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Nice passing in the D zone lead to that rush. Great job in the defensive end so far.

Game on!

Great start, and overall great period for Detroit. Now the question. What do Wings fans take from this period? The great effort and hustle shown that we haven't seen much this year? Or the bad pass up the boards by Ozzie leading to the goal against?

Ugh. Horrible pass up the boards by Ozzie. Right to Clutterbuck and in...

WOW. What a stop by Backstrom...

I can just hear Mickey Redmond after that goal... OH. MY. GOODNESS.

Great job boys!!! Great keep in at the line, and heads up job by Z to see the puck at the ref's feet. Bang bang pass, and it's a 1-0 Detroit.

Big chances there. And we're rewarded for the effort with a PP. Time to get the PP rolling boys. Let's get it back to it's early-season lethality boys!

Too close a chance there at the end of the PP... Glad to see that one killed.

And the great play so far negated by a bonehead shift change, leading to a Too Many Men on the Ice call...

Looking good so far here. Gritty in the corners, we're hustling to the pucks, creating chances in front...

Ditto. Should be interesting to see the kind of start that Detroit has...

Every day, I become more and more thankful that he's not in a Detroit uniform anymore...

How terrible.

Anybody seen if Babcock's comments after the game are available online? My online feed cut out right after the game and didn't get a chance to see it.

Buckeye. Yzerman. Enough. Take it to the PM's if you want to keep criticizing each other's posts.

No. A joke goes something like this... A horse walks into a bar, and the bartender says "Why the long face?" See the difference?

Give it a rest, alright. I know I'm not the only one that says things that make sense to ME, but not to others when I'm cheezed off.

Alright. Everyone knows you're upset. Let's tone it down to PG-13 here.

Ok folks. Let's just take this opportunity to steer this good ship thread back on it's original course. As mentioned above, the thread has become the "Downey" thread v2.0 when v1.0 is still going strong. Let's keep this thread dedicated towards discussing the interview itself. Enforcer discussions are still going strong in the Downey thread. Thanks!

Completely true though. There's no way we're going to be able to do any shopping on the free agent market this year. Even if we don't sign Hossa or Franzen, the rest of the secondary & role players will fill out the cap. If we sign both, then we're at the cap and will have to fill the role players with guys from GR. This is going to be one of the hardest offseasons for Kenny, no doubt. There's just no way around losing players who want to stay in Detroit. He's got some VERY hard decisions ahead of him this summer.

Taking over now baby!!

HOSSA!!!

YES!!!!

Fantastic job on the 5 on 3 kill. They didn't have anything to work with. After Cleary got out however... Not so much. Give Grebeshkov credit, that puck didn't have much room, and it still found its way through...