Aussie_Wing

Another big test for the Pistons, they're about to face Dallas away from home. Should be a beauty and I get to watch it.

I’m going to have to agree. I’m not getting much luck when it comes to watching Wings games live. That’s 2 games I’ve seen now and we’ve scored a total of 1 goal. I thought the line combinations were a little off. Not sure why Babs would split up Flip-Dats-Cleary as they were clearly working well together. Anyway the top line played pretty well and Holmstrom received a great pass from Flip but he was obviously a little rusty as he failed to finish the play. I thought Flip hustled real well last night and he did well in keeping the puck in the zone. Dats was at his best again and he made some terrific defensive moves. As for the goal, it was a terrific bit of teamwork. Dats did a great job of passing it over to Kronwall who then unsleashed a heavy shot, Holmstrom was at the crease giving Theodore grief and then slid a beautiful pass (assuming it was intentional) over to Dats who buried it. Superb goal and it was enough to give Detroit the victory. As for individual performances, I thought Kronwall played an exceptional game. He made some solid defensive moves and he constantly threatening on the offensive end. He even joined the rush a few times and I’m glad he got an assist. Lilja made some nice plays and laid one or two good hits, but he had a costly turnover deep in his own end. Luckily they didn’t make him pay. Rafalski was the same old, some great moves on both ends but then some careless giveaways and poor decision making. Lidstrom was really good, as usual and Chelios and Lebda both had solid games. Zetterberg looked great when bringing the puck up ice, Franzen was non existant, Samuelsson I felt played a pretty good game and Hudler made some eye catching moves but just lacked a finishing touch. Glad to get the win, great for Hasek to get a much deserved shut out, but a fairly dull game IMO.

Don't have a lot of time so I'll post more later, but Kronwall has officially arrived. IMO he was the best player on the ice. Great performance by him.

Standings: (With positional changes from the previous week) 1. wingsfan40 157 (-) 2. North Guy 152 (-) 3. johnnyoski 147 (↑4) 3. Aussie_Wing 147 (↑3) 5. DetroitIan 146 (↓2) 6. naranja 145 (↑1) 6. Vladinator 145 (↑4) 6. Systemfel 145 (↓2) 9. Never Forget Mac #25 144 (-) 10. CupChamps979802 143 (↓6) 11. F.Michael 142 (↑4) 11. FinRedWing 142 (↑1) 13. zata40 141 (↓3) 14. wingschamps 140 (↑1) 15. edicius 139 (↓2) 16. T-Ruff 138 (↓3) 17. rwfan007 137 (↑5) 17. omnipotent_hudler 137 (↑3) 17. Wildwings44 137 (↑1) 20. hawkupaloogie 136 (↑2) 21. shannyfan1414 135 (↑3) 22. wingsgirl001 134 (-) 22. LEBDA22 134 (-) 22. swedishconnection 134 (↑5) 22. FinWing 134 (↓2) 22. sibiriak 134 (↑5) 27. bcwingsfan19 133 (↑2) 28. Dominator2005 132 (↑6) 28. GoCryWolfe 132 (↑3) 30. interminded 131 (↓8) 31. betterREDthandead 130 (↑3) 31. Mickeyisms Rule! 130 (↓1) 33. Elshupacabra 129 (↓2) 34. Lou_Siffer 127 (↓3) 35. puckhog419 126 (↓19) 36. Kp-Wings 125 (↓2) 36. wings1fan19 125 (↓2) 38. wingfanatic4alltime 124 (-) 39. Wings_Dynasty 122 (↓1) 40. wingslogo19 121 (↑2) 41. wingsfan979802 118 (-) 42. zetterisbetter 115 (↑1) 43. Winged Scooter 111 (↑1) 44. Duck Guy 109 (↓4) 45. irishtemper14+25 108 (↑2) 46. redwingslady87 106 (-) 47. WingNutt 98 (↓2) 48. Kutcher 92 (-) 49. GordieSid&Ted 89 (-) 50. GoWings1905 88 (-) 51. TRD604 84 (↑1) 52. irishjig79 81 (↓1) 53. #19=Legend 69 (↑3) 54. redwinger4747 67 (↓1) 55. Datsyukian Geek 64 (↑3) 56. handyandy_101 61 (↓2) 57. Wingtastic 59 (↓2) 58. union drone 56 (↓2) 59. aflac9262 52 (↓1) 59. Grittzkey 52 (↓1) 61. IceMunkee 51 (-) 62. Flip-check 48 (-) 62. Dano33 48 (-) 64. heretic69 47 (-) 65. CrossCheck24 45 (-) 66. Viperar 40 (-) 67. Superman54 36 (-) 68. Captain_Yzerman19 35 (-) 69. vangvace 33 (-) 70. SwedeLundin77 28 (-) 71. Williams29fan 27 (-) 72. Shy Ranger 22 (-) 73. WhiteLightning91 21 (-) 74. chelios4eva 20 (-) 75. stevkrause 19 (-) 76. kugz 13 (-) 76. jaytan 13 (-) 76. Hockey13Playa 13 (-) 79. HuntsVegas Baby 12 (-) 80. YoungGuns1340 11 (-) 80. Reds4Life 11 (↑8) 80. Curban915 11 (-) 83. Filppula41 10 (↓1) 84. Cicada 9 (↓1) 84. Swayze 9 (↓1) 84. drwscc 9 (↓1) 87. Motown 8 (↓1) 87. Hockeytown0001 7 (↓1) 89. 8888 6 (↓1) Friday: Philadelphia @ New Jersey Ottawa @ Buffalo Carolina @ Atlanta Chicago @ Anaheim Saturday: Washington @ Montreal Detroit @ Dallas Florida @ Pittsburgh New Jersey @ Boston Philadelphia @ Toronto Tampa Bay @ Ottawa Minnesota @ Nashville Carolina @ St Louis NY Islanders @ Colorado Anaheim @ Phoenix NY Rangers @ Edmonton Calgary @ Los Angeles Columbus @ San Jose Sunday: Buffalo @ Atlanta Detroit @ Chicago

Good signing for Dallas. He's producing and is still young.

Really? I went back over it and still counted 12. Be sure not to short change yourself.

Results- Week 14: 1. Vladinator 15/19 1. naranja 15 1. swedishconnection 15 1. FinWing 15 1. wingslogo19 15 6. Mickeyisms Rule! 14 6. wingsgirl001 14 6. WingNutt 14 6. zetterisbetter 14 6. Kp-Wings 14 6. zata40 14 6. CrossCheck24 14 13. F.Michael 13 13. T-Ruff 13 13. Lou_Siffer 13 13. FinRedWing 13 13. Wings_Dynasty 13 13. redwingslady87 13 19. Dominator2005 12 19. CupChamps979802 12 19. interminded 12 19. wingsfan40 12 19. Aussie_Wing 12 19. sibiriak 12 19. #19=Legend 12 19. Williams29fan 12 27. GoCryWolfe 11 27. Never Forget Mac #25 11 27. betterREDthandead 11 27. rwfan007 11 27. wingschamps 11 27. Systemfel 11 27. wingsfan979802 11 27. wingfanatic4alltime 11 27. Duck Guy 11 27. North Guy 11 27. edicius 11 27. TRD604 11 27. Wildwings44 11 27. Datsyukian Geek 11 41. shannyfan1414 10 41. omnipotent_hudler 10 41. LEBDA22 10 41. johnnyoski 10 41. hawkupaloogie 10 41. bcwingsfan19 10 41. wings1fan19 10 48. Winged Scooter 9 48. stormboy 9 50. Reds4Life 8 50. irishtemper14+25 8 50. DetroitIan 8 54. Elshupacabra 7 Well done to Vladinator, naranja, swedishconnection, FinWing and wingslogo19 who all scored 15 to win the week!

This team is so good it's not funny. Bout time we beat the Hawks, take that Robert Lang. Good night all, off to watch the tennis!

What's the bet Draper gets another empty net goal?

Apart from that one shift by the first line it sounds as though we've got nothing going this period.

My word what a great shift by Filppula-Datsyuk-Cleary.

I might be the only one but I really, really like Kopecky!

Zetterberg has only played about 2 minutes, back out there now though.

What a game this is! Minutes left, Pistons down by 4. All these 3 point plays by Boston are killing Detroit.

2/4, not bad I guess. Hoping for a big day tomorrow.

Really? He's always playing solid 2 way hockey and he's +14 for the season.

Kronwall being a A- is a bit much. He started the season very slowly and while he's come on strong lately, I'd have him at a B. Rafalski shouldn't be an A. He's produced plenty of offence, which was expected, but he's too turnover prone to be anything more than a B+. Otherwise the rankings weren't too bad. Franzen and Maltby perhaps a tad too high but most of the forward rankings were accurate.

That's a shame, I really like Kopecky and what he brings to this team. Hopefully it's nothing serious and he doesn't have to miss any games. As for Hartigan, I don't understand why so many people are putting him down. IMO he's played solid in minimal game time, and he was one of the best players in the loss to the Blues. He took a bad penalty but otherwise I was very impressed. As has been mentioned there's not a lot to choose from down at Grand Rapids. I like Helm a lot and he'll be a Wings player in another few seasons, but he's not ready. Ritola is starting to find some form but he too isn't ready. I guess the only replacements are the veterans.

Good call FRW, how did Murray slip my mind? #11 in the world and his match against Nadal at last years AO was the match of the tournament, either than or Ancic/Roddick. I just hope he's fit as he could definitely cause some damage. Marat Safin has fallen all the way down to #56 so it'll be interesting if he draws a seed in the first round. And Mario Ancic is #83 so there could be some quality matches in the first round or two. There's normally 5 or so people who are involved in these threads and I'm hoping there'll be a few more this year.

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

Thought I'd try something different hence I included the changes in positions from last week. I had a bit of free time so I thought I'd give it a try!

Agree 100%. Look at Filppula's production since he moved away from Samuelsson.

Finally got around to reading it and it was a great read. He's got great taste in movies! Flip is +14 this season, that's 4th on the team. He really is an all-round player and it's going to be fun watching him for many years.

Oustanding post BRTD, great read. Some of those stats are amazing, just goes to show how dominant this team is.

Can't we have 1 big goalie thread where everything goes in there? At the end of EVERY GDT the discussion turns into goalie talk.