Z Winged Dangler

Until there's a better coach available , isn't this subject academic?   There IS no one better out there.  

That's definitely the problem is that there isn't a better coach out there.  Ours is just being stubborn as all hell.  I think the fact that he left the square wheel line together so long just has a lot of people very pissed.  And if Dats leaves after next season, it will be remembered for a long time and a lot of people may blame Babcock for not giving Datsyuk the tools he deserved to be the best player he could be.

Tootoo is scratched, while Eaves and Emmerton are in? Dafuq?

Let Cleary or Abdelkader sit for a game.   All the points they got on Dats' wings must have them exhausted.

Lines for tonight:  Flip - Z - Brunner, Mule - Dats - Gus, TATAR - Abby - Andersson, Miller - Em-Dog - Tootoo.

 

"Hey Cleary, f*** You!  Enjoy being picked up on waivers" --Mike Babcock.

 

esteef

 In a perfect world...

I'd rather see Cleary go on a permanent vacation and keep both.

get him and quincey out and you free up 6.5 million in cap space, and it wouldn't hurt our defense any either. 

 Ya man, let White go, abandon ship on Q however possible and sign Dekeyser to play with Smith.  That would be the perfect pairing.

Thing is, the playoffs are a different ball game. We all know this. And we all know it's a ball game that has not been kind to the Wings in recent seasons. And we all know (whether we want to admit it or not) that that's mostly on our scoring, or lack thereof, not "puck luck." And so here we, having scoring problems again - but, wowzers! We're third in the Western Conference! And don't worry about our special teams! They'll just, well, they'll just start clicking! And then we'll  be unstoppable!

 

 

Not trying to be a prick. I'm hoping for the best...and preparing for the worst.

 I'm with you on this one.  If we miss the playoffs or get bounced in the first round, we have a good chance of getting Ryan Pulock in the draft.  The boys are simply not scoring enough.  They have stretches of games where they look like they're gonna start scoring in bunches, but we only killed Vancouver, but thank god for that cause i hate them....lots.  The bad line combos and crap like that is killing what momentum we get from the production line of Tatar-Andersson-Eaves when Z and Dats come out with one or both of Cleary/Abs on their lines. 

If Holland can get Ryan Pulock in the 1st round and the guy in the CHL with the most hits in the 2nd round, then i'll be happy losing 1 more season.  It wouldn't hurt if he would draft the rest of the guys in rounds 3-7 all guys 6'4 or bigger at forward and groom them all as power forwards, but that's just my crazy idea.

As for us winning the cup or not, I also think make the playoffs and anything can happen.  It depends on which Wings team shows up.  The one who destroyed Vancouver or the one who lost the season series to the BJ's.

Cleary is a 13th forward playing in the top 6.  I want to vomit.

Hot line tonight, keep an eye out for abby to net at least 4 goals, cleary will have 12 breakaways with that great speed of his netting 6 of them, and datsyuk scores from the megatron

So close...empty netter for his 1st of the year.  Quota has been reached. 

If Lashoff had ever gotten the chance to play before, Kenny might have realized he didn't need to sign guys like Cola and/or Huskins.

The overly ripe philosophy definitely has its drawbacks. It's unfortunate it requires injuries for them to even get a shot but it's nice to see the younger guys getting a chance.

and if Sammy wasn't signed, Nyquist or Tatar could have started the season here.  but he's injured, so it's all good in da hood.  maybe this will send a message that the Wings need to play younger, more durable players and not give multi year deals to old news.

Wow, White scratched again tonight, that's like 4 in a row, right?

 

What is the deal with this guy?  Can they flip him for a conditional pick or something?  Dude was a +22 last year and had pretty good production numbers.  I've never been much of a fan of him, but his play must have been unusually infuriating that he can't crack THIS defensive corps.  I feel like every was pooping all over Quincey and Kindl earlier this year, and it's White who can't even play now.

Wings started winning when White's garbage turnovers a general weakness left the line up.  Chemistry is running the Wings blueline now and even Q is playing good hockey, aside from his brain fart against the Hawks trying to take a clapper in the slot on a bouncing puck to clear it. 

In the words of Ricky from Trailer Park Boys..... I f***in' toad-a-so, f***in' toad-a-so!

As for his +22, a pylon could be +22 on the other side of Lidstrom's blue line.  And Kindl may have just had his best game in the NHL, so White is baggage at this point that you couldn't care less if it was lost at the airport.

"figures into their plans"? hmmm possible trade coming?

Time to take trim the fat.

Guys like Tatar, Andersson, Lashoff, Emmerton, Kindl and Smith are seizing their opportunities and showing us they can play Red Wings hockey.  

Hawks are looking good.  It's not so much thinking about the record streak, it's when you ask yourself who the hell is gonna take these guys down in a 7 game series at this point??  if LA plays like they did last year in the playoffs, that would probably be a WCF and a damn entertaining one.  St. Louis was my early pick, but injuries and inconsistent play and goaltending knocked them off that mantle.

Clearly you don't know what the word "similier" means. Also Roy was known for wering oversized pads-same as JS, and the reduction in the size happened after him. Now if you want to talk about great goalies in a high scoring era, that would be Fuhr. he was awesome and I don't know if he ever had a GAA under 3 back in the 80's. back when guys would average 2 points per game. More scoring and more fights=better hockey!

 I googled similier and it's actually not a word.

The only goalie in the past 20 years that hasn't used stupid huge pads is Brodeur.  He is the best goalie ever to play the game and he doesn't cheat and he doesn't get rattled.  Howard has been af****** superstar the past 5 games that's for sure.  Problem is that aside from the game in Vancouver, we can't seem to get the bounces to top 2 friggen goals.

now THAT is Abby's job!

Franzeypoo hustled a little and look what happened