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What is the development status of Ferraro's kid?? We need new blood with golden hands .Unfortunately all the up and comers ripening in Grand rapids don't have 50 goal potential largely We need to find some diamonds hiding in Europe somewhere

After last nights debacle and the seemingly disinterested play we've witnessed for several months I'm asking the lads of the forum which way they think this team is leaning Are we cagey veterans playing possum for the playoffs or easy pickins for a younger more aggressive opposition? Frankly I'm undecided Cast your vote/opinion!!

I think we 've got potential big time problems with a lot of teams in the west(but so does Vancouver) San Jose manhandled us last year,Hawks have owned us all year,Phoenix and Nashville make life miserable for us, and the greasers from Anaheim may be s***ty overall but we don't like their greaseball physical game I'm terribly worried this year that we might be an early exit Hate it if it happens but gotta keep it real here rather than another ref bashing post game forum

You've got this right on in your assessment this is an eerily similar makeup to the first winning Wings teams of 15 years ago But we all know with little Gary's parity /salary cap experiment nobody will ever be able to build dominant teams for the long term so all his owner buddies in the poor markets of the US will get a chance to win too via endless free agency and cap , rotating players throughout the league

As a Wings fan for over 50 years now( yes that's 50) I have to agree with your sentiments We may win this series yet but we are witnessing the end of the great 15 year run many of us have been blessed to observe The battles with Colorado,the 4 cups and all the conquests we have enjoyed will end this year regardless of where we end up The Wings of next year will look quite different and unfortunately will resemble the mediocraty of the rest of Bettman's parity experiment in the NHL

Gotta agree with you Howard is back to his old problems of rebound control and seems like he's a bit tight out there I suspect we'll see Osgood on Tuesday esp after that 4th goal definitely not up to snuff on that one Consider that Babcock/Holland et al gave Osgood the year off at a million or so bucks salary you have to think that they're going to lean on him now The team STILL thinks they can win this thing on reputation alone and aren't prepared to do the dirty work neccessary to win this series let alone go any further Gut check time over the next 2 days and put Lebda in for Ericsson at least he can skate both directions

No kidding Big bert the uber turd was man handled all night he plays like a 12 year old in his first year of contact hockey put him on line 3 and move up Cleary better yet put Bertuzzi on line 6 and Erickson plays like he weighs in at 156 lbs he needs a serious ass reaming from Babcock ... and he's getting PK action last night pathetic I'd put Lebda back in in a heartbeat this Erickson kid appears to be a bit of a failed experiment debate at will

Right on with the dead weight comment Please send Bertuzzi to a nursing home of your choice He plays like he weighs 150 lbs and hasnn't completed a pass in games

Could we possibly throw that turd Bertuzzi under the truck too ? Mr Turnover is best left in some kelowna watering hole too I say let Erickson play forward and keep Lebda on the line with Lilja Bertuzzi is the Uber Turd Not trying to hyjack the thread by the way

atdhe.net says they have it but not up yet Anyone???

Lidstrom and Rafalski are better snatching pucks away on the rush and out manouvering guys with angles when things are moving but last nite as in all season when they have to hunker down and play a physical style in front of their own net things go awry #'s 5 and 28 on for 2 goals last nite and #'s 55 and 23 for the other two I expect better from the big four there's some fatigue out there that just won't go away even with the olympic break and even if we get in to the post season this team might get embarrassed badly looking like Sonny Liston when he met the much younger and faster Ali end of an era boys and we didn't see it coming !!

you're not kidding ledba lilja was solid in the playoffs the last 2 years can't figure this one out Erickson needs to ponder life and hockey from the press box for a long time I'd be in the house that would designate him injury only to dress at this point my 2 cents worth

At this point in the season and presumably going into the playoffs we can't afford his indicresions in the defensive zone Lils and lebda have logged a lot of time together over the years and quite frankly at this point erickson should remain the odd man out on D barring injury to someone else

I posted this concept on the game day thread earlier hell he's useless on defense so lets see if we can turn him into a power forward worth a one or two game trial