Grade the Wings Players in Post-Season

[livediehockey80 0]

Best to worst. All in all...I gave positive marks despite not winning the Stanley Cup. Unlike in recent years, there were no "Fs" in this lineup.

Niklas Lidstrom...A

Dan Cleary.....A-

Chris Chelios....B+

Pavel Datsyuk....B+

Dominik Hasek....B +

Tomas Holmstrom....B+

Matthieu Schneider....B

Valteri Flippula....B

Kyle Quincy....B

Brett Lebda....B

Henrik Zetterberg....B-

Danny Markov....B-

Johann Franzen....B-

Kris Draper....C+

Mikael Samuelsson....C+

Thomas Kopecky....C+

Robert Lang.....C

Todd Bertuzzi....C

Jiri Hulder....C

Andreas Lilja....C-

Kirk Maltby.....D+

Kyle Calder.....D

Chris Osgood....Incomplete of course.

[KrazyGangsta 79]

I agree for everything with your grades except Cleary = A ++++

[Zeta Power 40 1]

I agree for everything with your grades except Cleary = A ++++

about another +? He showed so much heart

[Mike375 0]

Best to worst. All in all...I gave positive marks despite not winning the Stanley Cup. Unlike in recent years, there were no "Fs" in this lineup.

Niklas Lidstrom...A

Dan Cleary.....A-

Chris Chelios....B+

Pavel Datsyuk....B+

Dominik Hasek....B +

Tomas Holmstrom....B+

Matthieu Schneider....B

Valteri Flippula....B

Kyle Quincy....B

Brett Lebda....B

Henrik Zetterberg....B-

Danny Markov....B-

Johann Franzen....B-

Kris Draper....C+

Mikael Samuelsson....C+

Thomas Kopecky....C+

Robert Lang.....C

Todd Bertuzzi....C

Jiri Hulder....C

Andreas Lilja....C-

Kirk Maltby.....D+

Kyle Calder.....D

Chris Osgood....Incomplete of course.

Agreed with most of them, however...

Andreas Lilja C-? You're saying he's the 3rd worst player on the team? Besides the turnover in Game 5, I didn't see any bad play at all by him. He was also one of the most consistant hitters on the team.

[Opie 308]

Agreed with most of them, however...

Andreas Lilja C-? You're saying he's the 3rd worst player on the team? Besides the turnover in Game 5, I didn't see any bad play at all by him. He was also one of the most consistant hitters on the team.

Agreed if we are going to knock Lilja down from what I saw as a B to B+ performance because of one turnover that led to a goal than Bertuzzi should be at a D.

[akustyk 84]

A

Lidstrom, Cleary, Datsyuk, Franzen

A-

Chelios, Holmstrom, Zetterberg, Flippula

B

Markov, Schneider, Draper, Hasek, Bertuzzi

B-

Quincey, Samuelsson, Lilja, Maltby

C

Lebda, Lang, Hudler

C-

Kopecky, Calder

[Zion 93]

Agreed.

You're way off on Lilja. I'd call you a name, but I'm not in a bad mood. This was a great season.

[dteowner 20]

Way too harsh on Malts and Lilypad, particularly to put them below Hudler (barely played, even though he played well), Sammy (would the power play have been more effective with someone remotely competent on the point?), Bert (tried to hard to be a puck possession player when we brought him in to be a power forward), and Kopecky (barely played, took bad penalties).

I'd be tempted to push Flip and Franzen higher, too.

[Stevie Y Datsyuk 2]

Agreed with most of them, however...

Andreas Lilja C-? You're saying he's the 3rd worst player on the team? Besides the turnover in Game 5, I didn't see any bad play at all by him. He was also one of the most consistant hitters on the team.

I completely agree with you, Lilja deserves at least a B- or B IMO. He made 1 mistake but was always bringing a physical presence and stepped it up after Schneider went down.

[EuroTwinLove40 0]

Agreed with most of them, however...

Andreas Lilja C-? You're saying he's the 3rd worst player on the team? Besides the turnover in Game 5, I didn't see any bad play at all by him. He was also one of the most consistant hitters on the team.

I agree. I think Lilja stepped it up big time, besides the game 5 incident.