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Let's Talk About The Gales

11/10/2016 at 5:47pm EST

41 years to the minute.

The puck will drop at JLA exactly 41 years after the Edmund Fitzgerald and the saltwater vessel Avafors had the following radio exchange.

Fitzgerald: "I have a bad list, lost both radars. And am taking heavy seas over the deck. One of the worst seas I've ever been in."

Avafors: "If I'm correct, you have two radars."

Fitzgerald: "They're both gone."

Minutes later, more than the radars were gone. The entire ship and all 29 crewmembers.

Gordon told us the rest a few years later, of course.

That has exactly nothing to do with the fact that James Tiberius Howard is your undisputed starting goaltender.

It doesn't affect another anemic power play, something we've grown used to.

The Fitzgerald's demise is not even close to relevant when discussing the Detroit Red Wings, other than the fact that the song has been a staple of A2Y live blogs for close to a decade.

We're not real concerned with relevancy or literacy or maturity here. That holds particularly true when the Wings are so damnably inconsistent. We're into game 2 of the season's second six-game winning streak. I feel it. The Gales of November are strong and angry, but staving them off is possible with the help of Jimmy and his dong.

It's a Live Blog and while the rest of the country is going completely, bat-shit insane? And I mean insane from both sides?

Well, we'll go ahead and drink to the Wings, the men of Fitzgerald and our veterans.

LGRW.

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