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Yes, he actually hit him with a Vladinator....

at the CBC broadcast saying Kronwall got 4 minutes for roughing and that he elbowed Hemsky in the head...were they watching the same game?

The Bulin Wall would be nice, but that is an expensive back-up. But it sure would solidify the goal-tending corps for the playoffs...at what price though? Conklin plus what?

My trade-able players from the big club are: Hudler Franzen Ericsson Kindl Cleary Mursak Conklin Emmerton Players I would hate to see go: Abdelkader Miller Eaves Stuart Commodore Filppula The rest just won't ever get traded or makes no sense to trade them... In the prospects I don't know too much about most the guys, excpet I would never get rid of Sheahan or Smith. I do like Nyquist as well. Petr Mrazek and Marek Tvrdon also get my stamp of approval from the bits I have seen and heard about them. I guess the others that I have heard great things about and would hate to see go would be: Jarnkrok, Pulkkinen, Jurco and I hear nice things about Lashoff too, but have never seen him play. I wish I could see some Griffins games once in a bit to see these guys a bit more....

I am just curious as to your take on Sheahan. Have you seen him play at Notre Dame? He is an absolute beast. I am not knocking you for listing him, hell I am ready to trade Franzen, we all have our reason's, but I was just curious to your analysis of him that lets you trade him with no problem...

Ya, they must know something that we don't see, which is why I fully believe that there will be a new back-up here at the deadline. Conklin has shown no confidence and MacDonald, well, there is something wrong that we don't know. I hope that Holland acquires Nabokov, but who knows who else may come up available. Last night proved two things at least: 1. We need a REAL sniper that can score when needed and does so on a consistent basis. B. We need a legit, reliable Back-Up goalie that can take over were Jimmy leaves off. I wanna say that they played pretty tough last night, so I won't say we need a bruising defenseman, but too many Ericsson giveaways for my liking...Kronwall's hit was great, need at least one of those a game, be more Vladdy-esque.

And Detroit should have at least 3 more Cups (maybe 4) if you go by a statement like "We feel we should have won, we had the talent and some great teams." 1995, 1996 & 2009 are the years where the Red Wings SHOULD have also won a Cup and 2007 they were the better team of the final 4 teams left. Problem with the Hull years and their great teams, did they ever get to a SCF? or a WCF? I think not...doesn't meant the teams weren't good, but Hull wouldn't have left if he felt that the Blues management were making the right moves to bring them a Cup. So in essence, he felt that he would never win a Cup in St. Louis. And you are the one who said "Except Hossa" when I said this is where players come to win. So I said the same thing about Hull that he had to leave St. Louis to win. Obviously Detroit doesn't always win the Cup, but when given a list of 5 teams to a player where he would play and have his best chance to win a Cup, guarantee Detroit is 100% always on that list. St. Louis might get 2 votes. That was my point saying this is where players win Cups. Most other teams players go for a paycheck. Wisniewksi being a glaring example of that.... BTW, the only reason Hossa isn't here is Hudler handcuffed Holland. Holland chose to sign Franzen (mistake in my mind) and Hossa signed in Chicago. (for what he wanted here, but Holland couldn't make that commitment with Hudler opting out of his Russian contract to come back to the tune of $2.8M. One of the reason's I can't stand Hudler.) I still wish Holland wold have traded Hudler's rights at 2009's draft to move up a bit. But oh well. BTW how much more would you hate the Wings if they had won 8 Cups between 1995 and 2008?

I said this earlier, but Holland might have to sweetin the pot a bit...

Clutch shows his colors again! Leads the league in non real GWG's.... Good Night Hockey Fans!

Guess Babcock had no confidence in Clutch either.....

Wtf Dats? I think he has the flu....

I hate shootouts....anyone know if Joey is any good on shootouts? Guess we'll find out....

Clutch time....

Good on ya Bert! Now that the Wings are winning, Franzen will score.

Clutch making good passes though, maybe he should stop trying to be a sniper and become a playmaker.....

Its clutch time! Come on Clutch!

So, change the lines....get the game tied....go back to old lines....

Miller is Clutch! Ok Franzen, show me the light...

Filppula is going nowhere.

Ok, one down....its Franzen time. Come on clutch!

Will not be the backup....not good enough. There will be a deal this month.

You are kidding right? How many goals does he have when the game was tied? When the Wings are losing? Franzen useless...

Franzen useless.....come on sniper, show me how clutch you can be in the third!

Need sniper now....

Wow, Joey is in, eh? Nabokov coming up!