Dabura

Sweet period. Minus our BLATANT DIRTY GOONERY. (THOSE WINGS. MASTERS OF TEH SUTTLE INTERFERENTIALZ.)

Titus Welliver, aka The Man in Black. Good/Bad omen.

stream for the game is on the twitter! @marcaractac

Thankfully I've got the NHL Network and, like, 90 different NBCs. But I feel for the people who don't.

The NHL wants to know why it can't play in the Big Boys' Sandbox? Things like this.

Watch the first period on one channel, the other two on another. Such stupidity.

So...the person who scheduled these games needs to be kicked in the teeth.

 

Probably the last one from me for this round, obviously running out of ideas here.

 

 

 

Chase his brick-s***ting ass, Wings.

Side note: How nuts would it be to hear a mocking "Hillll-errr" chant @ Honda? And I don't mean Ducks fans. I mean, make this a home game. And chase him. And then bring it on home for the next two.

Nightmare material.

Please win thisf****** game. My nerves are shredded, for more than one reason.

Our d has been good up until the last 5-7 mins of the 2nd.

Howard is pretty much the only good thing going for us tonight - and even he's looked lost at times.

1. Analysts are dumb.

2. This Harding thing could be a huge story. It has divine intervention written all over it.

3. 'hawks are not impressing thus far.

Does Pierre have to tell us where every player on the ice came from, Eddie?

Fixed.

Wow - Mike, Kevin and E.J. all picking the Wings.

God I hate the Penguins.

My problem with Abdelkader is he hasn't gotten any better. Datsyuk and Lidstrom became gym rats and honed their crafts as the seasons went by. Abdelkader is the same player he was when he broke in.

Abdelkader actually is a gym rat, I think.

I dunno. I have a hard time giving him a hard time for not suddenly becoming a 30-goal scorer. (Actually, with ten in this shortened season, he's projecting pretty positively for an 82-game campaign.) Bottom line: he's a bottom-sixer, basically a fourth-liner, and he's being asked to be a first-line power-forward, because our GM has dropped the ball on the we-need-a-big-mean-scoring-winger-who-can-complement-Datsyuk's-playmaking-skillz front.

I love that we have a serviceable power-forward in Abdelkader. He's no Wayne Simmonds, but we're never getting a guy like that. Ever.

Abdelkader. Franzen (sort of). Bertuzzi (maybe). Andersson (maybe).

Our top-six pool may still be way too soft and samey and playmakerrific on the whole, but we've got some size and strength.

ilu guyz. irl. srsly.

 

Thing is, this year is seeing something of a role reversal of previous seasons.  I think its no longer a case of the Ducks brawn vs the Wings skill.  Just look at our D corps - they're all big boys.  Kronwall is our smallest guy at 6-0 190.  Whenever Perry and Getzlaf are on the ice, so will be Ericsson and Abdelkader, so if they start trying to pull their usual crap we've got a couple of players who can stand up to them.

 

The 3rd line are in for a shock to the system though, they'd better be prepared to stand up to it.

I dunno if I'd call it a reversal. We're still a puck-possessing, puck-moving, kill-with-skill unit. And not many on our back-end play an especially mean, physical brand of hockey.

But, we showed earlier this season that we can walk into the Honda Center and school some fools. And, yes - definitely give-'n'-take better than we have in awhile. Which is very nice to see.

I think that first goal last night, Hank actually using Dillon's workover to his benefit - that's sort of us in microcosm.

Z equals clutch.