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    3/9 GDT : Kings 3 at Red Wings 4

    I KNOW, RIGHT!
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    3/9 GDT : Kings 3 at Red Wings 4

    HELM!!! MY SON!!!
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    3/9 GDT : Kings 3 at Red Wings 4

    Williams with more flop and *****.
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    3/9 GDT : Kings 3 at Red Wings 4

    Franzen benefits off the backs of harder working players. Without someone else to gift wrap them, he is more or less worthless. Effort is lacking and he is becoming more one-dimensional by the day; a far cry from where he started busting ass on the 3rd/4th lines. He hasn't stepped up at all with players out. ...s***... goal and Z goes down...
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    3/9 GDT : Kings 3 at Red Wings 4

    Z and Fil will both end up north of 72 points and Hank will match Franzen in goals. You heard it here first.
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    3/9 GDT : Kings 3 at Red Wings 4

    Filppula-Zetterberg-(rotation of the other 10 forwards)
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    3/9 GDT : Kings 3 at Red Wings 4

    Just put Fil and Hank on the ice.
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    3/9 GDT : Kings 3 at Red Wings 4

    On the Ice: Filppula-Zetterberg-Nyquist Miller-Helm-Andersson On the Pine: Everyone else Hudler Franzen
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    3/9 GDT : Kings 3 at Red Wings 4

    Franzen: A boy among men. USE YOUR BODY!
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    3/9 GDT : Kings 3 at Red Wings 4

    Z is the only forward with shot on goal
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    3/9 GDT : Kings 3 at Red Wings 4

    Shots are 10-3 LA. And they are supposed to be offensively challenged
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    Kronwall Destroys Voracek

    It really is potent with the stench of hatred. Terrible article. I know concussions are a scary part of the game and this comment is in bad taste, but I couldn't help but giggle simply because it was a complete dismissal of everything in the article: (in response to a moron agreeing with the article while adding additional Wing hatred) "Hey Dutch, what's the difference between Cindy and a drooling idiot? One hit. And I hope it's from Kronwall." Bad taste, I know, but still funny.
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    Gustav Nyquist, Joakim Andersson called up from GR

    I don't believe Bruunstrom is waiver exempt, so they would risk him being claimed by another team for nothing before clearing, while the younger players wouldn't have that problem.
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    Kronwall Destroys Voracek

    I understand why folks call for him to "answer" for his hits, clean or otherwise, but it is complete nonsense. More than anything its butt-hurt. Lets for the sake of simplicity call it Kesler-Clowe Syndrome (KCS): if a smaller guy, who has never fought before and seems in their mind physically inferior to themselves, all of a sudden puts them on tomorrow's highlight reel by folding them like a lawn chair, despite a few inches of height and pounds of weight, the knee-jerk response is butt-hurt and the KCS desire to redeem one's self. Kronwall will "troll", shrug it off and get twice his moneys worth with the hit and a penalty for your retaliation, which as a Wings fan is one of the best parts of watching Kronwall do his thing (though sometimes the refs jumping in front of him is a bit...well, you know). Its one thing to want to retaliate in the moment, on the ice, and for some, their pride is worth the two minutes (especially since the Wings PP is so flacid). Its another thing to carry your pout into the post-game interviews and say something as moronic as "you can't lay a hit like that without having to fight afterwards", like there is some unwritten rule that if you're hurt or embarrassed in play you get to even it out on my face. Its funny how moderators can be so ridiculously bias and still be allowed to lord over open forums. Even on HockeyStreams, hearing Wings fan and moderator Steve-O is a bit shameful. Every call against the Wings is unjustified, every hit on a Wing dirty, every opposition goal is either an uncalled penalty or would-be disallowed goal. The fates conspire against the Wings in everything and the opposition always has an unfair advantage. Me, I'm a "blame the Wings first" kinda guy, just ask Crymson, who is of the "***** about the bitching" persuasion
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    Gustav Nyquist, Joakim Andersson called up from GR

    Good, more young talented legs to pull around Rosebud... I mean Cleary. Hopefully he'll see some powerplay time and plenty of ice. Nyquist can't be worse than Jiri 'Another SH Breakaway?!' Hudler on the PP.
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    Kronwall Destroys Voracek

    I had never really noticed it before seeing all Stevens' hits in succession, but in at least a third of his really punishing hits happened with a teammate more or less setting the opposition player "up on the rails", so to speak. Almost sealing the player with the puck in such a way to bot get their attention on them and away from Stevens and also straighten their path into him. I wonder if this is some weird coincidence or if that was the M.O. the whole time.
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    Kronwall Destroys Voracek

    His curly perm do? And its in his contract that he is only filmed on beta format.
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    Kronwall Destroys Voracek

    Honestly, a day after the hit Voracek and the Flyers have gained a bit of respect from me. The guy takes it on the button, has every right to be a bitter Kesler about it, and yet he says over and over that the fault was his own. Jagr chimes in saying that without those hits "its basketball". This takes more guts than a lot of folks might think and I wish him a swift recovery. Pretty brassy, Jakub! TSN interviews: http://watch.tsn.ca/featured/clip633645#clip633645
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    Kronwall Destroys Voracek

    This is the part that bugged me last night. Instead of waking up the Wings with the hit, everyone then played pretty nervously until the end of the period because the Flyers were quite obviously out for blood. Players don't have the benefit of replay and assume most hits like that are dirty, and even if they don't, they are looking to make a player like Kronwall feel similar pain. That's when real cheap shots and dirty play happens, as retaliation. That said, the Wings should feed off of such physical play from their blueline instead of going into some clumsy turtle-style until it blows over. Old Wings used to encourage such running around and make them hurt on the PP, and as others have said, Kronwall "trolls" with the best of them by laying the hit and shrugging it off to draw penalties. Lately when such a situation happens I sense no "blood in the water" composed mentality and rather a "we're sorry, if we let you hit us are we even?" stance.
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    Kronwall Destroys Voracek

    Clean, north-south hit with an unfortunate, yet unavoidable point of contact. Kronwall has actually been impressing me in the last few months by consistently keeping his skates on the ice. This play is one of a few astounding hits we are seeing these days where the player with the puck seems oblivious to a hit he should expect. Players are getting far to complacent seeming to think 100% of the onus is on the player laying the hit. The play gets worse every time I see it: Kronwall stepped up on those same boards, exact spot TWICE in this same game prior to the hit. Voracek looks up and seems to see Kronwall at the blue line. He then proceeds to handle the puck and skate as leisurely as I've seen any player not named Bertuzzi do in a long time. By the time Kronwall is on him he had taken several strides looking straight down and to the side, clueless to the play he had to just seconds earlier have seen as a possibility. Timed perfectly with the moment Kronwall reached him, Voracek finally turns up ice like a goose in flight, head down, neck out. Perfect stand-up, skates down hit, leveled at Voracek's chest but for his head being so stretched out in front of him. Honestly, if he was on the opposite side of the ice, the way he was skating he had just as much chance of running straight into someone coming off the bench. OBLIVIOUS. I honestly don't know what Kronwall could have done without neglecting to do his job and take the body. Unfortunately, this type of play with absolute complacency on the part of the player with the puck is starting to contribute more than anything to concussions in the league. Blind-side hits are one thing, but choosing not to acknowledge the threat right in front of you should not make you immune to a good clean north-south hit.
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    Grabovski re-signs with Toronto

    Speaking of Filppula, and following Jedi's link, have another good laugh at some of the comparables there. Specifically: Tomas Kopecky.
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    Cleary, Bertuzzi, Hudler and Franzen

    Not sure if that was sarcasm or not. Franzen's cap hit might be $3.95m but he is getting paid $5.25m, and given the security he was given with such a long-term contract, its fair to argue that he should be playing like closer to $6.0m. He got on the team by playing tough, physical, and responsible while going to the hard areas. He's been doing less and less of that since signing the contract. The production rates are down, but he has also made himself tremendously one-dimensional. Third year of an ELEVEN year front-loaded contract and he is already playing down to the cap hit. He better stay pretty damn consistent, otherwise I wonder how he'll be playing by the time he is actually making $3.95m (which will be in 5 years, for those wondering). Like GMRwings said, what happens when he plays uninterested and "bored" during the regular season (when everyone else is required to put in the effort) and he gets to playoffs and either doesn't perform, or like last year, gets injured? What are the Wings paying for then?
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    Brendan Smith watch thread

    Great game. Plays smart and confident with ice time. Good hit, good scrap, and showing flashes of offensive acumen. It'll be great to see him every game from here on out. Makes Kindl look like Ericsson, and makes Ericsson look like a beer leaguer... well, like worse of a beer leaguer.
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    3/4 GDT : Blackhawks 2 at Red Wings 1

    Pretty much all of this. Good to see there wasn't a powerplay every 3 minutes. These games lately have had too little 5-on-5 play and its frustrating and boring to watch (especially given the Wings' special teams woes). Also, Hank and Filppula were the only forwards going outside of the third line. I get exhausted for them seeing how they have to drag Hudler and/or Franzen around all the time. And a tremendous game by Smith. As I said, its a pretty good indicator when you are short-handed on defense and have an emergency goaltender switch and neither of those are the problem against a poor defensive team. Most of the forward unit are dogging and watching the play, save for a few in Zetterberg, Filppula, Helm, Abdelkader, and Miller.
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    3/4 GDT : Blackhawks 2 at Red Wings 1

    Gems from the Blackhawks' homers: *Filppula is mugged by Keith and Seabrook* "Slash by Filppula! Team toughness! Keith is not going to take that and they go after Filppula! They'll like that penalty; standing up for one another!" *Hawks goes to hit Kronwall and gets laid out* "It looks like Kronwall might have gotten his stick up.... No... but he looks to have been on his toes when he hit him... either way, the Hawks player is giving up 25 or 30 lbs" (Either that guy is 165lbs or they think Kronwall is a fairy tale monster after what he did to Havlat) *Kronwall with a clean hit, Bickel takes a stupid retaliating penalty* "Team toughness! The Hawks will gladly take that penalty! Great to see them standing up for one another! Good penalty to take if you're a Hawk" And pretty much any time the Hawks jumped someone with 2+ guys, like they did to Holmstrom (shocking, with no call) you hear "team toughness" followed by "those are good penalties" followed by a justification such as "I think Holmstrom broke a stick trying to get the puck off the net which is why the Hawks took exception" which would on the replay be proven false. And the play-by-play guy wants to badly to be Harry Caray, right down to the half-slurring and the goofy changes in voice inflection like he is reading a Dr. Seuss book to his niece.