Category: Detroit Red Wings
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- Three Thirteen
I can’t submit a full article this week, especially not after last night. All signs pointed to this team being deep, and able to continue this streak regardless whether or not their best player this year was on the ice (Datsyuk). The third line really showed up last night. They came out and set the tone with a goal from Helm and swung the momentum back in the Wings’ favor in the third with another from Abdelkader… And then the Canucks made what I assumed to be a belligerently drunk woman cry at the Joe last night. Cue up some Tom Hanks from A League of Their Own for me. “THERE’S NO CRYING IN HOCKEY!”
I didn’t think I could hate one Sedin more than the other, but that’s all changed, hasn’t it, Daniel?
Though April and the playoffs are looming, he only concern and pressing issue on fans’ minds should be the health of Datsyuk’s recently scoped-out knee. In spite of this loss, the Wings made some history, got some warranted national attention, but the season goes on. Hopefully it continues with a healthy MVP-candidate in the “Dangle Dangle Man” himself.
I don’t consider myself a Debbie Downer. And when it comes to the Wings’ latest
accomplishment, I don’t even want to be associated with Negative Nancy or the rest of the Negative Nellies who don’t appreciate twenty-one games in a row as anything less than an achievement. But let’s not turn this into something that it isn’t.
Sure, this winning streak at the Joe is something impressive. There aren’t a whole lot of things in an NHL regular season that can get the casual fan interested, but this kind of happening is and should be an exception to the typical February lulls.
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Jimmy Howard has been a stud this year. Any doubter who thought Howard couldn’t be the reliable last line of defense for the Wings has to be changing their tune right about now, especially with the poor performance from Conklin against Edmonton the other night. Proving himself to be an elite netminder in the NHL this year, he leads the league in wins and is top ten in every major statistical category for goalies. With a goals against average just north of two (2.03), a save percentage of .924, and keeping the net clean for five outings this year (including an early season shutout against the high-octane offense of the Canucks), Howard’s value is going to be put into perspective while he nurses a broken right-index finger for the next two weeks. (more...)
As the Wings put together an impressive start during the first half of the season, a competitive-as-ever Central Division will surely keep the pressure on after last week’s all-star break marked the halfway point of the season. With Chicago, Nashville, and an upstart St. Louis club all within four points of the top of the division, it’s crucial that Detroit carries over their early season success down the stretch in order to hang on to home-ice advantage. That second-half success shouldn’t be hard to replicate seeing how the scheduling stars have seemingly aligned for the club. Of the top six seeds in the Western Conference, Detroit has eighteen games remaining at the Joe, a place where to say the team has absolutely dominated at this season would be understating; posting a 20-2-1 record and looking to add to their record seventeen-game winning streak next Wednesday against Edmonton. And with a four-game road trip wrapping up next Monday in Phoenix, the team has all the leverage they need with only ten road games left in the 2012 campaign as they make their march into… Well… March. (more…)
{Q1}So the LIONS draw New Orleans as their Wild Card match up. Convince DMR how they can POSSIBLY beat the odds and come out victorious…
{Q2}Who are your three PISTONS that you can build around as a core?
{Q3}The Red Wings have been up and down all year. How far do you see them going in the playoffs?
{Q4}Brock Lesnar immediately announced his RETIREMENT after losing to Alistair Overeem in UFC #141. How will YOU remember Lesnar’s career?
{Q5}If you could add a new feature to your local barber shop, what would it be?
Well when you’re right, you’re right. I predicted last week that the Red Wings would go 4-1 and they did. Losing only to San Jose, they are currently on a five game winning streak. Also, they are only two points away from catching Chicago an being the best team in the Western Conference, which they just might do when they play the Tampa Bay Lightning this week. (more…)
Last Saturday, during a game against the Dallas Stars, Red Wings defensemen Ian White went off the ice after taking a puck to the face, and he won’t play a game for at least another week. This is the third Red Wing to take a major injury, and they are really starting to show their depth. With Ian White out with a cheek bone injury, Todd Bertuzzi on injured reserve from illness, and Jan Mursak, who had a spot on the starting roster before the season started, out with ankle problems, the Wings have had to start calling up their younger players, including Gustav Nyquist, who played one game in November, and most recently calling up defensive prospect Brendan Smith, we are getting a chance to see the future of the Red Wings. Brendan Smith is estimated to play his first game after a suspension against the San Jose Sharks tonight. (more…)
13Nov
It was a week ago the Red Wings were turning back into the “Dead Wings” of the 80’s. They were 20th in the NHL standings, and looking for answers. It gave us a taste of something that we, as Red Wing fans, have not felt in a long time. Realism. (more…)
After seventeen years of National Hockey League service, Chris Osgood (better known as “Ozzie” to Detroiters) has hung up his skates. Chris was drafted fifty-fourth overall in the 1991 NHL draft by the Detroit Red Wings. Ozzie bounced back and forth between the NHL and the minors until the 1995-96 season. That season Chris led the NHL with thirty-nine wins, he finished third in shutouts, and came a close second to Jim Carey in Vezina Trophy (the award given to the National Hockey League’s top goalie) voting. It was no coincidence that these stats would land him a permanent spot in the net.
In 2001, after ten seasons and two Stanley Cups, the Red Wings released Ozzie due to injuries. The next three seasons, he played for the New York Islanders and St. Louis Blues. During the 2004-05 lockout season, Chris was unemployed. The next season, however, would play out as a rebirth: Osgood returned to Hockey Town. The transition back to Detroit was fairly simple considering Osgood kept his Michigan property as an off-season getaway. Once over a groin injury, Ozzie shared the net with Dominic Hasek until D.H. was injured. That is when Chris took over full time one again. (more…)
LET'S GO REDWINGS!!
Tonight is the night!! Game seven will decide it all in this historic match up between the Detroit Red Wings and the San Jose Sharks. Toss out all the statistics, game seven’s are about EXECUTION and WILL.
I know all about the Wing’s record in elimination games, I don’t care!! I know all about the history of the NHL road team’s crashing and burning when facing an elimination game, I don’t care!! Yeah, I know the Sharks are widely considered the more talented of the two squads, I don’t care!! You can toss ALL the records in the trash, because I DON’T CARE!!
Tonight will be a historical night. Tonight is about which team is more determined to impose their will on the opposition. As a Red Wing’s fan and resident of “HOCKEYTOWN”, I will be glued to the screen eagerly rooting on the team tonight. I encourage ALL Wings fans to LOUDLY join me in singing the Wing’s unofficial anthem below…”Don’t Stop Believing”!!
“Do I got somethin to say?! Yeah, just about everyday”
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