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I am disappointed with our blue line shots from our defensemen. Does Babcock realize that they couldn't hit the net with any shots? Gotta hit the friggin net.

Time to show up Zetts. It's your time! Solid first period. Let's put it all out there. Do or die!

Liking what I see so far. Gotta get off better shots though. Nice hustle.

I don't think you can really do too much if you're Ken Holland at this point nowadays. 15 years ago you could've patched up whatever pieces you were missing to an already stacked lineup and boom...Stanley Cup Finals. Hasek, Robitaille, Hull, etc. You'd have to give up the farm(literally) for even one of those player's caliber in today's NHL. Not gonna happen. You are seeing a team that has a salary cap they have to abide by and an aging superstar nucleus from a Cup win from 7 years ago. Franzen, Datsyuk, Zetts and Kronwall in their primes. No one is gonna let Shea Weber go. No one is gonna trade Tarasenko for Kindl, Tatar, Nyquist and Howard. Just isn't gonna happen. If you're a Wings fan you simply have to wait to see if there's a player we need during free agency and pray we either have the money, trade assets or if that said player wants to even play here. Simple as that. You can't expect Holland to plug holes on a non championship caliber team and win a championship. So you either appreciate the 24 straight playoff appearances and not go far or you watch them tank 5-10 seasons and stock up on talent that may or may not work out for you in the long run. Ask Edmonton, Buffalo and the Islanders about that. Also will you be a hardcore fan if the Wings are winning 25 games a year in a brand new, empty home stadium? Yes I also would've loved to keep Hossa but things just didn't work out.

Please win the series tonight. It'd be a rough way for the season to end. Keep on going and shock everyone. With love, your hardcore LGW forum. Go Wings!!

I'm sickened. Dude throws one mean hit and he misses the biggest game of the year. The guy literally had to alter his playing style for the NHL and now he has been a different player ever since. R.I.P. National Hockey League.

And I accuse Jon Cooper of being an uninspiring head coach looking to place blame somewhere else for his team's weak playoff shortcomings

Tampa is less physical than we are. They are not advancing past the 2nd round if they manage to beat us In my opinion. Gonna be real difficult to win away in a Game 7, regardless of how we've played in Tampa so far in this series. We had a chance to seal the deal last night and let things slip away in Game 4. How many chances are we gonna blow before it comes back to bite us? I hope not. Mraz has been solid and I hope he has another shutout up his sleeve. Gonna be hard to do.

While I agree with you that Z has taken more than a few steps back this year, do not tell me that Datsyuk is a more clutch player than him. Especially in the playoffs. Look at Z's numbers and giving him the C on his jersey was a no brainer. Conn Smythe, numerous game 7 goals and game winners, that wicked full minute penalty kill and stick lock on Crosby in the 08 Stanley Cup. In his prime, he was better than Datsyuk has ever been, in my eyes at least. Now Dats had a bit more to give scoring wise. I love Datsyuk but before we won that Cup he went quite a few years without scoring even a goal for us in the playoffs from 02 to like 08. I love Dats but my favorite Wings from 06 and up will always be Zetts and Lids. That's why it's so hard to see Z struggle so much. But maybe he has something left in the tank for game 7.

That 2-0 lead in Game 4 with 5 minutes to go was a deplorable choke job that really let Tampa back in the series and now they get their Game 7 at home. What a joke. I'd put Glendening on a higher line than Zetterberg or Nyquist. Man did those guys disappear. Not even 1 goal from the captain in all these games?

Zidlicky is putrid.

Great job coming out hard at home with a chance to eliminate them. This team is unbelievable. Keep giving them the home ice back. Ugh...

Hey let's sit back in prevent mode and ice the puck until we blow the lead again.

Pretty uninspired hockey for a team that embarrassed their fans at the Joe with that collapse. Hope they start playing with some urgency.

Well my problem is I keep thinking there's a magical aura around this team and that they are due for another Cup just because we have Zetts and D still and they deserve another but I'm just blinded by all that but the real fact is that this is a new nhl, a different era and we aren't exactly a hungry, beast of a team spewing talent in every position anymore. We aren't even close. Tonight's game really stung. I didn't think a collapse like that was possible in a playoff game but anything is possible. Well hopefully they steal another game in Tampa and win at home but this one really ticked me off.

Toews is a total ****** but he is a really good player. He's got 2 cups and he can flat out snipe. Although I believe Kane is a better player than him. It hurts to see Zetts making horrible decisions and he is extremely slow. But that's the way it goes when you keep having surgeries and we all start to age.

No. Giving up 3 goals in the final 4 minutes of the game and then overtime, at home, when a win puts you up 3 games to 1 going back to Tampa is not the same as playing a Chicago team(2 cups in 4 years) who is stacked and then losing arguably the best defensive player in the league who is the heart and soul of your team. It isn't the same. This is a monumental choke job. Do you really feel after this game that they are going to take 2 out of 3 in Tampa? Those final 5 minutes were some of the worst playoff hockey I've seen as a fan. I understand it's still 2-2 but that was an absolute morale killing disaster we just witnessed.

I think this might be a bigger gag job than that Chicago series. How can those 3 goals possibly happen? Rough being a fan of a team who had this series and in a matter of a few minutes lets it slip away in front of their fans at home.

Are you telling me snapping Miller's stick isn't a god damn penalty?

Pitiful flop by Stamkos.

Please shake it off Smitty. We need ya.

Let's get 3. God playoff hockey makes me nervous.

I wonder how loose Babcock's goose is?

Bad passing out of our zone. Let's stop that bs.

Umm...please win? Thanks. Love, LGW forum.