Turning the game on in 5.
make a Brittany griner thread! someone.
LFGRW!!!
That intro music was horrific
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LGRW
had same shirt on for Games 1 and 3. But it's in the dryer still!
Asshole, go get it and wear it damp.
Agreed!
Let's Go Red Wings!
Smith and Callahan BOTH out, advantage Wings? Too bad it wasn't for five.
Yay, PK!
How was that not charging?
This game depends all on Petr, let's see if he can string together a couple performances! This kid has the talent
Am I the only one who is bothered that NHL teams don't wear their whites at home like it should be?
As someone who doesn't watch much pro sports, seeing Tampa in whites is really throwing me off.
I might just be weird, but I think the home teams should wear their dark colors... idk
They used to and I'm not sure why they changed it up.
I would be in favor of changing every few years. But road whites have been the standards for quite a few years, I want to say since the lockout in 05.
Prior to the early 1950s, teams only wore 1 uniform (all teams wore coloured except Boston wore white). With the advent of television, and TV being black and white, it was very difficult to tell a red team from a blue team, or two red teams (Montreal/Detroit) or two blue teams (Toronto/New York) apart...so at the request of television, white uniforms made their way into the NHL.
In 1970, Charles Finlay (owner of the California Golden Seals) wanted the league to become like baseball and wear their white uniforms at home (he claimed at the time that fans were walking into his building and cheering for the white team because that was the norm (forgetting for a second that the NFL wore their colours at home)). The NHL saw no reason to vote against it, and 'whites at home' was born.
Based on NHL merchandise reports, coloured jerseys have always made up 65-75% of sales. In a 2007 report issued by the Sports Collectibles Association of America, Toronto is the only NHL team which over the years has sold more white jerseys than coloured, and Detroit and the Rangers are close to 50/50 with colours slightly ahead.
In a 2008 interview, Mike Ilitch claims that he received thousands of requests for the Wings to wear red at home, and in the 4 years since, he had received only a few requests to wear white.
It has been rumoured that the reason for the change was to accomodate the 3rd jersey, but both the NHL and NHLPA have denied this and pointed out the fact that teams wore their 3rd jersey both home and away as a rule and last summer the NHLPA agreed that teams would wear their new Rbk 3rd jerseys a set number of games each year with 50% being at home, and 50% being on the road.
As part of the league's agreement with Adidas-Salomon AG (owner of Rbk), the teams will wear their white jerseys at home at least once per season against divisional opponents allowing their fans to see their rival's colours
NHL/NHLPA/Adidas agreement
Thanks for posting that explanation, very good read.
Personally, I like Detroit's road whites better than the home reds. For some reason, too much red always hurts my eyes. More than that, though, I just think the iconic Red Wings logo just stands out better on the road white uniform.
I kind of like colors at home, a la football.
LOL goalie icing!
Mrazek looking sharp.
I'm feeling a goal here boys
edit: nevermind
are struggling with TB's speed. They have to continue to out hit them and wear them down with physical play. They are giving up too many slot shots and living on hot goaltending. Hate to say it guys they are not the better team here right now but their goalie is keeping them in it.
Sigh, no joy on the PP.
Yikes. Not a terrible period, but I feel like they're a bit fortunate to be scoreless after one.
TB had some luck, too. Zidlicky's shot broke one of their sticks on the PP, but the bounce went their way, so they could clear it. If the Wings keep it, then it's almost like a 5-on-3.
WTF rets?!?!
Nyquist! 1-0 Wings!
goooooaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
*said like Mr. Belding*
"hey hey hey hey hey what is going on here?! mgoteacher1...this is hockey, not soccer!"
Gus! Great pass by our own Glendening.
You mean Zetterberg. Glendening got a deflection which started the play.
C YA!
I love Z
goblueram, are you just looking at things in the room and saying that you love them? Do you really love Z?
remind me of the NJ devils in the 90s. They live on great goaltending then muck and muck and make the other team cough it up and capitalize on the mistake. The Devils using that formula won that year too.
Except the Wings can't clutch and grab like the Devils back then.
What the actual fuck, Tampa goalie?
LOL goalie holding!
This guy Paquette is both the dirtiest and the dumbest SOB in the league.
Damn, no joy.
I feel like Jon Cooper would be a better fit to coach the Columbus Blue Jackets with a name like that.