Echolalia

Its awesome that you have this opportunity and you're willing to share it with us. 

 

Hope all goes as planned!

 

Also, tell Franzen LGW wants him to work harder.  And do it in front of Babs.

I'm looking forward to watching the Wings play Chicago.

Can we be hopeful and think that we made room for Bobby Ryan? Ryan O' Reilly? A girl can dream

 

Why else would Holland be placing someone on waivers if not to make room for someone else?? 

 

I'm already getting depressed for getting my hopes up.  I'm such a moron an oxymoron.

We should sticky this thread.  Apparently this isn't going to go away.

Why would they not just ban the account for now then figure the rest out? The dude is STILL posting new threads right this very minute. Amazing how the mods will ban accounts (within minutes) over someone bringing up the detroit pistons, yet this guy posts spam for hours on end and not one mod banned the account... SMH

Give them a break.  Mods have a life and need sleep like the rest of us.  The aren't paid to monitor the site 24 hours a day.  These spam threads popped up at around 6:30 on a Sunday morning.

Apparently I'm in the minority here.  I think Abdelkader is one of the most defensively responsible players on our team.

Oh my god yes the Joe needs to be replaced.  The Wings have accumulated many awesome memories there, but that arena is terribly designed.  Uncomfortable seats, no leg-room, terrible bathrooms which are also lacking.  Need more box seats and better location as already stated.  The whole thing is a concrete sarcophogas with no visual appeal, outside or inside.  I am so ready for a new arena.  

Tatar didn't score, nor did he singlehandedly earn the Wings scoring opportunities, but that's not his role (just yet).
What Tatar did do well was demonstrate an excellent hockey sense in predicting where the puck was going, and getting himself to that spot, where he ended up with the puck on his stick.  There was an excellent example of this in the third, when our defenseman (can't remember who) pinced down to the half boards to dump the puck back in deep.  Instead of hanging out at the faceoff dot for a pass or dropping behind the net to pick up the dump in, Tatar went to the blue line, and sure enough, the puck was immediately turned over and shot up the boards directly to him, where he was able to keep the attack alive.
He was also tenacious on the puck.  Tatar seemed to chase the puck down wherever it went in the offensive zone, instead of waiting around for a teammate to do all the work.  Also, despite his small frame, he was mucking it up in the corners and along the boards and did not seem the least bit phased.  To be honest (and I'll likely get flamed for this), he reminded me of Darren Helm, at least with how passionately and intent he was playing.  He doesn't have the crash that Helm has, but at least last night he had Helm's heart.

I haven't seen too much of Tatar outside of his time with the Wings (and a couple GR games), but I think the only similarities between the two are they are both small forwards, and both have a shoot first mentality.  Other than that, I think Tatar is an upside in just about every other facet of the game.  

I'd bet Husky is out for this one. Most of the tweets I've seen make it seem that Lashoff might start, after Husky got rocked in the St. Louis game.

That was such a good hit.  It reminded me of when Goku KO'ed Recoome.

Babs has a history of trying to squeeze blood from a stone.  All the time he's trying to make guys into what they aren't.  If you don't want to use guys in the roles that got them to the NHL in the first place, then you're not typically going to have great success in their development.  Kindl was drafted as a puck moving, offensive minded, defenseman.  If you ask him to be a  stay at home, shutdown, type, and judge him according to that standard, you'll be disappointed and he'll me incorrectly utilized.  Use him as he ought to be used, or trade him for a stay at home guy.

From the sound of the second article, it seems Babcock will be giving Kindl an opportunity to show us his offensive abilities tonight.  Lashoff is scratched for Kindl to allegedly get the power play going.  He's also been paired with Huskins, who's been about as responsible defensively as you could ask a guy to be.  Kindl's chance is tonight, and I don't think it will be there for long, because Lashoff wasn't sent back to GR.

Ugh haven't we missed enough of this guy's awesomeness already??

Ken and Mickey mentioned during the 1st period of tonight's game that Babs wanted to play Tootoo more than he did, but penalties altered the plan.  So there ya go.

Islanders claim goalie through waivers.  Goalie refuses to play.

Islanders trade for defenseman.  Defensman refuses to play.

Islanders get a top-five pick.  Top-five pick requests to be traded.

god, we've heard this way too many times on red wings live and wingspan. 10 GAME SEGMENTS 10 GAME SEGMENTS

 

My OCD kicks in for games 81-82