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Grassroots Movement Begins Tonite: “Fire On Ice” Must Die
by IwoCPO on 09/17/07 at 10:03 PM ET
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Just as the voting had to end, so must begin the campaign to take the winner to the masses. You have selected the graphic that should have been and I’ll unveil it to you in less than twenty seconds, or however long it takes you to read the next two paragraphs. Bubba, you have six hours.
In the end, it was art over wit, talent over cynicism. For our purposes, pushing our graphic to the general public, the right choice was made.
But, man...I had my sights set on BJ’s for everyone. Now without further delay, I give you the winner of the “replace the Fire On Ice graphic because it truly resembles the work of a fourth grade girl experimenting with pastels and cute little hockey icons” contest.
Your winner....
Here’s the plan. With Saginaw John’s permission, I’m going to send that to John Hahn and every Wing staffer’s address I can find. I’m going to send it to the papers, and to the Detroit radio stations. I’ll forward it to the Wing bloggers who don’t grab it off this post and I’ll slap it on the right sidebar--most likely within 48 hours.
I don’t expect the organ-I-zation to replace their graphic. That would require too much humility. Nope, all I want is acknowledgment. Acknowledgment that our boy John, for nothing, kicked their asses...which he did. It’s a quest, a grass roots movement, a crusade and a revolution. All that stuff.
Can there be any doubt?
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Addicted to Red rules!!! The Red Wings product is by far the inferior of the two. Congrats to Saginaw John, and to Saginaw.
Now if we could just get an NHL expansion team in Cleveland...so I could spit on them and light their hockey jerseys on fire.
Awww, this brings a tear to my eye… I remember the good old days when we could’ve set fire to not just their not just their jerseys, but their whole damn river, too. 
Posted by BobTheZee on 09/17/07 at 11:22 PM ET
Extremely well done. And for those who don’t like Datsucks, they could make one for every piker on the team. Matt Ellis, Brett Lebda, Dregs, Dudler, and all the rest of the useless jobbers on the team. Even the good players, like Lidstrom, Hasek, Zetterberg, Rafalski and...uh…
I’d like to see one with my boy Chelios when he cheated on his wife with those UM coeds. I’d buy that and hang it on my wall. No joke.
But seriously, that one is very well done. I’d like to see a “who’s your Tiger?” kind of thing done with them.
For the record, my Tiger is Fernando “The Shovel” Rodney.
Posted by Thomas on 09/18/07 at 12:33 AM ET
Thomas, do us all a favor and go take your meds.
Posted by Paul from Miami Beach on 09/18/07 at 01:38 AM ET
Perfect winner, even over the Social Security crack…
Seriously. Send this one to Hahn, send it to Holland, send it to Brennick, send it to Mr. and Mrs. I...is the next campaign “Stamps for stamping out Fire on Ice?” 
Posted by George James Malik from South Lyon, MI on 09/18/07 at 07:42 AM ET
Well done, John - I’d like a hi-res version.
Datsucks, Dregs, Dudler…
Pretty compelling stuff, if you’re 12.
Douchebag.
Posted by TeamDub from Toledo on 09/18/07 at 08:51 AM ET
Dammit Dub. You show Thhom the respect he deserves. Didn’t you know he wrote a term paper on the 2003 draft?
Posted by IwoCPO from Washington, DC on 09/18/07 at 08:58 AM ET
Well done indeed John. Make a terrific wallpaper for the puter (which improperly assumes I would know how to do that).
Thomas’ team must have no blog, nothing going for them, and nothing better to do. Might cause someone to feel kinda sorry for him if he weren’t such an ass. I’ve got nothing against juvenile comments, mind you, but good lord you have to back-up that name-calling with appropriate instances of poor play ala Bobby Lang, etc.
Which brings to mind the smoldering of an idea. Since Bobby will be visiting hair dressers in Chicago from now on, I think (dangerous, very dangerous) it might be intriguing to have a “pre-season” selection of the Wings 07-08 favorite whipping boy along with that players appropriate moniker. For instance, according to anti-digger Ted, Igor (assuming he makes the team) might be your huckleberry. Igor, apparently, plays—dare I say it—Langsidaisically --- most of the time—and occassionally shows real brilliance. Just a thought!!!
Again, very well done John!!!!
Hola TD (douchebag—nice jab—grin)
Posted by Jeff OKWingnut from Hockey Netherworld on 09/18/07 at 09:34 AM ET
What a dynamic, artistic graphic!
Well done, John!
Congratulations to IWO, also, for running a very entertaining contest....
And thanks to everybody for your hilarious contributions!
Posted by w2j2 on 09/18/07 at 09:34 AM ET
Okie, agreed on the douchebag comment. A classic that never gets old, and so appropriate.
I like the idea about naming this season’s huckleberry (another classic reference, I might add). We’re going to have a poll feature added here soon, so that might be the inaugural question.
Not a problem W2. I was sorry to see it end. You guys will be seeing all those graphics again at select times throughout the season.
Posted by IwoCPO from Washington, DC on 09/18/07 at 09:43 AM ET
Hola Jeff - good to “see” you.
Katie bar the door, it’s going to be a fun season.
Look oot!
Posted by TeamDub from Toledo on 09/18/07 at 09:44 AM ET
Oh, and I’m willing to take full credit for the Lions being 2-0. Whoever tossed me the one vote - um, thanks?
My reverse mojo is strong.
Go Nordilanche!
Posted by TeamDub from Toledo on 09/18/07 at 09:46 AM ET
Oh, and I’m willing to take full credit for the Lions being 2-0.
As long as you also take credit if they finish 2-14! Since you started the season off on the right foot, you must go down with the ship (if it sinks).
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 09/18/07 at 10:11 AM ET
you must go down with the ship (if it sinks).
Enh, wouldn’t be the first time, certainly won’t be the last.
4-14 baby!
Posted by TeamDub from Toledo on 09/18/07 at 10:25 AM ET
errr… 4-12.
Not enough coffee.
Posted by TeamDub from Toledo on 09/18/07 at 10:26 AM ET
Thomas’ team must have no blog,
There are a couple. A couple good ones, actually. When I want to read a blog about a specific team, I go there. I read this (Kukla’s Korner) multiple times a day because it covers the league really well.
Thanks for your concern.
but good lord you have to back-up that name-calling with appropriate instances of poor play
Let’s see...I bashed Ellis, Dregs, Dudler and Lebda. None of Ellis, Dregs or Dudler have ever so much as made an NHL team, so they are even good enough to have poor games to bash. Lebda is just a dime-a-dozen career-AHL-caliber piker.
Posted by Thomas on 09/18/07 at 11:03 AM ET
Let’s see...I bashed Ellis, Dregs, Dudler and Lebda.
Whoa now Thommy boy… don’t forget Datsucks! What has that one dimensional schlub ever done?
Posted by TeamDub from Toledo on 09/18/07 at 11:24 AM ET
Whoa now Thommy boy… don’t forget Datsucks! What has that one dimensional schlub ever done?
Nothing when it counts, that’s for sure.
And yes, he’s one-dimensional.
Posted by Thomas on 09/18/07 at 11:31 AM ET
Your bitterness is showing Thom and, once again, it’s affecting what you spew. Clearly, you’ve been too bogged down with your next book report to take a few minutes to browse last year’s playoff stats. Maybe if you had, you would have held off on that “nothing when it counts” statement.
Let me check for you. Yep. There he sits, 6th in postseason scoring. Sucks when reality jumps in the middle of your little fantasies, eh?
As for one dimensional? Since you have so many contacts, I’d suggest you ask a hockey writer if they feel the same. Don’t be surprised to see two Wings finish in the top ten for Selke voting this year. Datsyuk and Zetterberg.
Posted by IwoCPO from Washington, DC on 09/18/07 at 12:11 PM ET
Nothing when it counts, that’s for sure.
And yes, he’s one-dimensional.
- Detroit’s Pavel Datsyuk led the league with 107 takeaways in the regular season.
- Detroit’s Pavel Datsyuk tied for the league lead with eight clutch goals in the regular season. Datsyuk led the league with 20 clutch points and Zetterberg ranked second with 18.
- +36 in the regular season
- 8 goals, 8 assists in 18 games playing against the other team’s top lines.
How does that compare with the dive’s leading playoff performer?
Oh, oops. Sorry.
Posted by TeamDub from Toledo on 09/18/07 at 12:30 PM ET
Gee Tommy-Boy, I hate to repeat myself—but I will: “I’ve got nothing against juvenile comments, mind you, but good lord you have to back-up that name-calling with appropriate instances of poor play ala Bobby Lang, etc.”
If your gonna play with the big boys (ie. the Chief and TD) you better have something in your pencil box besides your crayons to back up your claims.
|"How does that compare with the dive’s leading playoff performer?”
OUCH—Thats gotta hurt!!!! Reality bites doesn’t it Tommy Boy!!!!
Posted by Jeff OKWingnut from Hockey Netherworld on 09/18/07 at 01:01 PM ET
Your bitterness is showing Thom and, once again, it’s affecting what you spew. Clearly, you’ve been too bogged down with your next book report
...says the guy who needed the military to pull strings to get his high school to graduate him…
to take a few minutes to browse last year’s playoff stats. Maybe if you had, you would have held off on that “nothing when it counts” statement.
Let me check for you. Yep. There he sits, 6th in postseason scoring. Sucks when reality jumps in the middle of your little fantasies, eh?
So predictable. You think one season erases half a decade of putrid play.
Datsyuk 42gp 3g 12a 15pts prior to last season.
As for one dimensional? Since you have so many contacts, I’d suggest you ask a hockey writer if they feel the same.
Hockey writers are hockey writers because they don’t know enough to actually work in hockey, for the most part. So no, I am not going to ask a hockey writer. I know more about talent evaluation than any hockey writer I know of, so I wouldn’t go and ask a hockey writer for their input. I have a TV, I can make my way into a game if I need to, I have two eyes and a knowledge of the game that you will never approach.
Don’t be surprised to see two Wings finish in the top ten for Selke voting this year. Datsyuk and Zetterberg.
...says the guy who guaranteed that 3rd line plugger Valteri Filppula will score 25 goals this year…
Let me guess, Lidstrom, Rafalski and Kronwall will finish 1-2-3 in Norris voting, with Lebda and Lilja right behind them. Dregs, Dudler and Ellis will finish 1-2-3 in the Calder voting.
*shakes head*
So how’s Marge and the kids?
- Detroit’s Pavel Datsyuk led the league with 107 takeaways in the regular season.
Heh. A subjective stat tabulated by people who live in the city where they tabulate said stat. That’s why there’s no consistency in that stat from team to team.
- Detroit’s Pavel Datsyuk tied for the league lead with eight clutch goals in the regular season.
There’s no such thing as a clutch goal in the regular season, unless it’s a game that clinches or eliminates you from the playoffs.
- +36 in the regular season
There is no stat more irrelevant for individual players than +/-. It’s a team stat that idiots like to spew as a defensive stat because they don’t understand what it is and how meaningless it is.
How does that compare with the dive’s leading playoff performer?
162gp 82g 96a 178pts
Thanks for asking.
BTW, our leading playoff performer scored more playoff points in 95-96 than Datsyuk has over his entire career.
If your gonna play with the big boys (ie. the Chief and TD)
If Chief and Bushay are “big boys,” then this place is even more pathetic than I thought.
you better have something in your pencil box besides your crayons to back up your claims.
Bring it.
Or are you just the mascot, unable to formulate anything resembling a logical argument of your own? You’re just a cheerleader, waving your pom-pons for the “big boys”?
The difference between me and your “big boys” is that I can run smack AND back it up. Chief may think that he’s the king because it’s his blog, but if it’s going to come down to a knowledge-vs-knowledge fistfight, well, I’ve been fighting for a hell of a lot longer than he has, and I’ve been beating much brighter, much more knowledgeable people for the better part of a decade.
Hell, I know his arguments before he even makes them. This is just going through the motions for me.
Posted by Thomas on 09/18/07 at 11:29 PM ET
What an absolutely pathetic, delusional… excuse my fwench… cocksucker.
Please Thommy, *#$%@& off to back under whatever sad little rock you crawled out from under.
Posted by TeamDub from Toledo on 09/18/07 at 11:33 PM ET
What, only a *yawn*?
Not going to bust out a *shrugs shoulders*?
Maybe a *#$%@& frowny emoticon?
And I don’t know what this Bushay fixation is, but I ain’t him, you drooling imbecile.
Posted by TeamDub from Toledo on 09/18/07 at 11:36 PM ET
Alright, you repetitive retard, I’m done with your tripe. Even you must know what a sad, pathetic little shell of a person you are, and I won’t be a part of it. Mr. holier-than-thou attacking Chief?
Pfffft.
You aren’t fit to Woolite his jock, son.
Please, seek help and/or *#$%@& off and die.
Slowly and painfully.
Posted by TeamDub from Toledo on 09/18/07 at 11:49 PM ET
A word of advice to those thinking about ‘debating’ Thom: Really don’t. It’s a galactic waste of time, and does nothing but feed his own need to make a digital nuisance of himself. His ‘knowledge’ consists solely of his own unsupportable self-sustaining opinions, as he’s already demonstrated.
It’s a bad scene.
Posted by HockeyinHD on 09/19/07 at 08:24 AM ET
It’s a galactic waste of time, and does nothing but feed his own need to make a digital nuisance of himself. His ‘knowledge’ consists solely of his own unsupportable self-sustaining opinions, as he’s already demonstrated.
Most intellligent thing anyone’s written on this blog since my Ho post of last year.
Posted by IwoCPO from Washington, DC on 09/19/07 at 08:28 AM ET
I’ll just assume that’s a compliment and say thanks. 
Posted by HockeyinHD on 09/19/07 at 10:38 AM ET
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That would make a bloody freaking awesome poster, too.
Now if we could just get an NHL expansion team in Cleveland...so I could spit on them and light their hockey jerseys on fire. Grrrrrr....
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 09/17/07 at 10:04 PM ET