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But he's so pretty.

*sigh* At least it wasn't during the last minute.

I love the Wings to have a big period here, and score 3 goals. Without giving one up at 19:45.

Whoa....the coveted simulpost. JINX.

They're keeping us awake. In other news, I found a bag of mini Oreos in my bookbag. Score!

I think that periods should only be 19 minutes long, rather than 20. That way the Wings don't have to worry about giving up a goal in that last minute.

Probably a dumb question, but how do they clean up the blood before it freezes into the ice and just stays there?

I just cringed. I think I felt it too. I'm grabbing some Advil.

I thought this was a 7:30 start! Great to see Hank get a goal, though.

Not to get into this hackneyed argument on a hockey board, but the Yankees operate within the system that all teams in major league baseball have to work with. The Red Wings operate within the system that all teams in the NHL have to work with. Both teams are very successful at doing that. If other teams don't have the fiduciary means to run their ball club the way the Yankees run theirs, that's not the Yankees' problem. They are playing by the same set of rules all teams have to play by. If other teams don't have the drafting/scouting means to run their hockey team the way the Wings run theirs, that's not the Wings' problem. They are playing by the same set of rules that all teams have to play by. Salary cap is a weak argument as far as I'm concerned because the owners will never, ever, ever allow one. In order to have a cap in baseball there must also be a floor, and no owner will go for that. Because if you set the salary cap at say.....$85 million dollars, if there's no floor, owners could pay their players in Monopoly money and get away with it, because they'd be under the cap. No, if there's going to ever be a salary cap in baseball, they'd need to use the NFL's model, because I believe that while there's a cap, there's also a floor which is a certain percentage of the cap, meaning that all teams must operate between a set of dollar amounts. That's the only way I could see a cap of any kind working in MLB. But like I said, this is for another part of the board.

This gets me. I will never understand why it's an insult to call a team the New York Yankees of whatever sport the team plays. Maybe it's my bias talking, but the Yankees are storied, legendary franchise that has won many championships and had absolute freakin' Gods play for them (Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle). Why wouldn't the Red Wings want to be compared to a successful model like that? It would be an insult if the Wings were called the Washington Nationals of the NHL. The Yankees are good at what they do (whether you like it or not). So are the Red Wings. It's not an insult to compare the two at all.

(tad late) GOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL!!!!

GOAL?

Y'all, it be dead here.

My GT is 7 pages long -- I have more posts per page than some of you.

Come on Wings, get the lead here.

Hank and Pavs need to never be separated on the ice. They work very, very, very well together.

BTW, in my prediction early in the thread, I said "Wings win, Hank with the hat trick, Pavs with the dangle and Babs loses one water bottle". So far, I got the dangle and one of Hank's goals. Let's get the rest.

Pavs being Pavs. Lucky us.

I'm still confident we'll win the game. I'm not giving up the ghost.

I was all excited by Hank's goal and then I'm suddenly not so excited. Still......score two more, Hank.

We shall rue this.

So you're pissed off at someone less than 10 games into the season? Alrighty then.

Can we shoot the puck a bit more? Just a suggestion.

Wings win, Hank with the hat trick, Pavs with a dangle and Babs will lose one water bottle.