It's the morning after and you know what p*sses me off most? Not that the Red Wings lost. It's sports, you can't win every year, it absolutely sucks but it happens.
The thing that p*sses me off is that I paid premium dollars for a game that the Wings treated like a regular season game in January. They showed absolutely no urgency. They played the game as if they could lose and say, "Eh, we'll get 'em next time."
After all the talk from Mike Babcock and Kris Draper about winning one for the people of Michigan because we need something to feel good about it, the team showed that it was just talk. While we may need something to feel good about, they didn't feel the need to put in any effort.
Okay, that's a bit of hyperbole. The first 20 minutes were fine and the last six minutes were impressive but by my math that adds up to 26 minutes of a 60 minute game.
The funny thing is I didn't think the Penguins played that great of a game. They didn't get a lot of really good chances but they did get to pucks along the boards and do the little things. With Detroit unwilling to fight for those pucks, all they had to do was get to them.
The Wings lost those battles, they dumped the puck in from the blue line on power plays and then didn't go get it, they didn't hold the puck in the Pittsburgh zone when they finally did get in there. It's hard to win a game with a puck control offense when you're not controlling the puck.
All year they had success playing their game but then when it came down to the last game of the year they didn't bother to play it. They switched from something that had won all season to something entirely different and somehow expected a good result?
I haven't seen any press on the game yet. Haven't watched any news, listened to any radio or read any articles, but I see a headline quoting Nicklas Lidstrom as saying, "It's hard losing the way we did tonight."
I'm sorry, Nick, but you're dead wrong. As proven, it's really damned easy to lose the way you did. Maybe you guys should have realized that a bit sooner.
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Barry Melrose was on SportsCenter today... He actually said that he believed the Wings would win game 7!
in other news, hell froze over today...
Make the butterflies stop!!!!!
Anyone making any predictions?
I know you guys won't like this but Im saying its going 2-1 Pittsburgh with Fedotenko scoring the winning goal in the 3rd. I expect a great game tonight and can not wait!!!!! Good luck!!
Cheers
No predictions. Every time I predict the Wings to win they lose and every time I predict them to lose they lose.
No predictions. Every time I predict the Wings to win they lose and every time I predict them to lose they lose.
Im going to take that as a prediction for the Wings to win then. 
Sometimes they lose when I don't predict anything, sometimes they win. I think what it comes down to is that I have no effect on the whole thing but I'm not willing to say otherwise. 
UGH!! i had today off so i stayed up all last night so i could sleep all day today and not have to think about the game but now i'm up we are under 2 hour's till the puck drop's and i am a basket case!!! No predictions from me either may the better team win that's what game 7 is all about right? good luck and hold on for what's about to be a wild ride LET'S GO REDWING'S!!! <<<< a little inspirational music
Don Cherry holding an octopus in the Detroit river while dressed like a biker? wtf?
Man this is nervewracking.
The Pens look a little gun shy...
Don Cherry holding an octopus in the Detroit river while dressed like a biker? wtf?
I wonder if he comes up with things like this on his own.
Helmer already has three hits... Amazing!
That was close
good start thus far that one scary moment tho whew!!!
I won't be able to breathe until we score.
Amen!!!! What a period
Greaat period, pretty even, the wings started well, then the pens got into it about half way through, then the wings finished strongly. Still nervous as f*ck though.
i will feel alot better if we can get one on the board to but i thought we played well they had more scary chance's but we are taking the body and playing with good energy
Absolute insanity here. Fantastic atmosphere.
Wings came out strong until the penalty. A little sloppy after that. Still getting a lot of shots blocked.
Absolute insanity here. Fantastic atmosphere.
You at the game?
f*ckf*ckf*ckf*ckf*ck. Talbot gets the first goal >:|
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! f*ck.
did Mule elbow Crosby in the face?? i thought that's what i saw i could be wrong
He went knee to knee with him along the boards. Painful. PP coming up, make it count!
Oh f*ck. This isn't happening.
this isn't really happening is it?? they are without Crosby it's time to go!!!
i feel sick.
They're PLAYING LIKE f*ckING sh*t
For f*ck's sake, why can't they f*cking stay onside?
2 huge minutes for Pitt here...a Wings goal would be deadly
Had to score there. f*ck.
Yeah, I'm at the game.
Last two minutes of the second were good but they played way too passive the rest of the period. Not fighting for pucks or anything. WTF?
why can't we play like the way we did for the last 2:30 for 20 mins that's what's gonna have to be done to get back in this
Yeah, I'm at the game.
Last two minutes of the second were good but they played way too passive the rest of the period. Not fighting for pucks or anything. WTF?
Tigers beat Pittsburgh...One down, one to go?
by the way Stuie has been an absolute liability tonight just not on his game at all
You cannot put enuff emphasis on an early goal here...either way.
I have a really bad feeling about this.
by the way Stuie has been an absolute liability tonight just not on his game at all
That early penalty put him off his game?
I care that they win, but I also care that they play well. Leave it all on the ice...no regrets. (If that doesn't happen, then I suspect that injuries are catching up with them. CBC has commented, for example, that Datsyuk doesn't have the jump he had in games 5 and 6.) They can come back, all things being equal....But at least they won't "goon it up".
It should be 1-0 look back at the replay of the first goal, it should of been called an iceing. The three most veteran refs in the game miss it, but I see it, and the NBC commentator sees it, WTF? And I agree with whoever said it, why can't we play like the couple minutes of the 1st, and the last 1 or 2 of the 2cnd, in between the Wings just stoped hitting, stopped forechecking, and stopped going to the net. Lets go wings, intensity is the key word!
by the way Stuie has been an absolute liability tonight just not on his game at all
That early penalty put him off his game?I care that they win, but I also care that they play well. Leave it all on the ice...no regrets. (If that doesn't happen, then I suspect that injuries are catching up with them. CBC has commented, for example, that Datsyuk doesn't have the jump he had in games 5 and 6.) They can come back, all things being equal....But at least they won't "goon it up".
Sorry, but not gooning it up is nothing to hang your hat on...If this third period goes the wrong way for Wing fans, the Pens gooning it up could be seen as a turning point in the series.
Don't look like scoring at the moment. No sustained pressure, just can't seem to be able to gain the zone. f*ck f*ck f*ck.
Thank god! Way to go Ericsson!
HUGE
YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One more, come oooooooooooooooooonnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My stomach is about to fall out of my butt =/ Oh my gosh. 30 seconds left ):
Oh my god. I feel so bad for Hossa =/
I have no words.
penguins were just the better team this series
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Sorry, but not gooning it up is nothing to hang your hat on...If this third period goes the wrong way for Wing fans, the Pens gooning it up could be seen as a turning point in the series.
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If you want to attract more people to this game, to expand its audience, "gooning it up" is just not going to do it. I still like to see my winners and losers finish the game with grace. I know a lotta lotta people who vastly prefer the Olympic game to the NHL game, and you just don't see "gooning it up" on international ice.
Damn! I was looking forward to the parade. Go Wings!
Can we agree that Fleury was the difference? The Wings had some chances.
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