Time is a Factor.

Detroit -

The wings have had their shares of ups and downs, but after the 2-1 win the other night they are hoping to turn around their game and get back to their winning ways.

This proves, it can be done! but would a tough guy be a good idea? alot of people would say yes! I say yes, the reason being there is not enough grit in this hockey club.

The question was posed in the Detroit News as to weather Holland would want an Enforcer or not, this is what he said "Would I like to have a guy, or a couple of guys in the lineup, who could play regular (minutes) and handle themselves with the fisticuffs? Yeah, I would love it."
"I just have a hard time with players that you can't put out on the ice. As you go game to game to game to game, there's a lot of teams that don't have those kind of (enforcer) guys."

Different players such as williams may be out this up and coming game to recover, that same knee on knee bumping is going on . The on ice surface can be used for one of two things. playing a good flowing hockey game, or taking aggression out on a non - physical player. now, pause and think, which would you want to see.

Some of us may say, more physical, some may say Id like to see alot of flow. But as hockey is there has to be a little of both.

If not you have all this pent up anger that shouldnt be there. sometimes its good for a lil drop of the gloves. but within reason.

There have been some improvements such as Hasek, he had twenty saves last game, the team is starting to pick it up. Hopefully we do not flop during trades this year, hopefully we do sign a scorer/ enforcer. Todd Bertuzzi, HINT, HINT!!

Wings Memories

These are a few of my favorite wings moments that I just wanted to share with ya'll... hope you enjoy them as much as i did putting this whole thing together, this is by Manda or the user name which is mine that would be Shanny14
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Wings crushed the boos, ya it was a great ending, well, a real nail biter as osgood let in that second goal. Oh, buddy i almost lost my breath as i wa

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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.