Dabura

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After several seasons of postseason power play futility, you'd think this would've been fixed.

Problem is, he doesn't actually want to make a deal. It's all about the country club atmosphere with him.

*bangs head on table*

Even so. We should at least be kinda sorta in this, or at least giving it our all, or at least close to our all. We're just rolling over and dying.

Because he's Abby?

Is it just that the team is quitting on Babs? I'm looking for a simple, all-encompassing answer here. I don't get it. How can we suck this bad?

I hate Quincey.

Ugh, Greggggg Kruppppa, or whatever his name is. Like, ripping into him?

We always start slow. It's a Red Wings tradition.

Andersson's a solid PKer and good at faceoffs. Plus, he was good in the playoffs last season. Bert's going to take stupid penalties. That's about it. At this point, though? I'll take Bertuzzi if it helps the team.

Actually, I think what pisses me off the most about this is that it really is the Nashville series all over again. Perimeter, perimeter, perimeter. We're suppose to have grown since then. We're supposed to be tougher, harder, gutsier, heavier, younger, faster, way more aggressive. Instead, we look like a shell of a team. Granted, it's impossible to overstate how much we miss Z and E right now.

We're not scoring. And that's an issue. But, Howard saves the you-have-to-save-that softy, and this is a one-shot game, and we're probably way more engaged and "with-it." We put so much stock in him being The Guy, and how we're only gonna go as far as he goes. And then, shockingly, he doesn't set the world on fire, and that's all she wrote. Same sort of thing with Franzen, I guess. He gets the benefit of the doubt and is always put in a position to succeed, and he does nothing when we need him the most. Even Datsyuk, he needs to strap the team on his back here. meh

Lilja wouldn't settle for this crapfest.

We need a Wayne Simmonds like no one's business. IMHO

Seems like a day-to-day thing. BRING BACK LEGACE!!!!

I want Franzen gone this summer.

Well, that explains it. We seem to play like crap whenever a famous modern-era alumnus is in the house.

We're gonna tie this up and win it in OT. Or we're gonna lose. One of those two.

We're on the same page, then. I think? I'm saying Howard has to save that. He has to be a wall for us, like he was in the first game. He can't be anything less than phenomenal.

Weiss's wife?

They're out there all. the. freaking. time. Been that way ever since E got hurt, I think.

Fair or not, Howard has to stand on his head just to give us a chance in this series. We knew that going in, and nothing's changed. He can't let in softies. Can't happen. That we're not generating offense just hammers the point home. Time for him to earn his big fat contract.

I think Kindl and Lashoff need more minutes. Seems like Babs is barely using them. I'd consider it even without the case.

I was gonna say that. But then, at least they're scoring some goals.