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Crawford is going to let his team down tonight.

Can the Hawks win the next 3 straight games?  Possible but not very likely.  If you agree with that premise, then the only way for the Hawks to win the series is if it goes to a game 7.

They have to win 3 of the last 4 games to advance.

Well, I see that someone earlier mentioned that if it were a certain other player who made that shot, it would be non-stop playing on NBC and TSN all day and night...Lead me to start looking around for some super goals by "him."

 

First off, I found Val's on Youtube:

 

 

Also here is Val's from 2008:

 

 

 

Sid has had some amazing goals and even though I have looked and looked, I haven't found ANY that are much better if at all than these two by Val.  Sure Sid has some, and they are great highlights, but that is expected of him, Val's goals are equally amazing. $6M amazing, nah!

 

Not saying Val is as good as Sid, but he deserves some well deserved NATIONAL press time for this goal...it was every bit as equally amazing as any of Sids I could find...

Why did you have to bring up Sid.  The discussion was about Val.  Does everything have to be about Sid?  If Sid is "the greatest player in the world" why has he never even been a finalist for the Selke?  You would think that the "greatest player in the world" would also win the Selke every year.  DATS is the greatest.

It's "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey

Just a small town girl
Living in a lonely world
She took the midnight train goin' anywhere
Just a city boy
Born and raised in South Detroit
He took the midnight train goin' anywhere

A singer in a smokey room
The smell of wine and cheap perfume
For a smile they can share the night
It goes on and on and on and on

It will be a shame if the Wings don't make the post-season... almost inconceivable.  Yes, I do think that word means what I think it means.

 

If that happens, it's not like the Wings didn't try and didn't know it could happen.  They're doing their best with the situation.  That I believe... not sure more bodies or different ones (for too much money) would have made that big a difference in Year One of our Lidstrom-less existence. 

Guys missing from last years team:

Lidstrom

Holstrom

Stuart

Hudler

Bertuzzi

Helm

that's 6 regulars out 18 regular skaters -  fully 1/3 of the team.

Veteran guys that they brought in to help

Coliaccavo

Sammuelson

Tootoo

2 of the 3 have missed almost the entire season.

Rookies that are filling in:

Lashof

Smith

Kindl (partial season experience)

Andersson

Nyquist/Kindl

Based on this, just to make the playoffs have been a struggle.

I am glad we didn't mortgage our future.  One or two more expensive free agents were not going to replace the 1/3 of the team that we lost.