Electrophile

Oh golly gee, a Sharks fan just had to come here and tell us all how wrong we are. Whatever would we do without your stunning insight.

So you signed up here just to spew that? Awesome. I bet all your friends at the Sharks message board think you're totally rad now.

I really think this is Nick's last season, which is why I'd like the Wings to let him go out with a bang. If we win the Stanley Cup, he could be enticed to come back for one more season, but if we get eliminated, I think he's going to hang 'em up.

Alright, alright. I'll spill the secret to my success. You ready? Positive? Totally ready? Can you really handle it? Okay, but don't say I didn't warn you........ The secret is.........I run a brothel. All the members here who are guys get the best hookers if they give me +1s on all my posts. They're clean, really enthusiastic and think hockey fans are SEXXXXXY. But please don't tell the cops, I don't want to get shut down before I hit 2000.

Not really, no. I'm a Wings fan and if they're no longer in the playoffs, the playoffs have no interest for me. That being said, I will hope and pray that the Pens get knocked out before the Cup finals or eventually lose the Cup finals, so I will be following whatever team they play in the hopes they beat them.

Brett Hull is going to turn it on for us any day now. Yup.....any day now.

Nash had the best voice, Young wrote the best lyrics. Crosby was just the fat guy who looked like a walrus.

Switching goalies mid-series is a desperation move. It worked in 2008, but only because the 2008 squad was much better than this one. If we switch goalies now, everyone's going to know we're toast. Ride Howard until the end, whenever it happens.

Bettman was never commissioner of the NBA. He was senior VP and general counsel for the NBA, but he never ran the league. David Stern has been the commish since 1984.

Please don't even joke about something like that.

The officiating will suck, just like the officiating in Games 1 and 2 sucked. There's no conspiracy to screw with the Wings or anything, just flat-out incompetence on the part of the refs. They can't do their jobs properly, so everyone gets it in the end. There needs to be more accountability when the refs are blatantly this bad, but we all know that'll never happen. It would require Bettman to both admit something is wrong and then work toward fixing it, but that takes effort and he can't be bothered to show that effort.

If there's a record for most negative reps gained in a 24-hour period, you've far surpassed it my friend.

Screw Ranford, is CuJo available?

I see more diving in the Stanley Cup playoffs than I do in World Cup soccer games. It's unreal. At this rate, the players should start wearing Speedos and goggles.

I vividly remember screaming "f*** YOU OSGOOD" when he let that goal in with 34 seconds to go. I love Ozzie to death don't get me wrong, but I was NOT his biggest fan at that moment. As for last year's Cup finals......ugh. Double ugh. We had two effing chances to beat them and s*** our pants each time. Talk about getting in your own way.

Just because I think Ovechkin has more talent doesn't mean I think Crosby has no talent. It's not an all or nothing situation, you know. I think Pavs is slightly better than Hank, but that doesn't mean I think Hank is a pile of crap.

I've been watching Red Wings hockey since 1994. My top 3 most infuriating, blood pressure spiking, stand up and scream games are: Game 6 1996 WCF Game 4 1995 SCF Game 7 2009 SCF This game would rank #4 and #5 would be Game 5 of the 2008 SCF. 34 ******* seconds. I'd like to think our guys have more self-control than that. If they're pissed (and rightfully so) about the outcome of the game, you act like grown adult men and not spoiled 3 year old babies throwing their toys from the pram. I would fully support any fine/suspension that came a Wings' way if they did something like that.

Who here has denied he's talented? I haven't. I've said countless times before that I think he's a phenomenally talented player. I just can't stand his personality, his attitude, the fact that announcers will find every pissant way possible to bring him up even if the Pens aren't playing and the way the league shoves him down peoples' throats all the time. His talent is completely and totally not the reason I hate his guts.

I'm glad you're not worried but I am. I'm not saying we're going to get swept or something, just that we're in a lot of trouble. The hole we dug for ourselves (with the refs supplying the backhoe) isn't helping matters.

Oh sure, let's put Ozzie in. Sounds like just the thing we need to right this ship. While we're at it, why don't we go throw some dynamite on a bonfire too, just for s***s and giggles. Not like anything bad is going to happen there either!

Well, since you seem to think you know better, we'll all just defer to you. Pardon us for thinking different.

No he didn't. Quit fooling yourself. He was invisible for the whole tournament save that one goal. If not for the rest of his teammates, he wouldn't have been in a position to score that goal. So quit acting like he was Bobby ******* Orr out there, because your insane bias-cum-crush on the guy is clouding your judgment. And please don't tell me I'm bitter because the US lost, I wasn't rooting for them. I wanted Sweden to win the gold and when they were eliminated, I didn't care about the tournament after that.

I love the people calling for Osgood to be put in. You think he's going to be much better than Howard has been? The team made the conscious decision to sink or swim with Howard and that's just what they're doing. Give them props for sticking with their decision, at the very least.

We lost for a couple reasons. One, we weren't playing Red Wings hockey. We were sloppy, lazy and undisciplined. That being said, when the refs are so ******* incompetent that they are calling phantom penalties and constantly forcing you to play on your heels because you're always on the penalty kill, that s*** is going to add up. The 2002 Wings would lose the game if these refs were calling it. You can't win the game when you're constantly on 5 on 3's because the refs caught you sneezing on the goalie and pop you for interference. Sooner or later, the team constantly on the PP is going to net goals, and that's just what happened. Blaming the refs for this loss is absolutely correct, because if not for their stunning lack of intelligence, maybe we win this game DESPITE how poorly we played otherwise.