LeftWinger

....patiently preparing his crow stew! Smells good, cannot wait to eat it!

Well, if he wants to be GM Holland better step aside into only having one title instead of two and make Yzerman GM, if they want to keep him in the organization. If not, he'll leave....

its obvious the refs have been told to look the other way when it comes to marginal infractions by the preds. call all on Detroit. If we lose this game, it'll be on a bullsquat call or non-call... I hate the NHL sometimes...

does anyone know if DirecTV got rid of FSD+? I can only find FSD HD on channel 664 (which used to be FSD +) Sorry if this in the wrong place. Thanks! I will add that the reason I ask is the other day when the CCHA Championship was on FSD, the Wings game started on FSD+ then migrated over to FSD when the CCHA was over. Usually channel 664 is FSD+, but when I switched up to 664, it said FSDHD and the guide said CCHA Championship also it said I didn't have this channel and to call blah blah to order. I couldn't find FSD+ anywhere and with a Wings game coming up soon on FSD+, I was hoping that I just couldn't find as opposed to DirecTV getting rid of it.

you guys didn't hear? In the next CBA it will announced that Sidney Crosby will be Captain of the NHL. and since nobody can hold his jock, there will be no Alternate Captains. They have embedded a chip inside of him that allows him to be contacted at anytime during the day to discuss plays and watch replays to help officials make the correct calls.

wouldn't the wings be looking to add scoring? I think Tkachuk would outscore any of the guys you two mentioned.... just my opinion...

Going with the theme of getting a veteren who hasn't won it yet, what do you guys think of offering Keith Tkachuk a contract next season? He's only at $2.55M this year, so maybe give him $3MM to come here for a year? As long as Lidstrom cooperates with his salary, we could get him for $3MM and still sign another solid forward....

I am going to have to go with the aves because if they win that'll keep both them and LA no more than 3 point ahead of us. I know that the aves are only 1 point ahead, but if LA wins they'll move to 4 points ahead. Either way, I guess it doesn't matter. Can we go back to each getting only 1 point for a tie? that would work out if nobody got the extra point eh?

I do respect Carmen tho in that he not the typical Red Wings slappy that 95% of the users on here are. I have no problem showing my dislike for many former and current Wings and no matter what people tell me, will never change my opinion. I despise crysby, that is the only difference between him and someone like, McCarty or Hudler. I cannot stand either of those guys either, but not to the extent of cindy. And for the record, my vote goes to Fedorov over Yzerman when it comes to who was a better player for the Wings. Not taking anything away from YZerman as a player or a captain, but for my money, Fedorov was better. crysby still sucks compared to Zetterberg tho!

Ovie is not my boy. Never said he was. I never even mentioned him in this thread. I am not saying cindy's cross check was as bad as Bert's attack. But even the attack was not meant to break his neck, it was meant to send a message and get revenge, the result was an unfortunate result. I am just saying crysby's cross check was just that, a message and a revenge move, that could've, if caught in the right way, result in a unfortunate result. What if Zetterberg had turned around at the exact time and crysbys ended up cross checking z's nose or something. BE THE PROFESSIONAL AND FACE OF THE NHL YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE. It is nice tho that time and time again Zetterberg proves who is the better player... BTW if Bertuzzi hadn't fallen on top of Moore, his neck wouldn't have been broken. So that little what if was the difference between getting knocked out and what actually resulted. One day cindy will do something in one of his tantrums and it WILL result in a "INCIDENT" and then what? ANd so will Ovie...

ya, well, if you remember, Bertuzzi didnt set out to break moore's neck, it was an unfortunate result of a competive frustrated and upset player. What if the cross check to the back of Zetterberg somehoe inflicted whiplash or somehow, caught Z in the right spot and broke his vertibrae somehow. You have to be resposible, compete, get frustrated, winor lose doesn't mean you can whack someone in the back of the head with your stick. You call it candy-cane, I call it typical cindy when he gets embarassed. Nice that cindy was -2, which means he was on the ice for all 3 Wings goals! Awesome player he is!

the difference is, crysby is the face of the nhl, he should act like it. quoting Ben Parker, "with great power comes great responsibility..." cindy has proven time and time again that he is a whiney little spoiled brat. Ya, thanks gordie, sure everyone loses their cool, if you remember that entire game, their was a lot of coolness lost the entire game between both of the teams. What I found comical about that video is the announcers were such homers, "Detroit has set hockey back 30 years here tonight..." that was hilarious! Little did he know what Detroit would do from that season on compared to how many Cups for the Bruins? Ya, ok... The one other thing I learned from that video is I wish that was cindy lying on the ice instead of Lazzaro...

I think we all call that dirty, cheap, rotten and down right stupid. There isn't one person on here defending what Bertuzzi actions resulted in, you on the other hand seem to think that it was ok that Cooke went headhunting and blindsided the guy just because he hit him with his bi-cep "area." As a matter of fact there is probably more than 50% of the users on here that were disgusted when the Wings traded for Todd in 2007 and were equally disgusted when the sign him over the summer. I would like to see your reaction to a Chris Pronger "bi-cep area" headshot to crysby resulting in the same injury...

Ya, just as much as you want to see cindy crosscheck Zetterberg in the back of the head and somehow defend his actions... I would love to see Kronwall level cindy like he leveled Havlat to where his eyes were rolling into the back of his head. Damn I wish Scott Stevens still played! He took out the "next" one he would assuredly dismantle and decapitate cindy the crybaby...

crysby, the face of the NHL! All you crysby slappies out there wonder why every other fan in the NHL want to see him crushed by a truck on the pennsylvania turnpike. Not really dead, but God, how can anyone defend that whining, crying little *****? Then just because he loses (for them) a game that means nothing he has act like that. Too bad cindy, you are a worse player than Zetterbewrg and it was proven AGAIN tonight. Everytime these two go head to head, Zetterberg owns cindy, not ONE crysby slappy out there can dispute it or even present a good argument against it. cindy just proved again tonight why he sucks compared to Zetterberg... Great game Wings! Lets keep it going guys and I will enjoy my crow!

A couple others have to be Vincent Riendeau and Troy Crowder. Huge hype coming into their first games and OUCH! Injury... Vincent "I took A Dive" Riendeau only played 2 games and Troy Crowder only played 7 (had 35 PIM's in those 7 though!) edit: What made the Crowder signing worse was he was a type 2 FA at the time and Wings had to give them compensation, the Devils wanted Probert, but and arbitrator awarded them Dave BArr and Randy McKay. In hindsight, I would have rather kept Randy McKay...

I was also pretty excited when the Wings got Miroslav Frycer in 1988, but alas, he was a major disappointment too. (yes I actually purchased a Wings sweater with #14 Frycer on it. Hell,I may still have it somewhere.)

Ya, cause you know the NHL is gonna give the win to craps-burgh on Monday, may as well plead for a win on Wednesday...

Nice to get some good luck rather than bad. Too bad that can't play like that for 60 minutes. Good Win, I am eating my crow, tastes good. I certainly hope the crow tastes just as good IF they make the playoffs. Lets hope they can ride this game thru the end of the season. I am hoping... BTW, I like that Flip is not dying his hair bleach blonde anymore...

I can't believe nobody has mention, but when the Wings acquired Jimmy Carson from the Oilers, everyone and their brothers were excited getting a guy who scored 55 and 49 goals the season's prior. The Wings should've drafted him instead of Joe Murphy first overall in 1986, but seemed to make amends by getting him in 1990. Of course, he was used to get Paul Coffey here later on, which worked out pretty well, until Bowman came to town. Of course, in a round about way we drafted Joe Murphy 1st overall and wound up with Brendan Shanahan in the end. I'll take that! But ya, Carson was a HUGE disappointment.

Yep, first flip sucks, then he is awesome. Wings suck, they rock. Until they prove they are ready to take the steps needed to win consistently,I will still keep the same position, no playoffs this year. Need MAJOR changes in the off season. McCrimmon needs to be fired. One period doesn't give them a playoff spot. I hope they make it, I hope they win the Cup, but reality says, not. I would love to be wrong.

Good come back, lets hope they hang on in the 3rd. Problem is they cannot string 6 or 7 of these games together. They play like this in one period, sometimes 2, but shoot themselves in the 3rd most nights. Then sometimes the play like yesterday. Nice period, but far from playoff hockey. I certainly hope they continue this play, but all too many times, they don't.

We'll see. He needs to make a decision by July 1st, or he will handcuff the Wings. Holland needs to let all UFA's except Lids and Holmstrom and possibly Eaves go. Move on, spend the money elsewhere on players that don't suck. Lids $4MM, Holmstrom $1.5MM, Eaves $500,000. That leaves $10,000,000 for spending on our RFA's and picking up a UFA or two...

A great captain would shoulder the blame for this dismal season.

Time for Holland to prove that he is the best GM out there. He needs to make a deal on draft day to move up, WAY up/ He also needs to make a huge splash on July 1st. IF Lidstrom doesn't sign by July 1st (for $4MM or less) then Holland needs to move on. He cannot afford to wait until Lidstrom makes up his mind sometime in August...