RyanK

That's the spirit! Like your signature says, no mercy.

LOL LOL LOL Indeed! Best picture ever! Oh and BTW, you guys getting down on me over in my "On Chicago Boards" thread.. these guys behind the glass in this picture.... "REAL FANS"

Look, I'm not saying you guys don't have any reason to be happy or proud of your team. I'm simply saying that in a playoff matchup, OUR fans have no business acknowledging that fact. lol. Did Columbus have something to be proud of? Sure. They made the playoffs for the first time. What made me sick was in a battle as epic as NHL playoffs, the opposing city shouldn't be sitting there feeling all lovey towards them. This is the closest thing we have to modern day gladiators. I view the playoff ice like the Roman Colosseum, and I am a blood thirsty patron of the carnage. You guys over in Chicago right now have a bead drawn on you and we should all be viewing you through our red cross hairs.. I do.

I'd like to hear your impressions of the series now that it's over. Anyone who was in the chat after game 3 will remember this delightful gentlemen. I'd like him to drop by and give us some more valuable insights into the game of hockey. Are you out there?

...and you guys are just passive fans. on a side note, another thing they said on 97.1 to get things heated up was that back when they were deciding on time zones Michigan could have gone central or eastern and they chose eastern because they didn't want to have anything to do with chicago.. lol

Actually remember that HUGE bench clearer we had with St Louis on new years some years back? That could have started something. I remember Joey Kocur throwing a chair at the St Louis bench from our coaching corner.. lol. Too bad. Gary Bettmen used the lockout to create the league he wanted. Not to get political but to quote that asshat Rahm Emmanaul "Never waste a good crisis". Bettman jumped on his opportunity to bring forth his dream of a pussified NHL.

"The brawl" One of the best moments in hockey history. Will anything ever come close? Not in Gary "Gaylord" Bettmens lifetime.

I like what I was hearing on 97.1 a little while ago. Everything chicago now sucks and isn't worth our acknowledgements. For instance, I love pizzapopslis style pizzas, you know, those deep ones with everything in the middle, those are called pizzapopalis style. Hotdogs loaded with toppings are now just "a detroit dog with everything".. lol. Buddy Guy's song is now Sweet Home Hamtramck. This is what I'm talking about. Chicago can SUCK IT. You holier than thou people make me sick. This is what this time of year is all about as hockey fans, turning entire geographic sectors of North America against each other. Team vs team, fan vs fan. Take your soft asses over to tennis and golf. This is brutal. Go over to Anahiem and Chicagos message boards and look at the comments about Detroit. From out s***ty cars to our unemployment rate, to our ghetto city abandoned skyscrapers. LOL! It's all good, they've got *** marriage and ugh.. obama. >=)

I've got 97.1 on too. "The Deadliest Player in the NHL"

How fortunate we are to have this speeding bullet on our team. All this talk about the speed of the young hawks team and their speed will do us in (over on their boards). HA! Obvious they failed to observe that break away that scored goal # 2 last night. Drop Hossa, lets have Helm and Hudler.

This series is going to look just like the winter classic.. relax.

Sure, now say we'd have lost yesterday. Would point production have mattered then? Some people just like to poke the bear.

I was listening to 97.1 yesterday before the game. They said something about Hossa that hit home. He turned down multiple 10's of millions to come here and win a cup, wouldn't it just be fitting here in a game 7 with the cup chances on the line, if he were the guy to step up and blow anahiem out of this series to keep our hopes alive. I called in. I said look, I don't know if Marian Hossa will hear this but hopefully the right people do. Hossa, did you come here to help us win a cup, or did you come here so that we would win one for you? Minus his 40 some goals this regular season, we'd have still made the playoffs, and minus his 2 goals against columbus, we still would have beat them. Im waiting for the type of production that would suggest the former, other than the later. So long Hossa, we've got some grinding type production players to sign with that money.

I'd like to see some more production from him. Im well aware of how good he is but with his lacking performaces on this national stage only us homers know about the real hank. By the way, you can fill in with dats and hossa as well.

GREAT COMMERCIAL! LOL LOL!

Sure, 27 is young, I feel good and healthy, but not "very" young. To the other guy, did I make it sound like I was complaining about them not giving us any credit? If it came across that way that certainly wasn't my intention. I was simply shining a light on their ignorance of the game. Calling Nick Lidstrom and Brian Rafalski below average is just plain stupid, either that or wishful thinking. I watched a few of the games they played since the start of the playoffs and I would argue that it is in fact their defense that is subpar. We just faced shockingly impressive defense with Anahiem and we still managed to win the series. I believe given the solid statistics that we know, we will make short work of Chicago. As far as my die hard desire to watch the Wings succeed, well, it obviously comes at the expense of other teams. I have TONS of heart, but I only give it to my own home team. Apparently this makes me immature because I wont shake hands with chris pronger or rick nash. To each his own. When the wings loose in the playoffs theres a 50/50 chance that something around me is getting broken. One thing you'll never hear from me is in a ***** whimper is "well, it's been a good run guys". No no.. I'm pissed. I'm the guy who wanted Downey and McCarty dressed just to play the first 5 minutes of game 7 last night. I wanted Perry and Niedermayer left bloodied on the ice after that performace after the end of game 6. Hockey is a violent game, and I'm sick of Gary Bettmans' "new fans" trying to take that away from me. No mercy, and no respect, like the Probert / Kocur days. Those were the good old days that some of you pretend to relate to when you hear Mickey Redmond utter the phrase. The Gordie Howe Hat Trick wasn't a goal, and assist, and a sportsman like pat on the back of his opponent.

Mickey isn't retiring. This is just a nasty rumor. You can still catch Mickey with Bernie on NBC after the games and during intermissions. Also, on WRIF with Mike the morning after every game.

Look I'm just saying, no one should be allowed to feel like a winner for "losing". STFU. Do you want to go and call Anahymen winners at this point? Oh great anahiem they did so well against us, they're so talented, blah blah blah. They're LOSERS. I don't understand the love fest thats taking place on our boards right now. If we absolutely destroy them with like 3-4 goal wins in 4 out of 4 games, it will feel really good. Obviously you're not a winner after you've had your ass handed to you like that. I hope we sweep them, make them look stupid, and make the 60% of their fans who are bandwagoners abandon their team. Complete and total destruction of their spirits.... and nothing less.

Whoa. I'm what you call a hockey fan. This means I dont feel like I have to slobber and drool over other teams and "give them their proper dues". Only MY team. F everyone else. If you want to have a chicago blackhawks lovefest go join their boards, I'm sure they'll be happy to hear "wings fans" talk about how great they are and how great it is to see such a young and talented team doing well in the playoffs. That whole line of thought went out the window last night at about 9:40 when they became our next target. F the blackhawks.. I hope they go down in FLAMES (and by that of course I mean I hope we sweep them and make their fans cry)

Here's another one I found really amusing. So apparently even LOOSING to us makes them winners! We really do get in peoples heads and infect them with madness. GO WINGS

I sit in the same chair, wear the same Wings 98 cup champs hat, and scratch at my beard when things are going south.

So apparently the fans over in Anahymen think that the NHL should be the UFC just so they can win games.

I want to see the series end this way, tomorrow night.

posting for a win.

Im sure you can head up 441 into Sevierville and catch it at Pressbox Sports Pub & Grill. Its right on Parkway in Sevierville about 20 min outside downtown Gatlinburg. Theyre pretty cool up there and will likely allow you to change the channel to the wings game.