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[04/08/2014] GDT: Red Wings vs Sabres
by RedMenace on 04/08/14 at 11:00 AM ET
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I NOW Consider Luke Glendening A Hall of Famer
by IwoCPO on 04/05/14 at 05:05 PM ET
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Multi-year deal. About 660 per year. No career goals. A fourth liner with no offensive ability. A mucker, grinder, whatever you want to call him.
And exactly the kind of player this team has signed for years to provide tough minutes against certain players.
Like who?
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[04/05/2014] GDT: Red Wings vs Canadiens
by RedMenace on 04/05/14 at 02:12 PM ET
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I NOW Consider Buffalo an Elite Team
by IwoCPO on 04/04/14 at 05:39 PM ET
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I am not a superstitious person. But I do know facts when I see them, and here is some science:
This is a trap game. Buffalo sucks but plays hard every night, from what I read and hear. I don't watch them, of course, because I don't watch hockey unless the Wings are involved. But I hear they're rambunctious.
The BJs are one point back, Toronto is two back. Washington 5 back. Toronto has no chance because they're Toronto. The Caps are imploding because of their captain. The BJs have a shot at the 1 wild card and we want the 1 wild card. We do.
And the Wings haven't lost since I've come back. I take full credit. I deserve that credit and demand you give it to me.
How should you give it to me?
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[04/04/2014] GDT: Red Wings vs Sabres
by RedMenace on 04/04/14 at 11:24 AM ET
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Big Bad Boston Wants No Part Of Uncle Mike
by IwoCPO on 04/03/14 at 11:55 AM ET
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It always comes back to Balboa. It always has and it always will. Apollo Creed, behind his desk, spit shined and full of bluster, was barking orders to his staff. Sending flowers to the mayor, hair salon appointments, minutia. It was then, and this is important, so focus, that Tony "Duke" Evers glanced behind him to make sure only he could be heard. He leaned in and gave Creed some advice that went unheeded.
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Wings Are Now A Dangerous Team
by Paul on 04/03/14 at 10:50 AM ET
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from CSNNE,
It shouldn't come as a huge surprise that the Red Wings snapped the Bruins 9-game road win streak and 16-game points streak....
Mike Felger and Tony Amonte discussed on CSNNE's Postgame Live.
"Detroit is a dangerous team because they are a quick, skilled team," Felger said. "And you saw Gustav Nyquist on that game-winning goal in the third period just blow by [Zdeno] Chara like he was literally cemented into the ice. And that's something you're going to have to deal with in two weeks if that's the team."
Amonte agrees that by the time the playoffs roll around, Detroit will be even stronger.
"They all play with a European mentality . . . they got a great mix of European guys, they play a wide open style," Amonte said. "They've struggled this year because of all the injuries, but you're right they could be very dangerous when [Henrk] Zetterberg gets back and [Pavel] Datsuk gets back. They're going to be a dangerous team."
a bit more
Also, after last night's games, the Wings now have a 93.7% chance of making the playoffs according to SportsClubStats.
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It’s The B-Spoke Against the Winged Wheel
by Paul on 04/02/14 at 07:30 PM ET
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No Datyuk- understandable. No Alfredsson- welcome back Bert.
Detroit is the only team playing tonight involved in the wild card race in the East and two points tonight would mean this...
Detroit would have 86 points with 76 games played.
It would put 3 point cushion between themselves and Columbus, with the BJs playing one less game.
Toronto would be 4 points behind while playing one more game than Detroit and Washington would be 5 points behind with both teams having played the same number of games.
Two points, any way they can get them, gives the Wings some breathing room.
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[04/02/2014] GDT: Red Wings vs Bruins
by RedMenace on 04/02/14 at 12:45 PM ET
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I NOW Believe Gus Nyquist Is a Hall of Famer and Uncle Mike
by IwoCPO on 04/02/14 at 08:12 AM ET
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I really don't have to go on too much about Nyquist. If you extrapolate, because you're a pharmacist and you use that word in every-day conversation just like a big boy who went to "university" and there are times when two syllables just aren't enough to get that salient point across in between sips of craft beer that you don't like the taste of but you'll drink anyway because there's got to be that one person, just one, who is impressed by it? If you extrapolate, he'd have a lot of goals and he'd probably be in the Calder discussion. Does he even qualify? I don't know.
But I do know this: Mike Babcock lied to you yesterday. You knew it. I knew it. He absolutely knew it and the only people who believed him were the ones who usually believe him and that's the Diggers.
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