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Great Wings pressure causes a Hawks penalty..

Z! 3-1 Wings!

Defense fails to clear in front of Howard, opposition scores. Get used to that, you'll be seeing it a lot.

The Wings game will be live on NHL network for me, but I live in Las Vegas... so that may have something to do with it.

Its just a charley horse, Mule is being held out of thw rest of the game as a precaution.

It was Orpik that had the knee on knee with Franzen, and Bertuzzi went after him right away.

I'm sorry. As awesome as game 7 is, its not the best. Its not even a finals game. Game 4 1997 holds that honor. All I have to say is... Gary Thorne paints the picture.. "McCarty draws, McCarty in, McCarty SCORRRRRRES! A MAGNIFICENT GOAL! DARREN MCCARTY!"

No way. The 5-0 dismantling in game 5 will always be amazing. The WHOLE crowd singing and chanting like they were at a soccer game.

You're not wrong. To this day, I've never seen the handshake line, or the cup raise from that game. Call it sour grapes, whatever.

NO ONE CAN STOP THE FRANZEN (5/6/2010)

Howard will be struck by the sophomore jinx. Ozzie picks up 400, and then some. Ozzie leads the Wings to another Cup run, then retires.

...and the BEST Wings fan schadenfreude pic ever:

Not a fan of Kariya coming to the Wings... just my initial reaction.

A 1 year contract for a player over 35 allows the Wings to go over cap. A 2 year does not.

Rumor mill this garbage.

Oh, and screw you hockey gods for having the Wings be the Chicago home opener/banner raising. I can hear the chants already. Hopefully the Wings pound their new one line team into submission.

Another season ending home and home with Chicago...

Rob Blake.

"Nicklas Lidstrom won the Stanley Cup in '02. He won the Cup in '08. I don't know how many Norris trophies he's won, but throughout that entire time, throughout the entire decade, where he's only missed a handful of games, he was the Red Wings' best player. He's one of the top defensemen on both ends of the rink. He's got really good instincts, and he's incredibly skilled. He's a really, really intelligent hockey player. Nick is your best player in training camp. He's your best player in preseason. He's your best player in the regular season. He's your best player in the playoffs. I'm not sure what else he could do." - Steve Yzerman

This, this.... a thousand times THIS.

This coming from someone named Manny>Ozzie... Leino was lazy and sucked™ as a Wing. Therefore, he is no longer a Wing. Simple as that.