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Digging Deeper: Dater Dumber By The Day

by IwoCPO on 03/04/08 at 07:23 AM ET
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Updated at 1124 EST:  I’ve pasted below the response Matt Saler provided to Dater’s blog entry. 

Been a few days since you’ve stuck your head in an oven?  Scars healing from the last self-induced fork to the temple?  Good. So you’re feeling healthy, spry even.

The only redeeming quality of sobbing Dive apologist Adrienne Dater?  He actually makes the Detroit sports columnists look smart.

I honestly think the Avs would beat Detroit in the first round of a playoff series right now, too. BUT, only if they get Smyth back. They really need that presence in front of the net to do it. Otherwise, Detroit still has the edge with their puck control. But the skill disparity up front has been largely wiped out with the returns of Sakic, Stastny and, now, Foppa.

Oh…it gets better.

Oh, and I remember the last time the Wings had the kind of smug attitude after beating the Avs the way they did last month: It was after Game 2 of the 1999 Western semi-finals, after Detroit shut the Avs out at home to take a 2-0 lead back to the Joe. And what happened? Avs win the next four games, and with total ease. So, don’t count those chickens just yet, Motown.

No, we’re always smug where the Dive are concerned. Always.  But if you want to reference the last important game that left us that way?  It wasn’t ‘99 idiot.  It was Game 6 in ‘02.  Yep, we were a little smug after that one, after the failed SOL.  Man, that arrogance sure bit us in the ass didn’t it Adrienne?

Oh, wait.  No it didn’t.

But he’s not done.

Datsyuk is a playoff bust year after year…

At least give the impression you do two minutes’ worth of research before you start moving your skinners over the keyboard Adrienne.

Datsyuk’s 16 points in 18 playoff games last year qualify him as a “bust”, I guess. 

Read the rest if you’d like.  Same Dater, different day.  Bitter because his team has…fill in the blanks.  Whining over…fill in the blanks. 

Just get the 8 seed.  Please.

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Matt Saler, our cohort from On The Wings, replied to Adrienne’s blog post.  I think you’ll appreciate it.

“Datsyuk is a playoff bust year after year.”

Dater, do your job and check your facts before you make ridiculous statements like that. I know this is not a formal article for the Post, but you’re still a professional journalist and fact checking should be a part of your work, whether it’s for a blog post or an article.

The fact is, Datsyuk had 16 points in 18 playoff games last season. His playoff struggles were disconcerting for a few years, but then so were the team’s as a whole. Like the rest of the Wings, Datsyuk ably addressed those concerns last season.

Also, what is it with people associated with the Avs and Kirk Maltby? The guy just scored his first goal in 37 games. No one, not even Red Wings fans, sees him as a scoring threat. So if you want to spew baseless platitudes about the Wings’ forwards, forget Maltby. Talk about Cleary and Franzen.

Comment by Matt Saler — March 4, 2008 @ 6:33 am

Nifty reply Matthew.  And add this to the mix:  When’s the last time Kirk Maltby has been called for diving, or even accused of it?  That is an amazingly stale topic.  But, hey, have it at Adrienne. 

Some may find my use of the term “nifty” surprisingly juvenile.  I feel ya.  It’s just one of those A2Y mysteries that can only be unraveled in time. 

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