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Everything posted by betterREDthandead
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As are you guys with Filppula, Franzen, and Cleary (not necessarily on the same line.) All the talk about the Wings' age ignores the immense contribution these guys have made. Cleary has barely made a scratch on the scoresheet and yet many of us feel he's been the MVP of the playoffs so far, he's had that kind of impact on the play. And it is a near-certainty that at least once during this series, Filppula will outhustle a Duck to the puck and it will directly result in a goal. Perhaps a very meaningful one. Count on it - it's happened already. And I think your defensive analysis short-shrifts the Wings quite a bit. Lilja's been phenomenal so far this postseason. Better than Markov, better than Lebda, way better than Huskins or Quincey. If you don't account for Lilja in the defensive depth argument, you're in for another nasty surprise.
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I wouldn't worry too much about getting called closed-minded if you're going to lump people in with "dickf***s" and idiots simply for rooting for the same team that the real idiots do. Let's try to separate the trolls from the ones who are making an honest effort. The trolls have been banned anyway. Back on topic, maybe this article's been posted before, maybe it hasn't.....right now my Internet connection is too slow to bother reading through all the pages of this thread. It's not just the press that's cocky, it's the Ducks themselves: Makes me laugh and laugh. The Ducks are officially in trouble. Big trouble. Calgary thought they could wear the Wings down with physical play, and got checked right out of the building. San Jose thought they could wear the Wings down with physical play and speed, and collapsed like a trailer in a tornado. What makes the Ducks different? The Wings are no longer a puck possession team. Beating the Wings isn't as simple as crushing the old guys into the boards. The Wings will control the series until the Ducks figure out otherwise.
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Will Russia balking at the transfer agreement affect Grigorenko?
betterREDthandead replied to up2here's topic in General
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Somebody was pullin' some s*** right outta their ass. Someone who doesn't have the first idea what they're talking about. Ilitch, move? He's too firmly entrenched in Detroit. He's busy making the small independent nation of Ilitchania centered right there on the Fox Theatre and moving the Wings wouldn't exactly fit into that plan.
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I like the look the Ducks have now. Much MUCH better than the eggplant and teal look they used to sport.
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Bzzzzt! Sorry. Like the Sharks and their fans before you, and the Flames and their fans before them, it seems Ducks fans still think of the Wings as a team not willing to lay on the body and play the physical brand of hockey required by the playoffs. I wish I could have seen the looks on the faces of Flames fans when they saw their team get outhit and outhustled. Pay close attention - you'll even see Datsyuk finishing his checks. I promise you the Wings will be physical, at least as much as the Ducks. In the previous two series, the Wings were clearly the initiators of hard-nosed, physical play, and delivered more than their share of highlight hits as well as all the grinding in the corner and hustling on the walls. Think the Ducks will have a monopoly on physical play? Think again.
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So I finally got moving on my own weight-loss goals. Got in a workout each evening since leaving port now. I'm gonna have to get running shoes, my current pair of tennies is not going to cut it. My starting weight is 196 lbs. That's up from between 145-150 in high school, and I haven't grown an inch. I've added muscle since then, so I'm thinking 155-160 would be ideal, but for right now my goal is one pound a week to be at 177 by the end of this deployment.
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So, tomorrow, United States vs. Canada, to determine the top seed of the group going into the elimination. Important, no? I think the US has been playing pretty well - if it weren't for an awful close loss to the Czechs they'd be perfect. Canada hasn't exactly dominated play but they haven't lost either. So, any thoughts? Besides the obvious, I mean: Go USA!
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Normally I'm a big one for wondering why the hell Grahame seems to be the #1 goalie for Team USA instead of DiPietro. But so far this tourney Grahame's been solid.
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The Sharks will be at their most dangerous tomorrow. That's a team that had Cup aspirations and now that those dreams are against the wall, they're going to have to fight.
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Uh, people? "Tossin' puss" is REALLY dirty-sounding.....for the sake of tradition can we PLEASE return to calling these fine sea creatures an octopus?
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You gotta admit we Detroit fans are absolutely blessed right now.
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I'm gonna scream this until I fall over dead...
betterREDthandead replied to Hiei's topic in General
Um, pretty much every goaltender has trouble with the stick side high. This isn't exactly a revelation. It's the hardest save to make because you have to drag that awkwardly heavy stick upwards. -
Hm. Are you sure you didn't just go back a few pages and pull those off of the post-Game 4 comments in the Calgary series? (I'm only half-kidding.) Of course, we didn't have to watch our team lose in such dramatic fashion, either.
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I've always liked Guerin. Stand-up player, in my book. And Anomalously is right. I don't care what happened in the first four games, Guerin's a threat and San Jose with Guerin is a more dangerous team than San Jose without Guerin. At the very least it'll force some line shuffling. That was a scary-looking injury, by the way. I'm sorry, but nobody bleeds that damn much from just a facial cut, even a bad one. Not five seconds elapsed between Guerin going down and a close-up on his face and there was already a lake of blood forming underneath. Not good.
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I'll take credit for that idea, thank you, as it's mine though what HR40 posted is a closer description. However, I offer the caveat that it may be slight overkill. I would call it foolproof as long as you wear something big and baggy like a jersey, because security simply does not check you if you're not carrying anything. I have never brought a bag to a game however and it's quite possible they give nothing but a cursory check for ceremonial purposes and wave you through. And I add that you must always boil the octopus. It's common courtesy for Al so he can pick it up easy and doesn't risk accidentally slinging into the bench as he twirls it about his head. It doesn't leave a mess on Al's neatly manicured ice. And it's less stinky that way, and you will find it easier to grip and throw further.
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I will believe the Sharks are falling apart when I see it. It's way premature to even call them on the brink. I'd love to believe it, I really would. I think it's possible they could be....DaKine's right....they had their foot on our throats and couldn't stomp. But still....it's too soon. Not yet. I'll believe it after three bad periods from them in Game 5.
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Non-Michigan fans: How did you become a Wings fan?
betterREDthandead replied to Chaldean's topic in General
Bump. Because this thread is too cool to bury for now. Lots of new posters coming in every day and I'd like to keep the stories coming too. -
This is a 7-game series. 6 games could happen, but you'd be crazy to predict that one team will win two in a row after how tightly matched the first four have been.
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I think it's a fair question Blak's asking. Wings-Avs, let's say.....I watched, on live TV, Clod Lemieux do what he did to Draper, and I remember being stunned, and absolutely furious. I read in the papers as the rivalry escalated and the Denver media trashed the team I grew up with, the city I lived in, and the fans.....and by extension, me. I realize it's perfectly possible to read up on the history, learn about what happened and have it make you mad enough to hate some team, but isn't it fair to say that if you live and breathe the rivalry as it's happening, your depth of involvement is quite a bit more than if you read about it after the fact? Or that if you've got some kind of direct personal relationship with a team, it's more passionate and more personal than if you are watching from a distance? It's like U of M and UVA. I grew up with the maize and blue and religiously watching every Wolverines game I could on Saturdays, I could sing The Victors when I was five or six, and I still root extremely hard for Michigan, I love Michigan football and Michigan basketball and hate OSU and MSU and all that, but I went to Virginia....so if Michigan and Virginia ever meet in a game, I know who I'm rooting for: Virginia. That's "my" school. And it's why I can't just pick a Premiership team to follow. I think the EPL is one of the coolest leagues in the world and I kind of enjoy soccer, but how can I get involved in some of those extremely fierce rivalries over there if the best I can do is read the articles the next day?
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Colorado already has a grand tradition of throwing stuff on the ice. They favor plastic beer bottles and empty cups (OK, sometimes they're not always empty.)
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Calling Man U the Yankees of soccer is not quite fair, but calling them the Yankees of the Premiership is. http://www.rte.ie/sport/2001/0207/manu.html That article is several years old but I'd be surprised if that partnership between the Yankees and United is over with. Man U is far and away the most recognizable name in all of English soccer. They're the fourth-richest team in the world (and that's a drop from recently, when they were higher) and the richest in England. Equating Manchester United with the Yankees is perfectly fair. If anything, Chelsea is the Red Sox of England - a nouveau riche club that only recently started acting like an arrogant superpower.
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Not smart of Wilson to call out his troops. I don't know what result that'll have on the locker room, but a public call-out like that in the middle of a tightly-played series like this one is VERY risky.
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Fans, sportswriters, and announcers, and even players have all mused about the possibility and potential benefits of a playoff shootout too, and that was pretty quickly shot down by Bettman just now (which, I notice, he gets little credit for, since most people are very quick to point out his negatives only.) As for Crosby and Ovechkin, I don't buy the argument that "more people would get to see them." Under the old schedule they'd have come to town once a year. That means 20,000 out of the millions of people in Detroit get to see Sidney Crosby in person. A big percentage of those are perennial season ticket holders which means they would see him every year if they so choose, shut out the rest of us, and anyway they'll see him eventually even under this plan. The vast majority of Wings fans are lucky if they get to go to three or four games a year and very often we don't get to pick which ones, or have to choose based on the constraints of our own schedules or ticket pricing. Long and short of it is, even if the league goes back to playing two games a year against each team in the other conference, I will be very lucky indeed if I ever get to see Sidney Crosby play in Detroit in person. The vast majority of us will be watching on TV, and in that case it doesn't matter if the game's in Detroit or Moscow. I'm not arguing to keep this schedule, my point simply is (as it has always been) that no schedule will keep everyone happy. I just don't see how hard it is to understand that there surely are plenty people, especially fans of other teams, that do like the schedule the way it is. Whether or not it's really 60%, who can say? I don't buy the "it creates rivalries" schtick any more than you, but I find it very hard to get worked up about the schedule to the point of calling it "bad for hockey."