Electrophile

When did the site come back? It was dead most of the day.

A bandwagoner is only a fan of a team when they're winning. The Wings weren't doing a whole lot of winning when Steve first started his career. How could those fans have been bandwagoners? Also, the term "bandwagoner" means someone who is a fan ONLY when the team is winning, and then is not a fan when they don't. If you start being a fan when the team is winning........................and you're a still a fan X number of years later, you're not a bandwagoner. Sakes alive man, go read a dictionary. That is if you even know how to read.

I'm a Red Wings fan. I watch and follow the Detroit Red Wings. I don't care about any other team, unless we're playing them. If we're not involved, I don't care. I also can't stand Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins. I don't watch their games (unless they're playing us), I don't follow what any of their players are doing (unless they're playing us) and I reserve the right to think they're overexposed, overhyped and overrated. So no, I shouldn't watch this game if I don't want to. I have better things to do.

I am actually, now that you mention it. I don't drink, I'm great at trivia and I make a kick ass crab, spinach and artichoke dip. Sometimes I'll even throw in some homemade shortbread cookies if it's the holidays.

What is really petty would be pointing out you made two mistakes in that sentence. Thank goodness I'm not really petty.

Says you. I'm a stickler for proper grammar and it will always be one of my biggest pet peeves, whether I'm talking to someone over the internet or reading written/typed correspondence from someone. Have you any idea the kind of piss-poor English I have to deal with when reading letters/memos that come from people who don't have the luxury of claiming they aren't native speakers? It's enough to make you want to tear your hair out.

/pet peeve alert IT'S YOU'RE. YOUR IS A POSSESSIVE. YOU'RE IS A CONTRACTION. LEARN THE DIFFERENCE. THANK YOU. /pet peeve alert

Do me and the rest of this board a favor. Break a glass bottle and then sit on it. Merry Christmas!

Same here. On New Year's Day, I'm taking my Barnes & Noble gift card I asked for and I'm spending the day walking around a bookstore, immersing myself in something infinitely more interesting and pleasurable than watching Sidney Crosby play hockey.

I'm nervous for Ozzie. I hope this isn't sitting on his mind right now, it could eff with him. I would hate to see that happen.

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon

I don't care what the score is. Just get Ozzie #400.

Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya. Spork out, my brother.

You're on a RED WINGS MESSAGE BOARD. We're going to talk s*** about other teams and other fans. If you can't handle RED WINGS FANS talking on a RED WINGS MESSAGE BOARD, maybe you need to find a new sandbox. We're not going to kowtow to the minority of posters here that don't root for the Wings. That's not how it works. If you want people to kiss your team's ass, go to a Hawks board. It's like going to a NASCAR race and wondering why everyone's driving in a circle.

Actually, no it doesn't. If you're a native Chicagoan as I am, you're an embarrassment to me and you make us all look bad. You're also an embarrassment to my father, who's been a Hawks fan since he was in diapers......in 1949. Get some tact.

If your team's pitcher goes out there and spots the other team 10 runs in the top of the 1st, how motivated do you think your guys are going to be to get off the schnide and start scoring? I'm not saying Jimmy should be blamed for every loss that occurs when he's between the pipes, nor am I saying every loss is entirely his fault. However much like the pitcher, the goalie sets the tone. If he starts giving up goals left and right, that's going to put everyone else in a defeatist mindset and they're not going to play well. If you're down 4 goals in the 3rd, you're not exactly going to be hustling out there. That's the players' fault for not sacking up and doing their jobs despite the deficit, but the fish rots from the head down.

I enjoy it.

Come on guys, cheer up. There's still 20 minutes left for us to totally embarrass ourselves.

Great players don't always make great coaches/GMs.

My dad doesn't even like Eddie O.

I love those kind of people. The ones who kick up a big fuss about how they can't take it anymore and they're *so* totally out of here, but then they have to post about 50 more times just to let us now how they can't take it anymore and they're leaving. "Attention *****, attention *****.........please pick up the white courtesy phone. Please pick up the white courtesy phone in the lobby. Thank you."

Every cloud, etc., etc.,.

Did someone slip the Wings some Lunesta before the game?

I prefer the Foghorn Leghorn-ism, "The boy, ah say the boy's as sharp as a sack o' wet mice."

He is the perfect human after all.