OT Wings vs Panthers Sunday Afternoon thread
In the first "Oh that's gotta be an April Fools joke. Oh it's not? /life" move of the day, Babcock scratched Ian White to make room for Kyle Quincey. Yeah, because Ericsson is the staple on this defense, we should raise his contract to 6 mil a year because everyone loves turnovers...
We better win today. We got a game in hand on Nashville and Chicago, but 1 point separates all 3. This should be an exciting end to the season.
Anybody catch the end of the Pens-Flyers game? That was great to see Laviolette standing on the bench, practically in front of Pierre, yelling his head off at Bylesma. Pretty good brawl, wouldn't be surprised to see Rinaldo and Asham get a game suspension.
I honestly wouldn't mind seeing the team drop to 6th. Sure, we'd lose home ice advantage but I'd rather they not play Nashville in the first round. IIRC we didn't beat Nashville once this year.
My pop had a theory that that's what they're doing, playing for 6th
They've beaten Nashville 3 times...
If we drop to 6th and San Jose wins the Pacific, we'll probably be swept right out of the playoffs.
I'd much rather have home-ice against Nashville than away against any west coast team.
As bad as Ian White has been the past few games, Kyle Quincey hasn't really been any better. Shitbox has actually been quite good for us. Honestly, ever since returning to the Wings Quincey has slowly regressed to the player he was before he traded. He sure as shit doesn't look like the guy who set career marks with the Kings and Avs.
I'm mentally preparing for this team to get swept in the playoffs. They just look plain bad.
They just show no signs of life against good teams and always play down against bad teams like Carolina and Columbus. I fully expect that the Wings are going to lose in the first round.
Now that i say this, they will go on to win the remanider of their games and end up in 4th place and make a deep run this year.
Something's just been off. Datsyuk hasn't been making the usual wizardry plays. We haven't been shooting the puck enough. When we have shot the puck, we rely too much on the point shot (as opposed to getting it low and cycling). And we aren't skating well at all.
And our power play has been less effective than a buckeye compliance officer.
This PowerPlay is hideous.
Nyquist is gonna be special.
dude got skills
I'll be at the Joe on Thursday to watch Wings/Devils, haven't been to the arena in a while so I'm looking forward to it.
Good lord this is incredibly frustrating.
Also, we really miss Helm and Eaves. Those guys are two of our best penalty killers. Helm regularly got chances on the PK. With them out, we have to put zetterberg on the ice, wearing him out.
And Helm is also really fast.
To be down 1-0 to Florida going into the 3rd says a lot about how bad this team really has been lately.
Octopus on the ice!
FINALLY!!!
Hudler with a blast off of former Wolverine John Madden and through the five hole!
Aaaaand we respond to that by getting a 5 minute major. Lovely.
Fucking Quincey is a joke.
I am sure shanny will be dishing out a suspension tomorrow for that stupid hit.
Also, Kyle Quincey is an idiot. We benched Ian White for this trash?
Good follow up shift asshole.
Living here in Cleveland I dont get much Wings coverage. It seems like the last time they were in the national spotlight it was for winning like 236 games in a row at home. Now they cant seem to beat anybody.
Can somebody tell me exactly what happened?
Injuries fucked our mojo.
Old age and not being able to get a scoring forward at the deadline.
will we get uninjured by the playoffs?
We're just about getting healthy right now. As I mentioned before, we miss Darren Helm dearly. He's a sparkplug that we just dont have right now. Lightining in a bottle baby.
Man, Did This Dude Just Did This?
They got almost everybody back but Helm and Eaves.
RED WINGS WIN!!!!
2 to 1 in SO
Datsyuk and Hudler scored in the SO. Wolski had the SO goal for Florida,
There we go! 4th place, and home ice position...for the time being.
I want the 4 seed, only 3 games left.
I still stick to seed not mattering too much, but home ice would be nice and I don't want to risk falling to 6th and traveling that far.