weGotTheCup89

And hey everyone, seriously, not the correct thread for ANYTHING NOT A PHOTOSHOP!!!! thanks.

I've been calling him 'Super Bambi.' That because when we saw him in the earlier rounds he was always going so fast that he would end up on all fours by the end of the play, and now whenever we see him he's out to get somebody like they just killed his mom.

Actually, unlike most people on this thread, I actually felt supremely confident for our last 4 cups, but am now nervous of this series. We've always been eliminated in the past when we had this many injuries, and we're going to have 3 games played by Tuesday night. That said, I fully believe the Wings will win.

hahaha this is great! the soup nazi!

That's quite a leap in logic you make there. There's also very little difference between a 20 and 25 year old and between a 39 and a 47 year old, so I'd rather have Chelios locked up for a few more years rather than Lidstrom since it will be less of a cap hit.. yes, I overdid your analogy, but the point you make here is extremely faulty.

How about some new ones instead of last year's guys? I know we didn't use all of our collective creativity..

Just wanted to point this out to everyone: I believe, for the rest of his career, if Z has an empty net to score on, he's going to do everything in his power to get the puck in that net. Why? If he had put it in last year in game 5 of the finals instead of losing it at center ice, 34.7 would have never happened, and we would've won the Cup that night, guaranteed. I won't post the video because it's too scarring...

But you could also replace Fedorov with Lidstrom, or even Shanahan

Haha yeah sorry, I hope you found it more funny than insulting though, I couldn't resist how perfect the picture worked...

does anyone have the Season Ticket Holder/Partners Presale password? please PM me, and thanks a bunch!

oh wow, i always wondered what that picture was of... so plain to see now. and for the russian five: and then there was 1

Hahahaha this is priceless, Osgood is funny. But, yes, as I do not live in Canada, and don't have cable, I have either found a free stream of every game online or gone to a friend's house. I really do hate the TV deal and how it makes so many games inaccessible to so many fans..

Don't park in the JLA parking lots - they're the most expensive and take the longest to get out. If you really want to shuttle... I mean I guess why not... but my first choice is split between either the Cobo Roof or the Cobo Basement - both are $10 as far as I know and the roof puts you just as close as the JLA parking lots; just go down the stairs and you're nearly at the foot of the Joe! It's never taken me more than 5 or 10 minutes to completely vacate the vicinity of the roof, but if you park in the Cobo basement, I've been stuck in there for 20 or 30 minutes before I could get moving... though last time I was there, Game 7 of Anaheim series, everyone in there was jubilantly honking their horns for about a half an hour. Hope this helps.

Actually it was just in a thread the other day.. Z wore 15 as a rookie, then switched to 40. And he's gonna be a Wing until he's 40, so fitting.

maybe even greater than that.

I think you mean "cloth"?

ask again next march

and i haven't seen it in a few months, but people in february and march were certainly calling for filpulla to be traded. IN KEN WE TRUST!

well... even thats an awful contract, it's not his fault, and hey, he never earned that much during a year during his career so more power to him.

On my ballot for the top 3... I think I'd have to say 1. Crosby 2. Crosby 3. CROSBY FTW!!!

almost, but no cigar.

Norm Maracle

Well, since being 'clutch' is an immeasurable, very possibly. However, how do you think Samuelsson scores all these goals that you can recall from this year and years past? He's not the most offensively gifted player out there, and how he scores is by getting more shots to the net moreso than everyone else (except for a very select few). Check out the stats, Sammy's in the top 25 in the NHL in shots every season, but only about 7% of those shots end up in the back of the net. Career regular season stats: 2000-01 SJ 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .000 2001-02 NYR 67 6 10 16 10 23 1 0 2 0 1 0 94 .064 2002-03 NYR 58 8 14 22 0 32 1 3 1 1 2 1 118 .068 2002-03 PIT 22 2 0 2 -21 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 36 .056 2003-04 FLA 37 3 6 9 0 35 0 1 0 0 1 0 50 .060 2005-06 DET 71 23 22 45 27 42 7 6 0 0 3 0 187 .123 2006-07 DET 53 14 20 34 1 28 6 8 0 0 2 0 189 .074 2007-08 DET 73 11 29 40 21 26 3 8 0 0 1 0 249 .044 2008-09 DET 81 19 21 40 0 50 7 13 0 0 1 0 257 .074 Career 466 86 122 208 38 244 26 39 3 1 11 1 1183 .073 Here's one of the most telling stats: While he was 3rd on the team in shots this year, while he was 13th out of 18 in shooting percentage of players who played at least 60 games, and Kopecky was the only forward to have a worse shooting percentage than he did. While I'm not trying to discount anything that Sammy has done for our team, and I do love the guy, don't build him up to something he's not: he's gonna score some timely goals when he throws that many shots towards the net, and great for us, the kid steps it up in the playoffs. If you want to sort through playoff stats from the past few years, yahoo has those too.

Or you could just buy it from NHL.com, since they apparently don't give you sewed-on nameplates (and numbers?) and you could just peel off the numbers if they change. I'm trying to remember, what was Zetterberg's number when he first came into the league...