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Onto the WInter Classic... Questions looming, will Alfredsson return to play? Who will start in net? Find out in the next Red Wings game.. Same Wings time Same Wings channel...

And that's game.. at least they made it interesting in the 3rd.

Dammit Bert.. PK again..

Result aside, this has been an entertaining 3rd.

SKKAAHHRRR!!

And the PK nail in the coffin...

Aaannnddd they get it back.

GOAL! Nice speed effort by Helm

Well.. crap.

There we go nice quick one.

Beat him til his wife writes a country song about it. She can title it "Catfish ***** Slapped"

GET EM ABS!

Bert was going to defend his captain but then avoided a stupid penalty by standing down when the ref continued to separate them.

Let them fight! Bert will beat him into Corona country.

Power Play, come on guys score here.

Alfredsson was a late scratch

Damn.. shake off the rust Howard come on..

What the hell are you doing here then, shouldn't you be in the hospital and prepping for your IR stint?! Need this win tonight boys, let's get it done and go into the Winter Classic on a two game win streak. Wings win 6-2 GO RED WINGS!!

"Helm (shoulder) is likely to return Monday against the Predators. The shoulder injury cost Helm most of December, but it sounds like he'll be back before the calender turns to 2014. Luke Glendening was sent down Saturday in anticipation of Helm's activation from IR." Not confirmed but seems likely especially if Glendening was sent down.

It's only going to get worse over time, they started with the ads along the boards which is fine, but now you are seeing these CG ads on the glass behind the goalie net, stranger arena names, and everything presenting or sponsoring some event in the game. I haven't seen professional sports in the USA advertise on jerseys of the more popular sports like the NFL so i'd assume it would hit those sports before it ever reaching the NHL. I'd guess it would begin with the super bowl, one little advertisement on the helmet and the jersey and then it building off of that, or even a website URL typed within the yellow CG line of scrimmage. There will be more creatively annoying ways to force more advertising into pro sports as the years go on, it's inevitable. I just hope it doesn't turn into the catastrophe that Holmstrom96 posted above.

Being it's vacant i'll pick up tomorrow at Nashville.

Greetings from the United States, and welcome to the site! It really all depends on how far back you want to go, as an original 6 NHL team the Red Wings history is rich and deep, a good place to begin would be researching and learning about the legacy of Gordie Howe, one of the all time greatest players to ever grace the NHL and wear a Wings sweater. If you aren't looking to go that far back, the early 90's would be a good place to begin, when this team finally saw a turn around when Nicklas Lidstrom, Steve Yzerman, and Sergei Fedorov became part of this franchise and began creating legendary milestones. You also have the vicious rivalry sparked by the Kris Draper incident between Detroit and Colorado, and how that all escalated and made itself an important part of Red WIngs history. There is a really good dvd box set titled The Detroit Red WIngs: A Celebration Of Champions that has a ton of great information, classic games, important events, and their more recent championship games. It's a wonderful place to begin as a new Red Wings fan (I'm confident you'll become one of us... one of us... one of us) and start submersing yourself in everything that makes Hockeytown great. I hope this helped, and look forward to seeing you develop as a fan of one of the greatest teams on the planet.

I wouldn't call it irrelevant at all, considering it's still basically the top 8 in each conference making the playoffs anyway with a different layout. The only exception is if the 3rd place division playoff seed has less points than the top 6 in their opposing division which likely won't ever happen. If it does, that 6th team that has more points than the 3rd in the opposite division will miss the playoffs. It likely won't ever happen that way. Otherwise it's still the top 8 representing so conference standings still have relevancy. This is just a rough example. Atlantic Boston - 52 Tampa Bay - 49 Montreal - 47 Metropolitan Pittsburgh - 55 Washington - 52 Philadelphia - 38 Wildcard Detroit - 43 Toronto - 41 Non-Playoff Teams Ottawa - 40 New York - 38 New Jersey - 37 In this instance Philadelphia still makes the playoffs even though Ottawa has more points because of the top 3 divisional seeds getting a slot. Again, for this to pan out at the end of the season like this would be very rare but this is the only exception to the new layout.

Not going to beat a dead horse but two things I noticed about the article the OP posted. First thing is the fact that it's a blog written by a fan which makes the information more opinion based opposed to factual. Also, the article was written in February 2012, which was nearly two years ago and the transition of jerseys from Reebok has changed since this date. Information on NHL "authentic" jerseysBy RedWingFanInNC on Feb 1 2012, 7:29p Point being, you can rest assured that your wife got what she paid for and this is about as good as it gets as far as NHL jerseys go except like BottleofSmoke mentioned you get a game worn jersey.