Matt

December 2015 featuring #71 Dylan Larkin 2560x1440 | 1920x1200 | 1920x1080 | 1680x1050 | 1600x900 | 1440x900 | 1366x768 Enjoy!

December 2015 featuring #71 Dylan Larkin 2560x1440 | 1920x1200 | 1920x1080 | 1680x1050 | 1600x900 | 1440x900 | 1366x768 Enjoy!

November 2015 featuring #8 Justin Abdelkader 2560x1440 | 1920x1200 | 1920x1080 | 1680x1050 | 1600x900 | 1440x900 | 1366x768 Enjoy!

November 2015 featuring #8 Justin Abdelkader 2560x1440 | 1920x1200 | 1920x1080 | 1680x1050 | 1600x900 | 1440x900 | 1366x768 Enjoy!

It's back! Due to popular demand I'm bringing back the monthly LGW Schedule Wallpapers for download. I've limited the resolutions options a bit (6 for now), but I'm open to adding a few as well as long as the size is reasonably popular. Hope you guys like them! I plan on going back to the different-player-per-month lineup I've done in years past. 2560x1440 | 1920x1200 | 1920x1080 | 1680x1050 | 1440x900 | 1366x768 Enjoy!

It's back! Due to popular demand I'm bringing back the monthly LGW Schedule Wallpapers for download. I've limited the resolutions options a bit (6 for now), but I'm open to adding a few as well as long as the size is reasonably popular. Hope you guys like them! I plan on going back to the different-player-per-month lineup I've done in years past. 2560x1440 | 1920x1200 | 1920x1080 | 1680x1050 | 1440x900 | 1366x768 Enjoy!

This IS coming this month. I've been feverishly working on it this week (sorry, I've been really busy! Too many friends getting married this month!) -- I plan on having it available for download prior to the season opener tomorrow night. I'll release it in a few different resolutions, then lean on you guys a bit for some resolution requests. Just so you know: The native size of the wallpaper is 2560x1440 -- it'll be plenty big to start!

Sign Up is CLOSED for the FREE LGW.com Fantasy Hockey League! It's registration time for the free LetsGoWings.com Fantasy Hockey League as we get ready to tackle the 2014-15 NHL season! This is a 12-team, head-to-head league hosted by Yahoo and has been running for well over a decade. Scoring and draft information is below: Draft: Saturday, October 3rd @ 7:00pm ET Starting Positions: 2 Center, 2 LW, 2 RW, 4 D, 1 Util, 2 G (6 Bench, 1 IR) Scoring Categories: G, A, PTS, +/-, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, W, GAA, SV%, SHO ___________________________________________________________________________ All available GM openings are currently filled. However, should one of those spots open up prior to the draft it will be filled by someone on the waiting list -- so still express your interest (via PM) if you want in! Interested in Joining? We currently have just three spots currently left unclaimed from last year's competitive season. If you're interested in joining, PM me here and use the subject line to indicate that you're interested in the FREE league and include the e-mail address you wish to have the invitation sent to. Invitations are handed out on a first come, first serve basis and these spots will be filled very quickly. Attendance is REQUIRED for the Saturday, October 3rd (@ 7:00pm ET) LIVE DRAFT. If you cannot make the draft, do not request an invitation! If you have any questions, please feel free to ask! Team availability will be updated as the remaining spots are filled.

I'll see what I can do.

Sign Up is OPEN for the 9th Annual LGW.com Fantasy Hockey Buy-In Challenge! ONE spot left! It's registration time for the 9th Annual LetsGoWings.com Fantasy Hockey Buy-In Challenge as we get ready to tackle the 2015-16 NHL season! This is a 12-team, head-to-head league hosted by Yahoo. Scoring and draft information is below: Cost: $25/team Draft: Sunday, October 4th @ 7:00pm ET Starting Positions: 2 Center, 2 LW, 2 RW, 4 D, 1 Util, 2 G (6 Bench, 1 IR) Scoring Categories: G, A, PTS, +/-, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, W, GAA, SV%, SHO Prizes: 1st Place = $200, 2nd Place = $75, 3rd Place = $25 ___________________________________________________________________________ Interested in Joining? All available spots have been filled for this season! If you're interested in joining, PM me here and use the subject line to indicate that you're interested in the BUY-IN league. Invitations are handed out on a first come, first serve basis. Payment information for the $25 team fee will be included with your invitation through the PM system here on LGW. If you get an invitations please submit the $25 payment as soon as you can as it is the ONLY way to 100% lock in your team for this season. All team fees must be paid in full no later than Wednesday, September 30th. While attendance is not required for the live draft on Sunday, October 4th (@ 7:00pm ET) Live Draft, it may be in the best interests of your wallet to do so! (Or at least pre-rank your players.) If you have any questions, please feel free to ask! Team availability will be updated as the remaining spots are filled.

vladdy16 is correct, I do host two Yahoo! Fantasy Hockey League each year, one Free and one $25 Buy-In league. Previous GMs have already been invited back from last season, but I'm about to open up the remaining spots. Up front, just so you know: The FREE league's Live Draft is Saturday, October 3rd @ 7pm ET. The Buy-In Live Draft is Sunday, October 4th @ 7pm. I'll post pull details on open signups soon.

Just a thread for PS3 members to post their PSN ID tags...

The Tapatalk app integration API for the LetsGoWings.com forums has been updated. Visit tapatalk.com for additional details or download the app via the App Store or Google Play!

The LGW forums have been upgraded to Google's reCAPTCHA2 spam security, with the expectation this fixes the flux of spam users that have infested the site the last few days. (The old reCAPTCHA 1 version obviously isn't as bulletproof as it once was.) While performing that upgrade I also performed a general maintenance update for the forums as well. --- I'm currently testing a major upgrade to the forums to IP.Board 4.0, which should roll out later on this offseason! It promises a whole host of new feature and functionality.

Fantastic announcement.

Post-Game 1 Discussion. Red Wings 3, Lightning 2.

Post-game discussion here: Post-Game 1 GDT

Enter your XBox Live Gamertags here...

The LGW Forums underwent an upgrade around noon today. There shouldn't be any major front-end changes, mostly behind-the-scenes and security updates. If you encounter any errors, please be sure to first clear your cache (Ctrl+F5). If the problem persists please feel free to drop me a Message. Thanks!

No plans to shut anything down, though I am looking into a new host for the site. Had to hit the Wayback Machine for this one: https://web.archive.org/web/20100109084606/http://www.letsgowings.com/salarychart/index.php I used to block away an hour or so every Sunday night to update that thing by hand. What a monster pain in the butt that was. Matt Wuest got his automated on CapGeek and I thought it far better to save my hour(s) and, eventually, help out on the CG user interfaces. Wishing him all the best and a never give up attitude.

I've kept in touch with Matt on and off for years (for a short time he wrote about the Red Wings' prospects on this site before the turn of the century and branching out to Rivals.com and eventually RWC). We worked a bit on CapGeek together and this is truly sad news. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers. I know the decision made tonight was an extremely difficult one for him....

This is exactly what I want to change. I have no problems at all with trades/signings having their own threads. Doesn't matter if it fills up the front page because the ones that are deemed comment-worthy float to the top, anyway.

We have. Repeatedly. But you've chosen to drone on like it hasn't already happened. While it sounds nice in theory, it would only work in rare instances. When it comes to personal attacks and such there's no time given since things can spiral out of hand (and it's against the forum rules anyway), but for others you're still working in a time-based fashion where a member may no longer be signed in, etc.. In some instances, sure, it could work, but mostly no. This has been done in the past and I personally don't have a problem with it. 'Offending' posts would be handled as they would normally. Attacks on other members, etc., have no place here -- even in locked threads. I'm not a fan of giving free passes to people that have actively derailed threads. Myself and all of the moderators here shouldn't be babysitters to topic progression here as I feel that members should know when a topic is going off the rails and needs to have its own thread started. The Abdelkader example above makes it easy. Someone just has to take the initiative to go "hey, this should be it's own thread" and start it. Heck, even plop a link in the original thread pointing to the new one so those that wish to continue to discuss it go there. It shouldn't require moderator handholding to know when to pull the plug. There have been threads that I've split in the past -- the bulk of them are offseason or trade-rumor/re-signing related where the situation can change every few days. I'm not a fan of mega "All Offseason Signings Thread"-type deals. They're a mess. There's no way I, as a casual visitor, would want to click on that thread and try to find the reaction to a signing three days ago. Those should be separate topics. I've broken up massive all-in-one topics like the Parise/Suter fiasco a few years ago whenever it hit significant 'news' benchmarks, just so it's easier to navigate. This isn't something new. I do feel, however, that members here to have some level of responsibility to know the basic forum etiquette here as well.

Sorry, no one needs you to point out that all moderators are not created equal. If you find the forum rules "excessive" then all I can do is simply suggest you post elsewhere where you're not so heavily oppressed on a day-to-day posting basis. It must be a struggle for you, I know, but you're not obligated to post or be an active member here. I'd love to see the polite dialog you had as well. But why should I bother, right? Because according to you -- and your apparent inability to read my previous posts in this thread -- I just 'assume (my) mods are beyond reproach.'

It would appear you're not grasping the nature of what editing a post here entails. Vladdy and harold have done a good job explaining it. It isn't picking out bits of posts that aren't agreeable, or don't make sense, etc.. -- it's never that. Removing a portion of the post that included a quoted post that was removed? Yep. Removing a personal attack? Yep. Tried to work around the curse filter? Sure. Other than that... no. Find something a bit more worthwhile to find offensive. Like socks with sandals.