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HAHAHA nice slide out Mrazek. Theres no way you can tell if its in or not.

Hell yeah...but worse. Montoya won't be pulled because Price is backing him up tonight. No way he's going in. You really gotta wonder what's the guy's breaking point where he Hextalls his stick on the crossbar and skates off and down the tunnel. lol Oh. It's 10-0 now. haha Price. Montoyas stuck in there. Yeahh Mraz!!

It was correct. Point of contact with the puck was under the crossbar. I've seen goals where the player's stick was over the goalie's head go uncontested a few ties.

Habs losing 9-0 to the BJ's. Their PP looks unstoppable. Hahahaha Montoya still hasn't been pulled. On the eight goal he just stood there..didn't even make a move to stop it. I'd honestly just head to the dressing room if I was hung out to dry like that.

Get it outttt Finally.

Nice play by E!! Couldn't believe it. Wings get a goal call go their way, then E makes a sick defensive play...where am i??

The officials allowed a Wings goal before The war room could check it? Am I dreaming?? Was close. Oh well..got a break. lol

YEAHHHH ZZZZZZ!! Oh wait.... And it's goooooodddddd!!!

Hahaha so funny that the Wings got him back. Losing any player to waivers and then getting them back off waivers a month later doesn't happen often. People were pissed he was waived and plucked, but he couldn't make the Carolina roster, then no one else wanted him when they in turn waived him. He was never a big loss, and now he's back by default. That tells ya something.

Of course Kronwall comes back and Sproul and XO are scratched. You could bet your house on that one. This team refuses to change.

I agree, he has had some damn good games, like the shoot out win against the Blues. Wings don't win it without him. But he's shown that he can dominate games in which his team is being outshot and outplayed..would just like to see a bit more consistency with that. Happy to see he's being given his full shot at being the number one guy though, and Blash isn't getting scared and running to Howard. Howard is playing very well, but i'm not sure if he would be if he had played more games. He doesn't need pressure right now. He doesn't thrive on it.

Good start.

Ohh me too. It just HAD to be Vanek though..couldn't be E or something.

Mrazek is 4-3-0 with .908 SV% and 3.07 GAA?? I'm one of his biggest supporters, but holy hell kid, wake the f*** up!! A GAA anything over 3.00 is something that needs to be fixed, starting tonight.

Wow that sucks. Legendary Red Wings injury curse takes out our top scorer for a month or more just over a month into the season. Who's next?

Damn, do we ever need a win here. I've been busy lately and haven't seen any games since the Blues game..i'll be watching tonight. Where the hell has Vanek been? Don't tell me he's still nursing that day to day lower body thing... Also, as some have mentioned as well..i'm kinda worried about having Kronwall back. Really hope it doesn't mess things up..cause we don't need the D any worse than they are already.

I knew they would end up being waived. They're not NHL calibre players. I laughed when Fletcher said Pulks was going to start the season on the first line. Dumbass,

Howard has taken so much crap because he was a very solid consistent goalie for the first 4 years of his career, but since his injury during the 2015 season, he's showed flashes of his old self, but for the most part he's been bad. Really bad. He's a 7 year veteran making a lot of money and fans are sick of never knowing which Howard you'll see when he's playing, and many want him gone. There's no passes and patience for him like Mrazek sometimes gets anymore. This is only his secong full season in the NHL playing on a team with a suspect D and who couldn't score last season. 2015 he was up because either Howard or Gus were injured. You can't compare the two. Howard played on good teams at the beginning of his career and still couldn't get past the second round. It's not hard t see why there's different expectations and exceptions for both.

Rask is also his team's undisputed #1 and he plays more games (hasn't yet because of injury but he's 4-0 so far). Howard has played a whole three in a backup role. Backups having better numbers than starters happens all the time due to playing less.

A chance to redeem himself? If Blashill said that, I dunno wtf he's on, but i want some. Mrazek has lost 3 of 7, Howard 1 of 3. Mrazek has nothing he has to redeem himself for. Sure he's allowed more goals than Howard and has been pulled once, but wins are what's important, not individual stats. But sure Blash, if Mrazek doesn't get it done tomorrow and you want to give Jimmy more games as a result of that, which leads to more pressure on him, which makes there a bigger chance that he reverts back into sieve mode,why not eh?

Another goalie thread? There's already one about Howard. I'm glad he's playing well, and I think a big reason for that is he feels less pressure and can be more relaxed in the backup role. He's always been his own worst enemy when it comes to dealing with the mental side of his game, and that may be a reason that he's never done anything of significance despite playing on some good teams early in his career when he was at his best. And then the past 2-3 seasons as a whole were a huge mess. If sheltering him works, keep it up. But as for the starting job, do we really want to go down that road again? On a lot of other teams he'd have been cut loose awhile back. Mrazek has his faults, but he's more skilled and stronger mentally and still developing and getting used to playing a lot of games. What someone else said about him not having the advantage of a mentor like Osgood had Vernon, Legace had Hasek and Joseph, and Howard had Osgood is interesting as well.

And ya, Wings need a goal here real soon.Let's not end a 6 game streak with a loss to Boston... Why can't he start both? That's what i'm saying. Other goalies do it.

That was last year. The team said Mrazek was #1 going forward this season, that's why I find it a bit odd. Maybe they still don't want him to have most of the workload just yet, maybe they're playing Howard a bit more to try to showcase him for a trade..but Mrazek needs starts like I said to get used to a starter workload. He's ready, and at only 24, he's not gonna burn out from 60+ games.

Could be, but .50 isn't all that impressive when you've only played 2 games. Yeah, but Mrazek needs to play in back to backs sometime if he's gonna get used to an NHL starting goalie's workload. Lundqvist has played every game for NYR but one, same with Schnider in NJ, and Andersen in TOR, and quite a few others. Our coach is dumb.

Howard started again? He's played 3 of 9 now. That's quite a bit for the backup. Most backups in the league have played one, maybe two..unless the starter is injured or not playing well.