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Gotta have this game. Everyone on the team needs to push it into overdrive and beat this backup goalie, with Toronto losing, gives us positioning for the rest of the week.

I'll give Howard his due, since the penalty fest he's been great. We could use some more o-zone time.

GUS AGAIN!!!

Massive saves by Howard. Man, if there's one thing I notice about Columbus, is they mutilate our man to man coverage in our zone. They always have a guy open.

The kid line is the only one with a pulse tonight, not good enough.

Backup goalie in for CBJ, and we haven't had a shot on net. Smart strategy.

Horrible start to the period.

I hate to ever cheer an injury, but apparently Bobrovsky is hurt. This is a break we can't f*** up.

Not a horrible period, but far from great. We should be owed a couple ******* PP's going forward though, thank Gus for us being a shot away from tying it.

Would be really nice if our "top" line could assist Nyquist. The guy is carrying the wings by himself.

WHO ELSE, f*** U CBS

Paging Johan Franzen: Go f*** yourself you lazy sack of s***.

We're losing this game. What a ******* joke.

Gonna turn the game off at this rate. Absolutely ridiculous.

Gonna be a penalty fest tonight.

Refs are a farce, let them play. 10 minutes in 3 PP's already, enough. 5on5 is what I want to see when I turn the game on.

Bob won't give up more then 2 tonight, not against us. Jimmy has to be perfect for almost 60 minutes if we want a chance now.

Typical start.

Agreed. Miller and Glendening especially have been playing great hockey, but getting no breaks. This is a huge game, a win and we're clear 4 points of CBS, a loss and we're even with them. Not the end of the world to lose, but boy a win would be huge going forward with all our divisional games.

It will be nice to have him in there against Columbus. Those f***ers take liberties like they're the ******* 70's Flyers. Be nice to throw a bit back at them, and win the game because they've had our number the last little while.

We turn the puck over so much, I don't go by stats because they rarely chart it correctly. But just watching the Wings play you see the turnovers, way too often the D have time to get it out of the zone and instead turn it over and it stays in and the opposing team gets a cycle going leading to a scoring chance, penalty or goal. Sometimes I wish we'd just simplify and put it off the glass and out, chip and chase. With so many kids, and our team speed being pretty darn good right now, it'd favor us to go against the puck possession game a little bit when leading in the 3rd. It doesn't always have to be pretty.

A regulation win over Columbus tuesday would really help start to separate us from them and the lower teams. This is going to be a huge week Columbus, Montreal, Toronto, Tampa. We could be inching towards 2nd in the division with a strong week, and be on the outside looking in with a bad week. Lets see what this team is made of.

3 of 4 from the Wild was what I hoping for, so can't be too mad. Need to show up for 60 minutes against Columbus.

Huge kill.

TATS!!