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Or if the Ducks are behind and need some offense.

I have heard a lot of stories of the Ducks players not liking Carlyle. I don't know if any of it is true, but the way the guy complains about everything I wouldn't be surprised if it was true.

You probably won't be able to either because it wasn't anything big and it definnitely wasn't illegal. It's just Carlyle being a panzy and a poor loser.

It was more like 28 minutes for Getzlaf. The Wings have 4 shutdown lines while the Ducks do not. No team in the playoffs can match the depth of the Red Wings. Once Draper is healthy, we can dump Kopecky and our 4th line becomes exponentially better.

That's what the Ducks want the Wings to do. They want the Wings to fall into that trap but they won't because the Wings are too smart. The Wings need to focus on winning game #2, not getting retribution. The best retribution the Wings can achieve is winning the game.

I hate the big time gaps between games on the same day.

Yeah, Lidstrom's last goal was even strength. I don't know where everyone is getting 3 PP goals from.

Not 3 more times in a row though. I want these teams to beat each other up.

I'm going, but I'll be up in a suite.

How big is that save by Varlamov looking now?

Agreed. We can sit and argue about whether it should have been a suspension or not. Instead we should look forward to Game #2 and hope that the Wings can go up 2 on the Ducks.

Bad time to give the Pens a PP.

Especially since Sammy was brutal on the PP last night.

Pierre gets way too many opportunities to speak.

Head shots are illegal unless one is delivered to a Red Wings player, in which they are encouraged.

This quote from Babcock is a little encouraging. NHL

The Jack Adams Award is a joke. How is Babcock not nominated? 50+ wins in 3 consecutive seasons is hard and a product of good coaching.

That's completely retarded. Do we really need to watch 3 hours of coverage before a 2 minute race? Show the damn hockey game. Pathetic.

That's a joke, right?

The Capitals sure have found their goalie. Amazing save.

The swings in momentum are huge this period.

I think it is wrong. Saying players from Canada are good because they are from Canada and saying players from Europe are bad because they are from Europe is stupid and xenophobic. If you watch CBC they pretty much do just that, but that's because that's what their audience believes and wants to hear. Don Cherry says good ol' Canadian boy on just about every Coaches Corner and then he berates players that are European for simply no other reason than because they are European. It's all stupid and will never change.

Terrible goal to give up.

Ken and Mickey may say that those guys are from Michigan, but they don't insinuate that them being from Michigan makes them good players, something that HNIC does with Canadian players.

I know. It's just sad that something stupid like where players are from should even matter.