oldredbarnman

If Sammy were here right now, he'd probably be on IR too..........

Wings/Leafs. Doesn't get any better than that. Plus it's Hall Of Fame weekend. Yzerman, Hull, Robitaille. The inductees will be introduced before the game, ceremonial puck drop, and I'm sure interviewed as well. I'll be recording the game on both FSD and CBC. Should be a fun night. Wings 4 Leafs 2

Bobby Orr, Mickey Redmond, Ken Dryden and Guy Lafleur.

I'm not a huge Leafs fan, and I do miss the days when the Wings and Leafs played each other 8 times a year. And though it sucks that you have to watch an awful Leafs team right now, just be thankful you get HNIC. The best thing that came out of the 1994 lockout was doubleheaders on Saturday night. CBC tried to make up for lost time, and I'm sure lost revenue, and have every year since had 2 games on Saturday night. Before then, it was 1 game, and sometimes a little bonus coverage if the game you were watching ended early. (Not counting the dismissal of Dave Hodge in '87 of course) As a Wings fan, I know what you are going through. I grew up watching lousy Red Wing teams for years, and they were only on tv about 10-15 games back then. I guess the only team to watch on the early game right now is Ottawa. Watching HNIC back in the day, with games at the Gardens, the Forum, Le Colisee, Northlands Coliseum, Winnipeg Arena, Pacific Coliseum, and the old Calgary Corral really added to the telecasts. You tax dollars maybe going to subsidize CBC, but I have to pay for all of those crappy reality shows on my cable, just so I can watch hockey.

I think Steve's 155 points in 88/89 is remarkable because of the lack of depth on the team, plus the fact he had blown his knee out the previous season.

1 Guy LaFleur 2 Bobby Orr 3 Ken Dryden 4 Joe Sakic 5 Lanny MacDonald 6 Peter Zezel

Yes, Iginla is trying to tie Souray up, as is always done in a situation like this. But he does not step on Iginla's stick. Souray turns his skates, so he doesn't go straight into the boards, and Iginla's stick takes Souray's left skate from under him, knocking him off balance and head first into the boards. I don't think he was trying to injure him, but you ARE responsible for your own stick, whether it is off the ice and accidently clip another player, or on the ice doing what Iginla did.

I saw that. The Red Wing schedule I printed from NHL.com has the Wings as the away team for today's game. Guess it doesn't matter, they're definately not at home for either of these 2 games.

This is a a home and home series. The Wings are the away team today, and the home team tomorrow.

Apologies if this was already said, but isn't one of the broadcasters who just interviewed Homer, Tomas Sandstrom?

Looking forward to watching it. If anyone wants a little pre-Wings warmup, ATDHE.NET is showing Dynamo Riga vs. SKA St. Petersburg, starting at 12:30 p.m.

My seats are in 227B. They're not bad, I just hate the black netting, (and the top bar is a nuisance in the upper bowl at either end around row 5. ) Wish they would change the netting to white or clear. Any seats between the bluelines are good, no net to interfere. I think the worst seats are in the corners(lower bowl), where you have to turn your body to see the action at the other end.

It was announced at tonight's game that the Olympia Room will be open to the general public for all preseason games. Proper attire is required. I didn't go in, as I was wearing jeans, but if anyone is heading down to a game, you at least have the option of going in. Just dress appropriately.

Agreed. Tardiff handled himself well, and he did have a chance to remove his elbow pads too. And though he didn't get any shots in, he did taken Lappy down, and the crowd loved every second of it. Besides, Tardiff got the last laugh by scoring the game winning goal.

I just got mine. Tickets have individual players on them, with their date of birth, where they were born, position, height and weight. (No Bert ticket though) Along with Steve Yzerman night on 11/12, the Wings are having Budd Lynch Night on 11/5 vs. San Jose.

I got an email from the Red Wings, and it said that there will be a Steve Yzerman Night. There was no other information, so I called Joe Louis, and the ticket agent said it will be November 12th, vs. Vancouver. Just thought I'd give everyone a heads up, as single tickets go on sale Friday.

I don't know when they go on sale, but that's the Hockey Hall of Fame weekend. I'd love to be there myself.

Another crappy home schedule IMO. No Montreal, Toronto, Philadelphia or New York Rangers at the Joe. No home game against Tavares and the Islanders. 3-5 game road trips, and 1-3 game road trip. The longest homestand is 4 games, plus 3-3 game homestands. With the Olympics in February, the schedule is going to be a grind for all of the teams. Pretty much playing every other day. Wings have 12 games in 31 days in Oct., 14 in 30 in Nov., 14 in 31 in Dec., 15 in 31 in Jan., and 6 in Feb before the break. Then 15 in 30 in March, and 6 in 11 to finish the season. Teams that get off to slow starts will have a hard time catching up. Health management is going to be a big factor next year. I've said it before; if the NHL really wants to sell their game, every team should play in every city, which would be 50 games of the schedule. That way we get to see all of the stars, young and old. Then play each team in your division 8 times. I'd much rather see that. Let the teams in the East make long West Coast swings, see how they handle it.

I was at Nationwide when it first opened. Very nice building. I believe it has two sheets of ice, so when there is an event scheduled for the main arena, the team can still practice in the same building. Plus, very wide concourses and restrooms, and they had a floor hockey rink for the kids. I would love to see the outside of the building to look like Olympia, and I would like to see it either at Michigan and Trumbell, or on the northwest side of I-75 and Woodward. I believe Ilitch owns that land as well.

Couldn't agree with you more.

I don't know if that is true or not. Maybe they had extra boards at Olympia, but before they tore it down, I, and many other people, went in and took just about everything. The boards were the first to go. A friend of mine got one of the center ice sections.

That's hilarious. Wish I would've known that. I did buy a few of those games, at what, $10 a game? Then a friend got ahold of a cheater box, and I watched some for free at his house. The one I did buy was the game in Boston, when there was a post grame free-for-all, and Stevie got punched by a Bruin's fan.

I just found the newspaper article of the last game at Olympia. Sunday December 16, 1979 The headline reads, "WINGS TIE IN OLYMPIA FAREWELL" Article is written by Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press Sports Writer The Red Wings sank to the occasion of Olympia's last National Hockey League game ever Saturday night by tying the Quebec Nordiques, 4-4, in front of a high-energy crowd of 15, 609. The fans came to the 1,790th NHL contest in the scruffy redbrick building armed with banners(such as "Thanks for 7 cups and 52 years of memories"), boat horns, toilet paper, eggs and fish. Much of the garbage ended up on the ice during the game, delaying play many times. The fans stood several deep in every available nook and cranny. They arrived early, took pictures and swapped rememberances of great games past. They lingered after the game had ended, booed the mention of Joe Louis Arena on the Olympia p.a., and listened to the organist play "Auld Lang Syne." And they saw the Wings play a disorganized style of hockey for two periods, in which the expansion Nordiques--playing their first ever game in Olympia----surged ahead on four unanswered goals. Richard Leduc, Garry Lariviere, Michel Goulet and Reg Thomas scored for the players with the fleur-de-lis on their pale blue uniforms. For most of those two periods, goalie Rogie Vachon was left on his own to fend off numerous Nordique forays into the Detroit zone. The Wings finally got on the board at 19:15 of the second stanza, thanks to Dan Bolduc, whose earlier scoring chance was foiled by Gerry Hart, who was off for holding the speedy Bolduc when the Wings finally broke the ice. Then the Wings got the message that the crowd was here to scream and yell and they exploded for 20 shots in the third period against Sweden native Goran Hogosta, while holding Quebec to just two. Errol Thompson popped in Willie Huber's slapshot rebound at 6:58 on another power play. The goal ignited the fans into Stanley Cup hysteria and noise, and the fun continued when Vaclav Nedomansky pocketed his 20th of the year less than one minute later. Geg Joly tied it with a backhand at 18:35, but that was all the Wings could manage. The tie is their second in a row, coming after Thursday's 6-6 game in Boston. The Wings play a TV game Sunday in Chicago (Channel 50), then play three more road games until their Dec. 27 Joe Louis Arena opener. As for Olympia, officials there are still discussing a possible sale with Wayne State University, but nothing has been decided. RED WINGS 4, NORDIQUES 4 Quebec 3 1 0---4 Detroit 0 1 3---4 1st--1, Quebec, Leduc 10 (Baxter) 1:50 2, Quebec, Lariviere 2 (Baxter, Thomas) 11:26 3, Quebec, Goulet 8 (Fitchner,Plante) 17:56 Penalties-Goulet, Que. 7:36; Larson, Det., 9:35; Lacroix, Que., 17:56 2nd--4, Quebec, Thomas 1 (Ro. Cloutier) 2:30 5, Detroit, Bolduc 3 (Huber, Nedomansky) 19:15 Penalties- Stewart, Que., major, 4:10; Foligno, Det., major, 4:10; Long, Det., 6:04; Lariviere, Que., 6:18; Huber, Det., 7:59; Hart, Que., 18:54 3rd--6 Detroit, Thompson 12 (Huber, Larson) 7 Detroit, Nedomansky 20 (Joly, Huber) 7:44 8 Detroit, Joly 2 (Woods) 18:15 Penalties- Plante, Que., two minors, 3:31; Larson, Det., 3:31; Huber, Det., 12:54 SHOTS- Quebec 10-8-2--20 Detroit 9-8-20-37 A---15,609 A side note--- I was one of the many who littered the ice that night. I sat in one of the Hi-Boxes, which was above the mezzanine level. When the Wings tied the game at 4, the crowd went absoluetly wild. I got caught up in all of the excitement of the moment. I threw a crushed beer cup, the older waxed cardboard ones that were used back then, and fired it down, just missing the goalie. The cup landed on top of the Quebec net. The game was stopped for 10-15 minutes ( or more) while the crowd littered the ice, and the subsequent cleanup.

WXON was a UHF station that did one or two seasons of Red Wings hockey in the late 70s or early 80s. When ON-TV came to town, I believe in 1978, it would show movies, concerts and sporting events after 8 pm. When you signed up, you got a small atenna and a de-scrambler box. It was the first "cable" channel for us in Westland. So at 8 o'clock, the signal would be scrambled, and On-TV would take over. Unless it was a hockey or baseball game, then it would change over for those. I wish I still had the monthly tv guides they would send out. As for Sid, he was the best. Like George Kell, he had a voice that we all tried to imitate. In between periods at Olympia, I, and sometimes a friend would run upstairs to the radio booth, wait for Bruce and/or Sid to come out for a break, and get their autographs. Super nice guys. Sid did colour with Bruce from 1977-1985 or 86. He was very knowledgable, and really was just as good as Mickey when describing goals and plays. He and Bruce even got a letter from Wings' management, in 1979 I think, admonishing them for be critical of the team. They may have been homers, but they had no problem telling it like it was. Just before the Olympia was demolished, many people, myself included, went back to have one last look. Memorial Day weekend 1986. We all got seats, and some other momentos of that great building. Went up in the press box, walked along the catwalks, which angled up to support the roof. Even drank some beer in there. Still have the seats too. I only saw games there for the last year and a half, but just being in that building was awesome. Saw Bobby Orr score his final NHL goal there, October 28th, 1978. Wayne Gretzky and Ray Borque both played one game there their rookie season of 1979-80. Wings won both games. The very last game was the 1979-80s Wings against Red Wing oldtimers in Feb 1980. Gordie scored the very last goal, as the current Wings won 6-2. Fortunately, I have some of those old games still, and love going back in time to the days of my youth. The game sure has changed over the years.

I read it happened in game #3. I went through the entire game, but could not find where and when it might have happened. Nick was even on the ice for the overtime goal, scored by Sharp.