Red Wings

[Rocky Bleier]

Yeah he should fight like Toe Blake and Eddie Shore

Is that a Slap Shot reference? Eddie Shore was vicious. Ended Ace Bailey's career with a cheap-shot. Would have fit in with the Quacks.

[froot loops]

Oh this young man has had a very trying rookie season, with the litigation, the notoriety, his subsequent deportation to Canada and that country's refusal to accept him, well, I guess that's more than most 21-year-olds can handle. Ladies and gentleman, Scott Niedermayer

[froot loops]

Why wouldn't the Wings expect the Ducks to come out fighting in game 6? It was win or go home for them. They should have known better.

What really kills me is that the Wings did look uninspired. They seemed like they were just going through the motions. They had a chance to put them away and didn't and now will have to take their chances in a game 7 where any bounce can happen.

Whichever team wins though, they will have their hands full with a young, energetic Chicago team that appears to be hungry......and will be rested.

They didn't goon it up until after the game, thats when they exacted their pound of flesh on the Wings goon Brian Rafalski.

[Rocky Bleier]

Don't forget Hossa and Datsyuk. I bet Pavel never gets another Lady Byng nomination.

[YT]

Oh this young man has had a very trying rookie season, with the litigation, the notoriety, his subsequent deportation to Canada and that country's refusal to accept him, well, I guess that's more than most 21-year-olds can handle. Ladies and gentleman, Scott Niedermayer

LOL. I was just thinking about that movie the other day.

[The Cat]

Gonz, are you still here? I thought I told you to wave bye bye on behalf of the Ducks from the Pond last night!! I see you are yet another who I must add to the list of people who don't take me seriously.

Perhaps it's just as well...I love tenacity and it's great to watch people hang in to the bitter end. I'll be the first to admit I have gone colder than a welldiggers boot and am returning the fortune teller card I received in a box of Cheerios. No more predictions from me. Still I can't help but wonder why you would want to stick around to watch the wings beat the quack out of your team!! Oops, sounds llike a prediction...(slap myself in the face) Even you must know. the Ducks will be on the wrong side of a one-sided score. (There I go again, (slap slap)...


I was in Chicago to watch Vancouver's demise. It was not an enoyable trip for me personally. It was a last minute deal. I was kind've tired when I left, and by the time we got to the hockey game about eight hours later, I was so weak I could hardly walk. I'm a bit of a wimp when feeling ill,.,,coupled with being in unfamiliar surroundings left me very panicky....So I simply endured the game and afterwards hit the hotel room while the others went out to party.


Marko you asked about Todd? Sudbury, (where I live) is his hometown. His sister hangs with my daughter quite a bit but we are just acquaintances. He knows me to say hi and vice versa. He arranged to get the tickets for a mutual friend of ours who is a real blackhawks fan.

Froot mentioned Toe Blake. I first met and had a lot of chances to talk to Toe starting in 1967. Ten years later I started dating my future wife. We were together about 8 months before I found out Toe was her uncle.


I do know many nhlers, most are acquaintances but some are nice relationships that were formed over the years from the days when they were junior players and I was doing play by play. They are now either retired, behind the bench or in the front office.. None, sadly with the Wings, my favourite team.

I wish I could comment on last night's game, but by the time we got out of the airport and into a nearby bar the game was in the third period. We left with about three minutes to go when I told the guys there was no sense in staying because I knew the final score would be 2-1.... Slaaaaaaaapppppppp!

[CGVT]

Yeah he should fight like Toe Blake and Eddie Shore

LOL! Old time hockey!

[Newbomb Turk]

putting on the foil........

[Rocky Bleier]

I first read about Eddie Shore in Don Cherry's book, Grapes. Cherry played for Shore in Springfield and hated him. Shore is one of hockey's more infamous characters.

Eddie Shore

All Star Defenseman and Management Villain

By Jamie Fitzpatrick, About.com

Also known as "the Edmonton Express" and "Old Blood and Guts," Eddie Shore is always listed among the great defensemen of all time. He also carries a reputation as one of hockey's most vicious and vindictive men. The Boston Bruins took full advantage, promoting him as the NHL's number-one hoodlum in a career that ran from 1926 to 1940.



Shore did his best to live up to the billing. He set an NHL record with 165 penalty minutes in his second season. His career is sprinkled with tales of broken bones, bloodied faces and long-running vendettas. Opposing players are said to have pooled money in a bounty on his head. Shore even took on team mates, once nearly losing an ear in a brawl at a Bruins' practice.
His defensive skills and ability to control a game were never in doubt. Shore was named the NHL's most valuable player four times in the 1930s. But his hot temper earned him lasting infamy in 1933, when his attack on Irvine "Ace" Bailey ended the career - and nearly the life - of the Maple Leafs' star.
In 1940, Shore purchased the Springfield Indians, a minor league club that became known as "hockey's Siberia" for the next quarter-century. Acting as owner, manager, coach, trainer, ticket puncher - you name it - Shore was the man nobody wanted to play for. He made players walk the streets with sandwich boards advertising games. He fed them a vile home remedy of how own making. He called them in to blow up balloons or sweep the aisles when the Ice Capades came to town. He once called a meeting of players' wives, asking them to withhold sex until the men played better. He was a legendary penny-pincher, forcing his players to use the cheapest sticks and equipment. Tensions finally boiled over in 1966, when the Indians players walked out, issuing a list of demands. The stand-off ended with Shore agreeing to resign as team president, but the players did not have long to celebrate. As a parting shot, Shore sold the entire roster for $1 million the following summer.

[Rocky Bleier]

Reminder to all who can view it: Caps v.s. Pens tonight, Game 7. That series has been intense! Lots of lead changes, hits, and, believe it or not, good goaltending. I look for Ovechkin to carry his team to victory at home.

[SnowMeiser]

They didn't goon it up until after the game, thats when they exacted their pound of flesh on the Wings goon Brian Rafalski.

Although I like your reference, I didn't mean literally coming out fighting but fighting to not be eliminated.

[chemiclord]

And if the stroke rumor Chemiclord had was true, even better you might finish him so you never have to play him again.

For what it's worth, I don't believe it for one second. If Rafalski had really had a stroke, even a "minor" one... he wouldn't be playing. Period.

I brought that up initially to highlight the sort of things the rumor mill churns up because NHL teams are so damn vague about their injury reports, if not outright making stuff up.

Getzlaf is an example. A "flu" doesn't cause you to favor your right leg or make you slow to move on the left side. He might have been sick, but that isn't why he's been laboring at times on the ice.

[Panoptes]

Getzlaf is an example. A "flu" doesn't cause you to favor your right leg or make you slow to move on the left side. He might have been sick, but that isn't why he's been laboring at times on the ice.

Here is what GETZ has to say directly about his flu related sluggishness (per the previously ref'd article from the OC Register):

Getzlaf scored the first goal, assisted on the second, and again showed how he can annex large parts of a hockey game.

"I'm feeling a little better every day," Getzlaf said. "I never really had a fever, but I just didn't have any energy. Game 5 was worse than Game 4. That was a real struggle. But I got some rest and some fluids, and I'm ready to move forward."

[chemiclord]

I think we need to get Getzlaf on quarantine then... because he clearly has a bizarre mutation of flu that only attacks the left knee.

[Malto Marko]

Actually, with the recent outbreak of the 'swine flu" errr 91h1 virus, he should be quaranteed so he does not infect the crowd in the building...............

Wayne County Health Commission needs to serve the dressing room about 15 minutes before game time with an ordinance that requires that anyone that has flu like symptoms or has suffered them within the past 14 days must provide a certificate signed by a County Health Official that proves he/she is not a threat to the Community or a danger in large crowds.