dat's sick

Well it would be great if we could mount a comeback here. Imo going into a Game 6 with sort of a must-win situation is not ideal, so we should do everything to try and get back in this game. 

 

Babcock needs to make some adjustments. On the PP to start the period, pair up Dats and Z. Play Smith little or no time at all. Give the 3rd line more icetime. Move Franzen and Filppula. 

 

Don't take any more silly penalties and get a real PUSH going towards the Chicago net. They'll get a bit nervous if we get a goal in the first 5-10 minutes of the period so I think we have a chance. 

Got ya. . How is the reffing, and how are our guys looking?

Looked like we came out protecting a 3-1 lead, only the guys didn't understand they actually have to score in this game too. 

 

Way too cautious and defensive, though obviously some of that is due to Chicago being aggressive and desperate. 

 

Need a much better 2nd period, would love to see some offense. 

Now that was a game Howard stole for us. Team played pretty well in front of him, especially the PK was amazing, but Chicago had enough chances to score 2-3 goals atleast. The stop on the 2-on-1 chance was crazy. Well done Jimmy.

I'm in awe of what this team is doing, they're playing their hearts out and are doing enough of the little things correctly to make up for the occasional mistakes or giveaways.

Also gotta give props to Kindl, that was a beautiful heads-up play on the goal. Lidstrom must be proud if he was watching.

Toews must be frustrated right about now. Hope it stays that way.

Much better period but still not perfect in terms of our zone exits. Too many bad passes.

Howard's great and we're playing well without the puck. 20 to go, get it done boys!

We probably should play less 'pretty' offensively. Tha one rush where both Smith and Franzen tried a deke instead of shooting was bad. Just get it on net and get rebounds.

Lots of giveaways defensively that need to be cleaned up.

In a way this looks like the start of Game 1, we don't look awful but Chicago's faster and more dangerous. Hopefully we can turn it up in the 2nd and get some sustained offense going.

Hagelin's gotten plenty of PP time tonight. Torts obviously want it to work out.

Honestly this was not that bad. He gives Hagelin a ton of compliments, "I love the guy, he does everything else well", but simply tells it like it is: "he stinks on the powerplay". He could have used other words but I like that he didn't use a lot of subtle and weak words to describe Hagelin being a bad PP guy.

Also this wasn't blaming the Rangers weak PP on Hagelin, rather answering the question why Hagelin doesn't play on the PP when it's struggling so much and he's playing great.

Not a huge fan of Torts but let's not make this into more than it is.

Hossa > Franzen

Hossa's salary > Franzen's salary

We are a giveaway machine tonight. More passes to Chicago players than to our own players.

 

Somewhat lucky Chicago's not got any real rythm going and it's still 1-1. Need to wake up while this game is still winnable. 

Ovechkin with the amazing backcheck last night:

I thought it was a good game, other than the 1st period Wings played well enough to win. We had a chance when we were up 2-1, we hit 2 or 3 posts and had a 5 minute PP that we wasted. I thought the penalty to Smith there was extremely weak, leading to the 2-2 goal. After that it was a one shot game, we just weren't able to get it done this time. Should have killed the game much earlier.

This has been a great series and I'm not giving up. If we take Game 6 anything can happen in a Game 7. If we had Dekeyser and Helm I would be more confident but nothing is impossible.

If we end up losing, I'll just be happy we made the playoffs and got to see a great effort by this team against a very good opponent. The experience will be worth a lot for the young guys.

That was one of the best games I've seen in a looooooooooong time. Wow. Amazing effort by the team. 

Yes we had some defensive breakdowns, yes I would have liked to see us score more goals based on all the pressure we had. 

But wow. This team. I LIKE OUR TEAM. It's not perfect, it's not always good, but it's OURS. 

 

How money is Nyquist in OT? How great was Howard tonight? 

 

What planet does Datsyuk come from????? 

 

I don't even need answers, I just know one thing: we have a chance in this series. Bring on Game 5 !!!

We played a great game. We definitely deserve the win. But it's a one-shot game so all bets are off. 

 

All I can say is that win or lose this is the kind of effort that makes me a proud fan. It's very clear we're short 1 or 2 d-men for this team to be really, really solid (basically Dekeyser and maybe one more solid guy), but that we have some great pieces. Ericsson has been magnificent this game, Kronwall's been really good. Kindl's been mostly good. Howard's played his best game of the series. Most of our forwards have been good. 

 

And Datsyuk. I...there aren't words to describe that guy anymore. He's special. 

 

Let's go Wings, I believe in you!

as soon as I heard DeKeyser was out for the rest of the playoffs I got a real bad, sinking feeling

 

as sad as it may be, we needed him around to be a factor in these playoffs it seems

 

I hope I'm wrong

Like I said, we are a fragile team and we needed all our pieces and everyone of them to be playing at close to their best to have a chance of doing much in the playoffs. 

 

Now we lose Dekeyser, and honestly Lashoff wasn't awful until the 3rd when the team was deflated. But still, Dekeyser brought a great calming effect on our defense, nice outlet passes and just a confidence that almost no other of our d-men has. 

 

Also I don't have a clue why Babcock felt the need to mess with our 4th line by throwin Bert/Sammy on there. It was a complete non-factor the last 2 games. If Abdelkader is suspended I expect Bert to play instead of him on the top line, but we need Tootoo back on the 4th. 

 

Howard had his best game of the series and still allowed 4. Not blaming him whatsoever for tonight, but we're gonna need him to be unreal going forward.. 

 

I absolutely have hope, but realistically.. we shouldn't be able to win. Next year I look forward to this team with Dekeyser and Darren Helm on it. 

Well basically this is a pretty fragile team. We had a lineup that worked well for us. But we lost a big part of it, Dekeyser. Also Babcock decided to insert Samuelsson? For some reason. Even inserting Bert was a questionable move imo. But Sammy? Why...

Then we lost Abdelkader in this game. 

And suddenly we're not really clicking. 

 

But really this game was lost on the Abdelkader hit and on Getzlaf taking advantage of Brunner being careless. 2 individual mistakes in what was otherwise a 50-50 game. 

 

Game 4 is a must-win. Can we do it? No Dekeyser. Abdelkader maybe suspended. Cleary not benched. Samuelsson/Lashoff in the lineup? I'm not sure..