chrisdetroit

New Jersey or Washington certainly would have given the Pens a run for their money and Buffalo would have been competative. The Pens are good but IMO they are not that great. But the hockey gods gave them another free pass this year. You assume that they would win the east against anybody. I want to see them earn it. THAT is the issue. I am not talking about who finished a lower seed, that is irrelevant. My complaint is that in the east the top 3 teams all lost and in the west they all won so the Pens were practically given a ticket to the finals. No. The Wings are a 5th seed and the Pens a 4th...

One lucky goal? Are you kidding? Did you see where he put that shot? Yor hate is blinding you.

Last time I checked, your boys had just lost home ice advantage to the frickin Ottawa Senaors and Fleury was playing like crap. Good luck with that one...

At least we get rid of some of the haters and bandwagon fans. Don't let the door hit your asses on the way ou.

Simple. IF Detroit and Chicago both win, then there are 4 possible scenarios depending on if Vancouver and San Jose win: San Jose vs Detroit and Chicago vs Vancouver San Jose vs Detroit and Chicago vs LA Chicago vs Colorado and Vancouver vs Detroit Chicago vs Colorado and Detroit vs LA So you are correct, it is not possible for Detroit and Chicago to meet in the 2nd round.

wait. You are picking all the favorites. What is your point. The top 4 teams almost never all win. In 2004 the top 4 teams in the west ALL lost in the first round. I'm picking Nashville to beat Chicago.

I'm not sure how you came up with some of this. Lilja is a regular and will play everyday. He isn't going to rotate with anybody. Holmstrom has said he wants to return and the Wings said that they want him. He isn't going anywhere. Odd men out are Willy and maybe Bert

Posters that predict that the Wings will lose on every single GDT....

What the frick are you talking about? We outshot them like 17-3 in the 3rd. Awful huh? Howard gave up 2 2 goals total. Damn bandwagon fans.

Have you EVER predicted that they would win?

8 games for that?!! Are you kidding me? Has anybody ever been suspended for 8 frickin games? That is just stupid. A game or 2 ok. But 8 games? Wow

What lesson is that? We shouldn't sign Euros? We shouldn't sign Finns? What a stupid post. We have a couple guys from Europe that have worked out Ok so far. What a stupid post.

Howard will suck Lilja will never play again Holmstrom should hang it up Ericsson will be great this year The Wings will miss the playoffs Reasons that I don't take many of the posters on here seriously.

What the hell are you reading. We are 6 points out of fifth place Colorado is in 5th with 86 points and we have 80. Both teams have played the same number of games. Are all of your posts so completely wrong?

I'm with you. That's the way Ovi plays. Reckless. Someday he is going to seriously hurt somebody. I think a doubleminor would have done it. 2 weeks in a row they blew a big lead on national tv at home. sucks to be a Hawks fan...

If you assume that Franzen is good for 40 goals/season and you add that to the Wings G/game, it puts them as one of the top 5 scoring teams in the league. 'nuff said....

And he showed his stupidity in 2008 when he stuck with Theodore in Colorado even when the Wings were shelling him. Remeber that playoff series? Franzen scored 9 goals in 4 games and Quenville refused to bench Theodore. He said repeatedly "he was the one that got us here so I'm sticking with him". Quenville and Huet, the reason that Chicago won't go far...

Our biggest problem this year has been the lack of scoring. In the last 5 games we have 20 goals 4.0 GPG In the last 10 we have 33 goals 3.3 GPG We are on a roll

Before the game started I was thinking to myself what is the worst possible outcome for the Hawks in this game. A key injury? Maybe but they are very deep and losing a Kane or Toews though it would hurt would IMO not be the end of the world. Getting blown out by Detroit. Not so much, they would just look at it as 1 game and move on. Then I realizedzed that the WORST thing that could happen to Chicago in this game was for Huet to really suck. Because then it plants doubt in everyones minds. - players, fans, coaches. And that my friends is exactly what happened. Even the NBC idiots realize now that Chicago has a real goaltending issue and it may cost them a chance at the Cup. Today was a good day.... And I didn't hear any "Detroit Sucks" chants. Hmmm wonder why...LOL

And Cristobal Huet is their goaltender...

He was never awesome. He looked like he was but we were comparing him to guys like Abby and May and Maltby who are not goal scorers. Bert is at best a 3rd line player.

Nobody (ok a few LGW posters) said he wasn't a great talent. This thread was about if we respected him. As a hockey player - yes. As a person - no. So you can stop praising his hockey ability and post some things that he has said or done that should garner our respect for him as a person. I'll give you a hint. Things that he SHOULD have done: 1. After "forgetting" to shake hands after game 7 last year, he should have called Nick the following week and basically said that he wasn't intentionally trying to slight him. 2. After winning the gold medal in OT last week, he should have said something to the effect that the U.S. played a great game and Canada was fortunate to get the OT winner. When he grows up and starts doing these kind of things, he will have my respect. One last thing. When Yzermann retired, he said that his sucess was the result of playing with great teamates. That is class. I'm waiting for Syd to grow up.....

This quote earned my respect My hat goes off to Brian Burke, Ron Wilson and the USA team. What a tremendous team they put together, a young team, and they were fantastic. We feel very fortunate to have won the gold. The quote is from Ken Holland. You will never hear anything like that from Syd. Until he grows up if he ever does. THAT is why I don't like him.

If Canada wins, the Sidney Crosby worshiping will make me puke. Please God, don't let that happen

NOOOOOOOO Can you imagine the media orgy if the Canadians win the gold? And it will all be because of Crosby. I don't care who wins it as longs as it's not the Canadians.