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Pav and Hank, we need you to turn up tonight. 

And The Mule, be nice if you we could get a rare spotting of you tonight.

And Flip, do you want your 588th and last game in a Red Wing jersey to be a game 7 loss? 

Dan.  Daniel.  Danny.  This could be your last game in red too, but I know we can rely on you to leave every last ounce of what is left of your broken down, beaten up, falling apart at the seams, clapped out, knackered old body on the ice.

Oh, and don't stop believing.

More nervous for this game than any so far in the playoffs.  

Its because, for the first time this post-season the Wings are actually under pressure.  Game 7 against Anaheim, we'd already exceeded expectations and everyone was happy.

We shall light the beacons to signal a Red Wings victory to you.  Godspeed weary traveller of ye old European mountainside

 

I don't have the talent for it, but there is some serious photoshop/gif potential in that scene.

Pavel normally has one big game per round, and he's due tonight.  He breaks out with a goal and 13 assists as the Wings march into the conference finals with a 14-3 win.

2010 , Game 4, Detroit 7 - San Jose 1.  We all know how that ended

2009, Game 5, Detroit 5 - Pens 1.  We all know how that ended.

There's lots more examples, but we should all have seen enough playoff hockey to know that blowing a team out at home when your back is against the wall means NOTHING.  If anything, it makes the Wings comes out harder than a 3-2 triple OT loss would.

Meh.  James T Williams is average.

 

I didn't see this request until just now, but I see Up Against The Boards beat me to it, so thank you

 

You gave me the perfect image to complete an idea I had last night, so thanks to you good sir (or ma'am):

 

 

No, thankyou Ser, for having the foresight to transform it to a motivational poster.  This one is for all those who frequent the HFboards

So I thought long and hard about how I could make this even funnier, and in the end, I came up empty.  Resizing a screen cap counts as a photoshop, right?

He's always been a good player. People just irrationally translated his injury history as meaning he is a bad player.
 

This. 

Please Hank don't hurt 'em!

 

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Please Hammer, don't hurt 'em!

Other notes from the game

*  CBC started drooling all over the Hawks in the 1st, by the 3rd they were drooling all over the Wings

*  Toews crying more and more like a little girl the longer the game went on

*  Nice to see the refs letting the teams play.  Even more so as it suits the Wings to not get into a special teams battle

*  Good to see Jimmy get the night off for once.  The team owed him that.

You know how everyone on here always ******* and moans about how we never play a 60 minute game anymore?

That, ladies and gentlemen, was a 60 minute game.

Not only is he a rookie in his first playoffs, he's a rookie playing on the 2nd pairing when he should reallly be playing on the 3rd pairing due to our lack of defensive depth.  And as if that wasn't enough, he's playing against a Blackhawks 2nd line that would be a 1st line on 1/2 of the teams in the NHL.

So yeah, rookie defenceman, playing against all-stars.  1st period flub apart he had a solid game.

As for people who are writing off their chances, Franzen said, “Let them think that. That’s awesome. Who cares?''

 

Hahaha, go Mule!

Welcome to modern sports journalism.  I was going to say modern US sports journalism, but alas this kind of cheap, unintelligent, childish, completely-lacking-in-insight trash has spread over the pond   Its the same kind of journalism that produces the Team Win = They're Great!  Team Lose = THEY SUCK!  FIRE EVERYONE mentality.

Someone mentioned Woody Paige, and they're spot on, its exactly the same kind of playground writing that he spouted (and which lest we forget, Detroit sportswriters joined in with).  If a blackhawks fan came on here and started posting stuff like that they'd be banned as a troll and rightfully so.