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It wasn't knee on knee though. He caught him in the midriff if anything. Avery just threw his leg up to embellish it.

How Avery gets calls is beyond me. There should be a pre-written code in a Ref's brain to ignore him.

"pure" Love Shanny.

God that was a bulls*** call. Someone tell me what exactly the Red Wings and its affiliates have perpetuated against hockey officals in North America. Cos whatever it was, it must've been pretty bad... Anyway, after all the posts about Tatar getting some time in the Wings lineup this year... He isn't even getting full minutes in GR yet, if tonight's game is anything to go by. I think it's probably a sensible approach though. To try and genuinely develop him over time, particularly the physical aspect. When he was on the ice tonight he certainly looked really good. He looked like a player.

What? I think it's pretty obvious that 'Every other element' includes manipulating his immediate supervisors genitalia to issue. Makes sense that he's Olympics bound.

Yeah. He fought Bois and lost pretty bad, but I think it was Bickell who had just boarded one of the Griffs. So I guess props for stepping up. Guys were saying he didn't realise Bois was a lefty and before he knew it he'd caught a fair few lumps. I think he's fought before and not done too bad. Not sure, but wasn't he back up from the ECHL...? He probably wanted to show something. Oh well.

1-1 after the first period. Tardif tapped in from close range after a Newbury shot a few seconds after a Griffins PP had expired. First time I've got the chance to see the Griffins this year, so have been looking forward to seeing Tatar. Not seen much of him so far.

Great goal all round there, Lids, Bert and Cleary. Get her goin', as Mickey would say.

s*** I thought this started at 7.30. Thought games at the Joe were mostly 7.30s, during the week at least. Bah.

Not a chance. There's enough upheaval with half the defensive corps injured, not to mention the obvious top-line forwards out. The Goaltenders have looked pretty decent in recent times, finding their feet. Nah.

Adorable kids, great for them to see the Wings in person.

Ovechkin needs to get a suspension - for his own sake as much as anyone. He needs to be made think about his reckless style and reign it in a bit. I never had him pegged as dirty, but seeing the compilation of dodgy hits certainly makes you think twice.

The offical site has Eaves with +6. Lidstrom +5 and Holmstrom/Maltby +4. Bert and Ericsson have -6 also. The only reason I checked the stats is that I was so surprised to see Eaves leading in +/-. Weird. Wings win 4-2. Bertuzzi with all 4 goals.

Good effort in periods 2 and 3 tonight. Bert got the puck in the net to win it - please Lord Jebus let that be a turning point for him.

Yeaaaaaahah

Our 4th line guys are the only ones with any credit at the moment. Nobody else is doing their job, apart from Jimmy Howard.

:lol: Radio commentary now, Drumnj must've received record number of complaints about the announcers!

This is a guy called Darren Eliot, played 80 NHL games as a goalie with a s*** save percentage. He's a clown.

Oh Bert...

It's pretty unfair on Dats, Z and Cleary. Bert, Homer, Leino are all so sub-par, they're dragging them down. And Lids and Rafs don't seem to be able to produce like they used to from the PP. Oh well, maybe a miracle will happen. *holds breath*

Lebda, Rafalski, Helm and Cleary on that last PK shift. Good job the front of the net didn't need clearing... I guess they're going for mobility with that group...

Atlanta announcer is a retard. "Detroit gets an awful lot of benefits of the doubt from the refs" Yeah, sure.

When Kronwall first started delivering the big hits, he had one or maybe two in which he may have left his feet slightly. I remember even the coach mentioning it that he had to be careful about it. Since them he's been making totally clean, killer hits. These people who say Kronwall is dirty or a cheap-shot artist are probably just butt-hurt that their player got nailed by him. Oh, and clueless too.

Someone should go down and take a s*** on the ice. It would do a better job stopping Nashville than Lebda. He's hopeless. Meech is indeed way better than Lebda.

That's just great play Miller. More should do that, be brave and take it out in front.