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Well, the old me would have said something here, but I am just going to say, you gave it your best try Franzen, you actually looked like you belonged on the ice again. I have to say, a lot of us saw this coming, lets just be glad he tried and also we didn't lose anyone to waivers either. Moving forward this should be a great opportunity for Pulk or Jurco to come in and steal a permanent spot! What is with Helm? Was it just a shoulder injury or was there concussion symptoms as well? I honestly forgot...

Hey, from what I understand, in todays America its ok to flip flop on issues in order to get more support... Anyhow, Why should Pulk sit? Helm on the 4th line would be wonderful with Glen Miller (see what I did there?) Ferraro can be the rotating body with Jurco (or Franzen if he takes games off now and then.) If I recall, Pulk was the player who sparked the comeback win in Carolina with two goals 2 minutes apart, proving that given the opportunity, he can and will score. Abby - Z - Larkin Nyquist - Richards - Tatar Franzen/Jurco - Sheahan - Pulk MIller - Glenny - Helm

just for the record I meant to say Z isn't going to get 191 points, he just may get to 90 if he stays healthy. Silly sticky keyboard!

I think that outside of the first 2 periods in Carolina, the Wings are playing great. Sure the top line has most of the points, but its not like the 4th line isn't doing their job and the middle two are flying around generating some chances. Pulk and Nyquist are both on the board, Tatar is getting chances, but he is also getting more coverage. I think Richards is doing what he needs to do and that is be a very solid center and create some chances. The PP is doing fine, as is the PK. The D is better than last season's D at moving the puck out of the zone and staring the play. Goalies have been on fire. I really don't think there is much to complain about. Teams have games like the one in Carolina, and goalies sometimes steal those games like Petr did. They dominated TO, stole a game in Carolina and skated all around Tampa. I watched most of it and they seemed a lot faster than Tampa for most the game. At least in my opinion. Put it this way, they didn't get outplayed by Tampa like they did by Carolina. I know he didn't score, but Jurco had some flashes of speed and a couple of nice shots on goal. Not everyone scores every game, not all lines dominate. Soon enough Richards line is going to start putting some in and Z's is going to cool down. Z is not going to get 91 points, Abby isn't going to score 109 goals and Larkin isn't getting 100 points. They will slow down and another trio will take over. Gus and Tat will get their 25-30 goals (more hopefully) and our D will start tallying points as well. I don't expect them to go undefeated obviously, but I can see them being #2-#3 in the East if not challenging for #1. They already cooled down a hot Tampa team, we'll see how they match up against MTL and NYR when the time comes. Got to watch out for CBJ and NYI as well! FLA looks good plus they had our number last season. It's going to be tough, but from what I have seen thus far, they look great and no other team has really looked too much better. I've even watch some western teams, nobody really worries me. Anaheim looks good, can't wait to see how we match up against them!

Well, if BOTH Helm and DD are going to be healthy this weekend, its time for big time decisions! Do you go the safe route and demote the guy with waiver options or do you demote one of Andersson or Ferraro and expose them to waivers. I can see it being Andersson being waived over Larkin going to GR, that is all but obvious. Then where do you put Helm? 4th line? Who goes to the pressbox? Jurco or Ferraro? More than likely Marchenko will be demoted since he has waiver exemptions and he hasn't played yet. But he has said he doesn't want to go back to the AHL and may consider KHL ( I think I heard that somewhere.) This is going to get interesting!

the worst part of the non call is that the ref was just feet away and was looking right at it. He put his whistle towards his lips and then stopped. I think that the hit was maybe, in his judgment, far enough away from the wall that he didn't slam into it hard enough, he also jumped right back up and got in the play. That being said, it was directly from behind, in the numbers and near the boards. Maybe Dallas should send the video to the league and get their ruling.

So Helm is in, who got waived?

Ya, Pierre McGuirre, Eddie O and Bill Clement do! They know EVERYONE personally! Remember Nicky Lidstrom from Clement? ARGH! I hated that!

Well at least he got it before he came to the Joe tomorrow...don't know if I could handle the love fest from NBC...

Sounds good to me!

YA! I remember when I mentioned Pulk's on the point of the PP!!!! Yippie! I hope he unleashes the Pulk-Canon!

So, even though he still listed as on the IR, Helm says he liked to play tomorrow....uh oh, who gets waived? Or is this Dylan's time to go to GR?

not going to be able to watch tonight, driving to Detroit all evening, but the Radio App will be on the entire way! Hoping that the Legend of Dylly The Kid grows more tonight! Lets go Wings!

Wonder where our former coach would've slotted The Kid?

need sarcasm emoti... But ya, AA is gonna tear it up too!

does anyone know anything about this Larkin kid? He seems pretty solid.

how are there empty seats there tonight? Really?

sorry, but it has to be said....is this the real life?

No slash on Phanooof?

No, Andy or Ferraro will probably be the choices.

and that's why Miller is so valuable in his role.

wait, what? Torres got 41 game suspension? Yikes!

that's a 4-0 roughing penalty...thats funny!

The Shermanator with the hatty! $5M?

This kid ain't going nowhere! Holy s***! Did you see dad tearing up? I almost did too! WTF is going on in Hockeytown? So far he has outplayed the big two of McDavid and Eichel...