They didn't play many minutes, but no 4th liner does. Those guys did set a good example with their checking and intensity, and as a result the entire team played with more grit than they did in previous seasons, despite the rest of the roster being similar. Oh and the point of dressing Boogaard without May would be to run Wings players and try to intimidate them. If you don't think intimidation can occur in hockey to pro athletes, then you give them too much credit and haven't been watching hockey for a long time. Lastly, nobody is saying this team is struggling because it's not tough enough. This whole thread has flared up because people like yourself couldn't resist talking about how useless May and enforcers are in general. You rocked the boat, so now several posters are rocking it back. The pro-enforcer posters are just saying that we'll miss seeing May in the lineup as a guy that could drop the gloves from time to time.

Teams stopped dressing enforcers against us for some reason, thus May had no one to fight. Also, Steve Ott would never fight May. If not for the instigator rule, things would likely be different, but May couldn't just grab Ott and start pounding on him. Then people here would ***** that May cost us a game with his stupid penalty. Seems like the anti-enforcer posters want it both ways. Doesn't work like that.

Actually, the skilled euro Leino was the first they got rid of. You should change your username, since it discredits what Probie stood for. Babcock and Holland didn't keep May around just to please posters like me. They must have felt he had some usefullness to the team. This is a business after all.

So? For all you know, Wings players in the past have put bounties on other heads as well. If you're not going to ***** about Bertuzzi being on the team, you certainly shouldn't bring May's name up. He wasn't the guy that did the act.

If Sammy kept his mouth shut, he probably would have made the team one way or another.

I hope you're joking. If not, you should change your username. Also, Kenny H does not believe that enforcers are a waste of cap space, otherwise neither Downey nor May would ever have played 1 game in a Wings uniform.

Actually, May had a good effect on the team which your anti-enforcer rant failed to acknowledge. We've had less teams play dirty against us this year than I can ever remember before. Less scrums after whistles and less teams trying to take advantage of our players. Also, teams don't dress enforcers very often against us than they did in prior years. I think May did his job somewhat in being a tough guy in the lineup that could keep the flies off the star players. It's not his fault the team has struggled this season. Also, he isn't taking playing time away from anyone. Everyone has gotten a chance to play this year with the injuries. He isn't depriving anyone of anything. Your whole post was just bad all around. At least you didn't say Brad May was responsible for Ozzie's decline as well as the struggling economy in Detroit.

O.K. so there's two good teams. Hoorah!! When teams are getting destroyed by such lopsided scores, it makes the whole competition look rather anti-climactic. Women's hockey is just not that popular outside North America. These other teams look like they're lost out there.

Hell, if we even won half the shootouts we played we'd be in the playoff picture. Don't forget, that teams who've finished 8th in the past often did it because they garnered all those shootout points. These shootouts are how mediocre teams get into the playoffs.

I agree. Too many soft Euros and not enough competition. It's like they invited all these countries to play (get creamed) just so Canada could make their Gold Medal look more legitimate. NOBODY CARES about women's hockey outside of Canada. :!:

These shootouts are likely to cost us a playoff spot. We suck at them, while other teams seem to feel confident in the shootout. It's always been that way with the Wings, but in the past it never really mattered in terms of playoff spots.

In other words, she looks like Fillpulla?

Yet another bandwagoner no doubt.

Yeah, that's what I meant to say, I just misquoted myself in the post. In any case, everyone in the West has a stellar record against the East except for us. Just gives us another reason to hate the Pens I guess. If you told me before the year that teams like Trashville, LA and Phoenix would be ahead of us with their s***ty no talent rosters, I'd have laughed at you.

Probably. They should all lose their jobs and be blacklisted for the rest of their lives.

Did they lose to Nashville? If so, I'm not surprised. As others have said, teams win when we win and lose when we lose.

Who would have ever thought so many Americans would be supporting Russia of all countries? My, how the times have changed.

DraperFan is that you?

Interesting thread. So many posters cheering for countries they have nothing to do with. Come to think of it, I wouldn't mind seeing Russia win it either, because it's been a long time since they took the Gold.