maltbyrocks18

i said it in january and im saying it now, our goaltending is gonna be fine. ozzie will be pulled in game 2, and conks will dominate all the way to his first stanley cup. Believe in the conk. conk blocks all playoffs baby!

i feel ultimately all of this crazy who stays who goes bizz is all too soon to tell. just think about last year, and think about how much has changed. this time last year no one knew if osgood or hasek was going to be the man come playoff time, and osgoods play last post season is a huge reason for his signing. also, i don't believe a soul had a clue this time last year that franzen would put up the monster numbers he did. Then you got stuarts great play for us and all the other stand outs and it really made a difference when it came down to the off season. What if franzen gets healthy and dominates again this playoffs??? what if hossa chokes randomly???? what if filp redeems him self with some playoff heroism, or anyone else like huds or sammy??? A big factor i haven't heard anyone mention is a goaltending for next year. What if conklin dominates in the playoffs and oz never returns to form?? do you let conks go still??? you never know. IMO, i feel we all need to just be grateful we can watch these guys for the rest of the year, see how this ridiculous roller coaster plays out and work from there. GO WINGS!

it is simple, as others have said, just. play. CONKLIN. You gotta rotate them still at this point, but the games should be picked a little more wisely. osgood has not had one game this season that earned him a game as big as this one was, and in my opinion conklin has done more than enough to deserve to play. Now i do have faith in babcock, and i would not be surprised if this game was a test to see ozzie in a playoff level game this season. The sad thing is he failed. I do not like osgood, but still we can't burn him at the stake, he is struggling and conklin should take a few consecutive games at the very least to not only give him his props, but to let oz get some work in on his game and get his head straight. This is not osgood of last season, i agree with harolds point about how he has seemed to be overplaying the puck as of late. i feel it is a desperation sign of ozzie losing confidence and him trying to find what will get him back on track. Thats fine and dandy but he can do that in practice and let conklin tend the crease for a while.

i would like to make this post a apology to osgood and all his supporters who defended him a couple nights ago, i have been proved completely wrong by osgood tonite and i can not believe how much non of this game was his fault. the red wings should of scored at LEAST 7 goals anyway, every other night he plays too. all 6 goals were flukes, mistakes, and the defense fault. and conklin is just really lucky

conklin is no where near the starter ozzie is and this season has proven nothing in conks favor. current playing abillity means nothing and all that matters is past performances. if you think oz has done anything less than amazing your nothing but trolls or don't know hockey. go wings!

P.S.S. oh and i lied about the whole robbery thing. it just made the whole thing a lot more funny from my perspective for the sake of the arguement. but again, my bad.

P.S. sorry for the thread take over with this nonsense to everyone, again i got pissed at a comment by outsider about another poster about his life so i decided to get in to it with him and it go out of hand and foolish. my bad.

I can't keep going all night so this is my last post. although i still feel osgood has some slop to his game that is unecessary, he was not the biggest problem in this game because 50 shots is unacceptable. and as for our whole arguement outsider, this has been hillarious and i hope this made you laugh as much as it made me. i was messing with you for 96% of the arguement, and i hope you knew and didn't take anything personally. haha GO WINGS MR18 OUT

although i am not the oldest one here, i at least of grew out of being a liar with false quotes. also i am the one who was brought up with the idea that crimes are a little more important than a game you watch on tv. so Im content with my age. and this all started because i noticed you personally attacking a poster before me that disagreed with you so i thought i would give you a taste of the same.

show me a one clock that stops crime and you have a point. untill then, no relation.

maybe a link will be around later, but in the post game they showed a view of the puck where it was completely across the goalline. and not only that but here you are again attacking things that are irrelevant. oh and the blah blah stuff??? that was never in any of my posts, which shows you forged that quote putting words in my mouth. how can anyone on this site trust your quotes with dishonesty like that. everyone knows you have a total lack of respect to robbery/rape victims but now your a liar too?? Its just a shame. and to get back to osgood, he would not of been on his back in the first place on that last goal if he would of approached the save in a non flop manner. thats my point.

Like most games this season, i have to say datsyuk. he was solid in his own zone more than anyone, he produced offensively, and showed probably the most energy. he is just so amazingly solid with the puck game in and game out, i really don't know how he does it.

besides my boredom being solved by pissing outsider off, this is a game i do not blame soley on osgood at all. the wings were horrible on defense, but i feel at moments in this game and many others osgood just tends approach making saves in ways that make him look horrible. but take the pro rapist side, real sweet dude.

personal attacks on my spelling or lifetime acheivements has nothing to do with any of this, but fine i will play this game. how do you assume i haven't done anything better than osgoods game tonite?? 2 years ago i saved a girl from getting robbed and maybe even raped. But nothing i have done is significant to you compared to osgood to you so i guess you support rape. your a sick, sick, little person and may god have mercy on your soul... you monster.

if i was as computer savvy as the majority of you, i would put together a highlight reel of his ebelished saves and post it. But explain to me how his glove save for example needed the super man dive after words. and there has been so many in the past i am inspired to learn how to make one of those you tube things to show you. and as for the arguement about the difference between hasek and osgood, why is that the focus of the counterargument when you all know the difference in ridiculous playing styles has nothing to do with the arguement. Oh i guess hasek does different flops so that makes lotty difference to anything. my point is osgoods flops are currently causing goals and rebounds when making more conservative saves would be wiser in my opinion.

please tell me how the disallowed goal, and the overtime goal were not complete snow angels. at least hasek's worked enough to keep his GAA below 3 and change. also, besides diving across the net how about a controled side ways slide in the butterfly position, or even standing and just taking a stride to the side. that overtime goal is the flop im talking about. it easily could of been controled by making a less "great" save by putting his body in front instead of floping swinging the stick and then doing what i guess is called now "great" snow angels.

correct, he didn't. But osgood did.

osgood made 44 saves which is a good stat, and dispite allowing 5 goals at times he made some good saves. This though is my problem. has anyone else noticed something familiar with all of his "amazing" saves??? lately he has been making hasek look like a stand up goalie. he just flops completley slop ass and out of control no matter the situation. the glove save he made did not need the cartwheel, and the save/disallowed goal he had was made with a reckless flip and a half where he could of easily dropped to butter fly. he seems one of two things: he is afraid to actually put his whole body in front of the puck, or he knows if he flops around post to post the bad goals look like he did all he could do, and his easy saves look better smacking it out of the air then just playing smart and taking the saves to the chest or pad in a position that makes him ready for a rebound. i think it's the ladder, but he is doing it so much now i am almost to the point where i think it is both

hudler is young and only going to get better happy huddles better get locked up by holland quick before he is too good for the money we can offer. in my opinion he deserves to be here more than filpula, sammy, and cleary.

I did not mean to make it sound like i was questioning you or anyones level of fan, i think it came out wrong in my venting of my hate for bettman and his bull. I must agree though, through all of this, the best thing to do is not let this annoyances disrupt the enjoyment of the game. I will just change the channel for the segment.

for one thing, the reason why i think the game should be in the big house is NOT because of michigan or detroit, but is because of the stadiums size which would easily break records bringing more attention to the game all around the world. And if it was just the song that was the problem, i wouldn't mind it so much. The thing is that it is just the cherry on the top to a whole marketing disgrace. From day 1 including the famous winter classic commercial, they have been laying the baseball song and feild very thick all over the game, as if it would make all the baseball fans in the world feel the need to watch this game. This winter classic is not the start of all this either. bettman has been trying new ways every year to try to disguise this sport as one of the mainstreams, whether it is jersey changes or the horrible division rivalry mock of baseball with the schedule last year. It's disgusting. It is not just a song, it is a reminder to every one of us true hockey fans of how horrible bettman and the gang are at marketing our wonderful sport, and how they are willing to drag hockey through the mud as much as they feel it takes to attempt to increase viewers.

EXACTLY.

thats a great idea!! you know what??? how bout we just tear down the rink, and then just play baseball??? That way im SURE america will love hockey! This is $(@#% STUPID. I understand respecting the field your in but i completely dissagree with making this whole thing about baseball. What league is this game even advertising for anymore??? Are we just trying to sell cubs season tickets now?? this is a joke. There is a hockey game being played with some of the best players in the league on the ice, and instead of focusing on hockey they are going to spend the whole time talking up the sport and team of the field their playing in???? this whole game is turning in to a travesty. The only reason wrigley field is where the game should be taking place is because it is an open field with stands around it. The focus should be on the hockey, not the god damn field it is in. oh and the big house should be where this game is taking place any way!

that's a lofty goal there, herb. With that requirement, marian hossa is not even good enough with his production last season. I agree you don't see the top goal scorers in the league leading the league with pentaly minutes, but i don't think that was the guy who made this thread's point. fourthliners who have been labeled as goons around the league, have been producing points just as much as our fourth line "talents". i feel that if your fourth liner won't surpass 5 goals on the season any way, he might as well be a guy that can support the team with some rough and tuff play whether it is checking or fighting or both.

yeah because of a acl injury that ultimately ended his career. who isn't fast after one of those surgurys??