Red Wings Addict

So I'm thinking "Yeah! f*** you, Sharks!" but then I realize that in turn I'm somewhat praising the Canucks. Ugh... I hate these two teams so much.

See, now, doesn't that statement count as "showing up or embarrassing the officials"? You know, because anything short of "The officials have a tough job and they're doing the best they can" is pretty much an insult. And in turn, sort of like last year, wouldn't that be cause for the officials to exact their own form of phantom call poetic justice?

Well the Sharks would know all about that now wouldn't they? So I guess the Canucks are diving.

That would probably be a disaster. He's wayyyy tooooo sloooooowwwww.

Is it fun to continually bash your heads against the walls?

Forget about those scrubs Minard and Johnson. Just dump 'em somewhere. Let the prospects play!!! Nyquist-Andersson-Pare Tatar-Ferraro-Callahan Nestrasil-Raedeke-Coetzee Parkes-Aubry-Keefe Smith-Lashoff Ehrhardt-Janik Piche/Fournier-Amadio MacDonald Pearce McCollum Yeah I know it won't happen. Just a nice thought for the moment.

Haha. You probably shouldn't be.

Ovechkin-Datsyuk-Smyth Clowe-Zetterberg-Franzen Lucic-Jo. Staal-Cleary Pyatt-Helm-Eaves Lidstrom-Weber Kronwall-Seabrook Ehrhoff-Rafalski Kiprusoff Howard

He doesn't know everything. Though he does know enough.

Bert and Homie are supposed to provide the net presence on scoring lines, which makes them liable for bad calls and yet those two are undoubtedly on the referees s*** list for reputation calls among with a bunch others in the league... That's what... Irony?

Pavel Datsyuk apparently has to have Homer on his wing.

Konnan's avatar is pretty clear:

What I would like the Red Wings to pursue: 1. Top-six scoring winger OR a solid third line center that would allow Filppula to play on Pav's wing. (Probably not Abdelkader or Helm) 2. Solid seasoned veteran bottom pairing defensive defenseman. (Not Ericsson) 3. Smart and safe puck moving defenseman for the third pair. (Probably not Ericsson or Kindl) 4. Someone to keep the flies off. (5.) Perhaps a backup goalie other than Ozzie but I feel like Ozzie has one more redemption run in him by backup goalie standards. EDIT: To me, that's the ideal. I realistically hope they get at least a couple of those.

Damn... Do you by any chance have your own set of episodes on Cheaters?

Well sure. And I'm not exactly sure if I'm in favor of bringing back Ericsson or anything like that but when I bear in mind the history and perspective of the Wings management then I sense that they'll immediately look to cases such as Fischer, Kronwall, etc. who struggled at first but eventually grew into solid contributors. They let them screw up quite a bit at first you know?

It seems like the Wings think defense can be taught, which is true to some extent. Bearing that in mind I wouldn't count on the Wings to draft a defensive defenseman but rather a potential two-way defenseman. Hmm. Was it McNamera or Fraser? Skill seems to be a slightly higher priority than size to the Wings but surely they can place a little more emphasis on size for this year. I would think that the Wings would want a little more speed. Perhaps a combination with size but more of an emphasis on speed.

That's one of the few drawbacks to fan favorite players with cult hero status for the fans.

Haha. I've never heard anybody else use that "top-one" phrase.

The giveaway and hits stat is... quite sad. The points stat isn't. He was supposed to be the defensive defenseman on the Jonny-Rafi pairing.

Pretty much. I'd gladly put up with all the 'I told you so's from the Hudler sheeple circle jerk if he can score 50-55 points and stay out of the minus.

What is the veteran's minimum in the NHL? 750K? I remember Cheli signed a contract for that much in 08-09 and I think that was for the veteran's minimum.