Heroes of Hockeytown

That would make sense too, in which case that was a whole load of nothing over a dumb misunderstanding. Look what the Internet has done to us!

Whatever, I don't care about that. He said "at times you can tell that Nick is looking to get his 1000 career point this year," and that's a joke.

Because he's not that concerned with his personal stats or hitting milestones? How many times has a player been told after a game they've reached milestone X and they talk about how they weren't even aware of it? I don't know, what do you think this means? "Im tired of the Rafalski bashing he is SECOND in points for defenceman had 3 assists tonight. He makes one bad play and everyone is all over him. He has played better then Nick this year and ill argue that with anyone." "at times you can tell that Nick is looking to get his 1000 career point this year. "

If you walked up to him after the game and asked him, do you think he'd say, "Yeah, I've got 973"? I care about stats a lot more than he does and I needed to look it up. If he's aware that he's somewhere in the neighborhood of 1000, I can guarantee you he's not conscious of it during a game. It's not a burden, he's not out there making risky plays to try and get closer. That's a laugh and a half. And even if we assume that he was, that ship has sailed by now.

He's going to have to put up a point per game to hit that mark, so no. I doubt he's even aware of it.

Mike said after the game he'll continue to "play everybody with everybody so we know what all our combinations are."

I guarantee he wanted to, but Hank wasn't open. He waited as long as he could, then iced it himself.

Probably closer than it ought to have been, but other than that brutal, brutal play by Rafalski I'm not complaining. Hank had a great game. And not just the points, I saw him break up a half dozen passes in the defensive zone and around the net.

Done and done.

Flip. Shoot. Puck. Goooood.

How many times have we seen Sammy throw a pass across the blue line and it come out? Geez.

Rafalski beat fair and square.

Fourth in league scoring... Gets less ice time then his contemporaries, and is far better defensively... I think there's room to talk on this front.

Just hockey.

What a killer backhand!

Well, the goals that happened are gonna happen, so the onus is on the offense to beat the hot goalie and secure the lead.

Looks like hockey to me.

Pucks for the Puck Throne.

Nik got away with one there.

Welcome to obnoxious deflection theater.

Oi! You lads lissun 'ere, we's da Wings, 'n dats good, cause Wings is made fer scorin' and winnin'!!

Whether or not he was coming in so fast there's no way he could have stopped. He was like 6 feet from the net going a hundred mph before he was shoved.

Good deflection.

Oh boy Kopecky, geez.

Nice give-and-go with Kronner. Fastest release in the league? No doubt.