kook_10

Ha! that was me and I came in here to repost it too! You sir have good taste.

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good first, boys!

i don't know that the refs letting them play out there really benefits us. the pp has been hot.

i think we're doin a some real good things out there. we just need to keep our foot on the gas and good things will happen.

cmon stripes!

letsgoletsgoletsgoletsgoletsgo

Weak sauce. I will definitely miss our man Murph. Dollar Hot Dog Night will never be the same. remember this gem of a call from Murph? (courtesy of CenterIce) Larry Murphy - Whoo, the Fries!.mp3

How about Roos? With the clear tuuks?

I forgot last week too. Harumph!

With crappy defensemen, we need ranks full of good skating and puck handling 2-way forwards to help lead the transition and neutral zone game. Flip does this very well.

IMO Babs has been doing a great job this year. I have been critical of him in the past, and I have been nervous about the ability of the team to play a puck possession game in the absence of Lids. Sure special teams needs a bit of work and we need a stronger defense corps, but as of late the team overall has been performing well. I don't know if the Wings can be considered an elite team any more in terms of raw talent and how they look on paper. While dealing with some key injuries in the lower ranks and a major shakeup on the blue line, they've done a relatively good job of integrating new guys into the big club and old guys into new roles. After laying a few eggs early on the guys overall look like a cohesive unit with systems in place. That doesn't mean they will outskate everyone every night, and it doesn't mean that Quincey will be Norris calibre because he can play within the system. With new faces, fatigue from the condensed schedule, Kenny managing personnel, and real on-ice leadership coming from a core of veterans, the task of motivating is far from Babs' sole responsibility and the task of performing is subject to ability. Only if the D really fail in the sense where they require more out of the forwards to drop down and break the puck out (at the expense of transition speed) will it require a change in plan. That would seem to be a bigger failure than we are seeing because we have some great two way forwards who can and do help out. Right now they are dealing with it well given what they have and Helm's return will be a big help. Presumably Kenny is testing the market to help bolster the D and/or using this year to see if the existing personnel pick it up.

I think the condor is still very endangered. It seems like a bad idea from the start.

He may be forced to play a game so the deal doesn't get rejected for cap circumvention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdciK2Axc4A