Vladifan

[quote name="Playmaker" post="2406686" timestamp="1368902201"]Smith is a rookie who is going to make mistakes.  Pucks will get past you at the point.  If Cleary does his job, it's a good scoring chance, and nothing more.  He's a seasoned playoff veteran and shouldn't be making plays like this.  Cleary isn't the scapegoat.  He's getting well deserved criticism for his extremely poor play.[/quote

What you call "well-deserved criticism" is what I'd call obsessive overkill. He is not playing well.  But Cleary commentary has gone from well-chosen, logical and timely remarks to a kind of pubescent, smart-ass, sarcastic let's-all-dump-on-him-because-it's-the-current-thing-to-do thing.  Kind of like mindless, absentee bullying.  What I find interesting about my own reaction is that whether it's my business or not; and even though I don't have any control over it, I feel embarrassed and sad for those of you who are persisting, even when he plays ok.  It's just a guess here.  A stab in the dark?  But I'm thinking the point has been made that Daniel Cleary is not playing well.

GO. FILPPULA!!  You can prove me wrong ANY time you want to!  DOES THIS TEAM LOOK GOOD, OR WHAT??!

GO, BELOVED RED WINGS!!!!!!

Anybody else hear Eddie Ozone rationalizing the dives?  He says everybody's doing it.  So that makes it just all righty, huh, oh forked-tongued wonder.  POS.

We need more goals out of Franzen.

We need more shots on goal out of everybody.  And if there's three of their guys on one of ours, surely someone's open?!

That is overkill, plain and simple, and it probably does come from a sense of insecurity.  I want this pontifying POS to eat it and choke on it.  I want the same thing to happen to him and his team that happened to Woody Paige the time he thought it was the Right and Proper Thing to Do to dismiss the opponent with a flick of his pen.  

GO, WINGS.  Read this and do some of your own ripping and tearing.  You KNOW you can do this.

I haven't read past page 5 on here, but I think the Hawks are getting away with holds, dives and interference.  I also think Brunner and Hossa look a lot alike from their profiles.  Lastly, I think the NBC camera persons could just get over it and alternate between the Chicago bench and the Chicago players.  Why pretend?  Right, Eddie O?

 

Doesn't matter.  If you're writing and promoting this team then STFU about anything that could hinder them.

Agreed.  There is this whole, unending thing where all writers do not suffer the consequences for lies,or stupid, ill-timed statements.  He coulda gone a month without laying that out there.

 

Anybody else remember Woody Paige ripping the crap out of a team (was it hockey?  was it football?)?  that was going to play 'his' Denver team.  Whoever it was beat the team bloody.  He even apologized as a recall.  THAT was the exception to the rule.  

we get emerick, edzo and pierre!
 
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Yeeeeaaaahhhhh.  That should be a fairly called game.  (trying to remove finger from throat)  And we'll probably get the very same totally impartial group in Detroit too, huh.  (Hell with it.  Puking as I write.)

Mike - Thanks again for your talented work on these.  And the photo of Vladdy pretty much gives it the final, exquisite touch.   Can we use the word "exquisite" here?  Hell yes, when it comes to Deetroit hockey and Vladimir Konsantinov.

GO, DETROIT RED WINGS!!!   KICK SOUTH SIDE BUTT!

Holy s*** do you guys have any idea how nerve wracking it is to read this thread and not be able to watch the game?

THIS!!  I'm sitting in the hotel bathroom cause I couldn't sleep anyway.  So it's 2-1 with Abby's short-handed goal??!

Flashy - Your work is wonderful on all levels.  This is steller stuff.  I think my fave in this one is Boudreau the Hutt.  I'm guessing even the Ducks are checking these out.  At least the pictures, since there's really no proof they can read.

We're in London, UK (THANKS for keeping track of the charity thingie, Vladdy16!) .  We've not been online much because it was costing a fortune.  But we're in a hotel here now and it's free!  Whee!  It's also now 12:10 am here, while it's not even game time there.  Aaaack!  We'll know the score tomorrow.  BUT OUR BOYZ CAN AND MUST DO THIS.  GO, BELOVED RED WINGS!!

 

One more I came up with this morning and threw together, enjoy.

 

 

OK, I needed that.  I'm laughing out loud.  Thanks!

Would have been perfect if you could find a pic of Nyquist instead. However, Great Job! I lol'd

Me too.  Where else can you lose a big game and still laugh afterward?!  Thanks, Karen!!

Still a helluva'n idea. THANKS again, Catherine.  I have none of Karen's creativity when it comes to how to set this up, and we only have two dogs already named Dave and Mylie; so I'm gonna say $5 per goal and $5 per shutout, throughout however far they go.  Yeah, it could hurt but in a good way!  And there can't be as much pain as our guys will probably go through fighting off the cheapshots from the Quackers, et al. 

 

LET'S GO, RED WINGS!!

 

 

 

$5.00 per goal as far as they can take it!

$5.00 per shutout has far as they can take it!