Macomb Daily Article

[pjgj13 30]

Here is an excerpt taken from today's edition........

"The Red Wings won their 40th game of the season, Saturday, coming in just their 54th outing. Their rate of success is phenomenal and has them 17 points ahead of the second-best team in the Western Conference (through Saturday) and 16 points ahead of the second-best team overall. That's tremendous separation when you consider that the deviation between any two teams that are second through 30th in the standings is two points except for a four-point gap between the 28th and 29th place teams.

But even this late into the season and even after seven consecutive victories, the team that the Red Wings cannot shake is the Detroit Red Wings … the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings.

That squad set an NHL record with 62 wins.

This year's squad is dominating the present, but is just able to keep pace with the past.

This year's Red Wings have won their past seven games. Four victories ago, the team caught up with the 1995-96 team's pace. (Early in this season, the Red Wings were ahead of that pace, but a loss in Game 46 finally saw them drop behind.)"

So, if they play their divisional games like they should, they have a very good shot at this. Hopefully after that, win 16 more.

[Opie 308]

Here is an excerpt taken from today's edition........

"The Red Wings won their 40th game of the season, Saturday, coming in just their 54th outing. Their rate of success is phenomenal and has them 17 points ahead of the second-best team in the Western Conference (through Saturday) and 16 points ahead of the second-best team overall. That's tremendous separation when you consider that the deviation between any two teams that are second through 30th in the standings is two points except for a four-point gap between the 28th and 29th place teams.

But even this late into the season and even after seven consecutive victories, the team that the Red Wings cannot shake is the Detroit Red Wings … the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings.

That squad set an NHL record with 62 wins.

This year's squad is dominating the present, but is just able to keep pace with the past.

This year's Red Wings have won their past seven games. Four victories ago, the team caught up with the 1995-96 team's pace. (Early in this season, the Red Wings were ahead of that pace, but a loss in Game 46 finally saw them drop behind.)"

So, if they play their divisional games like they should, they have a very good shot at this. Hopefully after that, win 16 more.

The only problem with this is that most of the wings losses this year have come against the Central division. I mean they have killed just about every other division in the NHL, but their own.

I worry about the end of the season, as most of their games are against the division.

But hopefully they can keep the good hockey going.

[detroitdan 0]

I don't care if they win another game in the regular season as long as they win 16 once the playoffs start...as the Patriots proved, a good regular season means absolutely nothing if you can't win the big one