rick zombo

Uh oh. Tie game. We’re doomed. Season over.

Yes the Islanders are a model f****** franchise aren’t they? Now we’re saying Snow is a better GM than Holland? Is that what we’re saying? I need you to put that in writing so I can make it my signature.

Whatever. This is you: - other teams players are better than ours because they’re on other teams. - Holland sucks - Quincey and Kindl and Lashoff are the only players on this team - lose a preseason game to the Leafs and the season is doomed. You don’t think we’d all find things to complain about if Boychuck and Kronwall were our top pairing? Take a cue from Babcock when he talks about “the grass not being greener”. Anyway, that’s all I have to say. You’re entitled to your opinion and I’m not saying I’m a better fan than you, so carry on.

Priceless to listen to the Bruins tools (Edwards and co.) making excuses for Boston tonight. “You can tell by the way Boston is playing that this is the last game of the preseason”. And that’s awesome. Love to see Ferraro on waivers and Callahan and Nestrasil stay in the organization somehow.

Weiss looked pretty decent on that PP.

Smoke it if you got it.........

Do you ever stop with this crap? Wings looking good. Maybe not such a long season after all eh?

LOL. Priceless.

I know eh. Considering this will be our starting line up right? Eh? Right?

Mickey basically just called Zetterberg out for being “pre-season” lazy on that 2nd Leafs goal Too funny.

He's a personality. I never ever agreed with him on a general level. There was a time when he'd occasionally have an endearing moment but mostly I just found him entertaining. These days, he can't even speak properly and rants and babbles like Abe Simpson. IMO, he wore out his welcome a decade ago. I'm sure this digression will open up a Molson Canadian full of worms.

And Canadian. And Don Cherry likes guys like this. And he was a good coach that time in 1976. I say we trade our best Euro for this kid. Fixed

You don't think people already realize how good Babcock "was"?

Fingers crossed that "one week" is not Holland code for 2+ months like last year.

Here is a more exciting preview from Sportsnet. http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/nhl-preview-detroit-red-wings/ Sorry if it's not doom-and-gloomy enough to scratch that itch, people.

Camp lines only camp lines indeed. Those are not the lines we'll see on October 9th and if they are, I'm going to cry.

Ovie? Like Yzerman? More defensive? Excuse me for a second while I……. AHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You make it sound like these are the only two choices. This barely missing (or is that 'barely making?') the playoffs thing is new to the Wings. I feel like if they can hold ground over the next couple of seasons, we're going to see them slowly moving back into contention. I like to think that 5-7 years down the road when Detroit can contend for a cup again, that I'll look back on the years leading up to this more fondly than I would if they had to be Buffalo/Florida/Edmonton/Chicago/Pittsburgh bad in order to get there. If they can pull of the rebuild-on-the-fly this time? That IMO will be Holland's legacy.

You're right. What Burke's doing does make sense. It's not what most GMs would do, but it's how he rolls. Fair enough.

See, to me, you say that like it’s something to be proud of. Any team can take a crack at theses two if they are prepared to suck a whole ton of ass for a year. Maybe I’m misreading your tone. If so I apologize. I know some people wish the Wings would just tank and get some top 5 picks but I’d be more proud, as a fan, if this team was able to get back into contention without really breaking stride.

Based on some of the tantrums he threw against the Wings in the 2013 season along with some stupid comments he made about Kronwall a few years back, I've had a hard time towing the the "Selanne is a classy guy" line.

Dude still has a chance of being a regular on this team sometime this season. It's not like you make the Wings out of camp or don't make the Wings at all. Anyway, crappy news for him. This has nothing to do with conditioning age etc and serves as a reminder that the Wings really do have bad luck with injuries. Reminds me of the time Kronwall broke his leg in California during warm-up after he got caught in a rut on the ice.

Well, Burke's model worked really well for Toronto................

You don’t say?

Just like you and DeGraa are the next Bob MacKenzie and Pierre LeBrun