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Live! from the Hockeytown Cafe...Steve Yzerman, Tick Tock Kenny Holland and Kevin Allen will be discussing the Wings’ road to #11. It will be broadcast via webcast and you can get to it at the DetNews sports page.
No mention as to whether former Deep Digger captain Ted Kulfan will be taking part in the discussion or just taking drink orders. He might be tired after his ode to the Poultry from this morning.
Me too, and some fuzzy music playing in the background.
Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 04/08 at 12:07 PMScotty Bowman will be on CBC tonight to continue the Detroit Red Wings’ media blitz.
from the cbc website:
Ron MacLean breaks down all the playoff matchups on Playoff Preview 2008 — a one-hour comprehensive playoff preview special (Tuesday, 7 p.m. local). MacLean will be joined by Kelly Hrudey and Scotty Bowman, the now-retired winningest coach in NHL history.
Posted by VooX on 04/08 at 12:25 PMAh, here we go!
Posted by arcane_caf from NoVa - Outside D.C. on 04/08 at 12:25 PM45 minutes late to start the presser at Hockeytown cafe… it’s always better to be fashionably late than to appear too eager. 
Do you think they could have a camera man instead of putting it on a tripod?
Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 04/08 at 12:29 PMAh, if only I could watch CBC. I think I’m down here by the Chief in Northern Virginia (yes, there is a difference).
Totally psyched that this round will all be televised on channels I can get. Man I miss the local broadcasts in Detroit!
...keeps...dropping out...freezin...hope...transcript...maybe wmv...later…
Posted by YzermanZetterberg on 04/08 at 12:54 PMnext time skip the video so we might actually be able to listen to something. this feed sucks bigtime.
Posted by lilja=mvp on 04/08 at 12:57 PMAbsolutely garbage feed… no way to follow any of the conference with buffering needed every two words.
God, is Detroit’s economy so downtroddden that they’ve taken away your internet?
Posted by VooX on 04/08 at 01:02 PMOn the one hand, I give The Detroit News credit for trying to put it out there...on the other, you’re absolutely right. And, in this day and age, I can’t think of a justifiable reason why it should suck so bad.
Posted by YzermanZetterberg on 04/08 at 01:05 PMSoo...(critch) oo...(silence) oo… Pa...(lost the link) ain...(hit play again) fu...(critch) ull...(silence) llah!!!
Posted by arcane_caf from NoVa - Outside D.C. on 04/08 at 01:19 PMNick Lidstrom is now on NHL Live (go to NHL.com and scroll to bottom, on right).
Posted by YzermanZetterberg on 04/08 at 01:22 PMPlease limit embedded image or media size to 500 pixels wide.
Has anyone had any luck with this? All I’ve seen the whole time is three microphones…
Posted by arcane_caf from NoVa - Outside D.C. on 04/08 at 12:03 PM