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Me too.........it's the famous "Kronwalled!" shot ...........................

My feelings exactly ............

Ok. I have a ton of VHS tapes from the 80's/90's. I'll check and see if any are of the games you want.............

Are you still looking for these ??

I gotta agree. I loved the Bruise Brothers, the McCarty fights with Caudia, etc, but IMO they knew when to pick a fight and when to let the skill guys play. Goons are a dime a dozen, I'd rather have skill guys who can score and hold their own in a fight, and IMO the Euro guys, at least on the Wings, are tough enough. I don't know about Kronwall's fighting ability but he doesn't need to when he can hit like a ton of bricks.

I hope it is .................

Exactly how I feel. I never thought he would stay, at times he seemed like a ghost, and not I'm not referring to the playoffs, he just seemed....I don't know..........not really there, like he was just stopping by while on his way to somewhere else. Anyway, I will be sick too if the crowd boos him. If that happens, all our talk of being educated, knowledgeable, mature, been there done that hockey fans goes out the window, and we reduce ourselves to Pittsburg levels. How can they boo someone who was A) only on their team due to a trade, and B) only there for one season. Please, I beg of you........no booing

Agree 100%. IMO if the Wings really wanted Hossa to stay, they would have upped the ante. What he got from Chicago is not that much more than Detroit's offer. Maybe Hossa faltering in the final was the fly in the ointment. He might have scored 40 goals next year, but then again maybe he's the A Rod of hockey, so much talent if not for that little dark cloud that follows him around. Anyway, I hope fans don't boo him next time he sets foot in JLA. He was only here for a season.......and he always seemed like he was just visiting anyway, just testing the waters. Besides, we laughed at Pittsburgh fans for booing him.......we would look ridiculous if we did the same. I get why Detroit fans booed Fedorov, I didn't like it but at the same time agreed with it. He was here for many many years and was part of the Wings family, then he left like it was no big deal.....but it was, and a lot of emotion was involved. Hossa leaving? It really doesn't measure a blip on the Richter scale.

Agree. In another organization McCarty would probably be out. But IMO that is what separates the Wings from the rest of the pack. They don't kid around when they say their organization has a family atmosphere, and it seems to be working, no? Four Cups in 11 years.......yes, it's working. Family members are not disposable.

My calculation: Trade + Osgood = Oxymoron

Just like the Eagles said........."You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave".................

I won't waste any of my time registering just to read that drivel. I assume he said we were booing Cindy and the Pens? Rubbish, and he knows it. Just another idiot trying to make Detroit look bad. Notice it's on a "Fantasy" page, which is obviously where the guy lives, in his own fantasy world.

Oooooooh........that .999% is so close !!! Like Kronwall's shot.....it missed by what, a centimeter ?? Oh well ........October is coming up fast I certainly don't think "poor loser" fits a fan who recognizes injuries DID play a part in the outcome. A "poor loser", IMO, is one who, while berating the team that won fair and square, makes up excuses for his own team, who really had none. The Wings had plenty. There is a reason Datsyuk is on the team, he is a damn good player, no? Ditto for the rest of the players who either missed games or played at half speed. If the Pens had the same injuries and we had beat them, I would have always wondered what the outcome would have been had they been healthy. It's like beating the Yankees.... Derek Jeterless, or Federer winning because Nadal withdrew. Yeah, you win, but with an asterisk. IMO of course.

Well this post just takes the cake.

This is so true. I did see some Penquin fans (at another site) question Wings fans as to why we weren't happy with the way the Wings played. They thought the Wings were awesome. Wow, what would they have thought had the Wings been healthy ??????

Lots of good answers in the thread already but I'll add my two cents. This is a definite generalization but IMO Penquin fans are just falling in line with the rest of the fans from Anywhere USA who can't stand a winner. I think (again, in general) hockey fans across the country loved seeing Yzerman win the Cup in 97, and again in 98 because of Vladdy, but that was our limit. The catcalls started with the 2002 Cup, because of course we "bought" it, more that won it, with our high-priced players. That is a bunch of baloney, but you get the picture. Winning teams get treated like crap all the time. How many times do you hear someone say "I hate the Yankees!" If you ask them why, the answer is usually "because they win ALL the time!!" Well boo hoo. It's much harder to win all the time than to just win it once. I think since Pittsburgh lost to us last year and we had won it "so many times" before, they felt it was THEIR turn this year, as if life works that way. Hello. I get the feeling they are still jealous though.......even after winning they still feel the need to post things on any site that has Detroit's name on it. As for us, IMO we are not "mad" about losing the Cup because A) we've won it before and can relax because we won't go to our graves empty-handed and B) we learned there are more important things in life, like........life. Vladdy's accident taught us that. We may never win the Cup again, which would not be fun (for us or the players) but it pales in comparison to losing someone forever. Anyhoo, that's my two cents.

Ok, after reading the posts I'm surprised there is a "Z vs D" theme. I dunno, I thought they looked pretty good together.

I just joined so I don't know about this forum "hating" Zetterberg...........just because he wasn't mentioned much does not mean he's hated...at all. Who would hate a Wing on a Let's Go Wngs forum ??

I know you can't think this way because there's only one chance bla bla bla, but play the Finals over again with a healthy Wings team and lets see what happens. Or, Pitts can play without Malkin or Crosby for seven games. Pittsburg (fans anyway) say they beat "the best team". Well no, they didn't. They beat the best team minus some key players.......that right there changed the dynamic. Other players added more minutes, lines were juggled. Of course they got tired.....even though they told the press they were fine they knew what a missing Datsyuk meant. By the time game 7 rolled around they were running on fumes. Huge mistakes were made in that game and I don't think it had anything to do with "not wanting it enough" or that there was no sense of urgency. They had been going uphill the entire way and they just couldn't make it up to the very top. The fact they almost did is amazing.