OT- Who's Rooting for the STARS today?
With a Wings win coupled with a Stars win, Chicago will not make the playoffs. This would be awesome because i know, at least up here at ferris, that everyone from chicago thinks all of their teams are gods gift to each given sport.
it would also back up the claim that they did in fact buy the trophy last year and then promptly gut their roster.
GO WINGS and for today go stars!!
Jesus, the wings haven't gotten one single call yet this game while the hawks get every call.
Let's go!!!! Tie it up
I'm a stars fan, but for once in my life I'm rooting for detroit. GO WINGS!!
wow Quenville sucks. The goaltender should have been pulled near the beginning of the power play for a 6-4 man advantage.
Eh, its not that simple. Since Detroit was on the power play, they could "ice" the puck and in doing so shoot for the empty net. With an empty net at even strength, this is icing and thus teams rarely do it (you have to leave your really tired players on the ice). The Hawks had most of the momentum, and so I think Quenville played it right.
Man Keith had a great shot there at the end and missed it. GO MINNESOTA
I really don't see the Wild beating Dallas.
Funny things happen when it's a one and done situation, take for example Carolina last night. All they had to do was beat a Tampa Bay team (who had nothing to gain or lose from the game) and come out and laid a complete egg. Both teams are professionals and this is Minnesota's playoff game, so never know what kind of mentality they come with and try to ruin a teams season.
That being said God I hope Dallas wins!
Good call.
NHL Network.
Minnesota wins 5-3. How do you Red Wings fans say it... "SUCK IT HAWKS HATERS"... is that right?
Wow.
He played one year for the wings, and suddenly "sold out" because he didn't want to stay. I'm sure he's a trust fund baby that doesn't need to care about the long term future of himself and his familiy.
07-08, Pittsburgh, 26 pts in 20 games
08-09, Detroit, 15 pts in 22 games
09-10, Chicago, 15 pts in 22 games
I'd hardly consider that choking. In my opinion, he's a top 5 winger in the league. He plays responsibily, creates space for himself, and produces a lot of points. Your anger seems to suggest that deep down, you want him on your team, you're just upset he left. I personally wish Detroit didn't have so much money tied up in certain players so that they could have retained him because he's a solid player.
The wings knew Hossa needed shoulder surgery and didn't offer him nearly what he was worth. Half knowing he would miss most of the first half of the season, and half knowing they needed to spend more wisely with Zett and Dats contract situation.
He was HUGE for us in the Cup run last year. You must not have paid much attention. Understandable.
for the dumbest post ever right there. It is a bussiness, Hossa was offered a ridiculous deal by the Blackhawks that dwarfed anything offered by other teams including the Wings, which only an idiot would have turned down. He did the Wings a favor by signing a one year deal with them in the first place, when he had multiyear offers from other teams.
Your right that some players have taken a little less money to play with the Wings, but the gap in years and money between the Blackhawks offer and anybody else's was not a little less money or years, it was a huge difference. I feel embarrased that some many of fellow Wings can be so idiotic, with regards to Hossa.
Oh and by the way Hossa has 56 points in 65 games in the last 3 playoffs. That is hardly not doing anything. And that was despite battling through an signficant injury in the playoffs with the Wings.
How much have you had to drink today?
Womp womp.
My favorite comment was the one complaining how we're too focused on the Wings, in a thread devoted to rooting against the Hawks.
Takes more than that to take down the Champs! (Better get all the mileage out of that I can right now)
Hell no, go Wild, and more importantly go Hawks. There's some serious Red Wings insecurity going on here it appears.
April 11th, 2011 at 12:02 AM ^
what exactly? Chicago wins one cup after doing jack for an extended period of time, and now you got Chicago fans coming out the woodwork thumping their chests. I hardly see how cheering for Chicago to not make the playoffs consititutes insecurity, when you consider the rivarly between the two teams. In comparison to the Wings the Hawks have still accomplished very little in recent years, so there is very little reason for Wing fans to be insecure.
Enjoy getting knocked out in the first round by Vancouver though, Blackhawk fans. That should make backing into the playoffs worth it.
April 11th, 2011 at 12:10 AM ^
Cups for the Red Wings in the post-cap era: one.
Cups for the Blackhawks in the post-cap era: one.
We'll enjoy our cup though, thanks.
April 11th, 2011 at 12:26 AM ^
Did you just dip into the same bag of tricks that MSU/OSU fans use to discredit much of Michigan's football success?
The average MGoBlog member is between 20-30 years old and has seen the Wings win 4 cups and the Hawks win 1. You guys had a great season last year, there's no denying that. It's not our fault the Blackhawks were owned by morons for what seemed like decades.
April 11th, 2011 at 12:29 AM ^
Yes, yes he did.
How do we have so many non-Wings fans on here?
Because contrary to what some of you think, this isn't a Red Wings blog. It's a Michigan blog. Nearly 30% of Michigan's students are from out of state. Many are from Chicago. Got it?
Did you just connect one fanbase in college sports to one in professional sports? Did you also do so while ignoring the seismic impact of a salary cap? Sure, why not!
Pretending like the lockout didn't change the dynamics of professional hockey is silly. I'm not discrediting years of Wings history pre-cap, I'm merely saying that things are different now. It's absurd to try to say the dominance of the high salaried teams before the lockout translates over to the post-cap era. It's a level playing field now, not unlike how a salary cap would radically change baseball.
You act like the Blackhawks are some small market team stuck in Tennessee that finally got its shot once the salary cap was imposed. The salary cap came and went and the Wings didn't miss a beat. The Wings won the division the 4 years leading up to the cap and the 4 years after the cap. The Wings have won the division 5 of 6 years since the salary cap, have been to three Western Conference Finals, two Stanley Cup Finals and won 1 cup. The Blackhawks, since the cap, missed the playoffs three times, won the division once, have been to two Western Conference Finals, one Stanley Cup Final and won 1 cup.
If you were arguing for Carolina, Nashville, or Tampa Bay I might see your point. There was no excuse for the Blackhawks not being competitive in a city that is capable of supporting two baseball teams regardless of whether or not there is a salary cap.
Except I'm not arguing just for the Blackhawks. The cap leveled the playing field across hockey, allowing all teams to compete evenly. Yes, the Red Wings won the Central the four years after the cap was put in place, but really, shouldn't they have on talent alone? The Wild, Blue, Preds, and barely post-Dollar Bill Blackhawks? The fact that teams like Carolina won it all says a lot more about what the cap did though. And the fact that no two teams have won the Cup since the cap also speaks to what it has done.
Your comments about Chicago not being some small market team and the Blackhawks sort of demonstrate how much you know about Dollar Bill. The guy wrecked hockey in the city. Being completely unable to watch the games, trading away any and all talent, ignoring management suggestions, destroying the farm system, etc. The team might as well have been small market for what he did.
April 11th, 2011 at 12:36 AM ^
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For the lazy
No. 3 Detroit Red Wings vs. No. 6 Phoenix Coyotes
- Game 1: Wednesday, 7 p.m. ET (Versus, CBC)
- Game 2: Saturday, 1 p.m. ET (NBC, CBC)
- Game 3: April 18, 10:30 p.m. ET (Versus, CBC)
- Game 4: April 20, 10:30 p.m. ET (Versus, CBC)
- Game 5: April 22, 7 p.m. ET* (Versus, CBC)
- Game 6: April 24, TBD* (CBC)
- Game 7: April 27, TBD* (CBC)
And to oblige any blackhawk fans out there
No. 1 Vancouver Canucks vs. No. 8 Chicago Blackhawks
- Game 1: Wednesday, 10 p.m. ET (CBC, Versus)
- Game 2: Friday, 10 p.m. ET (CBC, Versus)
- Game 3: Sunday, 8 p.m. ET (CBC, Versus)
- Game 4: April 19, 8 p.m. ET (CBC, Versus)
- Game 5: April 21, 10 p.m. ET* (CBC, Versus)
- Game 6: April 24, 8 p.m. ET* (CBC)
- Game 7: April 26, TBD* (CBC)