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Posted Friday November 13, 2009, About: Red Wings not interested in Giguere
giguere is definitely not the answer. seems like every year, the wings get floated as a possible destination for an aging/mediocre/overpriced goalie. last year it was toskola! the wings need to draft and develop a goaltender themselves, as almost every other team has done. as satanpig says, if anything, they need to find some scoring. but i disagree with the above poster that the wings "need to take their lumps this year." in the western conference right now, who's better? the sharks? till they get somewhere in the postseason, i'm not convinced. i love it that the wings are cruising under the radar, quietly winning games and learning to grind again. they'll hang around, pick up some scoring, get some guys back towards the end of the season, and be the proverbial team no one wants to face in the playoffs. i can't wait.
Posted Wednesday September 30, 2009, About: Valentine open to Mets return
the mets are the worst organization in baseball. i say that living in buffalo, having watched their sorry excuse for a AAA team up close all summer (they had the worst team in AA, too). getting valentine back would be a good step -- like other hotheads, the years may have mellowed him some, and he's had good success in japan. but like others have pointed out, till the mets get rid of minaya and start taking the farm teams seriously, they will never be a strong organization. the margin in baseball between good and awful is too thin these days, as proved by the mets when guys started going down this year.
Posted Sunday September 06, 2009, About: Murray questions Serena's commitment
Here are the women's grand slam leaders currently ahead of Serena:

Court -- 24
Graf -- 22
Moody -- 19
Navratolova -- 18
Evert -- 18
Lenglen -- 12
King -- 12

Serena will never catch Graf, who holds the "modern era" record; she will likely not catch Navratolova or Evert, either. I have to say, I'm with those who question the commitment of both the Williams' sisters. With their talent, Serena should be challenging the all-time record, while Venus should be closing in on a dozen, instead of the 7 she's got.

Sure, 11 slams is a lot and Serena's a great player. But how many slams has she honked out in because she didn't bother putting in enough time and effort on the "lesser" tourneys? And cut Murray a break, by the way; he's what, 22? He'll win his share of slams.
Posted Tuesday June 09, 2009, About: Penguins may shake up No. 1 line
except he should shut up about how "tired" the wings are and how "effective" he thought datysuk would be coming back from his injury. loved that datysuk fed cleary for the first goal of game 5, right between orpik's legs.
Posted Tuesday June 09, 2009, About: Penguins may shake up No. 1 line
the wings have now officially laid a beat-down on every team they've played in the playoffs at least once. so that part was sort of expected, but no way they do it again.

on the other side of the coin i don't see them coming out flat again this series with the cup so close to hand. even if they lose tonight -- gulp -- i don't see them panicking. everyone knew this was going to be a close series.

tonight will be close, close...
Posted Tuesday June 09, 2009, About: Penguins may shake up No. 1 line
i foresee a close game, possibly OT, with hossa scoring the game-winner over a sprawled-out fleury...
Posted Tuesday May 26, 2009, About: Sedin twins could leave Vancouver
the real disappearing act -- but that would mean he ever appeared in the first place -- was sundin. they must let him go and pay the sedins, if they want them. what the playoffs are showing -- this year more than most, it seems -- is that in order to score, you need to drive the net, hard. that's why thornton disappeared v. anaheim. that's why datsyuk hasn't been heard from, hossa only at times, and zetterberg mostly in a support role. crosby and malkin are both driving to the net hard and getting rewarded for it. likewise a lot of the role players on detroit. that's not the sedins' game, however, from what i've seen, so one way or another, they'll need guys like that if they want to succeed come playoff time.
Posted Monday May 25, 2009, About: Clippers entertaining offers for top pick
this is the ultimate no-brainer... the clips need a front-line player to replace brand, and they can have griffin at rookie scale for a few years, even if they've no intention of inking him long-term. yep, too easy; they're bound to screw it up.
Posted Tuesday May 19, 2009, About: Benched Giguere wants to remain a Duck
i agree with the previous poster who directed y'all to that article on butterfly goalies and their limited shelf-life... giguere is right about that age where a lifetime butterflyer begins to break down. still, he was great in the ducks' recent cup runs -- and yeah, i don't think it was the pads, lol -- and he probably has a few years left of good but not great goaltending in him, with flashes of his former brilliance from time to time. the ducks, incidentally, have some uber-guru of the butterfly style who taught hiller in sweden and has been begging them to sign him for years. that's why they have such good goaltending.
Posted Sunday May 17, 2009, About: Ducks GM in press box incident
agreed. ho-hum. moving on. that said, the story provided one more yuck over breakfast as i savor the elimination of the thugs from anaheim. here's looking forward to a great series with the hawks...
Posted Friday May 08, 2009, About: Wisniewski points finger at Holmstrom
don't know if anyone's mentioned this already or not, but what about getzlaf punching holmstrom on the side of the helmet while he was already down and then screaming at him to "get up" (game 2)? lots of little cheap **** like that going on in this series, it's playoff hockey, glad to see the wings giving it back.
Posted Sunday February 08, 2009, About: Osgood denies rift with Wings coach
The Wings have been playing loose all year with the puck in their end and it's going to come back and bite them in the ass come playoff time. There are no goalies out there on the horizon that can ride in and save them. Toskola is not an upgrade. Emery? A disaster. The bottom line is, you can't turn it on and off at will. They're a good team, but not better enough than some of the other teams this year to get away with that. I see a 2nd rd exit looming...
Posted Tuesday December 23, 2008, About: Osgood to test injury
OOPs -- i stand corrected. The wings had the dominator for a couple of years, and of course he did help them win a cup. but aside from renting top tier goalies in the twilight of their careers, and of course osgood, the wings have never really developed and held onto a true no. 1 NHL goalie.
Posted Tuesday December 23, 2008, About: Osgood to test injury
absolution: you're correct, up to a point. i do think the red wings are bored but i don't think they can just turn it on and off all year and succeed in the playoffs. i could be wrong, but with few exceptions i've never seen a team do that. osgood is not the dead horsemeat some of these pittsburgh clowns seem to think he is. he outplayed fleury last spring -- period. never gave up a soft goal when fleury gave up several.

that said, the wings have never had a true front-line goalie during their recent cup runs. vernon came closest, and osgood has been good enough. imagine how many cups they'd've hoisted by now if they had someone the caliber of brodeur. at any rate, i guess my point is that i'm concerned about the lack of defensive intensity, especially when you've got three solid lines of D and some of the premier defensive forwards in the world (i thought hossa was supposed to make us better?). we'll see how it all shakes out, but i wouldn't be surprised to see the wings go down in the first or second round, as they've tended to do in years after winning a cup.
Posted Friday August 01, 2008, About: How Blackhawks landed Bowman
Well, there's jumping on a ship just as it's coming in, and there's being good enough at your job to be the guy they want climbing on board. Bowman has been that everywhere he's gone. In my opinion, the Wings are still sitting on 50+ years of frustration without him.

As a Wings fan, this hurts, but reading about the story behind the move (his son, asst. GM in Chi, has cancer) makes me wish all the best for him and his family.
Posted Sunday July 20, 2008, About: Does NHL take Red Wings for granted?
<i>Maybe if people in Detroit would stop complaining and start doing something, their city wouldn't be so broken down</i>

Please don't comment about things you know nothing about. I'm so tired of seeing folks on this list trash-talk Detroit. Give it a rest. The "people" of Detroit are some of the hardest-working, most loyal to their teams, friendliest in the country. The city of Detroit has fallen on hard times due to racism, short-sighted and badly run auto companies, corrupt governments, etc etc.

I could go on and on about it but it's easier for people from other cities to just talk down to Detroit without thinking.
Posted Sunday July 20, 2008, About: Does NHL take Red Wings for granted?
the logical thing is to move the wings to the eastern conference, like they did with toronto. it just makes sense with all the expansion and teams that have sprung up west of the miss. in the past 10-15 years. not gonna happen though, because with all the transplanted michiganders in the south and west, the wings are one of the few teams to consistently draw on the road. THAT's what's being taken for granted.
Posted Tuesday July 08, 2008, About: Lowe: 'Who wants to live in Detroit?'
i just moved from texas to buffalo for grad school, choosing to come here in part because it reminded me of all the good things about detroit -- where i grew up (yes, in the suburbs) and went to college at WSU. beautiful old houses and neighborhoods -- some ghetto of course, but not blocks and blocks of burned out buildings like in detroit -- borders with canada, lakefront, a cool arts scene, and folks here are nuts about hockey, to the point where it still gets front page in the sports section even in july.

let me tell you something about trying to be a hockey fan in texas -- it sucks. forget about catching a game at a bar if there's any kind of football being played. even if it's a crap college game. hell, high school football gets more press than hockey. as for rooting for a team just because you move to that city, it's ludicrous. i hate people who do that. sure, i could see it if you move from somewhere that has no team in that sport, but to switch allegiance because you move is sports bigamy, plain and simple.

i understand that dallas has embraced the stars, kudos for that, but everywhere else in texas they are three rungs below the local h.s. football team. and you just don't know what it means to suffer with a team through bitter winters and lean years. the stars fell into your laps and they were pretty good when they got there and won a cup within four or five years. get back to me when you've gone 20 years without coming close and you're still a fan.
Posted Friday June 27, 2008, About: Pistons' little-known draft pick
it's feast or famine with the pistons in the draft -- either they wind up with a total stiff like Darko or a steal like Prince or Stuckey. but this is curious to say the least given that Mario Chalmers and Chris Douglas-Roberts were still on the board at 32. This guy better pan out or we've only heard the beginning of the sleepwalking jokes.
Posted Sunday June 15, 2008, About: NHL misspells Lidstrom's name
it's a slow news week, fellaz....

my only beef with the league re. lidstrom is that he should've won more norrises early on. wasn't he nominated three or four years straight before he got one? he should be working on no. 8 by now.

the league's sense of promotion is totally inept and short-sighted. the leaking of ovechkin mvp t-shirts, and the nhl's explanation for it, were the type of bungles i would expect from a jr high young entrepeneurs club. in fact joel from risky business would do a better job of promotion.
Posted Sunday June 15, 2008, About: Malkin on thin ice in Pittsburgh?
the problem with trading malkin now is what do you get for him -- if it's draft picks that doesn't help you now and if it's players then you still have the problem of signing them. some version of the moves you describe is going to happen, though, i agree. the pens may have to take their lumps with all the free agents and that's too bad but they are pretty well set up. they'll come out of this with an absolutely world-class top line, some good defensemen, and an up and coming young goalie.

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