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Love the highlight of Gregory Campbell losing his stick, so he grabs Halpern's and holds onto it.  Blatantly!  Halpern's stick is pointing straight up in the air as he tries to hold onto it with one hand, until Campbell pulls it right out of his hand and tosses it aside.


Ahh, it must be nice to be Colin's son.

Erat didn't sell it, he never made it back to the game and in other replays and sort of this one, he does target the head. One game suspension is fine, anything more I wouldn't have liked it.

Plus, this hit was well after the pass (interference was the penalty), it reminds me of the hit on Hudler a couple playoffs ago. And Ruutu is a repeat offender as well.

Sidenote: Erat isn't playing tonight due to the hit.

If he didn't get suspended, i would have been ok with it and this one game suspension is ok by me also.  I like the objectivity in the title, though

It was a little late, maybe, but hardly "well after the pass."  Guys over on hfboards (and Bob McKenzie) have timed it out saying it was about .8 seconds after he makes the pass.  The NHL standard is apparently half a second.  

He got two for interference, that was enough.  I think Ruutu is a gutless puke, but I don't see any evidence in that replay how that's targeting the head.  

As for your sarcastic comment about the objectivity of the title, this is an internet fan forum, not a newspaper.  We're all stating our opinions here.  I stated mine in the title.

For Babs postgame, click here Funny how its on the Coyotes website and not the Wings.

That is a little strange.

I ended up watching a lot of the postgame interviews with the Yotes players.  Aside from the disappointment of losing the game, it was also really clear how screwed up it must have been to try to play for this team with all the drama that's going on off the ice.  If the team is moving, ownership problems, etc.   I know we give the Phoenix fans a hard time, but it really must suck for the fans there who do root for that team and want them to stay.  

Also, I know I'd probably love him if he were a Wing, but Doan has always pissed me off.  But hearing him in the post game interview, he seems like a pretty class act off the ice.

Mental note to Babs... tell Big E to take off Doan's head early in Game 4. That way we don't have worry about Big E playing for the rest of the playoffs and Doan won't have to worry about going back to Winnipeg.

So who would you want to replace him with?

Big E's been solid.

If Salei scores, I'm liking our chances.

Nothing can top 2009 finals. Nothing...  

Honestly getting crushed by Jersey in the Finals in 95 hurt worse to me.  

After all the years of trying they finally get there, and then you realize how much further they still have to go.

Let's go Kings!

******* A.  The Sharks definitely looked mortal tonight.  And Joe Thornton has been garbage these last two games.  The only time he wasn't invisible was his terrible coverage in front of his own net on Clifford's goal.

I can't believe this team scored four tonight.  Wow.


Thornton played almost 23 minutes tonight.  1 SOG.  -1.  And like I said, standing there doing nothing when Clifford scored.  Setoguchi, Couture and Pavelski have by far been their biggest offensive threats.

the Kings hardly have offensive threats, which is why I still can't believe they won 4-0.

Just finished watching the 3rd period and I have to say, I couldn't disagree with the majority more about the 5 on 3.  Franzen clearly cross-checked the phoenix player and Helm interfered with Hanzal.  

Don't tell me this board wouldn't be blowing up if that happened to us and the refs didn't call the coyotes on it.  The refs weren't perfect as always, but those were two easy calls to make.  

Blinders, people, it's not hard to take them off.

Sure those are two easy calls to make.  They could've made similar calls 5 to 10 other times in that game but didn't.  I don't think there's any conspiracy here, there's just zero consistency from the refs as to what constitutes a penalty.  

A good ref would actually set the tone early as to what he's going to call and let go, then try to maintain that standard through the course of the game.  These refs seemed to change shift to shift.  Franzen's was a crosscheck, but worse had happened and not been called, and he could've just as easily taken both of them.  And the Helm interference could've been called on nearly every defensive zone faceoff for either team.  Add to that Hanzal actually was holding Helm's arm under his own, which was partly responsible for the takedown.  

Call it that way all game, that's all I'm saying.

Ryan gets 2 game suspension per Bob McKenzie:

http://twitter.com/tsnbobmckenzie

Just an awkward fall while being hit.  I hate Doan, but that's not on him.

And honestly with Mule I can never tell how serious the injury is.  He's not exactly the toughest player so it could be anywhere from a cut lip to a concussion.  Let's hope it's the former.

E had a nice hit along the boards to start that play too.  Hopefully he keeps it up.

5 minutes for falling.

Hopefully the Wings will get it together and play inspired after the first month or so   
after the first half of the season  
for the stretch run  
  to start the playoffs  
starting in the second period??

So Lidstrom stick checks him around the hands, and he somehow gets knocked off his feet?!

what a friggin dive.

Is it wrong I want someone to crosscheck Doan in the teeth?

I've always hated him.