MotorCityMadness

"Next to tee off....Getzlaf, Ryan and Pronger, Chris"

I was born in Midland in '85 and started playing when I was 5 yrs old. Started watching the Wings although outside of Yzerman, Probert, Fedorov, and Cheveldae I didnt know too many players. My dad then took me to my first Wings game back in 1993 against the Sharks and I can still remember where I sat in the stands in the upper bowl and just being amazed at how awesome everything was. From that point on I knew who my favorite team was and now a days I could not be happier with the success over the years whether it be good or bad.

Let's finish this one off...Score early and score often GO WINGS!!!

Yes but don't forget several of those goals, particularly # 5 was an absolute unfortunate bounce for the Canucks...he stops that and then most likely the one right after doesn't happen and they would have won the game in my opinion

if he were to go back to Chicago I can only imagine the conversation with seabrook in which he says hey kid I'll have my number 7 back...thanks and have a good day haha!

get to the Ducks early and score a few to get the crowd going! GO WINGS!!!

Happy Birthday to the best Captain to ever play the game as well as in any other sport!

Ok here are my thoughts after seeing the replay a few times over..... I understand that the rule is what it is and the play was dead, but how does a group of 4 officials let one guy make the call on his own? In hockey when your reffing you have a partner(s) for a reason. I have been doing games for 12 yrs now and can remember instances where I was in a similar spot as Watson was and having a play like that happen and then asking my partner(s) if they had a better look at it than I did from where they were standing. 3 other game officials are standing on the ice in that instance and I'm pretty sure atleast 2 of them were looking directly at the puck from the side of the rink that the puck went to once it skipped under Hiller. This past year even I have done some games in a similar fashion that the NHL uses with 2 refs, 2 linesman (USA Hockey is trying the experiment for higher level games) and I know for a fact where the other ref was standing and what he saw. If I were him I would have gone over to my partner and given him my interpretation of what took place as well as asking the linesman on that same side of the ice if he saw he same thing. Bottom line is in this case was that Watson failed to use any kind of COMMON SENSE. Now this does not take anything away from the fact that the Wings came out playing a bit lackluster, but when a call of that magnitude gets made without any COMMON SENSE then I can just see how the Officials committee is gonna see that and prolly do this to Watson's name on the list... BRAD WATSON That is my take on the whole situation Have a good night everyone p.s. If anyone wants to see some analysis of the call then here is a video from TSN...James Duthie took the words right out of my mouth when he mentions COMMON SENSE... http://watch.tsn.ca/nhl/clip168978#clip168978

Brown injects them with the leftovers from his steroid stash before they get tazered

wow utterly pathetic...I thought at ref school they taught u to ask ur partner if your unsure

Im sorry Kopecky you are a paid professional...u get that good of a chance ******* BURY

so let me guess sammy on the PP to start? Any takers?

what a joke of a call...how is there no hold on the play on roids (brown)

alright first one is the hardest to get...now 2

if Hossa's stick isnt so damn long he scores on that rebound

wow might as well give this one to them...atleast kenny knows what needs to be added to the roster for a series like this for next playoffs

wow brutal call

everyone relax this is the best that the Ducks are gonna throw at us...were fine

wow every game like this we outshoot the other team 2-1 ratio in the overtime and yet they get one bad one and it goes in...btw what is Hossa doing by trying to go cross ice on a pass with his feet stopped?

and how many cups do the Ducks and Preds have between them? 1...I'll take a few empties if it means adding a 12th cup this year

good win tonight...always important to get the first one! Lids came up huge again for us and now lets hope they can have the same intensity for sunday's game

wow did the ref get an assist there too?

wow did Pronger dive like a little ***** there...barely any contact made

so Getzlaf gets away with a slash 10 ft in front of the ref? I will never get how they say they want consistency and then they dont call it that way

that a boy Lids!