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by IwoCPO on 05/17/08 at 07:03 AM ET
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I don’t even know what to write. I’m embarrassed that I woke up so stressed today. I know it’s all part of the deal, the price we pay for having a team this close, but man.
It’s bad today. It’s frigging bad. Stupid damn Free Press. Anyone see their “exlusive pictures from Wings practice” gallery this morning? Check this out.
The Detroit Red Wings right winger Dan Cleary (#11) practices on goalie Chris Osgood (#30) for game six of the Western Conference Finals against the Dallas Stars at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit on Friday, May 16, 2008.
You idiots. Don’t you see what you’ve done? Don’t you? Game six? Are you kidding me? Who makes mistakes like that? Who doesn’t see the consequences of mistakes like that?
I’m onboard bitches. All the way.
Yes, there are keys. Many, many keys. Here’s one. I’m going with a Seger Live Blog today. I’ll give you a hint. It’ll be from Night Moves. Love that song. That’s MY song. You can guess the line if you want but I’m not giving it away early.
I’ve also decided to kick the family out of the house. I can’t have all these people running around, doing stuff. I won’t allow it. No chatter, no girly giggles. Just me and the game and the live blog. Live from The Hasek.
And I’m not going to read the stories. I saw the headlines at the Anti-digger’s, in the News, the Freep. I’m not going to read the stuff about us needing more secondary scoring, or about the power play lagging. No. I know that stuff. I don’t need the reminders.
I have to find something useful to do with my life the next six hours. If I sit here and stress there’s a good chance I’ll be fetal by 1330.
I’m gonna try and not think about the consequences of a Game 5 loss. Nothing but positive thoughts. I imagine a rocking JLA, a Campbell Cup waiting to be ignored. I see Hank and Rafalski and Cleary, all celebrating first period goals. I sense collective sighs of relief. I can picture a blowout and it warms me.
I see a Dallas shot total that doesn’t reach twenty because the Wings have been thinking of nothing else but shutting that team down the last three days.
I don’t think about the fact that an extra day off, courtesy of the worst commissioner in the history of commissioners, has given Dallas’ boys an extra day to get healthy. And I really don’t think about the fact that we still don’t have a diagnosis on Franzen.
My wife says the Wings will come out flying today, that it will be a blowout, an 8-2, or 7-0 thing...like elimination games of recent and distant pasts. I’m glad she thinks that way, too bad she’s been banished from the house.
I’m picturing something pleasant right now. I’m picturing some other team having to withstand “ten minutes of Hell.” I see the Wings blasting away right off the drop, determined to end this, convinced that it ends today in Detroit. And finishing the job.
Here’s what I refuse to see. I won’t allow myself to imagine a close game or for fu**’s sake....OT. No.
I’m aware of my shortcomings. They’re pointed out to me from time to time. I know I’m pretty close to losing it altogether. I know that. I’m going to try and keep it together.
How the Hell can I be so stressed with a 3-1 lead? It’s absolutely ridiculous. But, just like the kids say, it’s how I roll.
And it doesn’t help one bit that I woke last night to the sound of thunder. That doesn’t help a bit.
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No, it’s Osgood. But if you look at Photo 12, it’s clearly Hasek not Osgood, and he’s not “slipping”. And the whole gallery says “game six”. This thing is FULL of mistakes. Where was the editor??
Posted by Justin on 05/17/08 at 07:30 AM ET
No jinxes. No problems. Too bad for Gary.Ass. The Wings will perform at top level today. They will beat Dallas as well as the officials, with their team mentality as well as true grit to back it up.
The Wings execute the fundamentals to perfection and keep it simply beautiful to watch. It’s over for Dallas today!
“BRING IT ON!”
Lets Go Red Wings!!!!!
Posted by Kate from Pa. on 05/17/08 at 08:13 AM ET
One Key to the game; we all know it, and so do the DAL MSM. From the hyphenated writer, Jean-Jacques Taylor at the Dallas Monring News:
When scoring first this season, Detroit is a remarkable 52-7-2. When they lead after the first period, the Red Wings are 45-4-1.
Now do you understand why it’s so important for Dallas to get the first goal?
In case you’re wondering, the Red Wings are 3-0 in this series when they score first and lead after the first period.
And if you ask them – without a tape recorder or camera rolling – they’d probably tell you this series would be over if officials hadn’t overturned a first-period goal in Game 4 because Tomas Holmstrom’s butt was in the crease.
Taylor even offers up an ominous conclusion for Stars’ fan:
Not many folks expect the Stars to play another game this season. Nor should they.
Not when you consider no team has rallied from a 3-0 series deficit in 33 years. Detroit has beaten the Stars in six of eight games this season, and Turco’s struggles have been well chronicled.
Scoring first guarantees the Stars nothing. It simply gives them a better chance to avoid the inevitable.
Score first and you are in all of the Stars’ heads, especially Turco.
Score first and keep crammin the skate down their throats!!
Posted by Jeff - - OklahomaWingNut from Wind-Swept-Plains on 05/17/08 at 08:24 AM ET
I’m in a training seminar until game time...save me a seat in the Hasek!! (no pun intended)
GO WINGS!!
Posted by Rumbear from Sandy Eggo on 05/17/08 at 08:32 AM ET
I’m going with a Seger Live Blog today. I’ll give you a hint. It’ll be from Night Moves.
I’d go with:
“Felt the lightning...And we waited on the thunder”
That game 4 (stolen from them or not) should have been the dose of lightning the Wings needed to get back into killer mode. Now, we’re just waiting on the thunder that’ll be delivered to the Stars this afternoon. At 1:30. In. The. Afternoon.
Thanks, Gary. Ass.
Posted by OlderThanChelios from Grand Rapids on 05/17/08 at 08:36 AM ET
At 1:30. In. The. Afternoon.
10:30 Pacific Time.
Bloody Mary’s and Hockey. Tradition......
Posted by Rumbear from Sandy Eggo on 05/17/08 at 08:59 AM ET
Here’s a television nightmare…
Overtimes in the hockey game and another dead horse in the race. Two debacles for the price of one!
And guess what - there will be a Sunday game too! What a funny coincidence.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 05/17/08 at 09:04 AM ET
Mornin’ all.
I gotta say, PBR and shredded mini-wheats isn’t half bad…
Aint it funny how the night moves
When you just dont seem to have as much to lose
Posted by TeamDub from Bitterly clinging to guns and religion. on 05/17/08 at 09:08 AM ET
Man am I nervous… three cups o’ joe haven’t helped either. Wife is out of town… it’s just me and the cat… not a good omen. Today we will find out what this Red wing team is made of. Balls to the walls boys, no quarter drawn and none given. I want DOMINATION… I don’t care if the score is 7-1 or 1-0, I want Dallas leaving the Joe knowing they just had their asses handed to them by a superior team in every way. I want the playoff life choked out of Bubba Sr. and Turco institutionalized as a result of the psychic trauma.
So if anyone’s looking for me I’ll be in my usual corner of the Hasek, wearing my ‘big boy’ astronaut Depends, drinking anything within reach (I’m looking directly at you Mr. Beam) and keeping the coals glowing on the hibatchi… here kitty, kitty, kitty…
Posted by Mike from La-La Land on 05/17/08 at 09:09 AM ET
Whiners. You know what I have to look forward to? Trying to watch the game while my neighbors take turns mowing their lawns. I swear to Christ, you would think there was only one lawnmower in this neighborhood, and they all just pass it around to make sure I can’t hear jack from 9:00 to about noon every Saturday.
The worst part about playoff hockey at 10:30 a.m.? I can’t whine myself to sleep afterwards if it goes badly. They lose and I’m going to be drunk and bitter at 1:00 on a Saturday afternoon.
Posted by Gabriel from San Diego, CA on 05/17/08 at 09:25 AM ET
This is the chance of a lifetime for one of our Defensemen to make Wings’ history...Demolish Steve Ott.
Posted by w2j2 on 05/17/08 at 09:38 AM ET
I’m going to be drunk and bitter at 1:00 on a Saturday afternoon.
Hmm, sounds like a normal Saturday at the TD compound.
Posted by TeamDub from Bitterly clinging to guns and religion. on 05/17/08 at 09:40 AM ET
OT:
Wow - took the dog out for a pee and was treated to multiple, fairly high speed passes by 2 ANG 180th FW F-16s accompanied by 2 F-22 Raptors. That’s a first around here - we always see/hear the F-16s, but the Raptors are a new development. Not positive, but I think the tail on at least one of the F-22s was TY.
Wish I had my camera.
Posted by TeamDub from Bitterly clinging to guns and religion. on 05/17/08 at 10:04 AM ET
Dub, it’s unusual for me. Drunk and morose, yes. Drunk and disillusioned, sure. But drunk and bitter is rare.
Posted by Gabriel from San Diego, CA on 05/17/08 at 10:08 AM ET
How much do you think Franzen is kicking himself that he mentioned he was having headaches? It’s a good thing that he did, but if he knew he would miss more than just a game or two he would have been tempted to keep his mouth shut and take his chances.
I miss the Mule. :(
Oh, and check out the graphic along the side of Red Wings Brasil - go all the way to the bottom of the sidebar for a good chuckle.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 05/17/08 at 10:15 AM ET
Is it me or is that picture Jimmy Howard, not Osgood?
It’s Howard. Neither Ozzie or Dom use that kind of two piece helmet. Howard’s mask is more traditional and links that piece at the back of the head via straps; both Dom and Ozzie use a fully covered helmet with an attached front cage.
Score first and keep crammin the skate down their throats!!--Jeff
Cut the jugular from the inside. Brilliant! Let me grab my Guinness.
TDub: That’s an amazing sighting. I got to make it to an air show and see a F-22 in person; I remember when it and the X-23 were still in development and both were being considered. Beautiful planes!
My keys to the game: Z & Dats will play their dominating game and show Tippy that his mish-mash checking line can’t do shh against the EuroTwins.
Fil, Cleary and Hudler: These guys are going to shut up the secondary scoring bs. Don’t defenseman count in secondary scoring? 3/4 of our top D are league leaders in assists. When the F didn’t that count for anything?!
Drake & Sammy: Babbles said that Sammy lead the team in ‘offensive zone finished checks’; didn’t know that did ya? That’s pretty amazing. He and Drake will make Babbles smile tonight...er...this afternoon. gutless Ass.
Turco: If we continue to get our asses in his face and not let up, it will only catalyze his meltdown. Get him whinning and/ or hitting the players in front and we win that battle.
4-2 Wings win: Their second goal comes later and is essentially meaningless.
Posted by Osrt on 05/17/08 at 10:30 AM ET
Baroque that is ridiculously funny!
But do tell, just how in the world did you stumble upon that blog?? Curious minds really want to know!!
Posted by Jeff - - OklahomaWingNut from Wind-Swept-Plains on 05/17/08 at 10:31 AM ET
I am so psyched about this. Despite the fact that I was at work yesterday until 3 this am, and despite the fact that I am having to work today, throughout the game and beyond, I have already had them set up a TV and run cable into my shop. Sleeping with the boss does have its advantages, aside from the obvious. Call it a perk. I’ll be watching the game while I build this damn show. Posting may be sparse, but I’ll be here. I can’t f*cking wait! Tear them APART and dance on their corpses!
Posted by WingBitch from Virginia on 05/17/08 at 10:33 AM ET
Thanks for that B:
Warms that heart that and proves that people across the world can indeed unite for a just cause.
Posted by Osrt on 05/17/08 at 10:34 AM ET
Call it a perk--WB
I usually call it a tent but a perk works 
Posted by Osrt on 05/17/08 at 10:36 AM ET
“She was a brown eyed beauty with points of her own sitting way up high, way up firm and high”
Posted by RWBill from the Old Dominion, waitin for Jan 31 Wings invasion on 05/17/08 at 10:37 AM ET
WingBitch - VA Maybe you can “Sew Up” the series for the Wings today
Where in VA are you? Maybe I can bring you your favorite in-game beverage.
Posted by RWBill from the Old Dominion, waitin for Jan 31 Wings invasion on 05/17/08 at 10:47 AM ET
LOL Orst!
Bill, the only thing I am into sewing up today are these miles and miles of blue velour that are going to make me vomit if I have to look at them much longer. But very punny! I’m in Tidewater. Where in hell are you?
Posted by WingBitch from Virginia on 05/17/08 at 11:03 AM ET
RedWings Brasil: I don’t know how to insert images in here, but this other image is great, and even more timely if you read the fine print. If this link doesn’t work just look up the “Don’t Mess With Texas” image at Red Wings Brasil.
Posted by RWBill from the Old Dominion, waitin for Jan 31 Wings invasion on 05/17/08 at 11:03 AM ET
@ Okie Jeff:
Found the link via Matt Saler’s On The Wings blog (which is linked to via the sidebar on the left). Sometimes it’s fun to just wander through the links and see where you end up, and sometimes you find Brazilian hockey fans. They have been changing the banner during the season - at one point it dubbed their site “Red Griffins Brasil” (during the injury plague).
I’d love to know how the heck they became Red Wings fans when they are in the opposite hemisphere of most hockey players, even the European ones.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 05/17/08 at 11:15 AM ET
TDub: That’s an amazing sighting. I got to make it to an air show and see a F-22 in person;
I remember living on base housing when an SR-71 flew in for an air show. It came in at about 200 feet off the ground and took a couple of passes around the base. We of course knew what it was, but it might as well have been a UFO...the whole base came to a standstill to watch. Talk about a beautiful plane.
Posted by Gabriel from San Diego, CA on 05/17/08 at 11:17 AM ET
Via Georgeums @ Snapshots:
May 17, NHL.com: he contingency plan for Saturday’s 1:30 p.m. ET DAL@DET NBC broadcast is as follows:
If the game goes into overtime, the local Dallas and Detroit NBC affiliates will stay with the game until it’s conclusion
In markets outside Dallas and Detroit, the game will shift from NBC to VERSUS after completion of the 1st OT
There are some markets that may pre-empt the game but at this time we don’t know the alternative channel plans.
Sorry to all the transplants, including you Chief.
Posted by Osrt on 05/17/08 at 11:18 AM ET
Gabe and TDub: The fam just went to an air show at Altus AFB just west of my residence a couple of weeks ago. They had a static display of the YF-22 Raptor (heavily guarded by the way) it is a very large plane, maybe as big as the F-15. It cool to see the “weapons bay” it had.
Tango uniform for the Stars today.
Posted by Jeff - - OklahomaWingNut from Wind-Swept-Plains on 05/17/08 at 11:23 AM ET
Got a big laugh when I just went to NHL.com… the #1 headline was
“Turco ready to exercise Detroit demons”
There’s some alternate bad mojo… this time against Dallas! I think they were meaning exorcise, but guess they don’t have theologians working there 
Posted by ludmeister on 05/17/08 at 11:25 AM ET
Wondering around the net, and found this at the Stars blog at the Dallas Morning News; Coach Babcock from Friday practice:
The urgency of putting away the Stars might have hit the Red Wings as they were practicing Friday for a Game 5 that they certainly didn’t expect or want.
Coach Mike Babcock, who seems to have unbridled confidence in his team, said Detroit would respond the right way.
“We’re excited about it. We think we can be way better,” said Babcock, who then corrected himself. “Not ‘think’, we know we can be way better than we were last game. So that’s what we have to do.
“I’m not trying to take anything away from Dallas and their effort. But we evaluate what we do. We weren’t good enough.”
Gee, I didn’t know Babs could speak so plainly—must be an indication of how much more focused the team is!!!
Posted by Jeff - - OklahomaWingNut from Wind-Swept-Plains on 05/17/08 at 11:28 AM ET
Tango Uniform = “toes up” i.e. dead!!!
Posted by Jeff - - OklahomaWingNut from Wind-Swept-Plains on 05/17/08 at 11:30 AM ET
Maybe they’re just really fit demons - that’s why they have had the stamina to hang around so long!
It is really odd, though - Turco is a good goaltender, and if I recall correctly he didn’t play poorly in Detroit when he was in college. He’ll get his first win someday - I’m just hoping he waits until next season.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 05/17/08 at 11:31 AM ET
Bill, the only thing I am into sewing up today are these miles and miles of blue velour that are going to make me vomit if I have to look at them much longer.
Toss in some sequins and a lilac tie and you might be making a new suit for Don Cherry.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 05/17/08 at 11:37 AM ET
Indeed Baroque, both could mean the same thing, Stars are done.
Since Homer is due for redemption; perhaps the Hockey gods will grace the Wings with an offensive outburst of epic proportions today!!!
Not only would I sacrifice my cat to see the Wings hang 7 0r 8, I’d also give my dog to see Turco pulled in the first period after giving up 5!!!
Posted by Jeff - - OklahomaWingNut from Wind-Swept-Plains on 05/17/08 at 11:38 AM ET
Ohh this little ditty from the Psycho Columnist at the Fort Worth Star Telegram ought to give the Wings just a little extra motivation:
He (Turco)is not Tommy Salo or even Red Wings goalie Chris Osgood. Marty is a guy who has superstar stamped on his forehead and who seems destined to win a Stanley Cup.
He certainly is a better pure goalie than Osgood.
I realize this is not popular in Detroit where a few idiots keep touting him as a Hall of Famer. This is not an insult. He’s a good goalie playing for a great team. But last time I checked, standing behind this Red Wings team qualifies you for the Hall of Really Lucky.
If he is Hall of Fame material, explain his Islander days please.
Waiting, waiting.....did not think so.
Do you think if Team Canada had to choose between Marty and Osgood 1,000 times for Vancouver 2010, they take Osgood 100 times? Once?
Of course, if Marty fails in Game 5, Osgood has scoreboard. And whether Osgood needed a Nick Lidstrom stepladder to etch his name on the Cup or not, it is still on there. Twice, thanks to a little of Mike Vernon’s work.
Posted by Jeff - - OklahomaWingNut from Wind-Swept-Plains on 05/17/08 at 11:43 AM ET
My pick for Night Moves...a little off-beat:
“Was a little too tall, coulda used a few pounds...”
An ironic jab a little Gary?
“My wife says the Wings will come out flying today, that it will be a blowout, an 8-2, or 7-0 thing...like elimination games of recent and distant pasts. I’m glad she thinks that way, too bad she’s been banished from the house.”
Batten down the hatches, Chief. And put away the breakables.
Posted by disch from bat country on 05/17/08 at 11:44 AM ET
...check out the graphic along the side of Red Wings Brasil…
Don’t know what the article said, but my favorite headline was: “Parik Datstterberg & Henvel Zettersyuk”. 
Posted by OlderThanChelios from Grand Rapids on 05/17/08 at 11:45 AM ET
Since Homer is due for redemption; perhaps the Hockey gods will grace the Wings with an offensive outburst of epic proportions today!!!
I’d like to see Homer get a hat trick, with the final goal being a one-timer from the slot. Then he skates past Turco and says, “Disallow THAT, you whining pansy.”
But he wouldn’t do that - he’s a nice guy. (The pansy comment, I mean - he’d certainlky score three goals if given the opportunity.)
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 05/17/08 at 11:46 AM ET
Maybe they’re just really fit demons - that’s why they have had the stamina to hang around so long!
Awesome!
Exercise those demons Marty. I’m sure twirling around your head will be quite the workout.
Maybe that’s what he’s reaching for when he punches Homer in the back of the head.
Posted by Osrt on 05/17/08 at 11:49 AM ET
Osrt- LOL! Nice. So that’s how he was playing out of mind in Game 2…
Posted by ludmeister on 05/17/08 at 11:56 AM ET
Like Kipper is “destined to win a Stanley Cup?”
Like Luongo is “destined to win a Stanley Cup?”
Like Carey Price was “destined to win a Stanley Cup” until Montreal ran up against the Penguins?
Like Henrick Lundqvist is “destined to win a Stanley Cup?”
No goaltender is destined to win squat if the team doesn’t play well as a whole and score more goals than he gives up. Odds are Turco may very well win a Cup before he retires, because he plays for a team that generally winds up in the playoffs and spends enough to keep good players around long enough to make more than one good playoff run every once in a long while. But there are 30 teams, so on the average each team will win about three Cups each century - take out the teams that likely will win more than their share if all other things were equal, and it isn’t going to be that unusual for a team to have a multi-decade drought in the future.
Consider the impact that injuries can have on seasons and on series, and if Turco winds up retiring without his name on the Stanley Cup he wouldn’t be the first excellent goaltender to do so. Curtis Joseph hasn’t won yet, and he has had a tremendous career.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 05/17/08 at 11:57 AM ET
Toss in some sequins and a lilac tie and you might be making a new suit for Don Cherry.
LOL Orst, I actually DO have sequins, in varying sizes and colors. Plus, I used to do costumes for drag queens so I am more than qualified.
Posted by WingBitch from Virginia on 05/17/08 at 12:17 PM ET
B: You should send that post to the Psycho. Maybe you can get her job.
Posted by Osrt on 05/17/08 at 12:19 PM ET
That was Baroque, WB. I would have said something about how faaaabbbullossss sequins is; it’s a subtle hint, a small light in a tightly sealed closet.
Posted by Osrt on 05/17/08 at 12:21 PM ET
Jeff, all that stuff you posted that was written about Osgood really pisses me off, for two reasons:
- good team in front of him or not, he still has to make the saves
- every HOF goaltender had a good team in front of them
and I’ll add a third...plenty of goalies had great Red Wings (and other) teams in front of them and STILL couldn’t win.
Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 05/17/08 at 12:34 PM ET
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Is it me or is that picture Jimmy Howard, not Osgood?
On the bright side I get to go to the game, so it would be extremely nice for it to end today.
Posted by C3091 on 05/17/08 at 07:21 AM ET