Aussie_Wing

Am I doing the results? If so, I'll probably do them sometime tomorrow (my time).

Nicely put. I wouldn't think too much, he'll obviously get what he deserves but nothing exuberant. Agree 100%. He's quickly becoming one of my favourite players.

Cmon Flip, we want a point out of you!

Seriously, how good is Cleary? We might have stuffed up by trading Matthias, but Cleary was a high pick rejected by Chicago and many other teams and now look at him! Way to go Danny!

Yep I just discovered that thread so I'll post answers a bit later today, should be a bit of fun! I can't believe San Jose had ONE shot all period. That's insane.

Gee, feels like I've been out of these GDT's for ages! Cmon Wings, lets get another goal here, and by Filppula perhaps?

2 goals in 4 minutes, in his 2nd NHL game, as a 19 year old.

Got back from Melbourne last night. Had a great time at the tennis and saw some great matches. There have been some major upsets over the past few days. Firstly Roddick losing to Kohlschreiber in a marathon match of a very high standard. Then the match that almost changed everything. Janko Tipsarevic was up 2 sets to 1 against Federer and it took Federer's best just to make the 4th round. I'm pretty shattered at someone getting so close against him and not winning. If only... Then Hewitt v Baghdatis. The match started at midnight due to length of the day session and it finished at about 4:30am. Crazy stuff and what a math it was. It lasted almost 5 hours and the tension was unbelievable. Hewitt was up 5-1 in the 4th set but twice failed to serve it out. He finally closed it out in the 5th and now he faces Djokovic. Ivanovic is cruising through but got a scare in the 1st round. Her opponent, who is only 17 years of age, was hitting the ball so cleanly and even served for the set but nerves got the better of her. Watch out for Sorana Cirstea in the future because she could be very good. I'm still liking Ana for the title. There were two more upsets yesterday. Kirilenko defeated Chakvetadze in the biggest win of her career and Agnieszka Radwanska beat the No.2 seed Kuznetsova. FinRedWing, I saw Nieminen's first 3 matches. First up he beat Dancevic in 5 sets, then he dominated Levine, and on Friday night he played against Fish in a very enjoyable match. There were plenty of Finnish fans in the stadium and he got great support from the crowd. He was pumped at the win and signed autographs for quite some time. He's currently in action against Kohlschreiber. Will post pics a bit later.

Standings: 1. wingsfan40 169 (-) 2. North Guy 163 (-) 3. Vladinator 160 (↑3) 3. naranja 160 (↑3) 5. Aussie_Wing 159 (↓2) 6. johnnyoski 157 (↓3) 7. Systemfel 156 (↓1) 8. F.Michael 155 (↑3) 8. Never Forget Mac #25 155 (↑1) 8. CupChamps979802 155 (↑2) 8. FinRedWing 155 (↑3) 8. zata40 155 (↑5) 13. DetroitIan 154 (↓8) 14. T-Ruff 151 (↑2) 14. wingschamps 151 (-) 16. edicius 150 (↓1) 17. swedishconnection 149 (↑5) 17. FinWing 149 (↑5) 19. wingsgirl001 148 (↑3) 19. rwfan007 148 (↓2) 19. Wildwings44 148 (↓2) 22. omnipotent_hudler 147 (↓5) 23. hawkupaloogie 146 (↓3) 23. sibiriak 146 (↓1) 25. shannyfan1414 145 (↓4) 26. Mickeyisms Rule! 144 (↑5) 26. Dominator2005 144 (↑2) 26. LEBDA22 144 (↓4) 29. GoCryWolfe 143 (↓1) 29. interminded 143 (↑1) 29. bcwingsfan19 143 (↓2) 32. betterREDthandead 141 (↓1) 33. Lou_Siffer 140 (↑1) 34. Kp-Wings 139 (↑2) 35. Elshupacabra 136 (↓2) 35. wingslogo19 136 (↑5) 37. wingfanatic4alltime 135 (↑1) 37. Wings_Dynasty 135 (↑2) 37. wings1fan19 135 (↓1) 40. wingsfan979802 129 (↑1) 40. zetterisbetter 129 (↑2) 42. puckhog419 126 (↓7) 43. Duck Guy 120 (↑1) 43. Winged Scooter 120 (-) 45. redwingslady87 119 (↑1) 46. irishtemper14+25 116 (↓1) 47. WingNutt 112 (-) 48. TRD604 95 (↑3) 49. Kutcher 92 (↓1) 50. GordieSid&Ted 89 (↓1) 51. GoWings1905 88 (↓1) 52. #19=Legend 81 (↑1) 52. irishjig79 81 (-) 54. Datsyukian Geek 75 (↑1) 55. redwinger4747 67 (↓1) 56. handyandy_101 61 (-) 57. CrossCheck24 59 (↑8) 57. Wingtastic 59 (-) 59. union drone 56 (↓1) 60. Grittzkey 52 (↓1) 60. aflac9262 52 (↓1) 62. IceMunkee 51 (↓1) 63. Flip-check 48 (↓1) 63. Dano33 48 (↓1) 65. heretic69 47 (↓1) 66. Viperar 40 (-) 67. Williams29fan 39 (↑4) 68. Superman54 36 (↓1) 69. Captain_Yzerman19 35 (↓1) 70. vangvace 33 (↓1) 71. SwedeLundin77 28 (↓1) 72. Shy Ranger 22 (-) 73. WhiteLightning91 21 (-) 74. chelios4eva 20 (-) 75. Reds4Life 19 (↑5) 75. stevkrause 19 (-) 77. kugz 13 (↓1) 77. jaytan 13 (↓1) 77. Hockey13Playa 13 (↓1) 80. HuntsVegas Baby 12 (↓1) 81. YoungGuns1340 11 (↓1) 81. Curban915 11 (↓1) 83. Filppula41 10 (-) 84. Cicada 9 (-) 84. stormboy 9 (-) 84. Swayze 9 (-) 84. drwscc 9 (-) 88. Hockeytown0001 8 (↓1) 88. Motown 8 (↓1) 90. 8888 6 (↓1) Friday: St Louis @ Columbus Minnesota @ Chicago NY Islanders @ Calgary Phoenix @ Vancouver Saturday: Boston @ Philadelphia Dallas @ Los Angeles New Jersey @ Buffalo Detroit @ Ottawa Montreal @ NY Rangers Colorado @ Carolina Pittsburgh @ Atlanta Tampa Bay @ Florida Nashville @ Columbus Toronto @ San Jose Sunday: Philadelphia @ Washington Colorado @ Florida Vancouver @ St Louis Phoenix @ Minnesota NY Islanders @ Ottawa San Jose @ Anaheim Calgary @ Edmonton Chicago @ Nashville

2/4 on Friday, again... Lets hope for better results tomorrow.

The day 1 schedule has just been released and I can tell right now there's no way I'll be able to all the players I wanted to see! On day 1 there are reasonably few players I intended on seeing which means the schedule will be packed for day 2. Hewitt, Berdych, Djokovic, Ivanovic, Safarova and Kirilenko will all be playing on Tuesday, I hope at least 1 will be part of the night session which I have tickets for. Anyway I think I'll first head to Court 13 where Jarkko Nieminen will face Frank Dancevic. From there I'll go to Court 21 where Azarenka is scheduled to play and she's one of the few I did plan to see. Then I'll go see Murray on RLA and then Vaidisova on SC2. I'm thinking about heading down to put a bet on Ana who has pretty good odds. She's at $13.00 to win which IMO is pretty good.

A goal and 3 assists for Mursak tonight. He has 13 points in 8 games since being traded to Belleville.

Very good choice there! PS. Samuelsson's not too flash is he?

Ivanovic's path: 1R: Sorana Cirstea 2R: Danilidou/Garbin 3R: *Srebotnik 4R: *Safina QF: *V.Williams SF: *Kuznetova F: *Henin *= Seeded player, assuming they advance. That's a pretty good draw, as good as I could've hoped for. Some other observations: * Sharapova v Davenport in the 2nd round. * Berdych v Federer 4th round (Tomas has beaten Roger before). * Not possible for Federer/Djokovic to meet in the final. * Keep and eye out for the first round match of Jankovic v Paszek, should be a beauty.

How freaking good is Cleary? And way to go Huds!

Flip draws another penalty. Great shift by the first line. Cmon Wings, lets get the lead right here!

Brent Burns is a real good player. Was taken a lot higher than anyone anticipated but I think the Wild made a very articulate decision.

Up by 15 at half time so things are looking good. Prince has actually decided to show up today which helps.

So anyone who has a bad (truthful) thing to say about Rafalski are labeled haters? Cmon, overall he's been pretty good this season but the turnovers have proved costly and are far too common.

That's because I was watching. Wings either don't or barely score when I happen to get games live. Why couldn't I see this one?

Agreed. All we hear about is how good offensively he is. He's obviously a scoring threat and has put up a lot of points but almost every night he is guily of crucial turnovers. Kronwall! He's arrived!

I hear ya. "Clearly an upgrade over Schneider defensively...". Not so sure. Turnover machine.

Friday: St Louis @ Columbus Minnesota @ Chicago NY Islanders @ Calgary Phoenix @ Vancouver Saturday: Boston @ Philadelphia Dallas @ Los Angeles New Jersey @ Buffalo Detroit @ Ottawa Montreal @ NY Rangers Colorado @ Carolina Pittsburgh @ Atlanta Tampa Bay @ Florida Nashville @ Columbus Toronto @ San Jose Sunday: Philadelphia @ Washington Colorado @ Florida Vancouver @ St Louis Phoenix @ Minnesota NY Islanders @ Ottawa San Jose @ Anaheim Calgary @ Edmonton Chicago @ Nashville

Flip! Oh yeh, great going from him! 14 goals for the season. When I first checked the scores it was 1-1. I look a minute later and it's 3-1, then it's 3-2. Crazy game against the former Mild.

Tell me about it! Yeh very disappointing performance but I took heart in a few things. As you said Herrmann was very impressive when defending Dirk and I thought Maxiell grabbed a few impressive offensive rebounds. I thought Stuckey and Afflalo both looked good at times. Tayshaun Prince, when's the guy going to do something?