Uncle Danny

Firstly, welcome to the board, bigbear!

Secondly, though... you might want to reconsider the framing of your topic.  Why is he a nice guy?  Share a story or two, perhaps.  I'm very glad you know and think highly of a player I respect from afar, but some more context for conversation would likely be smiled upon by the population here at large.

Just tryin' to help

Shanahan is doing decent job so far. I'm glad this cheap shot artist finally caught an attention.

btw, does anybody know where a complete list of this and previous seasons' suspensions can be found?

Not sure about last season, but this is a pretty good site for this year's running list:

http://www.shanabans.com/

Back OT, I'm probably in the severe minority here when I say that I don't much care about the sponsorship.  This is a business, and one business has decided to give another a lot of money in trade for exposure.  I happen to agree with most that the choice of partners was ill conceived, and Amway is a bloodsucking scam... but I'm a discerning customer and can choose to ignore their advances and name drops as well as the next guy.  I am disappointed that the red and white powers that be didn't decide on a more reputable partner, but cest la vie.  Amway doesn't play hockey.  Dasyuk, Lidstrom and Hank do.  See you all in the regular season

Does it make you feel smart to talk down to anonymous people on the internet?

To answer your question I am 21 (D.O.B. 11/28/1989), I graduated from U-M in December and have been unemployed ever since. But guess what, I don't expect the government to pay off my student loans, or keep me from making bad investments like spending $100,000 on a history degree that I now have to find some way to pay back, or pay for me to sit on my ass and do nothing. The choices I have made in life are my own and I don't have anyone to blame for my current position but myself, the burden of those decisions falls solely on myself and those members of my family who are willing to help me. I can't believe the only negs I have ever gotten were for a post defending capitalism and extolling the virtues of personal responsibility...

The point of my post was that any adult knows that you can't work 10 hours a week and make $250,000 a year, unless maybe you've put in 20+ years of 80 hour work weeks already. Anyone who knows anything about business knows you don't keep dumping money into a business that isn't profitable. People who lose their money in these kinds of schemes are people who are looking to get rich quick without doing any work. I am sorry, life does not work that way.

Yes.  I am also sorry that life does not work that way.  Thank you for the lesson.  I feel more adult now.

You shouldn't judge players by how many stats they have...

Don't all players have the same number of stats, so long as they play the same position?  

there's always a prostitute.

Just ask Hudler.  He'll tell ya.

I disagree, although I can see where you're coming from.

Firstly, I don't think the Wings are any one individual's team, and likely haven't been since Stevie left.  Even before he retired, an argument could've been made that it was the entire lockerroom's team, as I'm sure Draper and others were just as instrumental in maintaining team focus.  That's one of the great things about this team over the past decade plus -- the team first mentality that brought success.  In fact, I seem to recall a story about the team being down heading into the third period and every member of the team having to step up and stare both Yzerman and Chelios in the eye for near a minute before heading back out onto the ice.

Secondly, I think that Datsyuk is the player everyone else looks to in the clutch to step things up.  He's the guy who will get you that amazing play to save the game.  However, I believe (and this is from a spectator's perspective only) that the person they'd look to bring order from chaos when a series is on the line is still Lidstrom.  There is a big difference between being the best and most talented game breaker on the ice and being the leader that everyone looks to for emotional direction.  Lidstrom is the emotional bedrock of this team, and Datsyuk is looked upon to be the guy who takes that leadership first (again, IMO).

This, in a nutshell, is why I see Z taking the mantle as a done deal once Lidstrom retires.  Not because Datsyuk's english is suspect, not because Z is the better player...but because when the chips are down he seems more the type to be able to tell everyone in the room what needs to happen in order to pull out a victory (and to back it up with his play).  Datsyuk's a supreme talent, no question, and by all accounts a great dressing room presence...but talent doesn't necessarily translate to managing a room.

EDIT:  I guess what I'm trying to say is that they all look to Datsyuk to save them in a pinch, because he can.  They all look to Lidstrom (and soon Z) to ask "what do we need to do?"

I get why Williams is laughed at here.  Really, I do.  But $600k and two way for a veteran who has proven he can provide secondary/tertiary scoring?  Even if he's below average in that role, they hardly broke the bank for him and have no contractual reason to keep him in the bigs if he doesn't put up numbers.  He'll never make a huge impact on the ice, but he's also not in a position here to make a huge impact on their cap or roster size.  I say good signing.  Not great, simply good.

Easily among the top three individual PK performances in recent Wings history (see: Helm, Hank).  I was out of my seat when this happened.  Absolutely fantastic.

Yeah the C64 didn't have much of anything really...  I am so tempted to grab mine from the closet and try to get it going...

You'd probably have better luck running an emulator these days.  I'm guessing that even if you could get the thing to boot (and find an adaptor for your TV), those 5.25" floppies gave up the ghost long ago.

Anyway, back on subject... if he dons #64, I will be the first in line for his jersey.  The only thing cooler would be if he could rock the number ",8,1"

That makes little sense though, because the screen was always blue. Windows is the blue screen of death...

C64s also never had hard drives (but I heart the 1541 drives), and the photo of the afroed computer is a C128, not 64.  

This should be played every time he scores a goal...

That is how you light a lamp!!!

Oh, HELL yes!  Love it!

Just let people express their raw fan emotion.  That's what an internet message board is for, really.  For better or worse, they provide the ultimate freedom to express however the hell you want with little to no consequences.  With an emotional climate like the one in this thread, it's a waste of time to try to argue and change each other's point of view's so why not just let people dump all their s*** and be done with it?  

Besides, no matter how much we ***** and complain today and for the rest of summer, we're still going to watch every game and then complain/celebrate on here again and again and again.  We're all still fans of the Red Wings and none of us are going away anywhere.

I've reached my quota of +1s for the day, otherwise you'd have gotten one right there.  It frustrates me to see fellow fans beating their heads against the wall over what I perceive to be small or non issues, but you're absolutely right here.  Vent on, Red Wings nation

PS:  That doesn't mean I won't vent back telling them that their gripe is silly -- but then, that's kinda at the heart of what you said, no?  Good post.

The wings lost one of the best puck moving D men, if you aren't aware what has made Detroit so good at puck possession in the past was their Defenses' ability to make the first past out of the zone.

If you aren't aware, the Wings also lost a 36 year old bottom pairing DMan.  People, Commodore is NOT Rafalski's replacement!  Jiminy!  $1m for 1 year for a guy who hits, fights, plays stay at home D?  What's the beef here?

I'm still not worried.  Holland hasn't moved (that we're aware of) on any of what is a mediocre class of FAs.  Good on him, I say (Ericsson signing aside).  We "know" that he's trying to unload Huddles, and he's on record as saying he's not after merely "above average" players.  To me this smells of him trying to make a big splash by going after a big, big name.

Loving this news!!!

Holy crow.  That picture makes Nick look like the lovechild of himself and Mickey Redmond.