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Wings Vs Dallas Tonight!!!

Tonight Hasek will start yet again, this Dallas team that the wings will be facing tonight will be rather difficult, one of the best defensive teams in the league and well, this will be a huge test for the wings.
Its choke or sing time boys, we need to see what your really made of.. lets do a little better. we are only one game down from the lead of our division.
lets hope we can pull this out and do well, well anyways, good luck my wings, To bad my tigers lost. well, Good luck to both teams!!! GO WINGS, GO TIGERS..

PS: im glad ozzie isnt starting. oh boy, that would be a lu lu!~

Wings win Finally!!!

WINGS WIN! Finally we dominate. I know its late but still.
Finally last night we won 2-1 i gotta say great offensive job, we dominated that game in shots and so forth.
I was really proud of the outcome, i know wins may be harder this year. but im willing to stick it out cause i love these guys. they are my favorites and growing up id watch them every time they were on.
I still feel like a lil kid that just got her hockey jersey, and is still learning about the wonderful hockey game.
Last night I got out the Shanahan Jersey, thinking about all the great times. I have one of the better lines in my room. that of SHANAHAN, YZERMAN, And last but not least FEDOROV.
Im thankful that my dad turned on that game when i was five years old, and said this is a cool game. now i love it way more than what he does.
that will NEVER change. its amazing to me what a great game, great leaders, great captain. well anyways, what great memories i have, the likes of Konstantinov and others, this turned into more of a Reminiscent blog today.. but i gotta say im really proud of them.
but anyways, i guess thats all for now, i have to go, dad forever wants to eat up the phone. cya all later.

Shanny Nets his 600th how sweet it is!

Little did I know that Brendan Shanahan scored his 600th goal of his Career with the New York Rangers.
I know alot of fans were hoping that it would be with Detroit.But sometimes that is not always the way that things turn out.
He was known as one of Detroit's top scorers.for his several years in Detroit (10 years).
The memories that automatically come to mind would be when he scored his five hundreth against Patrick roy or the time that he scored on the statue of liberty shot.
one of the other great memories is his goal in the 2002 final, the empty netter! omg, what a great memory, which helped detroit win 3 Stanley Cups in seven wonderful years of playing.
we have many memories of shanny and Those are just a few that this diehard fanatic is willing to share, believe me, I have many.
He has really been an asset to the Rangers and I wish him continual luck with his hockey club.'
I think it was time for him to move elsewhere. He has done so much better without a left and right wing lock. its been amazing to see him dance across the ice and grace the score board with another goal.
Its nice, because its all open Ice for Brendan Shanahan.
He may be one of the tops in the league, thats what i am hoping for, great memories and times.
Now, its all open ice - thats whats best for Shanny!
He will forever be remembered as a wing, I am thankful he came to detroit and stayed the whole ten years and did his utmost to help be one of the many pieces to the puzzle.
just wanted to say thanks shanny! your still one of my heroes!

Losing Streaks.. and changes...

As time goes on in Hockey Town, so does the game and some fans are already packing up that wings memorbilia, and putting their Red Wings jersey into the back of their already full closets.

They are giving up, they are jumping off of that big , beautiful , nifty, red and white band waggon bus. beating and nashing there teeth about how the end is near, and that the season is already over, that this team is literally on a spiral down ward just because of a three game skid! rather spoiled arent they.

Well, you will not see that from me, I was never on a bandwaggon. I have supported the wings since i was of a young age.

My butt has always been parked one of two places on a hockey night, either at the Joe Louis Arena or at home.
My seat has never been on that illustrious red and white facaded bus that people jump on looking to jump off when some obstacle gets in the way.

I feel if you are any type of a real fan that you can weather through the bad stuff, if you are a Die Hard you live and die with the hockey club.

now heres what we can do to improve things. I call them my first three steps to helping this team at least get on the score board.

1) get that offensive talent to score.
2)Do not leave our neutral zone so open, create traffic. After all, it is hockey, and its a contact sport.
3)Add a gritty forward (Aka. Todd Bertuzzi)

*Now before some of you get on me about this next situation, please hear me out and read the whole thing.*

Goaltending:

Dominik Hasek: gets cheap shotted by alot of fans on a certain hockey forum. (i will keep nameless) (one that i was banned from) (now ozzie freaks, please dont take offense to any of this. its all oppini0n, i donot want a bunch of letters about why hes so great..)

I would prefer Hasek over osgood anyday. they say hasek is old and slow. well, i dont feel that way, id say hes smarter than osgood. because at least when we do play the hard teams he can keep us in between a two goal differential if we are down by a certain amount. but here is the problem, its hard to stop a bunch of pucks and make key saves when your team is always on the PK. now everyone that knows anything about hockey would tell you that its not natural for the special teams to play the majority of the game.

For you ozzie fanatics, since osgood won one game and is clearly a god in your eyes for doing that.. where would he have been against san jose? I dont think he would have even showed. I think we wouldda gotten pelted worse than what we did. he would have gave up the ghost in that one.

dom tried and did what he could, but like i said, too many Penalties.. the best thing for this team would be to stay off the penalties. we are getting penalty ridden. some of it deserved other parts not.

Now ozzie fans, I ask you, do you honestly think that ozzie can get us to the playoffs? i mean honestly, dont you think he may choke if we do make it?

Now before this question is answered i will pause a few seconds so you can have a sit, scratch your forhead and think about all this... now for my annalysis.
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well this is my annalysis of Christopher John Osgood.

Ozzie: Not likely to help detroit because he is inconsistent under a bunch of pressure, the best places to score on him are over his stick shoulder and well of cours the arms and five hole. now the thing the i did like about him was the glove hand. his hand is fairly fast.


now keep thinking on what i am saying before you jump on your hasek hater bandwaggon.

You have to give credit to whom it is due, and well, both goalies have won cups with detroit as lead goaltenders.

Dom in 2002, ozzie in '98

Despite their wins being almost identical, look at their past teams. Ozzie was on detroit, Dom was with the sabres the majority of his career. he carried that team a long time. Just look at those statistics, the save percentage is the main thing! thats why dom has always done well, wins, and percentages is what has gotten him awards in his past.

all I can say is I rest my case.

Offense: you have to rag on these guys because they just are so in consistent. taking bad penalty calls ect.. instead of passing the puck around half of the game we need to penetrate that center ice, wake back up and become a team again, but this will take time because theya re all learning how to be a team.

Defense: your job is to help your goaltender, your failing horridly because apart of your job was to be the ones that help minimize the shots. to help get that play to the other end. your failing as well.. here would be the grades i would give

Offense: 54% , im being generous. they arent scoring.
Defense:72%, they need to be stronger.
Goaltending:84%, better than just the norm. im being a bit generous here.

the last thought i have.. is for that grit part i was talking about, add Bertuzzi, he would help this team excel with his awesome play and unbelieveable fortitude. the guy would be an excellent add to detroit. would give us some depth, grit and some scoring.

I say pavel datsyuk and a second round pick for bert! that would work.. im sure it would be an acceptable offer.

they are already sorta talking this.

this is the whole analysis, all my own words, i did not borrow any lines. and this is copywrited by Amanda Lynn, and cannot be reproduced without my written Consent.

Detroit Falls.

Anaheim-

The hockey game was horrible last night, detroit fell four to one. crazy stuff because the whole thing got outta hand..
The zebras were crazy, half of the penalties called were uncessary. Thats life, thats hockey. I just wish there would have been something more last night.
We need grit. if I would have been on the team we would have made some decent hits.. and maybe a brawl or two. the ducks were walking all over the wings cause they were hiding behind the zebra stripes all game long.
As a big time hockey fanatic only one could wonder why all this happened. could it be that succession was something that they didnt want Detroit to obtain.
I love this game, but I can tell you I know that something was wrong. and really, in the pit of my stomach I knew something was going to go wrong eventually. its like they were doing fair it was zero - zero. Now bam flat out, four -nothing.
its crazy! I just cannot believe those antics.
I was just shocked as I was watching..

well, this one is about shanny!

Dang that boy is good. since he left Detroit, well, i find it to be a good change for him. His lamp lighting as of late is making the news. I couldnt be prouder of this ex wing that I grew up watching.

totally amazing player when given the right line and the tools he needs to do well. I miss watching him skate with Detroit, but i know, this is for the best!

seeing him with a different team often makes me wonder about trades.. some times yes, they are good. but other times they arent.
where does a players mind go once they are going to decide to leave the team that they are playing for? is it for money? for some, yes, is it for self gain , umm mostely... you will not see many players with the fortitude to stay with one hockey club and retire there.

but anyways, this is all just randoms running through my mind.

hope ya'll are well... cya.

great job boys!

PITTSBURGH -- The first victory of the Red Wings' season Saturday might be a preview of how they'll win many games this season.
Saturday's 2-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins was one of those hard-earned, edgy, tough games that won't get the Wings in many highlight films around North America, but they don't care.
It was two points in the standings, and this year in the Western Conference, any team will take those two points gladly.
"I want us to be harder to play against," coach Mike Babcock said. "I want us to be a better forechecking team and a harder team at the net. That's going to be our focus."
While saying that, Babcock also made mention of the Wings' first goal Saturday, by Johan Franzen in the first period.
Franzen found his way to the front of the net, the Penguins' defense couldn't, or didn't, move him out, and Franzen batted the puck past Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury.
"I want our team to score those kind of goals," Babcock said.
Franzen, arguably one of the Wings' best players during the exhibition season, wants to score those goals, too.
At 6-foot-2, 210 pounds, Franzen is beginning to use his size and strength. He's driving to the net, battling for position, and it's beginning to bring results.
The entire Wings team was willing do the difficult things, Franzen said, to eliminate the memory of Thursday's disappointing home-opening loss to Vancouver.
"After you lose that first game, you want to come out for the next one and do all the little things, the dirty jobs, and don't do the fancy stuff as much," Franzen said. "We played good defense, did all the little things we needed to do to win. We weren't very happy with the first game."
Give them credit
The Penguins are one of the league's promising young teams, but they learned a few lessons playing the Wings.
Penguins coach Michel Therrien hoped his team took stock of how the Wings won.
"It's a well-balanced team with a lot of experience," Therrien said of the Wings. "They didn't pick up 124 points for nothing last year. They were desperate to win. This (the Wings) is a quality team, but I'm not going to use that as an excuse.
"Some of our guys could have been better, and they didn't give us the effort we need to win a hockey game.
"You have to give credit to the Wings. It was a different game tonight, but in a different game we have to find a way to win hockey games. We didn't find that way. We have to use our speed a lot more. It's a reason why they (the Wings) generate a lot of offense."
"They're smart," Penguins forward Colby Armstrong said. "They tightened up in their own end; they had guys coming back hard. They made it tough on us to make things happen."
Ice chips
Not having another game until Wednesday, when they host Phoenix, the Wings didn't practice Sunday. They'll be back on the ice today.
Saturday's shutout was No. 69 of Dominik Hasek 's career, and it was victory No. 325, tying his teammate Chris Osgood .
Brad Norton had his first fight of the season, getting in a spirited battle with Pittsburgh enforcer Andre Roy 4:26 into the game.
"That was a good one, eh?" Babcock said. "What it does for you is, you know you have someone (Norton) looking after you. You don't have to worry about nothing. Just play. That's a real good thing."
Babcock liked what he saw from the fourth line of Norton, Tomas Kopecky and Dan Cleary .
"Nortie did his job, and Kopecky, after his first shift settled down and he got to playing, and obviously Dan Cleary is a real good player for us," Babcock said.
You can reach Ted Kulfan at (313) 223-4606, or ted.kulfan@detnews.com.
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all i can say is go wings! ill put something more meaningful up when i get the chance.

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Rule changes
The maximum curvature of a player's stick was increased to three-quarters of an inch. Previously, the maximum curvature had been one-half inch.
During shootouts, an opposing team may request measurement of a shooter's stick before the shooter's attempt. If the stick is found to be legal, the complaining team would forfeit its next attempt and the player listed for the next attempt would not be permitted to participate until all other eligible players have participated. The team would be fined $5,000, the coach $1,000. If the stick is illegal, the offending player would be ineligible in the shootout and the team would forfeit that attempt. The team would be fined $5,000, the player $1,000.
The new coaches
Guy Carbonneau, Montreal
Marc Crawford, Los Angeles
Claude Julien, New Jersey
Dave Lewis, Boston
Paul Maurice, Toronto
Ted Nolan, Islanders
Jim Playfair, Calgary
Alain Vigneault, Vancouver
The new GMs
Peter Chiarelli, Boston
Francois Giguere, Colorado
Dean Lombardi, Los Angeles
Jacques Martin, Florida
Ray Shero, Pittsburgh
Garth Snow, N.Y. Islanders
To the rafters
Here are the jerseys that will be retired this season:
Serge Savard, Canadiens, No. 18, Nov. 18, Bell Centre
Ken Dryden, Canadiens, No. 29, Nov. 18, Bell Centre
Steve Yzerman, Wings, No. 19: Jan. 2, 2007, Joe Louis Arena
Luc Robitaille, Kings, No. 20, Jan. 20, Staples Center
Although the numbers are not being retired, banners honoring Maple Leafs greats 'Red' Kelly (No. 4), 'Hap' Day (No. 4) and Borje Salming (No. 21) will be raised to the girders at Air Canada Centre on Oct. 4.
Players approaching milestone goals
400
Rod Brind'Amour, Carolina, 382
Eric Lindros, Dallas, 367
Trevor Linden, Vancouver, 356
500
Peter Bondra, free agent, 498
Mats Sundin, Toronto, 496
Teemu Selanne, Anaheim, 492
Mike Modano, Dallas, 485
Mark Recchi, Pittsburgh, 484
Jeremy Roenick, Phoenix, 484
Alexander Mogilny,
New Jersey, 473
600
Brendan Shanahan, N.Y. Rangers, 598
Jaromir Jagr, N.Y. Rangers, 591
Joe Sakic, Colorado, 574
Dates of note
Nov. 13 -- Hockey Hall of Fame induction
Dec. 19-27 -- Holiday roster freeze, with respect to waivers, trades and other player assignments
Dec. 26-Jan. 5 -- IIHF World under 20 championships, Mora and Leksand, Sweden
Jan. 23 -- NHL Super Skills competition and YoungStars game, Dallas
Jan. 24 -- NHL All-Star Game, Dallas
Feb. 27 -- Trade deadline, 3 p.m. EST
April 8 -- Last day of regular season
April 11 -- Stanley Cup playoffs begin
April 27-May 13 -- IIHF World Championship, Moscow
May 29-June 2 -- NHL draft combine, Toronto
June 11 -- Last possible day for Stanley Cup Finals
June 23 -- NHL draft, Columbus, Ohio
July 1 -- Free-agency signing period begins

Wings ---> Hasek and Osgood! the battle~

Via Detroit news:::

DETROIT -- With anybody else, there might be problems.
Think about this: You are an established NHL goaltender. You have led your team to a Stanley Cup and are still considered in the prime of your career. You pick up the paper one day and read that your team has just signed an elite, high-profile goaltender, and will pay him some $8 million to essentially take your job.
Tough business. But that's what happened to Chris Osgood in 2001. Just three years after helping the Red Wings win the Cup, Osgood ultimately was claimed by the Islanders in the waiver draft. That made room for Dominik Hasek.
Flash ahead to the summer of 2006. Osgood, who returned to the Red Wings and won 20 games the previous season, signed a two-year contract. For a minute it looked like he would be No. 1.
Nope. The Wings made headlines by bringing back Hasek.
"Kind of ironic, huh," said Wings forward Kirk Maltby, who has been here long enough to see Hasek come and go, come and go and come again. "The guy who kind of got kicked out of here for Dom the last time, kind of is here for that again and that's Chris."
Talking a good game
Had it been anybody else but Osgood, though, such a scenario could be messy.
Look back to Hasek's second incarnation with the Wings. He came out of retirement in 2003, after the Wings had signed high-priced free agent Curtis Joseph. Joseph didn't handle the situation well at all. In fact, the story goes that the goaltender shook hands the first day they met and never spoke again.
Their frosty relationship cast a pall over the entire locker room and added additional stress to an already tense season.
"That was a very tough situation, not only for me but also for the whole team," Hasek said. "Even from the beginning, we never talked to each other beyond maybe saying hi. It was hard to sit here and be a teammate. I feel completely different with Ozzie and my feeling is it should stay that way for the whole season."
Osgood and Hasek haven't gone out to dinner together or formed much of a relationship outside the arena yet, but there are signs of an early rapport.
"It's really too early to talk about our relationship," Hasek said. "However, I feel I can say I feel very comfortable around him. He's a friendly guy."
There are a couple obvious differences between Hasek's relationships with Osgood and Joseph.
First, both Hasek and Osgood are older and less likely to sweat the small stuff. Both are more predisposed to sharing the workload of an 82-game season.
"I don't feel I have to play 68 games any more," Hasek said.
Second, unlike with Joseph, there is no misunderstanding about who is No. 1 and No. 2. Osgood cannot dispute Hasek's six Vezina Trophies or his 28-10-4 record with Ottawa before he injured his groin last season.
Third, and probably most significantly, is Osgood's natural calm, congenial and largely non-confrontational personality. There might not be anybody in the game of hockey that he doesn't get along with. At age 33, Osgood is right where he wants to be -- in Detroit where he began his career (drafted by the Wings in 1991), where his wife Jenna and her family is from, with players he has grown up with (Maltby, Chris Draper, Nick Lidstrom) and with the full support and respect of the general manager (Ken Holland).
Problems getting along with Hasek? Doubtful.
"I've talked to Dom and we'll get to know each other more as we go on," Osgood said. "I knew him a little bit from before (in 2001 before being waived). He's a good guy. We just want to help the team win."
Osgood, frankly, would be embarrassed if his relationship with Hasek became an issue.
"That takes away from the focus of the team," Osgood said. "It's completely unnecessary. I'm sure we're going to get along, just like I've gotten along with every other guy I've ever played with. Teams don't need any of that sideshow extra stuff going on."
Lidstrom, expected to be named captain Thursday night, likes what he has seen of the chemistry so far.
"That was an awkward situation back then (2003)," he said. "As for now, we are all happy to have Dom here again. We have confidence in both goalies.
"I think it's an asset for our team to have two proven goalies. Either one can step in at any time."
Time to play
Where there was stony silence between Hasek and Joseph, there has been some good-natured ribbing between Hasek and Osgood, especially regarding the issue of playing time.
Hasek will playfully tell you that whichever goalie is playing well at the time should start. Then, in the next breath, will add that he thinks he should play at least 50 games.
Osgood will laugh and say he's fine with whatever role he's assigned, then makes a point to add that he can't imagine not playing at least 30 games, maybe 35.
"I always say it is good for a team to know who its starting goalie is," Hasek said, during a more serious moment. "But I also believe that performance on the ice is most important. Competition between two goalies, even teammates, is a good thing; if it's a healthy competition. I have nothing against it. He can play and I can play."
Coach Mike Babcock wasn't here for the 2003 goaltender cold war, but he certainly can't conceive it happening again this season.
"They are here to help each other out," he said. "Some teams play their No. 1 goalie 68 games. That's not going to happen here."
Maltby summed it up best.
"Goaltending, in this town especially, always takes the brunt of things, he said. "But our goalies over the years have been nothing short of spectacular."

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My analysis: Hasek stays healthy, he will in the inevitable end play more than osgood! which is the biggest blessing in disguise in the world! i know ozzie fans, bash me if you want. but this guy sincerely gets on my nerves!

I know dom has had injuries, if the groin thing happens again its not surprising. but for now , and always ill be a full fledge dom supporter and one of those ozzie haters as ya'll put it. but whatever, everyone has their own oppinion. if anyone can lead us to the playoffs in the net its hasek!

how many cups does ozzie have? 1! how many does dom have along with all the achievements? 1 .. but had hasek been in detroit for those three stanley cups i think he would have had all three. but what im saying is even playing ground hasek haters. and besides, has ozzie ever won the veznia? NOPE he has won the william jennings.. but that was with Vernon, i really dont count that because vernie helped with alot of that!

as far as ozzie goes, hes a choke artist when it comes to the easy goals. he can stop some pretty good shots but after '99 when his finger was broken. that ended him.