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Maybe its because there isn't much other way to say it without just using raw numbers, but I kinda feel like this is just to heavy on scoring... I think this is a great single season: Dominik Hasek 1997-98 Buffalo Sabres NHL 72 games 4220 Minutes 13 Shutouts 2.09 GAA 33 Wins 2149 Saves 0.932 S% 1997-98 NHL Hart Memorial Trophy 1997-98 NHL Lester B. Pearson Trophy 1997-98 NHL Vezina Trophy Though, maybe not top ten, I would like to see something other than scoring the goals or winning awards count. Though he did better in other categories in other years, and even won the cup, I think stellar goaltending on a less than stellar team counts for something.

From the wiki: The infamous moment that Malarchuk is perhaps most known for occurred during a game on March 22, 1989, between the visiting St. Louis Blues and Malarchuk's Buffalo Sabres. Steve Tuttle of the Blues and Uwe Krupp of the Sabres collided at the mouth of the goal, and Tuttle's skate caught Malarchuk on the neck, severing his jugular vein.[1][2] With pools of blood collecting on the ice, Malarchuk somehow left the ice under his own power with the assistance of his team's athletic trainer, Jim Pizzutelli. Many spectators were physically sickened by the sight, with nine fainting and two suffering heart attacks while three teammates vomited on the ice.[3][4] Local television cameras covering the game cut away from the sight of Malarchuk after realizing what had happened. Malarchuk, meanwhile, had only two thoughts: He was going to die, and he had to do it the right way. "All I wanted to do was get off the ice", said Malarchuk. "My mother was watching the game on TV, and I didn't want her to see me die."[5] Aware that his mother had been watching the game on TV, he had an equipment manager call and tell her he loved her. Then he asked for a priest.[6] Malarchuk's life was saved by Jim Pizzutelli, the team's athletic trainer and a former army medic who had served in Vietnam. He reached into Malarchuk's neck and pinched off the bleeding, not letting go until doctors arrived to begin suturing the wound. Still, Malarchuk came within minutes of becoming only the second fatality to result from an on-ice injury in NHL history (the first was Bill Masterton). It was estimated that if the skate had hit 1/8 inch (3 mm) higher on Malarchuk's jugular, he would have been dead within 2 minutes. In the dressing room and on his way to the hospital, doctors spent 90 minutes and used over 300 stitches to close the wound.[6][7] It was also said that, had the incident occurred at the other end of the ice, Malarchuk never would have made it and would have died. (The Buffalo Memorial Auditorium had the locker room exits at one the end of the ice instead of the normal locations behind the benches, and he was at that end.)[2] Malarchuk returned to practice four days later, having spent only one night in the hospital. About a week after that, he was back in goal against the Quebec Nordiques. "Doctors told me to take the rest of the year off, but there was no way", Malarchuk said. "The longer you wait, the harder it's going to be. I play for keeps." Malarchuk came back in time to play in the playoffs but only to lose to Ray Bourque and the Boston Bruins in a 4–1 series. Malarchuk's performance declined over the next few years, to the point that he left the NHL. After this, he struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder (as he had since a young age), as well as nightmares and alcoholism,[8] but he eventually returned to hockey, in the International Hockey League. After retiring as a player, Malarchuk continued his hockey career as a coach. Death On January 13, 1968, four minutes into a game against the Oakland Seals at the Met Center, Masterton was carrying the puck into the Seals' zone. Shortly after completing a pass to teammate Wayne Connelly, he was checked by Oakland's Larry Cahan and Ron Harris and fell backwards onto the ice head-first. The force of the back of his head hitting the ice caused blood to gush from his mouth and nose. Before Masterton lost consciousness, a teammate who rushed to his aid heard him murmur, "Never again. Never again."[2] Masterton sustained a massive brain hemorrhage that damaged the pons. The injury was so severe that doctors were unable to perform surgery, and Masterton died two days later without ever regaining consciousness.[3] His death would result in more intense lobbying for hockey players to wear helmets, which were uncommon in North American professional hockey at that time. Helmets were mandated beginning 1979 for players entering the NHL in that season onward. Masterton's #19 jersey has never been worn again by any player on the North Stars/Stars franchise, and it was officially retired in 1987, six years before the North Stars left Minnesota. [4] The Bill Masterton Trophy is named in his honor. The trophy is awarded for dedication, sportsmanship, and perseverance.[5][6] Bill Masterton attended Miles MacDonell Collegiate in Winnipeg, where he was the male athlete of the year at the school in 1955. In 1968, his family created a scholarship in his honour for MacDonell students.

DET/CHI: 4-0 PIT/CAR: 4-2

Still a lot of hockey before that will/ can happen... but yeah, who would've seen this long shot coming?

Now it finally feels like playoff hockey!!!

Feeling good.

Helm is faaaaaaaaaast... damn that was sick.

It just goes to show that everyone has their own idea about how this game should be played... I mean look at all the posters here that said the answer to game six was to fight back!?!??

Must be hard being orange... and Kermit complained about being green. But, what do you expect?

Everything in this game so far has been spot on, and you really can't ask for anything better than that.

This is just about too much for me to take. I haven't felt this way about a game in ten or eleven years.

It was the game as a whole, not the fight, but you didn't exactly give the option of both... the game was the turning point in the season according to players. I think too many people are missing the point, the NHL says it wants change, so the Red Wings move forward according to those changes, but then the NHL fails to live up to what it says. Most of these players are players not fighters, so when all the sudden are we expecting them to fight -- because the NHL is letting them get bullied in ways that the rules do not allow. The Wings will win, and hopefully it will put more fuel in the "skill wins cups" fire. You guys are actually starting to sound worse than the posters on the Ducks board.

Its that time of year when I get a bit nostalgic about my favorite team in all sports. The Red Wings embody an ethic I believe is both remarkable on and off the ice. I came to know it because of a friend of mine who is a huge fan of Russia, and really marvelled at the Russian five... ther are the kind of team that is easy to root for. What about the rest of you, are you fans, because its the team you grew up watching? or did you go to school with one of the players, or what -- how did you become a fan? [Possibly my last post here ever, just thought I would leave on a good note.]

The posts have hardly been worth anything for the last 24 hours...

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/PuckYou The best one I found today.

For most of the 80's (living in the South) all I got was the Braves on TBS, and NASCAR on the weekends, and College football. In Alabama I like football, and rooting for Bo Jackson on Auburn Tigers, but watching sports really wasn't my thing. I moved out to California just a bit before the Great One did, but I always hated him... I just thought he was a cherry-picker and didn't know what the big deal was. Then Freshman year of college, I started watching with my buddy, and after watching 60 plus regular season games and all the playoffs the Wings won their first cup in a long long time... I was hooked. ...

Yeah, suggesting pictures not go out of the way to be offensive in a photoshop thread is way off track. I do like the tread, but can't you find a Redwing tread?

I really don't think its right that so many derogatory references toward homosexuality have been made here guys. Your fun shouldn't perpetuate homophobia; really and when he asked "Should I change the 'L' to a 'T'" you all should have said "Don't go their." Little bit of common sense, can go a long way. Poking fun at the other team can be done without promoting discrimination (to say the least).

Chelios has no plans to retire at this point. He has said as much in numerous interviews. He has no problem taking a more limited role, or making less money. So, its pretty much guaranteed that he'll be around until he's done. Maybe the wings won't keep him around, but he's not done in the league.

Calamari on ice. I love these commentators.

I've been to a number of playoff games at the Pond (when we swept them and when they beat us) and my experience is that Ducks fans are as reasonable as any other team. But, sometimes people do get carried away. I do remember after one game some Red Wings fans started a bonfire in the parking lot, they were burning the Ducks T-Shirts that everyone in attendance were given. Wings fans ain't perfect either... I just hope things in Hockey never get as bad as they are in the NFL.

TWO GOAL LEAD!!!

Neidermeyer needs to get credit for that save, not Hiller.

That could've been pretty.

I can't predict, but I can hope. Tonight we need the skill and the luck to pull it off.