FireCaptain

Thank you for being an uninjurable iron horse this year. You are one of only two Red Wings to play in all 82 games. Despite all that ice time you still managed to come up only 5th in defensive scoring and 18th in overall team scoring. You averaged slightly more than 1 boneheaded penalty minute per game (88 minutes in 82 games) - which, coincidentally, is the team high for penalty minutes this year. Your four goals speak volumes about your inability to find the twine and yet - you never stop trying. Little the Little Kyle That Could - you rank 10th on the team in shots with 106. Your 3.8% shooting percentage actually makes us miss Dan Cleary's 6.3%. Your single GWG must have stirred something down deep that encouraged you like little angel on your shoulder. Every time you touched the puck that little guy could be heard shouting, "SHOOT KYLE, SHOOT! You're good enough, you're smart enough and doggone it, people like you (more than MIKAEL SAMUELSSON)!" You points production was damn near equal home and away - 6 home and 7 away, but your +/- shows that you really get nervous at the Joe - +6 on the road and -11 at home. You did this all while saying, "Damn the critics! My -5 is a meaningless stat anyway!" Having said all that, you did spend an average of 30 more seconds on ice in all of the winning games than the losing games - 21:02 vs. 20:35 - so that makes it clear - MOAR QUINCEY = MOAR WINS!

The series that we're all here for. I think it goes long (6 or 7) and the Wings move on to the next round. After stomping through the season, the Bruins only had 2 teams that they lost their season series' against and the Wings were one of them. The X Factor is obviously Rask - but 'playoff style' Jimmy Howard can be quite the X Factor himself. Just hope our offense doesn't go anemic - because as Pavel said, "We not score, is hard to win."

So much like.

Avs win.

Minny up by 2 with under 2 mins left in the 2nd period.

Nope, he's doing the Rags v. Flyers.

It's official, Wings will win. Barry Merose, ESPN.com: Boston in 6

Really..? Thanks, Capt Obvious.. hahaha I was making a joke. It's all good. .

He saw the Cup IN Nashville just like I did... In the concourse during the 2003 draft.

Official DRW viewing parties.. http://redwings.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=88808

REQ: Since their nickname is "the B's".. I was thinking a cartoon bee with the B logo on it and a giant red fly swatter with the Wings logo or the Old English D logo in the mesh part..

No fair! Boston's courting the cancer fans. (pretty touching story, actually) http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/bruins-rask-makes-young-cancer-patients-wish-come-true-creates-custom-made-goalie-mask-for-her/

The Hockey News people are smoking crack.. WTF?? Here are the most likely series sweeps in Round 1: 1. Pittsburgh over Columbus 2. Anaheim over Dallas 3. Boston over Detroit The Bruins have gone to Game 7 in Round 1 three straight times. After last year’s heart-stopping comeback over Toronto, surely the B’s have learned their lesson and will try to bring out the brooms instead of the defibrillators this time around. 4. Chicago over St. Louis http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/four-most-likely-sweeps-in-the-first-round/

That would make me feel sad for #Lumbus' fans. Their team qualifies for the playoffs twice in their history and then they get swept both times. Brutal.

Although this is pretty cool, does anyone else notice that they made Al the Octopus look like Roger from Family Guy?...excuse me.. American Dad.. I screwed that one up.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/player.htm?id=8466149 The herpes of hockey - because - wait for it - HE WON'T GO AWAY!!!

Infographic from sbnation.

Musta been before his pads took steroids.. SEASON GP MIN W L T GA SO GAA SA Sv% G A PIM 1996-97 8 394 1 4 0 24 0 3,65 201 .881 0 0 0 TOTAL 8 394 1 4 0 24 0 3,65 201 .881 0 0 0

Love, spit, bubble gum and hope.

No, we're not.

The internet will know... it always knows..

Also, the Octopi Hockeytown group will do a meet up but they haven't said where yet.. http://www.octopihockeytown.com/events.html I think the Joe does Joe-Vision games or something too.. Not sure if they are this year or not though.

I saw that as breaking news crawl on NHL.com but it wouldn't let me click it. A little more digging.. http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/eye-on-hockey/24526310/report-barry-trotz-out-after-16-seasons-as-predators-head-coach Some key moments in the Predators career of coach Barry Trotz: Aug. 6, 1997: Hired as first Nashville Predators head coach Oct. 13, 1998: Records first win as an NHL head coach – a 3-2 victory over Carolina. RELATED: Barry Trotz out as Predators coach April 7, 2004: Coaches the Predators in their first-ever playoff game. They lose 3-1 at Detroit. April 11, 2004: Records first NHL playoff win as a coach, a 3-1 victory over Detroit. April 7, 2007: Predators defeat Colorado 4-2, picking up their 110th point and 51st win, both still franchise best. RELATED: Predators could turn to former Flyers coach April 24, 2011: Predators defeat Anaheim 4-2, marking the first time they made it out of the first round of the playoffs. March 30, 2012: Picks up his 500th win in a 4-1 victory over Detroit. May 5, 2012: Predators lose to Phoenix in five games in the Western Conference semifinal series. The loss spurs significant changes, including the departure of defenseman Ryan Suter in free agency. GALLERY: Barry Trotz through the years April 27, 2013: Predators finish perhaps their worst season, going 16-23-9 in the NHL lockout-shortened campaign. April 13, 2014: Trotz coaches his final game with the Predators, a 7-3 victory at Minnesota. April 14, 2014: The Predators relieve Trotz of his coaching duties. He finished with 557 wins (third most for a coach with a single franchise) and 479 losses. He was finalist for the Jack Adams Award (NHL Coach of the Year) in 2010 and 2011.

The NHL letters the series. Usually it'll be that way on the tickets as well. http://www.nhl.com/ice/series.htm?season=20132014&series=a Notice the URL even has the Series A in it.