Detroit Red Wings

Lines at this mornings skate;
Nyquist-Zetterberg-Abdelkader
Tatar-Sheahan-Franzen
Weiss-Helm-Jurco
Miller-Glendening-Andersson

Power Play
First power play:
Zetterberg-Nyquist-Franzen, Abdelkader, Kronwall
Second unit:
Sheahan-Tatar-Weiss, Jurco, Kindl

With Kindl and Weiss back in, Lashoff and Cleary are out. Looks like Datsyuk is also not quite ready.

 

let's hope he took frank n. furter's advice to heart, and not only wised up, but also firmed his thighs up.

 

It's Abby's bobblehead night at the JLA. Below is a picture from Bill Roose that shows him admiring it. Datsyuk then said; "It's first time you have your head up.". Funny stuff...

 

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Rd2q21YWgxQ[/video]

 

lol, it's a damn shame pavel's english isn't better. i get the impression he's a truly funny guy.

 

weiss EN FUEGO.

 

jen tak d?l Weiss, velmi p?kn? hra, jen tak d?l

 

[video]http://youtu.be/9-FAhQYqomU[/video]

 

[video]http://youtu.be/ZOfwIYtAac0[/video]

 

Money, money, money...

 

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=oaqFB9sAHAk[/video]

 

So I'm watching Detroit, and expecting them to win tonight and I notice another announcing crew mention how 19 or 23 on the active roster have only been on the Wings. They called them a "model" in terms of building from within. What they didn't add for perspective purposes was that the last time they won, they used 10 players that were with other organizations during their playoff run. The last time they were in the finals, they used 9. Now there's no doubt that they were built around their own players and that is very significant, I'm not suggesting that they weren't built mostly from their own picks and initial signings.

My point is that there's no reason to hype up that type of team construction until they actually accomplish something, like division wins, deep playoff runs, etc. It's like calling the wings "young" when they had only 7 players dressed tonight under 27 years of age.

They're a great franchise up and down (outside of the JLA and music playlist). They have decades of being good at hockey without a break, I see no reason to diminish what they've done with bullshit cliches and misleading storylines.

 

whos this #90 character, Im kind of starting to like this guys play

 

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fCphAA4lCLw[/video]

 

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1pC6WFG5ckw[/video]

 

From the Vancouver perspective...

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IpkB7pGVSBQ[/video]

 

Brendan Smith has been activated, which sends Oeulett back to GR.

 

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PM41Puyo-W8[/video]

 

Abdelkader is listed as day to day with a sore shoulder.

 

Standings
Atlantic Division
W L OTL Pts
Tampa Bay16 6 2 34
Montreal 16 7 2 34
Detroit 14 5 5 33
Boston 14 9 1 29
Toronto 12 8 3 27
Florida 9 6 6 24
Ottawa 10 9 4 24
Buffalo 8 14 2 18