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PP, hooking on Avery.

Gotta love how everyone gets carte blanche to interfere with Homer, but if he even brushes against a goaltender, there's a penalty.

Hey look, it's Shanny! He's looking good.

Nice opportunity there. Got Lundqvist shook up a bit.

Really late whistles tonight. First that puck off the mesh, then that late offsides call.

Eaves must hate the East Coast. Yowch.

Ugh. I hate our PK.

Amen to that. I want DOMINANCE.

My pics from the game, for any interested.

I beg to differ. The second goal against was a soft one, I'll admit that, and it really pissed me off that it made for another 0-2 first period. Could he have been better in the shootout? Perhaps. But he was only one goal worse than Brodeur when all was said and done. And Osgood made some STELLAR saves last night. I give him full marks for keeping that game closer than it had any reason to be after the 1st and 2nd periods.

Yeah, there were an inordinate amount of jersey fouls there. Such as this one that I snapped behind the Wings bench: I mean...just...WHY?! I was actually kind of disappointed by the crowd too. People around the league complain about the Wings not being able to fill up THEIR building...what about the Rock? The lower bowl was EMPTY, despite the game being listed as a sellout (cheap seats were pretty much full at least). Plus there just seemed to be so many people just ignorant of hockey. I heard "3rd quarter" bandied about more than once. Overheard this lovely gem: "Osgood's still playing for them? He's gotta be, what, in his mid-40s now?!" A great deal of them around me didn't even know their own players, much less the ones that were honored before the game (except Daneyko, of course). Just frustrating. And my brother-in-law, fairweather Devils fan that he is, even seemed to cheer Eaves' apparent injury (at the time) via Facebook. Classy, indeed. No one gave me s*** at least, so I'll give them that.

Thought it was pretty lame how they had to follow each Wings starting lineup player's name with "SUCKS!". I don't give a s*** if they do that to the Rags, but come on... BTW, someone from here was definitely on the Newark Light Rail heading to Newark Broad Street for the 10:30 train, because I caught a glimpse of a Datsyuk dangle shirt under a coat. Also wearing a Tigers hat. Anyone? Lots of great Wings fans at the Rock. Even had a convo with someone regarding Lilja when he saw my Lils jersey.

As far as I can tell, the guys in bold don't know the NHL rules either, so they should be fine.

THIS. Our PK and defense both took a nosedive when McCrimmon joined the coaching team. And what is he in charge of? Oh, what a coincidence - THE PK AND THE DEFENSE. The man needs to go. It's a wonder we even made it back to the finals last year with him behind the bench.

What a coincidence. It benefited the Pens. Surprise surprise.

Howard is absolute garbage tonight.

wondeful defense, you byums.

I'll be at the Devils game for sure (look for the only guy wearing a Lilja jersey ). My experience with Devils fans is this - some really knowledgable fans, some hockey ignorant people who just go to be seen at a game (I got into an argument a number of years back with someone who insisted that the Devils had more Stanley Cups than the Wings, as an example). Might be at the Rags game, not sure yet.

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

Hopefully this is the first step toward grooming Shanny for a job as the new commish.

Any word on Anderson? Just curious.

No more expansion, please. The talent pool has been watered-down enough as it is. And besides, Bettman still wouldn't let Balsille have an expansion team either.

And amazingly, didn't receive any discipline for a knee-on-knee hit on Shean Donovan, who's out for the next 4-6 months. (And nope, not gonna let up on that. Annoys the crap out of me that the league didn't even review Cooke on that garbage.)

You're one of my new favorite people here for that simple fact.

I'm a huge Ovie fan, but even I can't defend him with this one. That said, I'd be surprised if he gets more than a couple games. If it's good enough for Matt Cooke...