aarond
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Like I said in the topic of the Pistons vs Wings news article, this issue is really starting to make me angry. I don't hate the Pistons, or the NBA, but I am really not a big fan. I think the truth is the media has the strongest influence, and with the newspapers, local news, and quite a few fans, the Red Wings come second to the Pistons. I think the main reason lies in the media coverage that the NBA gets that the NHL does not get. ESPN, the major sports coverage team, could care less about the NHL and Red Wings IMO. The lockout did not help things, but the NBA is just being pushed and given to the fans a lot more than the NHL. Another thing that I think is to blame is our TV contract. I have tons of friends, that are not that big of Wings fans, but fans nonetheless, that are unable to watch PLAYOFF games because their cable provider does not carry Versus. If you can't even watch your hometeam, the fans are going to decrease.
I'm also sick of a bunch of these ignorant NBA fans who do not give the sport of Hockey at all.
Sorry for the rant, but this is something that I am truely angry about.
It's a waste of energy to get mad at something that boils down to simple economics. Hockey is a regional sport. Basketball is universal in America. It's going to get better ratings regardless of how many southern markets Bettman tries to force the NHL into. Also, don't think the Wings are totally blameless in this. They haven't done the fans a lot of favors lately. And the Pistons as an organization do a lot more in the department of fan relations (especially for their season ticket holders).
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As much as I love Detroit, I have to admit that we're kind of a fair-weather town. That's why the Hockeytown moniker is kinda ridiculous, in my opinion. Were we Hockey Town when the Joe was at 40% in the early 80s? Will we still be Hockeytown if, God forbid, the REd Wings find their way back to the cellar? Toronto sells out their arena even when they suck, and so does Montreal. Both of those towns are bigger hockeytowns than Detroit. Right now, we're seeing how powerful the Tigers are. When the Tigers are good, this is a baseball town. But I actually truly believe that if the Lions got to a Super Bowl, this town would absolutely get turned upside down. It would be as crazy as last summer's Tigers run, the 02 Cup run and the 04 Pistons run COMBINED!
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Robert Lang. I don't know why either. lol I guess I just have a feeling that he's going to score another huge goal.
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Am I the only guy in the world who thinks that Steve was our best player in most of the Oilers series, and definitely the best player (maybe for either team) in game 6?
This has been the best playoff run in a while I think. Better than 98 or 02. I didn't see this run coming and when you don't expect it is when its the most fun.
It's been the most exciting, but if that softy by Lang in game 4 against the Sharks is gloved like it should have been, the Wings fall behind in that series 3-1 and they're probably toast. The Wings haven't been sailing threw this thing. It's been a grind and they've needed some breaks.
Let's step back from the excitement of the moment for a second and take an honest objective look at what is happening this season: the Wings are not that much better than they were the last three seasons (except in goal). They're just getting more bounces and breaks this year (which, admittedly, might have something to do with their work ethic, having younger legs, etc. But we're still a pretty old team). Like I said before, the Wings were not light-years away from title contention in their previous playoff flops. Each team that dispatched the Wings in 03, 04, and 06 wound up coming within a game of the Cup. And none of those teams blew the Wings away. All of those series were tight (even the sweep by the Ducks).
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I disagree with that aritcle. It’s not like the Wings were light-years away in their three previous playoff seasons. In each one, they lost a close, hotly contested series (even the Ducks series was close. Each game was a one goal game that could have gone either way) to a team that wound up losing in game 7 of the Cup Final. And it’s not like the Wings are breezing through this playoff season either. If it weren’t for a soft Robert Lang goal in the last minute of game 4 of the Sharks series, there’s a damn good chance that the Wings are ousted in the second round of this playoff.
btw-did anybody happen to notice what Shanny did this year in the playoffs? Furthermore, I seem to remember Yzerman being the best player on the ice in game 6 of the Oil series last year.
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I'm actually expecting a strong game from the Ducks tonight. Sometimes when a team loses one of its stalwarts, especially in a high stakes situation like this, the team as a whole actually winds up playing better in his absence because every guy realizes that he has to pick up the slack to make up for the missing piece. So don't expect tonight's game to be easy.
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Questions for the conspiracy theorists:
If there is a conspiracy to fix games in Toronto, then why didn’t the Rangers, a huge market team, get the benefit of the doubt in the close calls in that series against the Sabres, a small market team?
Why do Toronto, the largest hockey market IN THE WORLD, and Montreal, the second largest hockey market IN THE WORLD, have crappy teams?
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Some fans are so blinded by their fandom.
There are two things that Pronger's hit was not: 1) clean 2) questionable. There's nothing questionable or clean or about it: it was dirty and illegal, no equivocations.
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I'm not sure if this is kosher or not, but I saw the following obnoxious comment on the Ducks forum:
So you let a goon like boogaard get away with three knees during a series when you know his intent was to injure but yet you are having a hearing for pronger on a questionable hit. The NHL should not give a suspension on this. Maybe they should start calling penalties on goalies that dont put there water bottle in the designated spot like hasek was doing last night.To summarize, Pronger opening up Homer's forehead on a "questionable" hit from behind into the boards is not suspension worthy. Hasek's waterbottle is the real crime here.
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True.. but, he is basically awful at it.
But we don't know how many goals he actually deterred by playing that way. Besides, when he plays like that, it means he's involved, sharp, on the edge, engaged, concentrated. He's at his best that way.
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I would never ever sign this petition.
This is basicly asking Hasek to change his style. It is a dumb idea. You guys need to learn the sport of hockey before coming up with these stuped idea's.
By playing the puck, he slows down the for checkers and allows more room for the Defensive to make a play. Yes he is not the best puck handling goalie but that doesnt matter. He needs to make better quicker choices with the puck but to tell him to say in net is a really bad idea.
Part of Hasek's style is to get involved in the game, and since the Wings limit the number of shots on him during a game, sometimes going long periods of no shots, he needs to get into the game by playing the puck and controling the tempo.
This Petition is dumb, this thread is dumb and if you support this idea you need to watch more hockey and start to learn it. You sound like a moron for this idea, I dont think you are a moron but this idea is just flat out bad.
Dude, I agree with what you say about Hasek. But there's no need to launch a personal assault on the guy who started the thread and those who agree with him. That's childish.
Can't we disagree with each other without hurling insults?
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Read the Title and my original post, Good GOALIE, just needs to not play the puck as much he makes bad decisions about that and it caused 1 Goal already almost another last night if not for Lidstrom.
What makes you think I didn't read the title and your original post? I'm not saying that you're saying that he's a bad goalie. I'm saying we should defer to his style of play. It's dangerous, but it's also part of what makes him great. So why try to change him now? He may let in a bad goal from time to time because he wanders, but he may also be deterring goals from time to time by playing the puck aggresively.
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I think it's a little extreme to say he did those "all by himself".
Of course. That's why it's a figure of speech, a cliche, etc. But it's the closest to literal that I've ever seen that cliche coming.
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Is there any way to determine how many goals he deterred by playing aggressively and attacking the puck out of the net?
Hasek has a few trophies in his cabinet. The guy has been around the block a couple times. Why would you want to change him now? I’m pretty sure he knows a little bit more about playing net than any of us do, so I’ll defer to his expertise on this matter. We haven’t lost a series with him minding the goal yet. I
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Remember when he won a Gold Medal all by himself?
Remember when he got the Sabres to the Stanley Cup Final all by himself?
Remember all of those series in Buffalo that he stole all by himself?
This is nothing new with this guy.
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why?
Because I want to know if they're embarassed by their own fickleness.
you missed the part about CLASS.
Huh? What does class have to do with Sharks fans predicting a sweep, not getting the sweep, losing the series in fact, and then coming back to brag when the next team sweeps us instead? That was the point of the thread? Sharks fans predicting a sweep, not getting it, and then losing all together. I think we have a right to serve some crow to those folks.
My sediments exactly.What does the stuff that gathers at the bottom of your Guinness have to do with it?
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I'm saving this in case you get swept next series against a team that WILL play 60 minutes.
Why? what'll that prove?
"hey, we didn't sweep you, but the Ducks did. In your face"
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I actually want to hear from the Wings fans who declared "series over" when the Sharks took the lead in game 4.
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I miss the Wings-Leafs rivalry.
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Tons of time left
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weak call
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Who knows? More importantly, though, what if the Oil still had Essensa? Maybe Detroit goes to the SC final last year.
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How exactly is a "scoring chance" defined?
Purely subjective. It's not really an official stat to begin with.
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This series has played out so far exactly like the Avs series in 02. The Wings lost games 3 and 5, losing game 5 in OT, falling behind in the series 3-2. As it turned out, Forsberg's OT winner was the last goal of the season for the Avs as Hasek pitched two shutouts to close out the series in 7. So there is a precedent.