LeftWinger

Hawks don't know what to do against such an average goalie....

This season and playoff has been such a joy thus far! It's been a long, long time since Wings weren't expected to win anything. How fast that the last 21 years of dominance that spoiled most of us is erased in one half season and the new age fans are experiencing what us old timers went through in the 90's. A team growing together, losing together and learning to win together! No longer are the most of us spoiled....every win is a bonus, it's been a LONG time since the overwhelming feeling was if we don't win the Cup, we still had a successful season! I am going to refrain from calling this a rebuild or even a reload...I am calling it the REBIRTH of the Detroit Red Wings...

A roster spot.... Need to let Cleary walk and need to keep Nyquist, Andersson and Brunner on this team...so Bert and Sammy must go.

If no one is convinced yet, I am here to tell you that this series officially makes Sammy and Bert useless to this team... I am liking the solid play of Cola this series, so we can keep him around to rotate the 6th spot (Kindl?) But Sammy and Bert HAVE to be bought out...Especially to make room for Helm to come back... I am telling you, this team is a sniper away from dominating this league for another 20 years...

Hey, I started the X posts thread and made it X=321 because I felt the Wings would win 3-1....ya me! I like how even though the Hawks had the refs in their back pockets all game, they burned their bridges with them at the end of the 3rd. BTW, I thought the Ducks were out of the playoffs? F'ing baby ass pieces of crap these Hawks are... Toews got his way with the refs not calling jack pookie on the Hawks all game long...Wings had 2 PP into the 3rd to Hawks 5. There was a PLETHORA of non-calls, Smith took a flying elbow to the head in the 1st, Abby had his stick hacked out of his hands on a breakaway, the Franzen non-call (even though I think he tried to play it up a bit.) It was a hit from behind and should have been a boarding call, but Franzen did embellish it just a bit. It's nice that even with the Ref's so obviously trying to give Chicago the game, the Wings still kicked ass... This may have been the straw that broke the back of the Hawks...They should know by now that the Wings are for real and just because they are the #1 seed and won all 4 games against us in the regular season and went like 23 games without a regulation loss means nothing to the Wings...

Ok, I just got back from doing stuff all afternoon....I am assuming we reached the 321 posts for a win? Anyhow! 3-1 Wings! Lets Go Red Wings! We weren't supposed to make the playoffs according to MOST NHL experts....we were not supposed to win against Anaheim...we aren't supposed to be in the same rink as Chicago...This is already a successful season, every extra win is bonus and another serving of crow to the NHL experts... I hope we take the series, and I am confident if the team that showed up Saturday shows up every game, we will. Both Jimmy and Hank are having a Smythe playoff....

I looked and I posted....CHECK!

If anyone of our D gets traded it will be Quincey or Kindl... not that I am advocating trading anyone, but if the Wings have a line a legit top paring guy, then Q and K are the expendable ones.... As of the start of the 13-14 season (barring a trade) your top four is: Kronner - Big E Smitty - Diesel Q and K would be fine for the 3rd pairing....#7 of course is Cola.

Notice that after his goal he seemed to exude a bit more confidence out there. He just looked like he had a bit of a monkey lifted off his shoulders today...A game like today where he was really down on himself and then felt the euphoria of netting the game winner can do wonders for his mental state and help mold him into the player everyone was touting him to be over last summer... You MUST lose to learn to win. You learn by mistakes and only get better. If people weren't meant to make mistakes, God would not have created erasers. You may go through your first couple of pencils quickly, but with every mistake erased and life's lessons learned, eventually the eraser last longer and longer and longer...until finally you have the experience and the confidence to use a pen!

Whoa, easy man....without going back through the pages of this thread someone had said that if that was Sid that scored that goal it would been replayed on NBC X amount of times already...which is what I said in the first line of my post of the vids, which you obviously chose to ignore. Instead all you saw was someone mention Sidney and decided to try to incite a war over it. You are talking to one of the biggest Sid haters in the world, which is why I chose to show Val scoring two goals that are rarely equaled by Sid. In which the point of my post was to say how much Val deserves some similar TV time to Sid because of todays goal, yet he won't get it. So, if you would have read the post instead of just trying to flame me since I mentioned Sidney, you would've gotten that. I never said he was the greatest player of all time either... So, back to the topic of the game and the goal, it was a great goal by Val that deserves to be shown over and over again on NBC and TSN.

Did Hossa get a penalty for that?

Well, I see that someone earlier mentioned that if it were a certain other player who made that shot, it would be non-stop playing on NBC and TSN all day and night...Lead me to start looking around for some super goals by "him." First off, I found Val's on Youtube: Also here is Val's from 2008: Sid has had some amazing goals and even though I have looked and looked, I haven't found ANY that are much better if at all than these two by Val. Sure Sid has some, and they are great highlights, but that is expected of him, Val's goals are equally amazing. $6M amazing, nah! Not saying Val is as good as Sid, but he deserves some well deserved NATIONAL press time for this goal...it was every bit as equally amazing as any of Sids I could find...

Don't these players ever learn? When they complain about not getting calls in the hopes that they are "politicking for more calls to be made" they end up getting more calls against them and even less against the opposing team...It's as certain as death and taxes... Thank you Porky, even though we are struggling on the PP, it'll be nice to have your team only have 4 guys out there for about 16 mins next game... Thanks!

anyone have Val's $6M goal on video yet?

1-1 Teams.....1-1 Franz v. Hossa

Not claiming to be a doctor nor have I played one on TV....but how can Drew Miller break his hand and is now playing in the game and Dekeyser broke his thumb and cannot play? Just curios, nothing against either of them.... Go Wings!

Really? Wow.....the kid is in his first FULL year. FIRST EVER NHL Playoff's. On a team where he is #3 defenseman as a rookie....PLUS HE JUST SCORED! He will grow into a great player, have patience...

Uh....did he just say that since Dec. 2010, the Hawks are 13-1-2 against the Wings? Sheesh...let's turn that around boys, SOON!

Johan, buddy, if you want to score, you have to shoot the puck on the net. You still got time...

Tootoo in....White in.... Not gonna hurt.

Well, even though Jimmy kept us in it for two periods...the final score is going to reflect what happened all night...we were dominated. Sure glad we play more than one game! D has to get the puck to the net....our stars need to get the puck to the net...

Can't win them all...I am not a Hawks fan by far, but even when Bowman was here, we had some playoff poops after dominating the regular season. Just seems like since Bowman went there to work with his son, the Hawks have been where we used to be every year...on top of the league.

Not that you are too far off base, but seriously the way you say that is like you have been here for 10 years... nothing wrong with a little overreaction... Chicago just the better team tonight....lets just hope the Wings are playing flat and this is not just how good the Hawks are compared to us...

Well, Hawks showing what they are made of...relentless attack... Success just follows Bowman around...

....and the wheel's fall off.