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Game 7: What Team Is This?

10/25/2016 at 6:00pm EDT

How could they possibly look so disgusting the first two games (plus the Ranger game), then so damn good the other three?

Are we allowed to get our hopes up? Larkin still hasn't scored. Zetterberg either. Datsyuk is still in Russia even though Tony, Rocky's trainer, is dead so he's not winning chess games in that stinky barn Balboa trained in like a damn mule before his unbelievable victory over Drago that essentially saved us all from nuclear winter and the Politburo isn't there and Putin is but Putin is probably related to Peter Straub who wrote the book Gorky Park which turned out to be a pretty good read considering he's always been kind of a JV Stephen King who is from Maine and, hey, so is Nyquist, kind of, or at least he knows some chicks from there like Hudler knows chicks from down river and he, Nyquist, is on fire.

So, we're gonna go ahead and live blog this biotch against the Canes.

But before we do: George brought up some of us freaking out about Chychrun's hot start over in Phoenix, the team Gary is going to put in the Eastern Conference when Vegas becomes the destination of choice.

I haven't personally witnessed the freak out, but I know freak outs and I had a feeling this freak out was pretty freaking inevitable.

I've wanted to mention it, been tempted to, but honestly I couldn't reconcile it. I couldn't figure it out. Was it a bad move for Holland to trade Datsyuk's rights and move down, missing out on this kid? Should he have eaten the salary and waited a year? Didn't every one of us have a nagging feeling about Chychrun when he kept dropping during the draft?

I have no idea.

I kept thinking of it and I kept coming back to the pitchforks I'd have issued if Datsyuk's contract wasn't dealt. I'd have called for Holland's head. So, my freak out was delayed and I don't see it coming from me any time soon. He did what he had to do to get himself out the mess that he, himself, built.

All I know is this. The Wings are playing pretty damned well and I'll be getting Center Ice. I told you I would and I'm gonna. This team is entertaining, at least. Potentially dangerous. Potentially better than dangerous. At least we've got ourselves a season to look forward to, according to the last three games.

It's a Live Blog, bitches. Drink up and LGRW.

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