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.