Electrophile

I had a feeling you were. No one can ever really hate me. I'm too wonderful for that.

Babs lets them do that on the ice? s***, I gotta score me some tickets to watch them practice!

You wound me, miss.

I haven't heard of that movie, much less seen it. If you're of the opinion that this is some kind of evil ploy to brainwash Republicans in Illinois to vote for Pat Quinn and Alexei Greek last name I can't spell, I would sure as hell hope so because that sounds frickin' awesome. There isn't enough time in a day to tell you what I think is wrong with country music.

Ozzie gave up one goal. He should be immediately drawn and quartered.

That's borderline evil genius behavior. I hope it's true.

Actually, I'm a bad American -- we have foreign cars. Also, I'm watching the Obama rally in Chicago right now -- what's with the s***ty country music being blared through the speakers? He's not a Republican.

I'd love a couple more goals in the 4rd.....one of which from Pavs.

I guess I should have said "Wings win, Pavs with the hat trick". LOL

Pavs is a beast. LOVE HIM.

Come on Wings, get that goal back.

Brett Lebda.

Let's get a PP goal here. Hey hey hey.......you're not angry.

Babcock should be fired if he separates them again.

But he's slowing down, remember.

Geez, you step away from the computer to do some laundry and your team nets two goals. Awesome.

I wish the Wings would go back to permanently wearing their whites at home and the red jerseys on the road. That's how it used to be and for the life of me, I don't know why they changed it.

7pm here on my computer, that means game time. LET'S GO RED WINGS!

I think we're going to rebound nicely from the game against Phoenix. Wings win, Hank with the hat trick.....my usual predictions.

I knew as soon as the game was over, this thread would be bumped to the top of the 1st page. It's like clockwork.

On one hand, the Wings in the east would mean we'd have an easier schedule and a less-weary road to the Cup finals. On the other, that means whoever we'd face coming out of the West would have had had a tougher schedule and a harder row to hoe to get to the Cup finals, which means they'd probably be juiced up ten ways from Sunday to play a team from an inferior conference. So I'd prefer the Wings to stay put. I'd rather us work and scrape to get to the Cup finals and have our reward be a team from the Eastern conference.

One, I'm not a bro. Two, you directly referenced something I said, so that's going to make me think you're talking about me, not the subject of the thread. So take a pill.

I'm not an old-timer, I'm 28. Being born in the Reagan administration doesn't qualify one as being an "old-timer"....unless you're someone who hasn't hit puberty yet.

Not having been around to watch him play, although my father certainly was, I can't say from personal experience if he's right but I believe he is. The same could be said for just about any other major sport, as well. My dad was telling me about going to see the Hawks at the old Chicago Stadium back when he was a kid, and the players would hang out in the parking lot and chat with the fans after the game, and sometimes their wives would be with them as well. They were beating each other up on the ice during the game, but after the game, they're smoking a cigarette or having a beer and chatting it up with people, like that never happened. I don't know if you'd see something like that today, unless it was in a controlled environment where everyone had been pre-screened for weapons first or something. Also, as other people mentioned, they didn't have the kind of equipment/protection players do now, so players today can get away with things that Richard and his contemporaries couldn't have because they would have likely killed someone. So while there was physicality, it wasn't as brutal as it can be now. That might give the impression that it was more gentlemanly, but hockey is still hockey.