Jedi

Wow. HELLUVA redirection there. Puck still in the air.

No worries. We're all new to LGW at some point. I think my very first post was moved by a moderator since it was in the wrong section. So, guilty as charged of not always knowing where posts are supposed to go. Usually the night before a game, we'll have a thread pinned to thetop of the forum for discussions about the upcoming game. It will stay up through the game, and usually is removed the day after the game. So, welcome to LGW! (closing this thread, as we can continue this discussion in the GDT.)

Easily. I was pleased as punch that Strader did the play by play for the Winter Classic last year, when Doc Emerick had laryngitis. And I actually really liked Thorne and Clement during the days of ESPN/ABC. Maybe it was just the fact that most of the memorable Wings goals were all called by Thorne (Yzerman's 2OT goal, McCarty's game 4 Cup winner, Roy's Statue of Liberty, etc), but I would have to put them in my list of favorites to call a game.

Hanta Yo, baby.

I think Darren McCarty has done a great job on the hockey central panel. He seems more and more comfortable with it these past few games, and doesn't seem like he's trying to overdo it. I hope VS. decides to keep him around. Their play-by-play and color commentators (other than Olczyk and Pierre McToolGuire) are usually pretty good, and don't seem to be either overly annoying or overly biased. That said, the number 1 thing that drives me nuts about VS. is "penalty coming up, we'll bring you the details after this commercial break". I absolutely cannot stand when they do that, and it seems to happen no matter who the commentator crew is. It's so rare they show a replay of a penalty, and more often than not you're clueless about who's going to the box until they come back from the break and show either the player-in-the-box camera, or you see which side the faceoff is in... Oh, and the random times where the puck goes one way and the camera goes another...

Wings win!! Wings win!!!

4 on 4.

LIDS!!! Beauty of a play by Dats to draw everyone's attention, too.

Well, they got the call right. Gotta convert boys.

No call as Franzen gets taken down.

Game on!

Man. Our shot blocking has improved SO MUCH in the last year.

Fantastic move by Franzen. Wish he could have grabbed the goal there. But now were on the PK.

Stuart just bailed out Big E from another minus...

Oh for the love of donuts...

Statsny hit Howard just as much as Homer hit Anderson. But, nothing surprises me anymore regarding NHL refs. Nothing.

And now the no-goal call really starts to hurt.

I hate Kerry Frasier.

PP upcoming. Hendricks with the hook.

Love the Homer SwEnglish interview.

Ozzie does it too. Not that it's any less maddening...

Penalty kill. Kronner for tripping.

STEIN!! What a goal!

HOMER!!!

Pain-Train, choo choo train! Our team's gonna win this game! Woo hoo! Woo hoo!