Heroes of Hockeytown

I'm not even kidding: except for the one play that Calder couldn't finish, not even one thing happened.

Save for the Calder miss, that was 20 minutes of hockey where nothing happened.

Not a whole lot going on to start us off here...

This seriously did make me El-Oh-El. Keep up the good work, you goofy C-bus guys.

Two centuries from now people will wonder why some wiseguy put a beverage on the back of that jersey (he couldn't even spell it right!)... Of course, they may also wonder what a winged wheel is.

If it makes you feel better, you're not alone. The only Wings jersey I have I inherited from my dad, and it's good ol' Paul.

Whites again at home.

Just like I said in the GDT... here is my recap of this "incident": HASEK: Oops I goofed. BABCOCK [To media]: Yeah, he goofed. MEDIA: OMGNOWAIWTFBBQ!!!!11!!shift+1!!11

I wouldn't count on anything "reckless" from a guy who just came off of back surgery, but he wants to be big and physical and leave us with a good first impression. Set phasers to "cautious optimism."

This made me laugh:

A winnar is you!

Crozier. If you look carefully you can also see it.

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Staal's got no business being anywhere near the Calder.

There was no dirty stuff, Fedoruk just got rocked fair and square.

I just caught another fight, Fedoruk vs. Orr. Orr landed with a right into the side of Fedoruk's jaw, and Todd was KO'd instantly. He fell so fast he nearly messed up his knee getting it caught underneath him. I don't know if he was actually unconscious at any point but the way he collapsed makes me think he was out for a few seconds. Ended up being carried out on a stretcher, but he's not going to the hospital, probably alright. HUGE haymaker by Orr to clobber Fedoruk.

Darren Dreger on refs, Hasek.

Are you kidding? The NHL owes us twelve power plays!

I guess I'm not saying anything folks don't already know... adding two great players into your line up makes your team better... but sometimes it's so simple it flies under the radar. Not to drudge up that other stuff, because it is pretty much a non-issue, but Mike was critical of the penalties the Wings took last night and was certainly in more of a blame-ish mode when he said this: Problem was, these quotes were NOT in the AP game recap, or Ansar Khan's wrap up. Instead, it was in an article about Bertuzzi.

An aggressive forecheck and trap are Wings-killers, and anyone who doubts that is flat out wrong. But the addition of Zetterberg and Bertuzzi cannot just be glossed over. You're talking about one of the top players in the game coming back; he himself is a beast, and the way he makes his linemates better--especially Homer--is astounding. He can truly be a gamebreaker. And of course Bert, well, he's everything we're missing. If he can get on a roll, watch out. It won't be easy, never would be, and they could very easily be KO'd in the first/second round, but I think you're vastly underestimating this team. Calling an early exit now is way too premature.

I wonder if they'll cut David Carr.

I'm going to be as forthcoming as I can with you, loo: I don't have a clue as to what you're saying.

I need not explain it, but the very idea of racism is based on prejudice towards (get this!) a specific race. It doesn't need to be, "I hate Russians." Simply taking a characteristic like greed, as northstar has done, and attaching it to a certain race of people is more than enough to qualify. Explain.

Despite eva's well-documented love of Jim Carey, he feels someone else lays claim to his one Vezina win.

It's prejudiced, but not racism?