Mabuhay Red Wings

If I had to put into words the way I feel about the Wings chances this season, I'd say I feel half caution and half excitement with fairly high expectations. Everybody may feel differently from one person to the next. I got to reflecting on how I felt about years past as far as I could remember in my years as a competently enough fan of the game. Feel free to share any memories you guys have from past regular seasons going into the playoffs. 93: More or less, "I'm going to watch one game at a time and just see how this goes." 94: I actually had really high hopes this year because of the 1st seed and everything. So sad. 95: Very much a feeling of, "This seems to be going really, really well... Hmm..." and then the Wings landed in hell. 96: Definitely thought they would win it all. Had very little, if any, doubts. And then it happened. 97: 20% cautious, 80% not expecting much. And then they won it all. 98: The same as 97, actually. Even though they were defending champs and the theme of that year was, "Believe." 99: I really felt they would three-peat. The 99 post season definitely pissed me off more than any other run for any of my sports teams. I got greedy big time. 00: Had a decent level of excitement but not much. Nothing exceptional. God I hate Colorado. 01: A little less excitement than what I had for '00. Ugh... Late night first round against the Kings definitely ruined some grades. 02: Haha. I actually felt like, "They better ******* win it all, dammit... Or else... (shakes fist)." So very sad after Game 5 against the Avs. But it all ended very well. 03: Wasn't excited at all for this playoff run. I remember how they didn't get the 1st seed and thinking something just didn't seem right. I was more excited about the birth of the Euro Twins. From what I remember, Fedorov was on fire that year and then he ran into Steve Rucchin. 04: I actually felt really good about this year. I really liked the team from that year on paper. But it wasn't to be. 05: Lockout. 06: I was fairly excited but also a tad cautious because I started to see how the Wings would get one of the highers seeds and then lose. 07: Cautious with low expectations. I was very impressed after this playoff run. The foundation of the team was starting to really emerge. 08: A very slow building feeling of shocking amazement as they year went on. "Wow... They could really do this and I can't think of a better team in the league," is how I felt. 09: Definitely believed they would win it all. 10: Very much a "One game at a time, let's see where this goes" kind of feeling.

"But to be honest with you, I think we know how to play. We've played enough good games that we know how to play. Our focus wasn't there last night, but I liked our focus in a number of games recently before that. I thought we had played pretty darn good even if we didn't get the results." He's starting to sound like Ozzie from last year.

That might be kind of awesome. Maybe moreso for the womyns depending on whom they get.

I'm still going to watch. I'm just not going to hope for all that much this year. Nothing wrong with that.

What did Mick say? And did you ask for your money back? You really should. You may not be able to get the time back but you can definitely make a fuss about the money.

I believe. I believe that next year's team will be better so I'm going to redirect any remaining hope towards 2011-2012.

In terms of line combinations, this is the only way the Wings win the cup. Datsyuk-Datsyuk-Datsyuk Datsyuk-Datsyuk-Cleary Datsyuk-Datsyuk-Zetterberg Helm-Helm-Abdelkader/Eaves Lidstrom-Lidstrom Lidstrom-Lidstrom Lidstrom-Stuart 2008 Osgood 2009 Osgood

Can't wait.

We're all used to Yzerman and well Lidstrom is... Great. He's really great. He's going to make a great leader one day but he's definitely no Yzerman.

http://www.freep.com/article/20110330/SPORTS05/103300353/1053/Nevada-couple-visits-Detroit-five-Red-Wings-games

This sucks.

You desperately need a life. It's sad.

So that's why he gets bumped to the 4th line for periods of time eh?

Pretty much the reason why the Wings aren't going to win anything this year.

Now a -3... What the hell????

We've lost... That loving feeling... Whoa that loving feeling...

f*** this team and their talent for causing false hope.

How is it so hard for Nick to get out of the red and then in fell swoop he's back where he started? Once again, the world just isn't fair.

I hope the mods take it easy on us for this thread. I think we should be able to ***** all we want tonight if we so choose.

Imagine if you were these people: http://www.freep.com/article/20110330/SPORTS05/103300353/1053/sports05/Nevada-couple-visits-Detroit-five-Red-Wings-games

This sucks... What the hell is going on with this team?

He lost the faceoff too cleanly I think.

Well I didn't want you to think that I was just posting some random clip, haha. That had a real purpose in this thread.

? Just so we're on the same page, Kenta Nilsson, the guy who was in that clip in which I posted, is #6 on the 10 most skilled players list.