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That's a freaking embarrassment. He could have at least pretended to care. He should get benched for that alone but he won't.

We need to be honest with ourselves. The Ducks had fire in the third period. The Wings didn't. The Ducks had tons of chances to end the game throughout the entire game. We got lucky they all kept missing the net. Outside of the middle part of the second period I thought the ducks were outplaying us most of the way. They seemed to want it and we didn't. I think it's interesting how we simultaneously we show the age of our veterans and the youth of our rookies. My takeaways of the game: Offense was virtually nonexistent. I feel both our goals were more luck oriented than skillful play. We still seem to be only taking shots from the corners or weak shots from the point. Never driving the puck to the net and there is rarely anyone in the slot. Defense is showing it's inexperience. Made some good plays and made quite a bit of mistakes. Not much we can do about this other than play through it. Howard was Howard. Nothing more to say about that. Special teams are awful. The 5 minute major should have been a game ender. Instead if gave them the spark. Gonna have to seriously address this in the off season. Also Quincey is still a bum and shouldn't be on this team.

As much as I dislike Howard, no he shouldn't. Howard has been exactly what he is this series. Nothing more, nothing less. Our problem is our complete lack of offense and our largely rookie (AND LOLQUINCEY) defense. Benching Howard won't change either of those. Besides, I don't think Gustavsson is any better.

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The reason why we can't score goals Is because our forwards keep taking wrist shots from horrible angles way outside or out pointmen shoot a softy with no traffic right into the goalies chest. No one even tries to get into the slot.

So at the joe they have an add on the jumbottron with a number to text if you have any concerns about an unruly fan or something. I texted them that my concern was Kyle Quincey being on this team.

On my way to joe Louis arena right now. LGW

I see regular season wings decided to show up. It's alright. It's one game. As long as we win the next were still in good shape.

Anyone got a picture of filppula pull that move?

Series doesn't start till you win one on the road.... Just gotta take care of business at home now. Way to go boys.

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TO me it looks like Perry was making an attempt try and jump over howard's arm rather than run into him. I don't think there was any malicious intent in it. No suspension or fine is warranted.

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Rubber duckie you're the one!

Wings getting a number one pick is pointless. He'll just waste away in Grand Rapids until he's 26-28 like all the other rookies.

You aren't him. You don't know how bad it is. Give him the benefit of the doubt. He is a professional after all. And also we've seen how Cleary skates with a broken leg. It's not helping the team in any way.

I've never been a fan of long term contracts. 3-4 years is max imo because you never know what could happen. But that's just me.

He's already got a ton of money and will probably still be payed well in the KHL. I doubt money will be a deciding factor for him.

Here's the thing though. There's got to be a reason Babcock doesn't give Nyquist and Tatar more ice time right? It's easy for us as fans to sit here and say the obvious play is give Tatar and Nyquist more time with the limited information and statistics we have It comes down to this. People keep saying our prospects are so good and top notch. And yet we play worn out veterans over them all the time. Why? Is it because Babcock doesn't realize what he's doing or is it because though their numbers look good they don't look as good live or in practice?

I'd say the chances are pretty low. He has said numerous times he wants to play in the KHL at the end of his career and he is getting up there in years. And the way things are looking, we probably aren't going to be a cup contender next year with the team we have and I don't think Holland is bold enough to do what needs to be done to make us cup contenders next year.

Here you go: Ignore the title on the fourth graph. It should say Points per Games Played. All data taken from ESPN.com