Teams we have been losing to...

[MissyLKS8 6]

This is pretty random and I probably should check better into this before posting... but is it just me, or have was lost the games to the teams we played in the post season last year? Predators, Avs, Stars, and Penguins...?

Is this a karma thing? Cause I thought we did fine in that department. Hopefully not a curse.

[Echolalia 2,961]

Its not a karma thing. We're losing to every team we don't show up to play. Whether it be the Predators, the Penguins, the Bruins, or the Leafs. The Wings don't give it 100% for 60 minutes, they're losing, because the other team sure as hell is going to be giving it their all when they come to play the Stanley Cup champs.

[Guest Shoreline]

They're just lowering their opponent's (and fan's) expectations for the great postseason surprise.

[MissyLKS8 6]

Its not a karma thing. We're losing to every team we don't show up to play. Whether it be the Predators, the Penguins, the Bruins, or the Leafs. The Wings don't give it 100% for 60 minutes, they're losing, because the other team sure as hell is going to be giving it their all when they come to play the Stanley Cup champs.

True that. It's like we cream the Sharks who are at the top, but I find it odd how we are against those we are known to have beaten.

Come on Wings, you're better then that!

[Guest Shoreline]

True that. It's like we cream the Sharks who are at the top, but I find it odd how we are against those we are known to have beaten.

Come on Wings, you're better then that!

Heh, watching the Wings over the years, that is simply what they are prone to. When you win so much sometimes you take the foot off the gas, forgetting that the opponent sees you as someone above them on the ladder to climb over.

[Zetterling 16]

This is pretty random and I probably should check better into this before posting... but is it just me, or have was lost the games to the teams we played in the post season last year? Predators, Avs, Stars, and Penguins...?

Is this a karma thing? Cause I thought we did fine in that department. Hopefully not a curse.

Karma in the sense that teams really want to beat us after we beat them last year and won the cup? Yes. That's just cause and effect. Wings need to refuel in the motivation department.

[SouthernWingsFan 854]

You are going to lose games in an 80+ game regular season. You are going to sometimes lose to teams you expect to normally beat, you are going to sometimes beat teams where you think on paper you have no chance. There's no karma, correlations, or anything like that. Losses happen sometimes.

[cusimano_brothers 1,655]

Record vs. Play-Off opponents the following season, of the last three Stanley Cup Championship Seasons:

1996-97 STL CQG 1997-98: 2W-3L-1T

1996-97 ANA CSF 1997-98: 3W-0L-1T

1996-97 COL CF 1997-98: 1W-2L-1T

1996-97 PHI SCF 1997-98: 1W-1L

1997-98 PHO CQF 1998-99: 1W-3L

1997-98 STL CSF 1998-99: 2W-2L-2T

1997-98 DAL CF 1998-99: 1W-3L

1997-98 WAS SCF 1998-99: 1W-0L

2001-02 VAN CQF 2002-03: 1W-2L-1OTL

2001-02 STL CSF 2002-03: 5W-0L

2001-02 COL CF 2002-03: 2W-2L

2001-02 CAR SCF 2002-03: 0W-1L.

I haven't included last season/this season because there's still a long way to go. But, in the words of famed entertainer and scholar, Dr. Ric Flair:

"If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best".

Edited December 28, 2008 by cusimano_brothers

[HadThomasVokounOnFortSt 878]

The teams that you have listed are actually pretty good teams, don't see any problem.

[Never_Retire_Steve 35]

We like to give these teams leads and then try and come back in the third. It's really starting to piss me off how many times we are entering the third period down a couple lately.