Firehawk

 

I agree with you on the instigator.

 

However, I don't think that applies in this situation.  I believe Bickell would oblige if one of our tougher guys challenged him.  

I think Bickell would have fought Erickson or somebody that challenged him.  He's been lookin to go with somebody. 

I say let's just focus on WINNING, and shaking hands after game 6!

If this goes 7 I just don't see us winning it, not since it's in Chicago.  We got our 1 win we needed there, I think that's all we're going to get.  And I have a feeling the wings are aware of it.  Not that they CANT go in there and win, but Chicago isn't Anaheim, and that Chicago crowd is crazy. 

We will win it in 6 though.  I'm pretty confident about it.

Hey GMR, did you happen to see Don Cherry after I think it was the 1st intermission when he was showing clips of players like Toews, Crosby, etc getting jabbed and punched, and that the instigator rule implementation caused all this?

I was in 100% agreement with Don.  He showed Kronwall rubbing Toews into the goal post and somebody facewashing crosby.  He said "what if gretzky had to deal with all that?

I agree.  I think that Zetterburg, Datsyuk, Yzerman, Toews, Kane, Crosby, Malkin, and the list goes on, all suffer becuase of that instigator rule.  I would enjoy hockey a TON more if they got rid of that rule and brought the enforcer back.  I think the gam would open up and it would be a lot more enjoyable agian, just what we all are clamouring for. 

I wanna see Howard make it to round 3 for the first time.  He has earned it in my book.  And I've been a bit skeptical of him the last couple of years.  But this year he's showed a lot.  We've been asking for a goalie that can steal a game or two since Hasek.  And we got em now.  And Hasek had A TON more talent around him to help. 

We have completely blatent breakdowns and Howard has bailed us out countless times all series.  That's what you want.  Just like Quick.

Now babcock has more ammo to use with the wings to lecture them on why it's so important to play hard every shift and that it will take a perfect effort to eliminate the best team in the league.  I'm not worried...yet.  I trust in Babs.

 

Fair enough, but I just didn't see a great effort and desire to finish the series tonight from the Wings.  

 

I knew Chicago would bring it, but I expected a better fight in return.  

But in a weird way, don't you actually feel a oddly better that we got blown out tonight versus had we lost it in 2OT or something very dramatic like that?  I do.  If we were going to lose I didn't want it to be close, and it wasn't.