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I don't know why every one is bent on getting the Wings in the East. Detroit is right on the line between being in the East and West. There are lots of good teams in the West, and if they had been in the East all these years, there is no Colorado-Detroit rivalry for all that time. I know playing the orignial six teams mosr would be nice, but that is no reason to root for the Penguins to move to Kansas City, which is absolutely senseless. Kansas City is another Nashville waiting to happen. The problem is the schedule, when we had a balanced schedule, few people were going crazy about Detroit being in the East. We just need to play Eastern teams more often.

You won't have to worry about stupid Nashville fans much longer. Unless they win the cup this year, I would expect them to be in another city in the next 5 years. My buddy was in Nashville a couple weeks ago. He couldn't believe it; he said it was as if this unbelievably talented hockey team dosen't even exist.

I HATE MICHIGAN HOCKEY FOR ETERNITY AND MORE, but grudgingly the best goal I ever saw was some time in the late 90's I think, where the Michigan player (it doesn't matter who it was, he was wearing ugly "maize") is standing behind his net, gets the puck to stand stationary on his stick, lifts it into the air, wraps it around the goal and flips it inside the pipe lacrosse style. And it was in the Frozen Four! I could not believe that goal; it made me sick, but it was on ESPN for a long time. GO STATE

There is definitely something to the winning=fan complacency theory. When Michigan State hockey was so great and had been great for 20 years in the Ron Mason era (1982-2002), I went to some games in 2000-2002 when Ryan Miller was in goal. MSU has incredible teams, and sold out all the time, but the building was quiet. Enter Rick Comley, 3 years of mediocrity (2003-2005), and the building emptied out and MSU hockey fell off the map. Now that the program has regenerated itself (minus last week's disaster), several things have happened. 1. Many of the old foggies gave up their season tickets between 2002 and 2005. 2. Games no longer always sell out, but 3. as students and non season-ticket holders could hardly ever get a walk up ticket back in the day, now they can The walk up fans decided they wanted to go to the game that night, not four months before. I think that has a result on how enthusiastic the crowds are. Munn was notoriously silent 5 years ago, and was admittedly awful in that pathetic showing against Western on Saturday. But Munn Arena has never been louder than when MSU has played well this year, even in non-sellouts. It's not crazy like Yost, but at least you could take a 5 year old without him/her learning new four letter words either.