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BEST WINGS COMMERCIAL EVER! That was awesome...lol wow good times, what a team, what great attitudes... Shanny is awesome! Would love to see him doing something with the Wings organization.

CONGRATS OZZY! Very happy for him to get this win, and if he couldn't get it at home, I can think of no more of an appropriate place to get it than in Colorado! GO WINGS! GO OZZY!

LOL!!!! good catch!!!

that sucks, maybe im just lucky with who i run into the few times im in toronto, you would know better since you live there. I think like the guy said in the next post, there are good and bad in every city...i noticed a change in windsor leaf fans though, since theyve missed the playoffs for so many years, the high percentage of them that were acting douchy, have changed and are very quiet and humble about their leafs and they BS about me loving the wings and because im in windsor im supposed to like some team 4 hours away. lol all of thoe things you say they are saying in toronto now, is what they WERE saying 10 years ago in windsor, heheh. Maybe its frustration up there now, i havent stopped in toronto in a few years now. It is kinda sad though in a way lol. for a wh ile i was happy they were missing the playoffs because the majority of windsor leaf fans were such knobs (with exceptions of course), but i mean now i feel like life is kickin them repeatedly when they cant get any more down! Karma says, dont be toooo hard on them lol

In windsor, our brand of toronto fans seem to do that, youre right, but once you get east of london, theyre pretty knowledgable realistic fans, who have been subject to like you say, bad drafting especially during the Ballard years. Rabid windsor leaf fans aside, i feel bad for the local TO fans. you dont hear Wings bashing when you go up there. Look at a windsor leaf fans face when you even suggest that toronto had a junior team named the red wings lol. (can anyone confirm that? someone told me that before) The cap has partially disassembled chicagos winning team though, and its cost us keeping many players lately even if we remain an elite team. It's sad to lose skilled players if they want to stay , and the fans and management wish they could keep them. I think a luxury tax would have done much better for the game. Have you been east ot London and talked to a local toronto fan? theyre not so bad. doesnt mean i like their team though lol. GO WINGS!

NOW THERE YOU SAID IT! i was listening to a tech show on the radio and they were saying that true lifelike 3d through screenless holographic tv setups are about 7-8 years away and to not waste your money on this interim 3d stuff either. If that looked real, that would be amazing! I wonder how the older games would translate into holographic... imagine seeing the wings greatest games boxset in holographic 3d like theyre in the room with you, damn!

As long as we have Bettman and his Communist cap, we will continue to see big market supported franchises suffer for long periods of time. I don't understand why we have to destroy big markets to fund empty arenas etc and all the other excuses. A luxury tax that was suggested here on LGW before was the best idea ever, would have hurt noone and helped some of the smaller, but more durable in terms of longevity teams. I shudder to think of the amazing dynasties over the years and great competitive teams that didnt always win cups, that never would have happened with the cap, eg Detroit, Montreal, NYI, Edmonton etc. Those things sell the game. People who love the big guys go to see the stars, people who hate them come to see if their team can beat them. This forced assimilation is BS. Look what the cap has done to Chicago. They shouldnt have had to lose players from their cup team... how can you keep a team together and the fans feel like family anymore. (and all the cap supporters crying about buying a cup in the past...REALLY? If that were the case, the Leafs ironically would have won plenty of times in the last 20 years, and the Rangers more than once, etc etc) I don't like Toronto, but I feel horrible for them, and it's unfair, and I don't see them making the playoffs anytime soon. I feel bad for their fans

I completely agree. The human eye doesn't work the way so called 3D looks. It looks like a bunch of flat plastic transluscent 2-d cutouts, or some old viewmaster crap in HD. In fact it sucks compared to HD, for example, watching Avatar in HD is far more detailed and looks more realistic than that 2-D 3D crap, you cant stare at the foreground things (which look flat) without noticing that the background becomes kind of lost, or blurry in some cases. People are going to be even more pissed when they find out they bought 3D tvs for alot of money and wasted tons on glasses, that will be obsolete when the Yamaha, and/or Panasonic come out with thei GLASSLESS 3D tvs in 2011. Even then, it will become obsolete IMHO. HD is just catching on, and it looks more real. Even if 3d were good, it would have a hard time catching on when people just bought HDTV's. GO WINGS

THANKS MAN for posting this again a bit bigger. its a little larger....would love to print that out, but if thats as big as it gets I'll try to do some tricks in photoshop to get it print size...so happy just to see this pic again, been looking for years!. you know who took this??? or anything about that similar pic with them on the bench!?

WHOA thats almost identical to the picture im looking for... the one of the russian 5 in the silhouettes/shadows!!! do you have that larger so i could print it out, or know where i can find it? i am also looking for a pic that is almost identical to that but they are on the bench in uniform!!!! been looking for years!!! do you know who took that pic?

does anyone know where you can purchase or find a big photo online of the russian 5. The one I saw years ago at a store in Oakland Mall in Michigan had the 5 of them all sitting on the bench together, the shadows on their faces made it look almost like semi silhouettes, and it was mostly from the logo up to their helmets only. Classy awesome picture but cant find it anywhere else since then. Anyone seen this pic?

Clearly clairvoyant! Good call! Go Hawks! original 6 > pronger.

everything he just said, well said! the reffing STUNK!

Thanks Matt for bringing the boards back so fast. Love this site. Whoever the moron is that thinks some black chicken and the ugliest flag I've ever seen is more entertaining than the best hockey boards for the best hockey team in the world, can #$(* OFF! LETS GO WINGS > ALL! (wow i gotta update my pictures, I'm always entertained enough reading everyone's posts that I rarely get around to posting lol)

PERFECT SOLUTION! And this also allows for some exciting dynasties to exist, and players and fans are rewarded for their loyalty instead of this communistic home wrecking CBA nonsense (and dynasties once in awhile help sell the game. fat chance of that happening anymore with the CBA blech) PERFECT! someone please make this a petition or something!

off the top of my head.... i forgot about Jimmy Carson till just now. i remember when i was really little Ron Duguay cards in my collection. Didn't he bounce back and forth twice between Det and NYR just like Kocur? Dave Barr. and wassisname ummm..... jamie macoun lmao!

awwww...well she was a memorable lady who died on a memorable day of the year. fitting. we should remember her at the joe on christmas eves or the nearest game. RIP, let heaven see red babe.

COMPLETELY TRUE! Avery might say some stupid things and might act stupid from time to time, but its personality. As long as he's not a cheap shot artist like Claude Lemieux or Pronger trying to injure people, or take his words into disrespect over race or orientation or someone's death then I say it's fair game. If he crossed those lines, sure he needs to be punished, as we don't need that representing our sport. That being said, he plays with his heart on his sleeve and always shows up with the intent to win or at least make it hard for the other team to get their point while he's on the ice. Most people loved him in Detroit and he was no different back then IMHO. Sure you may hate to play against him but I have no doubt that most people would love to have him on our team doing what he does best. Not many players around the league like Maltby but hes a fav in D-town. I might be the last guy in town to still like Avery, but character is what makes the game sell, and turn a casual viewer into a fan. Hockey is a tough game, and if we sterilize it too much it'll turn into curling. Let the idiots shoot off their mouths to a point, and let them solve it on the ice. Let Phaneuf and Avery fight if they want, or check the hell outta eachother. Oh wait, Bettman doesnt want that stuff. My bad.... GO WINGS!

perhaps a subliminal tie in with fisher-price? TSN are used to screwing stuff up. Thank god for FoxSports Detroit.

oh thats right, its the CBA, communist basturd agreement. the one where popular teams and well run teams cant really prosper and reinvest like to make an even better product for their fans to watch. what were we thinking....what is this the land of the free or something? is this a free market? well not anymore...BOO@bettman and this dayamn CBA .let make sure we dont let the supported teams prosper according to their fanbase's interest, and lets make sure all the empty expansion arenas DONT shut down or move to better cities too bad hte automotive industry doesnt operate under a CBA, maybe we'd still have the edsel, AMC and others rolling around even if noone wanted them bahhh, or how about when burger kings sales go down, WHO CARES LETS MAKE MCDONALDS pay for them to stay open and be just as profitible, even if the demand isnt there, nor is the same quality product theoretically of course...fast food gag lol......socialism makes me sick. living in canada i see it all the time...and now its ruining hockey

BRAVO, well written and said. ...and win or lose a fact is a fact. i dont care if it's us, or dallas getting horrible officiating against them vs anaheim last year...someone needs to look into this. thanks for the link....saved

EXXXXXXXXXXACTLY! cheers mate! WINGS IN THE UK HOUSE!

bettman says in a normal tone "i want to congratulate the detroit red wings on another stanley cup win...." followed by in an excited louder voice "AND THE AMAZING PITTSBURGH PENGUINS" i guess we arent amazing with 4 wins in 11 years, and perrenial contenders and should have won 2-3 more at least. all i thought was, youre so bloody obvious bettman.....just like your excitement for anaheim i personally think he deliberately scheduled the wings to play the same nights as the pistons in detroit so it would split people up and the arena might not be packed, and people abroad may think the team is in trouble and lose their own attachments. he wants loyalties to change. he wants complete communism in the NHL to go along with the CBA he was commisioner of basketball, so there's no way it was an accident, and he wasnt paying attention to hoops. it was deliberate and it backfired...wings had higher ratings than even than our beloved pistons, DESPITE the scheduling. GO AWAY BETTMAN GOOOOOOOOOOO WWWWWWWWWIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the biggest concern to me is that they CALL PENALITIES WHEN THEY WANT, not just when an infraction happens. There is no rhyme nor reason to their frequency or consistency. they seem to ALWAYS call the wings when the wings are gaining momentum, and they're 10-1 giving other teams 5 on 3's and rarely ones for us, and they are so quick to make an even up call against us while we're on the PP, or shortly after we score they give the other team a PP. What happenens to us usually? we kill one off and they call another. and we sure as hell are not more dirty than the other teams. These calls especially in the playoffs are always timed perfectly to stop our momentum, or change the play before the intermission, or let the other team tie up the game before it ends with a wings win (especially in the playoffs)...its rediculous. sometimes we do things yes, but they are usually very minor, and they were letting everything like that go the rest of the game...but now choose to screw us by calling it NOW of all times. And typically other teams get away with the same thing, and THEYRE DOING IT AS MUCH OR MORE... its an agenda. and we arent perfect, but they dont call a million different things against many of our opponenets that are so blantantly obvious.... ~see maltby screming at the end of the 5 on 3 we killed in game 4....the guy yanking his stick and not letting go as the ref 3 fee away watched. malts screams "HES GRABBING MY STICK, FU##, COME ON!!!! .....FU##" ref did nothing. wheres our even up after killing a BS 5 on 3...(which included a phantom call on the second penalty) Unfortunately this is typical. see the drake call, the lilja stick removal, the datsyuk tripping and more at the end of the clincher. I'm happy we won, but it was despite the other teams efforts and their extra attacker in black and white. AS NBC even said 3 times in one game... the calls against detroit are rediculous and need to be adressed during the offseason GOOOOOOOO WINGS! PS we should have bill mccreary as solo ref for all our games heheh