SDavis35

I have to work, but I'll be checking for updates on my phone.  
I have a checking line.  

Wings take it 4-2. Avs tail off in the 3rd due to fatigue and Z gets the EN.

PIT is making Osgood go east to west which IMO Ozzie has never been good at that.

True, but I wouldn't say he had much of a chance on any of the goals. Plus the defence isn't playing anywhere near the caliber we know they can, and that's got me a little tense today.

An NHL goalie.

Really? Which one? I've never seen one stop any of those shots. Maybe 1 in 20 times a goalie could.

The Wings will start Tom McCollum in net
Bertuzzi also out tonight, Ritola gets his spot with Flip and Mule.

I hope these are just precautions and not true injuries...  

Yes it did and that sore spot is ignorance.

This is a RED WINGS MESSAGE BOARD - a board to discuss the Red Wings, NHL and hockey as a whole, not a place for people to spout off about their own personal agenda's and this goes for both ends, liberal and conservative.

Furthermore, religion, sexual orientation, racial prejudices, etc, etc... have no place here.

This has been an increasing trend on this board lately and never leads to anything but flaming and derailed topics and needs to END NOW.

To be fair there is a board for political discussion I think... or there was a while back. On the other hand, general discussion should be about hockey, hockey and hockey! And sometimes jokes about hockey.

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Ozzie's looking great and the first period went surprisingly well for our guys and they don't look all that intimidated by the Hawks' hotshots.  Except for the goal of course.  

Kane should have gotten a penalty for crashing the net, but neeeuuuooooo.  A-holes.  

Meanwhile, I know I don't have any control whatsoever about comments made about any of our players - in this case, Ozzie...but I'm really happy to see posters taking the time to respond about how well he's playing so far tonight.

Ozzie's playing like a backup from my view. (which is better than regular season Ozzie) and Ericsson was an idiot on the goal, already yelling at him before they even got out of the zone lol. But, 1-0 with the Griffin team we've put out there is not bad at all.

I kinda feel bad for Ozzie tonight....

sounds like he's gonna need to steal games in the preseason to get any in the reg season...

Also interesting that they can't make rude/threatening gestures.  

it's a gentlemen's league. "Here, you can have the puck it's icing sire." "I would like to take you out to dinner after the game, please accept this invitation" "I'm sorry mr. O' Halloran, but my butt was not in his face, I was merely showing him my new pads!"

I'm biased towards goaltenders so I say Ozzie. He's done a ton for us, and even in the midst of poor seasons I still love that guy.

I am sure someone will say this is a bad thing, but I can tell you that this is not an uncommon thing.  Sure, you want to think that everyone on the team gets along, but that doesn't happen all the time.  Even I don't get along with everyone on the teams I play with in rec league hockey.  In the end though, you are having fun playing the game as a whole even with those people you don't see eye to eye with.  You are all together trying to accomplish a common goal.

And when Salei drops the gloves to defend Modano, it will appear as though all is forgiven. Yea it's going to happen, someone will hit Modano hard into the boards from behind, he'll be fine but Salei will pound that guy old school style. Highlight of the night

You're not wrong.

To this day, I've never seen the handshake line, or the cup raise from that game.

Call it sour grapes, whatever.

Never seen the handshakes, but crosby lifting the cup was everywhere last year. If it's any consolation... when Yzerman lifted the cup he raised it to the crowd, when crosby lifted the cup he raised it as if he himself had won it. Yzerman will always be the better captain

So how are they going to be honoring Probert? I know 24 won't be retired but feels odd not to take it out of circulation at least this year.

I think any contract signed that ends with the player being 41+ should not be accepted. Don't go back on any that are more than a year old, but all from this season should be looked at. Most players retire by 40 and so there's no reason to sign them until they're 47/44. Only a handful of players have ever made it that far. Mr. Howe being the best of them

Datsyuk is good.



I like this one.

Amazing how much his english has improved since then too eh?

I watch this one for the lulz.  

The organization is based on class and the character of not only the players, but the rest of the staff. They show respect to everyone, they treat each other and their players as family. They also never panic, no matter how dire the circumstance I always see the confidence in their eyes. That's the identity I fell in love with, so yea, if the character/identity of the Red Wings was changed to represent what's wrong with the NHL, I wouldn't care for them anymore, regardless of what superstar player they drafted.