Z Winged Dangler

If you think he doesnt use his size then look at what he does to guys when they try to forecheck him. He's always the last one standing.

True, but Babcock never keeps lines together long. Equal playing time has been given to our Dmen lately no matter what line they're on, so he'd get 20 mins probably. But yeah, LA will no doubt re-sign him. They'd be stupid not to.

Crawford is a good goalie, plain and simple. He was relatively unknown like a lot of goalies. He and Anderson for the Sens are 2 of the most improved goalies over the past couple of years, and Bobrovsky is on that list too. Goalies have a habit of coming out of nowhere. Some goalies' play style also fits well against certain teams. Crawford has good positioning and stays square to shooters. The Wings need to start moving the puck east-west to get him moving and beat him.

We won the Cup in 2007-08....not that far from grace. I like the Hawks, but that's some really crappy writing that only discounts what is a really good Hawks team.

10 points in the last 4 games to end the regular season and have us not just make the playoffs, but finish 7th. And then in the 1st round of the playoffs when we were down 3 games to 2, Z had 2 goals and 1 assist including the game winner in the 1st elimination game as Captain and then had 2 more points in game 7. Z is in no way Yzerman, but I would call him a great leader and the Wings wouldn't have groomed him for the C if they didn't think he was too.

I like it. I mentioned Scuderi a couple months ago in some thread. He's a solid Dman and would fit well here. We should definitely target more forwards, but he'd be welcome here in my books.

I guess that's the NHL trying to infuse parody everywhere. Kane has a high level of play, but sportsmanship has never been his strong point. No Dats on there, but Kane? That's beyond laughable.

Ducks and Sharks dude? You're cheering against the 1 good Californian team. Just my 2 cents, but the Kings in my opinion are the only team in Cali that deserves a cheering section.

I think at this point, Cleary would be sat long before Nyquist. Nyquist puts out the same effort and is much more skilled and useful, and Babcock knows it. Keep Tuzzi in cause he's been playing really good, and put him on with Z and Flip to make more space for them. Cleary was terrible last game. His role needs to be on the 4th line. Abdelkader has flourished playing with Dats, Cleary has been getting consistently worse over the past 2 years.

I think the biggest difference in the game last night is that when Chicago had the puck and was coming over our blue line, they were doing it with speed and with a purpose. When we were attacking them, we were floating over the blue line most of the time, and how many times will go offside making passes over the blue line? Cleary did it once or twice last night, and he does it every game. Flip and Mule are terrible for that too. Hustle down to the hash marks and then do something inside the zone instead of pussyfooting around the blue line and giving the puck away.

Young legs move fast. And they're skilled. they lost Byfuglien, Ladd and Versteeg and reloaded with Leddy, Saad, Shaw and Bickell. They only had 1 down year after winning the Cup and now they're lethal as f*** again. Leddy is pretty much as good as Keith now. Thank god we're moving East next year, cause the Hawks are gonna stay good and the BJ's are gonna be something to keep an eye on 1 or 2 years from now.

Being from Texas I figured you'd just go with branding Hawks suck on his forehead or something.

Wings play better in matinee games. Saturday we get the split.

Hawks get the win they deserve on this night.

Oh hey, another Cleary giveaway. Forget Smith, you'd be dead if you took a shot after every one of Cleary's giveaways.

Nope, his horrible play will get him double shifting duty.

Yup. Usually if the puck is on the back of the net, the whistle goes and the faceoff is outside the zone.

And their hearts.

Jimmy made a mistake? Where was our D announcer you f***tard? Unbelievable.

Shots are 35-15 Hawks. Nice effort by at least 1 of our guys tonight.

Pilon #11 with a valiant effort on that one. He's useless when he doesn't bust his ass cause his talent level is less than most AHLers

Oh darn, I was hoping Jimmy could make 900 straight saves.

He's way worse. And like Axe has been saying, give him a target on the breakout. He makes awesome passes when he actually has someone to pass to. He gets bailed on more than any of our other Dmen.

Z ....no, that's MY puck now. Zig Zag

Nice 2nd effort by Kindl to get the puck past our blue line. Cleary...take notes.