Greatness=PavelDatsyuk

DET/ANA-4-2 VAN/CHI 4-2 BOS/CAR 4-3 WSH/PIT 4-3

If u r really about a good conversation and a little banter, and not being a huge D-bag, than go for it. Over the season i joined the Sharks boards. Great bunch of guys, liked to talk about hockey, a little banter, but that's expected. I agree with the majority if your going just to start some fights, but if your going to have some intelligent talk about hockey, i say go for it.

I agree, there have been only two teams in the history of the NHL to come back from being down 3-0 in a series, and I don’t think that Columbus is remotely close to either of them. The worst that will happen is we lose on Thursday, and that’s even hard to fathom the way the wings have been playing and that they believe that there is still room for improvement. We’ve go this series right were we want it, its just a matter of time.

SJS/ANA 4-3 DET/CLB 4-1 VAN/STL 4-2 CHI/CAL 4-2 BOS/MTL 4-3 WSH/NYR 4-0 NJD/CAR 4-1 PIT/PHI 4-2 EC: Washington WC: Detroit SCF: Detroit

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If San Jose is plays there next two games like the wings were before Minnesota, and Detorit wins the next three, We'll get the presidents trophy, Lets go Phoenix and LA!!!

According to TSN.ca, the Wings will play their first two games of the 2009-2010 in Stockholm, Sweden, playing against the St. Louis Blues. The games will be played as one home and one away for each team, and Detroit will have 6 days to rest for their next game.

I doubt tht will happen this year, but what he shoudl do is be one or two off, so he can get 1000 in Sweden

I don't know if anyone saw this, but during the second period of the Atlanta-Wasington game last night, they were playing part of an Interview with Martin Broduer. The last part of the interview really ticked me off. They asked him who the best goalie of all time was, and he said Patrick Roy. This would have been fine if he had said "Of this Era", or somthing like that, but he didn't. It really pisses me off when people have the nerve to say that some of the best goalies are recent. To me, the best goalies of all time were the ones like Terry Sawchuk and them wo had minimal padding and didn't wear a mask. Sure, you can have a goalie break the win record when they have better padding and can get right in front of shots, and they are great goaltenders, but Sawchuk set his Shuout record without wearing a mask. I think there should be two different sets of records for goalies, one for those before the mask and one for those affter it started to be used on a regular basis. What do you guys think?

Yes, but the switch to using masks was big and changed how goalies could play. Sure, stats varry by years, but there wern't any major equipment changes for them. Yes a goalie from the 20s will have different stats then one from the 50s, but they essentialy had the same type of equipment. It would have changed in those years, but not like adding a mask did. With the mask, the goalie was more protected, and that would allow them to play more then a goalie who didn't wear a mask and had to be stitched up, like Sawchuk. The stiching and pain would affect the goalies performance, to an extent. I agree that Roy was a great goaltender, though i don't like him, but i don't think you should compare the two.

I don't think you should compare them at all. There is no "fair" way to do it, so don't, just make seperate stat lists

If he did that, he would become one of my top 10 favorite wings(currently playing, top 20 of all time)

Kopecky has been improving, that a fact, but until there is some consistency, people will still make him into a whipping boy. It was the same way with Franzen last year, no one was sure if it was luck or skill with Franzen. It will take a really good stretch for Kopecky to lose his whipping by status, and here's to hopping he dose.

Here is how the playoff teams draft order is figured out Courtesy of Wikipedia

Kopecky has been playing extremly well over the past five games, he's +6 with 3 goals and 6 points, so why not try to get him going even more?

I think your right, but with Downey up, we won't have to worry about our key players fighting, like what Hossa had to do the other game.

Maltby's 1,000 game tonight He gets at least one, though I'm feeling the hat trick tonight

Anyone know why Ilitch wont let his number hang in the rafters. I have even saw that he had it unlisted as a retired number, so any info would be helpful

I ay sit them, but whenever the league asks Detroit to do something, like starting the season in europe or something like that, Holland says no

Stuart wont return

Stuart walking around, return unknown, but he seems fine

Yeah, i always like the way we had 2 competent goalies who had playoff experience. This year, I hope Babcock goes with whos hot for the playoffs, and not who the intended starter for the year was

I think that would be best, give Osgood the drive he needs by making him compete for the starter spot, but i have a feeling that Babcock will go back to Ozie sooner rather than later, if to just try to get him playing the way he was playing last April and June, even if Conks is the hotter goalie

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/4059/hockeyfontsxa4.jpg Look at these, the last 2 look very close, and i think the last one is it

A funny article about Holmstrom at Christmas time http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=260867&amp...s=headlines_nhl