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I started to get the same feeling in an early summer thread about Leino coming up full-time. He said something along the lines of "it was the NHL or nothing" and "he didn't come here to play in the AHL" and I thought that wasn't the type of attitude or work ethic the Wings support. I was then proceeded to get tore up in the thread for calling him out.

For sure. I was born in '79, so I can't comment on watching in the 70's, however, I watched in the 80's when they sucked because I loved the team and Stevie Y. Not going to stop watching now because they don't win every game.

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That's a hook?

Demographic? Yes. Style of play? No.

Is that the league where there is no hitting?

Well played sir

I'll see your Vladdy and raise you a Markov leading to a goal: name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>&"> name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350" />

I will be, I'm hoping for a roar during the team introductions as well.

Thank you sir, I will heed that advice. Btw, if you didn't get a chance to watch South Park last night, I highly recommend it.

Hossa's hurt. Question to my local friends, I'm going to the game tonight and this is the first time I've had a chance to go to a home opener. Does anyone have an idea what time all of the team introductions and festivities start? Or in short, do I need to show up earlier than a normal regular season game? I normally get there about 30 min early. Thanks in advance.

I think it was the whole unwritten rule of running a team's captain, top player or goalie. It's not something that is against the rules, however there's a common respect among players to avoid those situations. Lappy plays hard and performs his role well, perhaps he could have ran Huds instead and it may have caused less of an outrage around here. I'm sure Huds was skating around with his head down at some point.

I guess Bab's is full of s*** too:

Are you referring to the un-penalized hit that took place right in front of the referee? If so, some people thought it was clean, others not. I for one thought the initial hit was clean but the elbow follow thru was unnecessary. Either way, your posts indicate that enforcers deter nothing, Babcock seems to think otherwise. I find myself in the middle. I think having an enforcer in the line-up will stop some of the after the whistle nonsense, however there will still be the questionable hits, slashes, and cross-checks. Hockey has always been that way, probably always will be. That's when an Aaron Downey type player comes in an whoops your ass once and gives you a double fist to the face later in the game when you try to retaliate.

Babcock's full of s***, enforcer's don't deter anything.

Skating for Abs with Abs being sent to GR? I wonder if he replaces him in the line-up tonight. I'm going to the game, so I hope so.

I've seen the same thing and I hope this continues. I'll admit to enjoying that style of hockey, where the strong survive. It's bump and grind North American hockey. When I was watching HNC on Saturday I noticed both games seemed to be played more that way than the finesse game that Bettman has been trying to push down our throats. Maybe he is finally realizing this is North America and not Europe.

You're right, the instigator penalty takes care of that on it's own.

It is, but it's also entertaining. Esteef took the bait on it and he should know better.

Beat me to it.

Definitely check it out if you have the chance. I've been in there with jeans, and a button up shirt with no issues what so ever. As long as you're not dressed like you just left the trailer you'll be fine.

Interesting. Out of all the NHL players Pavel could personally invite to Russia he picks Derek Boogard. Let the speculation begin.

FSD will probably have around 60+ games. They will broadcast everything except the games that are picked up by NBC and Versus. The only exception would be games that are broadcast on Fox Sports Plus which occurs when the Pistons/Wings/Tigers play at the same time. I don't know if Center Ice would pick up those games.

Exactley. There are plenty of players out there that have no class and could put the puck in the net. I'm getting so tired of people over using the "c" word.