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You were saying? Actually, the first minute of their first penalty they did a good job of moving the puck well and making Turco slide side-to-side in order to come up with saves.

To top off what I was just saying, SJ needs to capitalize here. You know the penalties will start to even out as the game wears on and SJ needs to atleast grab a goal on one of these.

You gotta wonder if this won't be a spring-board for Dallas given they've killed off practically 4 minutes of PK time in around 5 minutes worth of total time.

Great action to start this game!

Turco just got an interference penalty!

PK over Good movement by the Sharks for the majority of the PP, but it remains 0-0.

Sharks PP coming

True, but they're playing a much more dangerous and quality team this round than they were the last. To top it off, the Stars got stronger tonight with the addition of Zubov.

What about the lovely PBR commercial they play *during* the hockey games that has one of the bull riders saying "It don't get no realer than that"? :nonono:

Essentially a must-win for SJ tonight. Although not impossible, its pretty improbable coming back from an 0-2 deficit with 3 of the next 4 games guaranteed to be played on the road.

Just 4 days away from the preseason opener against the Steelers. I don't see great things from this team just yet, but I still think they are capable of putting up an 8-8 season at best. Unfortunately, I still see them as being 1-2 years out from being a force. Go Pack, and lets hope for a better than expected season. Discuss.......

Probably the most accurate statement I've read on these boards in a long time.

Actually I can. The point is its pathetic for anyone to throw a beer bottle at anyone. It doesn't matter where it is. Try and think of any situation where its ok and a positive outcome might happen by doing something like that. But you are right in saying he's really having some tough luck with beer lately.

That's nothing with luck, just an amazing save. That's the thing though, it wasn't an "amazing save". It was amazingly important given that there was 8 seconds left and the Wings were clinging to a one goal lead, but that was just Oz being positionally smart and pushing out as fast as he could to take away openings. That's not a knock on Oz, that's a compliment to his mental and positional game. As for Konnan511's comment, Liles had practically no chance of burying that shot by the time the puck got to his stick. Oz was so quick to react and push out, and as a result there was nothing for him to shoot at. Where he could've possibly scored is by grabbing the puck and skating around Oz with it. Then again, Raf was right there and probably would've quick jumped in front of the goal. Edit: Clarity

I agree with this assessment, and I'll even take it one step further. The Avalanche obviously have more talent up front than Nashville, but the tenacity just doesn't seem to be there from Colorado. Regardless, Nashville worked hard and cycled the puck well in the Wings zone all series. The Avalanche on the other hand seem to be the type of team that relies on their talent to carry them, thus the hard work in the offensive zone probably won't be as frustrating for the Wings as it was against Nashville. The key I feel to playing this Colorado team will simply be watching the breakout. They don't have the quality of puck-moving defensemen that the Wings have, but when they can corale a loose puck near their own blue line or get a deflection in front of the defensive zone face-off dots that's where they'll find their breakouts. They'll look for those 3-on-2, or even 3-on-3 with both the Wings defenseman back and rely heavily on the talent of guys like Sakic, Foesberg, Stastny and even Smyth to make a play (just like they did twice in the second period). This is where Kronner and Stuart are gonna have to be careful about picking and choosing their moments when it comes to flattening a guy starting up ice. You may flatten the guy, but a trailer could just as quickly take his spot and then we're stuck with one defenseman out of the play. Like I said, it seems that the Wings are going to get their goals in this series and that the Wings aren't going to have to deal with a tenacious forecheck and cycling in their defensive zone. This completely favors the Wings as the teams that have the most success against Detroit are the one that forecheck the hell out them and take away passing lanes. If the Wings can play their game, which it sure seemed like Colorado was willing to let them last night, then they should be fine.

You may find them silly, but alteast have some respect for the people that don't. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean you need to sh*t on those that do.

Why is Samuelsson playing? Just to piss you guys off. That's it...nothing more. He's obviously the most worthless hockey player on the face of the earth. He's single-handedly trying to thwart the chances for the Wings this post season, and continues to make as many mistakes as possible just to infuriate posters on LGW. [/sarcasm]

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Wow, the Wings have a dominating start to this game, and granted looked like the better team and now we're just gonna bring up the brooms. Theo was terrible last night and Colorado as a whole didn't play that well, but there is certainly more to that team than what was shown last night. I will say that I was pretty surprised that they couldn't tie the game up as the Wings basically went into prevent-mode the majority of the third period, and that tells you something about Colorado just not clicking, but they'll come out with a more inspired effort tomorrow. If the Wings can play the way they did last night and weather the storm when they need to, there's no reason they can't take a 2-0 series lead heading to Colorado and ultimately atleast split the away games. Personally, I'm really hoping Jose is back in net if not tomorrow, than the first game in Colorado because that guy was a rebound machine.

It wasn't even after a lost game either.....it was simply after the Avs scored the first goal of the game to make it 1-0 with ONLY 49 minutes left in regulation! What can the Wings do with that little of time and that huge of a deficit to come back from?

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Looks like you're the next one to be added to the list. Do us all a favor and don't celebrate or say your a fan of the Wings if they are fortunate enough to win it all.

Kind of a sidenote, but does anyone else love that Ozzie uses a Sher-Wood Stick? So Gangster....and Classic!

Does this not ring true today?

Who knows?