Heroes of Hockeytown

Tick tock tick tock... Two minute warning...

Can we just quintuple-shift Pavel?

Goddamnit Miller!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

Oh god, saints preserve us. This is bad.

Five minutes and the Wings haven't even touched the puck. This is worse than what the Wings did to the Hawk in the first.

Horrible start here. Only be a matter of time if the Wings can't get on their horse.

More competitive period from the Hawks, but the Wings didn't really give them much. One lucky play. And yet, that's all it takes for us to have a one shot game on our hands...

Well, here it comes. Hold onto your butts...

This puck has been trolling Jimmy all day long. What rotten luck.

Yikes, ugly turnover by Hossa. Nice work from Huds-Hank-Flipper.

Argh Cleary had Miller for a clean break.

Even on the rare occasion Pavs turns the puck over he's the first guy back in position to defend. What a player.

Yeah, that was less than spectacular...

Eddie defending the Hawks like crazy here. But nothing but contempt for all that "subtle interference" and "too many men" by the Wings.

These NBC guys drive me nuts with their constant accusations of Too Many Men non-calls. They're called line changes for crying out loud.

Every time I go to the Joe and can see the whole ice surface the one thing I notice is that Bert is always trolling around the attacking blue line for breakaways whenever the Wings have the puck. Paid off right there.

Whooooooaaaaaaa

Good puck movement.

We all know what happens next.

Stalberg wide open, wow.

Datsyuk Datsyukin' early.

What I mean is someone would have a prime shot at the empty net and then he'd dish it off because that's what guys like to do when they're facing empty-netters, which is okay when there are no defenders around like usual but super not okay when there are defending sticks in lanes and a bad pass could lead to a turnover and a rush going the other way. Take the shot, put the game away. Minor complaint, I guess, but I was very annoyed during the last minute when they had at least two shots to finish and passed them up. They may not be so lucky in the future.

The Wings are way too nonchalant with that empty-net. There were too many Stars back each time they got it for them to be passing it around. That could have really come back to bite them. In any event, for the number of times that Jimmy has bailed the Wings out over the course of this season, they owed him one. Five goals will do.

Saw that one coming as soon as Wings collided.

Up to some interpretation by the in-house statisticians. They don't normally count long dump-ins that get to the goalie, even those that are purposely shot at the goalie, for example.