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It’s all over … Penguins take the Cup on our ice

June 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment

It’s been a long season and yet if we could have had another 10 minutes or so … maybe it would have been different. The Red Wings were stoned by Marc Andre Fleury and the crossbar, and they came up short against the wunderkind of the NHL, Sidney Crosby and his Russian buddy-in-uncalled-penalties Evgeni Malkin. [...]

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No Joe Vision? Can we blame that on Bettman too?

June 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment

We’ve got another casualty in 2009′s War on Everything Detroit, and this time it has nothing to do with the auto industry. For the first time in more than 15 seasons, fans of the Red Wings will not be able to watch a Red Wings playoff game at Joe Louis Arena, a tradition that’s been [...]

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Yahoo! Sports comments on the joke that has become the NHL rules committee

June 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports makes some good points about how the NHL’s decision to give a pass to last-minute-instigator Evgeni Malkin makes a joke of the league’s rules and undermines the credibility of the rule makers. NHL uses only rules that are convenient – NHL – Yahoo! Sports

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Two down, two to go. Wings need one more win to put the penguins on the brink.

June 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I think it’s notable that the NBC and NHL Network suits find it necessary to continually pump up the value of Sidney Crosby and last-minute-puncher Evgeni Malkin. Their memes (bouncy boards, lucky rookies) suggests that the Wings are nothing more than an underclass team who’s getting lucky against the best two hockey players in history. [...]

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Wings get the win in game one, everyone talks about the Joe’s boards

May 31, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I’ll update more during tonight’s game, but the one thing that’s been driving me crazy about the coverage from last night’s game is the obsession that the sportswriters have had with the boards at the Joe. Boards frustrate Pens as pucks bounce Wings’ way – NHL – Yahoo! Sports

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