WCQF Game 3 GDT: Coyotes 4 at Red Wings 2

[crotty99 302]

I'm not a fan of 3am starts to watch the wings lose to some joke of a team, which has no right to exist.

Big third period wings, start taking advantage of your opportunities, show these fools who's boss.

[Zohan Franzen 18]

Let´s go boys. wanna see 20 min of Red Wings hockey now !

[ami 273]

is Shane 'bullet-of-s***' Doan out for a game?

[Vladifan 680]

Wow what a ******* dive... Did they not see them manhandle draper? Maybe if you called the first one that wouldn't happen.

Yeupp. Another one like Jovanoski's the other night. Dives are so unmanly and cowardly. And therein lies the irony.

[10 Minute Misconduct 104]

is Shane 'bullet-of-s***' Doan out for a game?

Yes.

[russianswede919293 95]

Howard has NOT been playing fine. The team hasn't been doing well but you cannot say with a straight face that the regular season Howard has been in this series.

100% agreed. He hasn't been bad per say, but he certainly hasn't been good.

He is going to have to up his game. Cut those rebounds out, and read plays better. If we are going to have a chance.

THe D also needs to tighten up and stop turning the puck over on lazy plays.

[Zenith 2]

The Wings should feel the urgecny and wake up. We need some change of the momentum in the early 3rd. The last period was atrocious

[Guest Four]

I hope Babcock teaches the team what a pass looks like during this intermission

[BuckeyeWingsfan80 209]

I agree, but that has proven to be a difficult task. Phoenix has done a pretty good job keeping them to the outside really.

True, but one definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

The Zero-angle play has NEVER worked and that's about all they got in the latter half of the 2nd period.

If they won't drive the net or at least get in the middle of the ice, they aren't going to win very much. It is series like these that makes me wish they had a guy like a Rick Nash (I know they can't afford him in the capped era), who drives the net and rarely gets pushed off the puck. Bert used to be that guy and Mule has done it before, but that's about it.

[Vladifan 680]

I am so sick of Draper... the guy is there to kill penalties, not cause them. I swear you could give him an empty net all year and Drapes will only score once.

He helped score a goal last game. He stays.

Edited April 18, 2010 by Vladifan

[Guest DetroitBoy313]

This is just so scripted for the Coyotes this year.This series just gives me that eery NJ,Anaheim,Edmonton feel.It doesn't look good for the Wings,I think if Phx wins this game they take the series.

[Turretin 0]

Kronwall has looked like garbage in the first 2. Both on the O and D side of the rink.

[Nightfall 871]

Good example of diverting the blame to other people in order to take away from the fact Howard hasn't been playing like the Wings need him to play.

Well, with only 1 goal to show for it, its apparent that you and others critical of Howard right now need him to play mistake free hockey in order to win a game. So who is diverting blame here?

[ami 273]

Yes.

now i dont know if this good or bad, we have been different team since he tried to damage JLA boards.

[GMRwings1983 8,794]

Phoenix will play the TRAP here.

[dat's sick 1,002]

Datsyuk is playing really great imo, but he's not getting any help. If we haven't scored when there's 10 minutes left I say Babs should go ZDH.

[Electrophile 3,554]

I think now is a good time to go find something to eat for dinner. I'm hoping the 3rd period is about a squillion times better than the 2nd was, or else there's going to be some peeved people around here. Myself included.

[MTU_Huskies963 398]

What a lazy pass. I knew that once they turned that over the yotes were going to score. Just get the damn puck out of the zone there was 40 seconds left in the period.

[FedorovGurl 2]

Awww.. no more 'Doan face"??

Pity

[Matt 1,048]

This all just goes back to the 2nd period on Friday night and the first half of the 2nd period this afternoon. When the Red Wings decide to lay down a consistent forecheck, finish all of their checks and not chase the puck the Coyotes buckle under the pressure. The didn't do any of that for the 2nd half of the period and they're trailing in the game because of it.

It's almost comical the night-and-day turnaround it is facing this Phoenix team when you turn the physical game back around on them.

[Marty Barry 230]

We need some inspiration.

[Systemfel 33]

Come on! Let's Go Red Wings!

[Doc Holliday 1,888]

Well, with only 1 goal to show for it, its apparent that you and others critical of Howard right now need him to play mistake free hockey in order to win a game. So who is diverting blame here?

I'm commenting on one player's sub-par performance. The defense doesn't make his performance any better than it is. And visa versa.

You don't see me getting into a discussion with people who are giving the defense s*** for their terrible play, are you?

[Marty Barry 230]

Not a good sign. They are playing the Blue Jackets entrance music.

[cmonster 11]

Can Yzerman come down from the press box and lace'em up and show these guys how its done?