Aussie_Wing

I like Ray Ferraro, hopefully one day he's calling his son playing for the Wings.

Wow, Wings were down 9-6 in faceoffs at end of 1, and it seemed to continue that way into the 2nd. But we're leading that stat 19-17 now.

ABBY WHAT A HIT!

This is freaking ugly. They are DESTROYING us. They should be up 3.

Hahahah I hate the Sharks and their stupid crowd so much. Hate them. Nearing Penguins hate.

Don't like what's happening out there.

Can't believe I'm saying this but so far Darren Helm has been invisible.

Freaking Rafalski failing to clear the puck.

Wings did a great job to survive the early onslaught. That was exactly how Game 1 started last year, Sharks all over the Wings, and they scored early goals. This time we were being outskated and outworked and we didn't concede a goal, and managed to get one oursleves. Huge. Howard was great. The Sharks team is one of the worst commentary teams I have ever listened to. Thankfully on GCL we can go with the TSN feed.

Datsyuk is simply incredible.

Hudler has come to play.

Who passed that straight to a Shark??

I LOVE GCL!!! We can pick between the Sharks feed and TSN.

Zetterberg-Datsyuk-Holmstrom VS Marleau-Thornton-Setoguchi Hudler-Filppula-Franzen VS Clowe-Couture-Heatley Cleary-Abdelkader-Bertuzzi VS Mitchell-Pavelski-Wellwood Miller-Helm-Eaves VS McGinn-Nichol-Mayers I like our 1st line, our 3rd line is very tough and physical, and our 4th smashes theirs, but I worry about the 2nd line match-ups.

I'm using that line too!

Go Boston!! I think they'll take this series, goaltending too good.

I'm jealous looking at these playoff beards when mine is so lame.

WAS/TBL: 4-2 PHI/BOS: 4-3 VAN/NSH: 4-2 SJS/DET: 4-3 Western Conference Champion: San Jose Eastern Conference Champion: Washington Stanley Cup Champion: Washington

Now that I wasn't sure about. I thought maybe we were, then maybe we weren't. I'll edit the OP just in case we do. Thanks edi.

Flip's got a big task this series. Scoring will be a bonus, to me he has to shut down their key guys, as noted above.

And Patrick Eaves was banged up last year, played one game and that was it.

I am scared by this series. Minimum it goes 6 games, and I see 7 as a strong chance. I know we lost in 5 last year, but we're a lot better now than a year ago. Also last year, we had virtually no time off between Phoenix and San Jose and we had injuries and fatigue. This year we have much better depth, plenty of rest, and the Sharks goaltending is a concern, as is their defence. I am concerned about their speed and size, and they are extremely deep especially at centre. Their foreheck concerns me too, and I worry they might wear our defence down. Thankfully, we're extremely deep too. For me you’ve either got to have Dats, Hank and Flip centering their own lines, or re-unite the Abby, Bert and Cleary line to bring toughness and have Flip centering the 3rd with Huds and Miller. Someone wins this in 7. I wish I had more confidence.

Canucks in 5, sadly.

Franzen - Datsyuk - Holmstrom Bertuzzi - Zetterberg - Cleary Hudler - Filppula - Miller Abdelkader - Helm - Eaves That's personally what I'd go for, but we all know Draper won't be scratched, and Miller will.

Joe freaking Thornton. Had to be him. Man I hate the Sharks.