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Update: NHL.com's giving Witkowski and Kronwall the assists on the AA goal and they're giving Abby an assist on the Nyquist goal (Larkin's assist still stands). I'll keep you posted. Welcome aboard! And Happy New Year! I'm happy we all have a place to be tonight, even if it's on the interwebz.

I'd like to see everyone get a hat trick. Especially Jimmy!

End of 1st. Wings lead 3-0. I want more!!!

They're living right tonight! Vanek (6) from Nielsen (17) and Bertuzzi (12) - FLA 0, DET 3

VANEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nyquist (10) from Larkin (22) - FLA 0, DET 2

GOOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT A BEAUTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LARKIN POINT STREAK CONTINUES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mantha roughly a week away, Helm hopes to be back next game. I'll take it.

Athanasiou (13) from Glendening (9) - FLA 0, DET 1 DO WANT PK

Happy New Year, loo!

Great pressure from the Larkin line. AA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Social lives are overrated anyway.

NEW YEAR'S EVE HYPE! LET'S GOOOOOOOOO

It's good to have you back, cbros.

Happy New Year. dude!

Nah, he's gonna slide to the 2nd round.

HYPE! LGRW!

TBH, I didn't get the sense that the Stars put in an especially purposeful performance. I think it was more that the Wings are a total mess. Lites could get away with saying what he said because there are actual expectations for that Stars team; they have really good core pieces in Benn and Seguin and Radulov and Klingberg and Heiskanen and Bishop, and a couple of those players are making BIG money. The Wings' higher-ups know they can't s***can this Wings team without it boomeranging right back at them; the architects cobbled together a bad team for the 2018-19 season and bad hockey is exactly what we're getting. If anything, the Wings have overachieved this season, given the injury woes. I do think this team has way too many passengers, but I really don't know that we can realistically expect much more from those passengers than what we're getting. Kronwall is Kronwall. Ericsson is Ericsson. Daley is Daley. Jensen is Jensen. Bernier is Bernier. Abdelkader is Abdelkader. Nielsen is Nielsen. Vanek is Vanek. Glendening is Glendening. Athanasiou is back to looking like he's a career depth scorer, not a true go-to guy. With all due respect to the players, this is a team of nobodies.

Points update: Larkin (1G) - 17 goals and 38 points thru 40 games Nyquist (1A) - 9 goals and 33 points thru 40 games Larkin extended his point streak to 13 games. We shall see! Would be nice to see the Wings usher in the new year with a win. I'm off to bed! Thanks as always for hanging out, fam. Peace.

Game over. I don't want to be the one to say this, but...I don't think the Wings are making the playoffs this season.

Does anyone actually watch the All-Star Game? Like, is that really still a thing?

So without that bogus early whistle and that bogus overturned goal, it's 5-3 and we have a shot at doing something special.

Let's just ignore the fact that Bishop is nine feet tall. Abby's ass being at ass level definitely hindered Bishop's ability to have his head anywhere other than up Abby's ass. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.