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Franzen-Dats-Modano Homer-Z-Cleary Berts-Flip-Abdelkader Helm-Drapes-Eaves Huds doesn't deserve to be in the lineup. Flip has to be on the ice, even if he should be sended to the Griffins, with his brother

Flip is good only when nobody puts pressure on him. With phoenix he has that opportunity, simple.

AH sorry. Huds and flip: a little bit less of 6 M salary!!!! Are you kidding???

No way. If we play too many games we are tired, if we play less... we are rusty. No excuses, skarks are actually better than the wings and they deserve the 2-0 leads.

Once again the final score is not what we saw on the ice. The red wings for the 2nd time were outplayed by the skarks. No way! The only line that can hurt the sharks is the first one. This is mainly due the fact that we don't have a good (that can make the difference) 2nd line center (Flip???? OMG). Hope that if we lose this series, Holland will make some changes and stopping thinking that flip is a great player or that he needs time to step up. Sorry but this is unacceptable. For next year: 2nd line center (Marleau, Kessler ...), get rid of: Flip, Miller, Draper (sorry), Ozzy Lids: new contract, but for far less than his actual salary, if not possible... bye bye Sometimas if you wanna improve, you have to make changes.

Babs: The only mistake Babs made was to put Z and Dats in the same line. If you want to beat the Skarks you have to bring on the ice at least 3 balanced lines (remember the Skarks’ lineup). Here my combination: Franzen-D-Huds Homer-Z-Cleary Abdelkader-Flip-Berts Helm-Draper-Eaves Defense+Howie: They gave us the opportunity to win the game Forwards: Lack of grit, net presence… It is mainly due to the fact explained above. “Rusty factor”: I’d prefer talking of what really happened on the ice instead of what could have been happened… Don’t you? For next games: Change the line and stop taking f****** penalties. If we play well nobody can stop us. Let’s hope for an improvement.

Let's go Switzerland!!!

Hope you're right. Bast solution: Red Bull + shuffle lines LGW

Here's my favourite combination: Franzen-Dats-Huds (Huds showed some chemistry with Dats) Cleary-Zetta-Berts (heavy bodies + skills) Mo-Flip-Homer (unknown...) Eaves-Drapes-Helm (consistency, Pk) Abby could sometimes take Drapes spot. Miller is out... Defense as usual... I'd prefer Salei instead of Kindl

I just discovered that Barry Smith is the new coach of HC Lugano (Switzerland), the hockey club of my hometown. Personally, I don't remember him in the Red Wings organisation; I was too young and too far from Detroit:) Can you tell me something about him? Is he a valuable coach?

It sounded like a wake up call, even Babs knows that his players can do better than this. In my opinion it's just a lack of confidence and work ethic. If you know that you are playing in a "top dog" team, there is the possibility that sometimes you start thinking that you are going to win games easily, which is not positive... everybody knows how in this leaugue is tough to win. Hope they are going to play better.

Oh my god! It's very similar to last season... Red Wings will go to the playoff, for sure, but I hope that the team will be healthy... because it will be a long road... Good luck boys!

With Stuart out for a long period of time, what defensives combinations are the most likely? Kronner should play with Lids, because he is a veteran and he is able to play big minutes. I also see Lids and rafi play more than 20 minutes per game. I'd guess: Lids Kronner Rafi Big E Rusty Kindl Your guess?

It's impossible to substitute Pasha. But at the same time it can also be an opportunity to some players to step up a level and to take more responsibilities (it's up to you to decide which of them). Comment!

FORWARDS Pavel Datsyuk — $6,700,000 Henrik Zetterberg $6,083,333 Johan Franzen — $3,954,545 Valtteri Filppula $3,000,000 Jiri Hudler — $2,875,000 Daniel Cleary — $2,800,000 * Tomas Holmstrom $2,250,000 Kris Draper — $1,583,333 * Todd Bertuzzi $1,500,000 * Darren Helm — $1,000,000 * Patrick Eaves $900,000 * Justin Abdelkader $850,000 Mattias Ritola — $516,667 DEFENSEMEN Brian Rafalski — $6,000,000 * Nicklas Lidstrom $5,500,000 Brad Stuart — $3,750,000 Niklas Kronwall $3,000,000 Jonathan Ericsson $900,000 Jakub Kindl $883,333 GOALTENDERS Chris Osgood $1,416,667 Jimmy Howard $716,667 ROSTER SIZE 21 SALARY CAP $58,800,000 PAYROLL $56,179,545 BONUSES $0 CAP SPACE $2,620,455 If Holland trades Drapes to Tampa and lets Berts walk, he would have about 5.6 M cap space! What do you propose? Thomas Plecanek and??

Look at this video, never seen something before in the Swiss hockey league... Comment please

High quality: www.espn360.com NOT FREE Lower quality: www.myp2p.com FREE but not all the games are covered

We almost reached the playoffs!!! I think that even if we'll play against a top team we have good chances to go deep in the playoffs in fact, even if we're not in a top position we demonstrated that we are in good shape are we are ready to battle hard against every team. Discuss please

We can't allow easy goals, that's wky Howard is playing! At this point of the season we need points so, if Babcock thinks that Howie has higher chances than Ozzie to take home 2 points well... I agree with him, Howie is and has to be number 1 goalie!!!

You're right! Tell me, who in the league is making at least 1.5 millions and has more points than Bertuzzi!?!?! Everyone knows that he doesn’t play consistently in defense (he is a power forward)... but when 8 wings were injured, he stepped up for the team. I hope he’ll be resigned. GOOD JOB BERTS!!!

I don't blame Zetterberg, in our 2nd line he is the only one that is skating a little bit. He can't shine if the other 2 can't play with consistency and high rithm. 2nd line: Zeta Flip Berts (combination never seen on the ice) From Switzerland: Let's go wings!!!!

Wowo, just wow. I think that our 2nd line is simply disgusting!!! Williams and Cleary are ineffective and they are always at the wrong position! I think Babs should replace one of them, with Berts or Miller... What do you think about il? Comments, please

I personally think that Rafalski was simply the best defensemen in Olympics. I estimate that he averaged about 30 minutes per game and he finished as the best scorer among the defensemen. I hope tomorrow night and until the end of the season, he’ll play in that way. GOOD JOB RAFFY!!!

No respect for him... maybe the most hated player in the league (please don't kill me ahahah)

Zetterberg-Datsyuk-Holmstrom --> good scoring line, 2 way play Franzen-Filppula-Cleary --> good additional scoring line Bertuzzi-Miller-Williams --> Mistery Draper-Helm-Eaves --> good chemistry Lidstrom-Rafalski Kronwall-Stuart Ericsson-Lilja Howard Osgood