brandon27

someone post this average goalies stats the past 4 games please? seems to me this average guy just won us into the playoffs...

Howard is basically the sole reason we made the playoffs this year, his last 5 games or so have been stellar.  Hope he continues it through the playoffs.  Of course, it helped that the offense actually finally showed up too.

Wings really deserve this playoff appearance IMO.   Against all odds, loosing the guys we did, behind in the standings like we were, playing so many youngsters, so many injuries.  Then when we get to crunch time, Howard was outstanding, the defense picked it up, lame ducks like Franzen starting to perform, Z took over, and this team got it done down the stretch, with every game being a must win, and they did it, they pulled it off and got themselves into the playoffs.  No help from anyone but themselves.   Very impressive.  Proud to be a Wings fan today.

Great job by Howard down the stretch to make it possible for us to make the playoffs, great game from Z tonight.  Another shutout for Jimmy.

Playoffs for 22 straight years baby!

Watching Dan Cleary play instead of him makes me sick to my stomach, every game.

What, you didn't enjoy cleary missing the entire net last night on a breakaway???  lol

I can't blame Tatar.  Would really suck if he signed elsewhere and we lost the guy because of our own stupidity to hang onto hasbeens to aren't producing. 

Fine...then he should have been a seller.  It would appear that they are afraid to offend the fan base by being a seller, yet do not have the moxy to make the moves to make them a legit Cup contender.  So we are entering limbo

Agreed.  I woudlnt have wanted him to go full blown sell off mode like Calgary did.  But, surely there's a team out there that could have used Franzen.  Cleary. Samuellson.  At least get us some extra picks, or maybe a prospect here or there to help for the future.  Those guys arent exactly a big part of this average team we're putting on the ice.  I don't think we'd miss them much.

I would have at least liked to have seen some effort to try and improve a team, that clearly by their performance on the ice this season needs some improving.