ComradeWasabi

Picked him up in my fantasy hockey league. Coincidentally, Sean Avery happened to make room for him on my roster. A stroke of good fortune it seems

If I had been older than 8 years old when Chelios was traded to the Wings, I probably would have been angry.

OZZY!

WOW! ******* incredible save.

I knew Mueller was going to score, I just felt it..

I'm sure we do not deserve to win this game, but I'll take a point.

WHAT A GOOOOOOALLLL

Sigged.

Just following up on Spector's note.

No idea what the score will be, but Zetterberg and Datsyuk will both score.

The D didn't seem that bad. A couple of bad plays led to some tough goals against; Conklin had no chance on Brunnstrom's, though I thought he maybe could have nabbed the other guy's. Bottom line, I didn't think the Wings passing game was working well at all. Dallas did a superb job of keeping us out of their zone on the rush.

WHAT a pass, great conversion by Lebda too. Maybe that will pick the Wings up a bit, they have not looked particularly good offensively yet. Fortunately, Dallas hasn't bothered to leave their half of the ice, either.

Detroit, on average, scores 3.56 goals... per... game. Dallas... on average.... has allowed..... 3.... point 5... 6.... goals.... per game.

I would really despise having him here. All I can say is that I am extremely glad that it won't happen.

I don't see this one being any different than our last few games. Dallas takes an early lead, the Wings come back to win it 5-3. You heard it here first.

At least the Wings haven't done anything THAT egregious since the Pens game.

Bouwmeester is going to go before Horton, Olesz or McLean do.

Bad one to sleep through it sounds like.

We're gonna end up like the Wings; we know they should win so we don't vote, then when the other guys start getting a lead on us and we get behind, we have to show up, vote for a bit and then disappear again. Oh god, that analogy is way too close for comfort.

Of all the things said in that post, the only thing that actually came true was us getting a big defenceman. We didn't get Hossa, Flip, Hudler and Sammy all turned out better than Fedorov, Foote or Salei could have, we didn't need a top 6 scorer, we didn't end up in the 3rd seed (nor did we lose in the first round), our draft and free agency periods were huge successes, we kicked the s*** out of the Avs *AND* Fedorov didn't end up setting Ovechkin a whole helluva lot. Let that post serve as a warning to anyone who wants to write something similar next time

Some of the posts are pretty hilarious. People talking all kinds of s*** about some players we would never want to part with now.

He must be. He doesn't look like he's giving more than a couple of inches away to Kopecky, but the actual difference has got to be 5" or more. He looks almost as tall as the Hoss.

He doesn't have to. Offensively, the Wings have been in sync all year. Honestly, the worries about getting enough scoring out of our team are unfounded; we've scored three goals or more in 22 out of 26 games thus far. Unfortunately, we've given up three or more in 17 out of 26. The defensive capabilities of the lines are what need to be mixed up and hence the defensive pairing changes. Instead of wondering how effectively we'll be able to score goals, which hasn't been a problem, we should examine each line's defensive value. However, that kind of thing is much harder to categorize into groups like setup man, shooter, power forward. I think this shakeup was done simply to make everyone start from scratch and break bad habits that might have formed playing with a consistent group in the last two months.

Keep in mind that when Homer and Z were both hurt last year, Cleary-Pav-Flip was a pretty effective line for a while there. Cleary had it going full-tilt and Flip was playing pretty good hockey too. I think Lids-Stuart is going to be the quietest defensive pairing in recent history..

Am I the only one who can't take this trophy very seriously?