POOL:  HOW LONG INTO THE NBC BROADCAST BEFORE DOUCHE CANOE ATTRIBUTES THE WINGS GAME 1 WIN TO LUCK AND A SERIES SWEEP BY NASHVILLE IS INEVITABLE?

My guess:  15 seconds.

Douche Canoe was on the WDIV pregame with Mick and Bernie.  I only caught the last part where Bernie asked him if he was ever scared to be the guy between the benches.

Gentlemens, start yer engines.

If he makes it to the drop of the puck I’ll be surprised.

Dan

I sure hope someone gets that sign up there!  DC!!!!

Dan

Whew!...what a day...daughters softball game, son’s PeeWee football game and now HOCKEY with Bloody Mary!!

GO WINGS!!

Pierre was hypothetically “coach of the Red Wings” and asked what to do if he were the coach.  surprised he didn’t say “there’s nothing they can do, they’re finished.” Ass.

Jumpin’ That bald fella broadcastin’ from pit row is uglier than a heapin’ pile of smashed a$$holes.

these idiots on NBC talking about “does top line against top line cancel anything out?” “No, I don’t think so.” Derrrrr look at the stats moron.

Alright.  So everyone agrees that nobody’s going to text the scores to the Chief, right? I mean, I think I have his number here somewhere, you know, in case you want to just call and say hi.  Maybe pass along some bowling tips. But you absolutely aren’t going to text him, right?

Because that would be wrong.

uh oh.  that went over the line before the net came off.

Umm...is there always a security guy standing behind Pierre?

MCCARTY!!!!!

MAC!

Nothing like a 4th line goal to start things off.

yeah baby!! Darren!!!!!

D-Mac!

anybody still questioning him wearing the Wheel again?

McCarty!

I think every dog in the neighborhood heard me screaming incoherently...think I might just close the front door now.

Grandpa is grinning ear to ear somewhere out there!!

Darren you magnificent bastard!

Gotta’ love Doc’s excitement over McCarty’s goal.

Holy crap, Dom.  Hell of a save.

Dmac nearly with #2.

I was mistaken about him.

what’s the over/under on Ellis getting pulled?

Dom is gettin’ crazy!

Geez, Dom is seriously pioughed today…

Nice to see the CMOI is feeling like his old violent self today.

Shots are 13-6, Bubba.  I don’t like that.

But Dom’s standing on his head.

They’re going to the net well today.

Get that MFer off the bench!

JLA ALIVE! Great to see.  Does the 2-8 Tigers start have anything to do with it?  Tigs fans coming back to the Wings for the playoffs.

Dom is freaking awesome!!
Ellis looks shaky!!
Nash is pinching giving the Wings lots of counter attack opportunities

Does anybody else hate the on bench interviews during the game as much as I do?

ALERT!

Behind Ellis’ left shoulder there’s a chick with a red V neck top with huge jugs.  Awesome.  About 2 rows up.

holy crap Dom is on his game.

Good thing Dom didn’t take his Lithium today.

WOW Dom is INSANE

The Drake Train! what a hit.

Good Lord!!!!! On a role......in the club car stressing!!!!

Wings need to tighten up quite a bit.  NSH winning the battles on the boards

Beter enjoy this period, the smart money says everything gets locked down for the second period.  Some great action though...awesome hit by Drake. Gotta keep your head up.

that screaming squirrel makes me laugh every time.

@ Jennifer: yeah interviews on the bench during the game cheapens the NHL.

@ RWBill: |Hoping for wings PP / to get a good look two rows up behind Ellis…

Duthie on TSN is saying the Preds goal was in...hm

Good work down low by Draper

DAMN FILL!!!

CMON FLIPPUILIASA

Draper looking really good..I bet he gets one today.

I can’t remember the last time I saw the Wings play this physical.  Awesome!

please don’t tell me Cheli is hurt.

So how late was that hit by Tootoo on Chelios?

Tooo toooo Get Fu--!

I hope everybody on the Wings takes a shot at PooPoo.

Getting a little scrappy!  MAC needs to take Tutu out

My God Douche this is all about the Predators isn’t it?  Is there another team on the ice today?

Good to say Chelios back on the ice. Especially for this game...nobody’s going to touch his record for decades.

It’s bad enough listening to Ed-zo, Douchie Douche, and Doc rim job Bubba, but now the refs are getting in on the action, too?

Awesome.

Douche..............an A--! same as 97’ put us down.......we will WIN!

I’m amazed Mr. Douche Canoe can even talk when he is taking all the preds as deep in his throat as he is.

Even up—Too many men

Bubba can’t count.

Doesn’t Trotz look like Edward G. Robinson? All he needs is a cigar.

What a brain cramp by NSH Too many men on the PP.

Trotz looks like a Troll Doll!

Hey Edzo, you got something on your face… Brown… Lips… Stinky…

I’m not sure if you guys have talked about this, as I usually don’t read the Wings posts, but I was just wondering how there could possibly be SO many empty seats at the Joe?  I know they’d been having a little struggle with attendance this season, but in the playoffs??? Why?

Intermission now Douche explains that, inspite of what’s on the scoreboard, Nashville is actually leading the game.

Whew. First caution flag of the day.

Crazy mad pace.  Like tossin’ a field mouse into a barrel full of barn cats.

They are sold out!!! Maybe some people could not make it!

@RWB...not to stand up for Douche, but Bubba is doing alot better this game.

What game are the announcers watching?  Are they blind?  Are they drunk? Maybe they are figgen biased pr--Ks!

Jeff it’s because Detroit is a premiere major league city with multiple sports teams, the fact that the Tigers have sold 20,000 more season tickets than 3 years ago impacts how many people will also pay for NHL playoff tickets, esp first round where the Red Wings have been for 17 straight seasons.  Compare this to Vancouver where the Canucks are the only show in town so in the rare event when they do make the playoffs it’s a big deal.

Anyone else notice the little tape thingy next to Douche at the beginning of the game on the wings side of the posts between the bench?  Can’t remember what it said, but it was there at the beginning of the last game too...I think it was E.H.M.B. or something like that…

Very good first period.  I think bubba is thinking that they can take it, but Dom is literally standing on his head.  Thank God.

Oh geez, these guys should just blow Arnott on camera and get it over with.

jrl
for sure Preds had a good first period.  Wings need to lock down the D zone like the first game.

I have to agree with Duthie. Based on the ONE replay NBC showed, it looked like the puck went over the line just before Bonk knocked the net off.

I take it I’m not the only one who noticed the tone of disappointment in McGuire’s voice when he talked about the too many men penalty?

The Wings have been good offensively, but the Predators had the edge in that period. If not for Dom, Nashville would have a decent lead going into the second.

I guess they aren’t going call charging in this series.

Behind Ellis’ left shoulder there’s a chick with a red V neck top with huge jugs.

Sweater puppies…

|| Jennifer || Thanks for that visual.  < gag >

Jen. Really, what the he--! Arnott....not playing well in the playoffs is he? Unless that changes...we will see.

I can’t believe it.  The NHL has actually done a commercial that features a Wing.  Go Z!

And now back to our regularly scheduled Red Wings Don’t Exist Broadcast.

|| Cracker Barrel on I-65 || Jebus, where are you O-Joe?

NHLJeff, I think it can be summed up in four words: Lower Bowl Ticket Holders.  I seriously think the Wings season tickets were such a hot item for so long that the executive types that can afford the them don’t want to give them up...but they apparently have betting things to do that show up.  It drives me nuts to see those seats empty.

Well, the tongue bath that they’re giving them is enough to make me gag. Does everyone in the media hate the Wings? It’s frustrating that they’re always so disparaging about the Wings and yet sucking up to everyone else.

Jealousy is so unbecoming of you Mr. Douche…

WTF?.....The little bald fellers with the microphones sure like the Preds, but they seem to revel in the aura of all that is TuTu...and it’s so cute that his number is two two....can’t wait till they figure that one out.

D-Mac is on the road to a Gordie Howe hat trick....it’s turtle time!

Gabriel… a lot of the lower bowl season ticket holders also have Olympia Room passes. So a lot of the executive types hang out down there during the games schmoozing and boozing.

Huh. On second thought, that latest replay shows that the net was starting to move when the puck went over the line. That should mean no goal.

Amazing how disappointed Doc and Edzo are that the refs don’t count Nashville “goals” that cross the line as the net comes off…

Hope the Hasek Club Car has a barf bucket, cuz I’m gonna hurl…

NBC a little slow on that no-goal from Bonk in the net. That was just as close as the Calgary game the other nite with Iginla in the net, and the Flames got that one.

Eyesris, yep, saw that too...I don’t remember the letters, but I did a mental check to make sure none of them incuded “D.C.”

F YEAH!

Did Homer get a piece of that?

Hey, maybe it’s karma.  This makes up for the off-the-net goal.

...Lidstrom + The Screen!

mud shark another goal eat it!

One more goal and this will get “nasty"…

How can a goalie dive?????????

What the heck is wrong with the officiating AGAIN???

holding the stick?!  are you freaking kidding me?  you can hook someone in the leg and they get called for holding your stick?!  pathetic officiating, as usual.

The DC reaction to a bad diving call on Hasek… “Oh well.”

Ass.

Yea Jen wtf!

Datsyuk is the takeaway master!  Pierre just talked about how Radulov was soft on the boards.  No respect.

so Hasek pushes the guy’s stick out of his midsection, where it doesn’t belong anyway, Hasek gets a penalty?  absurd.

stay in the net hasek!!!

burned by the stanchion.

Good lord, what was that crap.

STAY IN THE NET...Damn. Dom’s not catching any breaks this period. Someone break out the duct tape.

What a fooking joke…

Yeah, “great break.” Thanks Gary.  Ass.

F*CK!

Yeah.  This is nasty now.

Old Crow time.

Ridiculously lucky bounce on a power play that shouldn’t have happened and then they get another.

And DC just came in his pants.

SMOI- Swedish Miracle of Incompetence.

ARGHGHGHGHHHHH...........

Buck up gezzz take the a--- tuu tuu out and get ride of lija!!!!

Lilja. You are dead to me.

gotta love the playoffs.  throw another shovel of coal in the stress train.

And the stress train gets a little fuller…

I’d be happier than a dawg rollin’ in warm bacon grease if someones on th’ Motor City team would run that #22 car hard up into th’ wall.

need another vodka and tonic

DAMN TWO POSTS!!!!

Jesus, are we on the PK or something? TWO POSTS? CHRIST! Time out Babs...settle them down!

Having a freaking heart attack here.

why does Tootoo get to cross check someone in the back who doesn’t have the puck?  are the refs on Nashville’s jock like the announcers?

Wow. He heard me.

DRAPES!!!!

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!1

DRAPER! Thank God.

DRAPES!!!!  WooHoo

First Mac now Drapes… if only Malts was playing tonight… WhoooHOOOO!

There ya go.  Good on ya Drapes.

Back in front!

Draper playin’ pool!

Wonder if they’ll note the secondary scoring…

Patience....patience!

JRL—hell no—they got their noses stuck too far up Trotz’s as@

Lucky F’in bounce for Draper.  I wasn’t sure about putting Sammy and Hudler out there...I really thought he would have put a couple more veterans out.  Shows you how much I know.

Oh...and DWing, from your question like an hour or so ago: Yeah, that was of course a total a BS call, but I’m not surprised he didn’t get the benefit of the doubt. Hasek is one of the worst overactors in the league. It’s downright embarrassing to see him flopping around as much as he does when someone gets too close.

I say dump Lija and put in Erickson!!!!

flopping?  too close?  he had his leg yanked out from under him by the Pred player’s stick!  homer.

Why does Doc have to apologize to DC for interrupting him?  The Wings have the play in the offensive zone, it’s not time to talk about whatever’s paddling the canoe’s brain.

C’MON LILJA! You call that a shot? You just passed the freakin puck to the goalie.

Lol funny Steve!

What a wild freaking game.  Nice shot by Stuie, guess his finger is feeling better

No, Paul, I meant historically he’s been a flopper. As I said, that was a BS call.

Maybe DC should go give Dumont a backrub to make him feel better.

Wait.  I heard it.  I did.  I swear.  They said Franzen is one of the most underrated players in the league.

Gee.  Wonder why that is.

WOW did Douche Canoe just give Franzen-stein a compliment—I must be hearing things

getting too cute on the PP—Shoot the freaking puck

Rumor has it DC and Dumont have a date after the game!

Dumont’s back. Hit him again, guys.

Deezzz Trotz all of our goals are lucky????

Uh.  Play-by-play.  Not interviews.

WOW NSH has two shots this period—two goals on two shots…

Oh and at least two posts

NBC Not Bright Commentary!

NBC Not Bright Commentary!

FUNNY!!!

It sure would be nice if the Wings could start winning some of the battles in the corner.

Thanks Jeff!

I’ll be damned, a roughing call against Nashville.

Sorry Barry...life’s a bitch!

THE EVEN UP!!!  WooHoo Mule draws a penalty—Mike—Give that Swede a freaking raise

can Flip hit an open net?!  geez.

Fill—must be gripping the stick too freaking tight

Quicker, Flipper.

Good work by the Oompa Loompa and Cleary

God Lord Hudler penalty!!!

Could they, maybe, announce penalties when they happen?

NBC Not Bright Commentary!!!

Damn Franzen is freaking en fuego

dwing...I bow to your brilliance

Jesus. Please, someone just shoot me in the face. The Haynes Comfort Zone? Really?

CRAZINESSS

Our CMOI is really insane.

Geez Figgler get off our boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All you guys on this blog Rock!!!! Let’s Roock the JOE!!!!

Jeez.. it sure is lively in the Hasek Club Car today ain’t it.

The Music City pit boss’ belly-aching combined with some bad pie has given me a bad case of the berry trots.

Yes, lets go to the capitals and the hell with this game! Can we hear what Babs has to say....I miss Mickey and Dan.

I wish Mickey had a contract with NBC. He’s awesome.

Nah, dwing, they have to do interviews for the game they’re covering while the game is going on.

It covers up they’re ineptness at play-by-play.

I love Mickey! I met Dan in Nashville at a game...he is cool, too!

Lol, very clever jrl123. They suck on here!

Is it just me, or is their audio/video just a bit off?

OK guys, I get your all Wings fans, but Mickey Redmond is not THAT great.

Yeah, Doc Emrick and his 35 years calling hockey games and his total ineptness is just showing through now.  If anything, letting Doc take over more of the show would help the broadcast.

Also, Pierre and Milbury more phantom coaching. 

Pierre: I have 2 Cups…

Yeah, as an assistant.  To Bob Johnson and Scotty Bowman!  With Lemieux and Jagr and Francis!  How much could you have done?  What did you blowdry Jagr’s curls every night?

Not here bud.

Well we have heard 17 different times on what the Preds have to do to win...hows about the Wings???…

Oh here it is..."They look good.”

Arrrrggggghhhh...............

Sorry Steve, Redman played for us and In IMO...I think he is very versed in Wings hockey.

So, Milbury isn’t very free with his compliments, is he?

“Hasek’s been okay. Is okay good enough, Pierre?”

Emphasis how he said it.

@Steve...Mick’s great at color commentary.

Despite him missing most of one lung.

That’s fair, but at NBC it’s not their job to be versed in Wings hockey.

It’s not their job to cheer lead whoever is playing the Wings either.  Or isn’t supposed to be anyway.

Well it should be their job to be NON BIASED!

Preds have been offsides like 20 times today

Right on jrli!

Wings are looking tight here to start the third

D Man bleeding!!!! where is the Five min!!!

Somebody needs to breathe a little intensity into the Wings

So, Mac goes after Tootoo or Zanon now?

Neither, Ma’s not stupid...he would do more damage than good at this point, unless he can get TooToo off the ice for 5 minutes.

Looks like both teams are really tight

offsides?  are you kidding me?  how can the officiating be THIS bad?!

FREAKING ELLIS!!!

If it turned out to be even penalties, not bad.  It’d get the crowd going too.  Maybe an intensity infusion.

Eh.  Maybe.

“Plenty of time for Nashville”....can you blow the whole team?????

Eddie O notes the obvious --NSH pinching the “D” my money says the Wings will have a few odd man rushes—just like that two on one with Dats glorious chance

Dats’ first shot of the game too.

Both teams buppin’ and blockin’. Not a whole lot of clean air out there right now.

Grinders out now—lets see some hits

Douche:  “Frustration on NSH bench”

Anyone else caught the S.H.M.B. next to DC?

Any ideas to what it means?  It was there last game but disappeared after the first…

Nearly choked on my grilled cheese sammich yelling at Hasek to wake up!

MULE HITS THE POST

SCORE

YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

HOMER!!~!!

Good God Homie!!!1

Yah Homer!!!

Hasek’s saving us.  Filpulla should bave two goals!  Ugh.  Nashville’s quick to loose pucks and it’s frustratin HOMER!!!!!!!!!!HOLMSTROM!!!!!!!  God Datsyuk’s good.  Damn.  Top line asserting itself after two shaky periods.  Z and Dats are SO good.  I say remove Hudler and replace him with Home Keyz.

That one makes up a little for the numerous empty nets missed by Flip, Mule, etc…

HOLMSTROM! DATSYUK!

Good lord!!!!

Heidi Klum OMF!! Let me in!!!

Chief - when you catch up with this we need to figure out what the hell the S.H.M.B. is that the wings are putting on the red guards between ‘the pipes’ where Douche Canoe stokes himself....

Series MVP:  Arnott, 1 shot on goal, -7 rating.

Series MVP: Arnott, 1 shot, -7 rating.

Hasek steals game!

I gotta say, from a neutral perspective, Doc and Edzo were fine today.  The other two, meh…

The CMOI is in as good of form as we’ve seen him in the last two years.

We also haven’t seen the breaks go the Wings way this much in the last two years.

Hopefully these are good omens.

Even so, this game was still the ultimate stress train game, even though at the end of it it was pretty lopsided in Detroit’s favor.

Best line of the night comes from Doc’s broadcast partner at the end of the game: “It all came down to Dom being in control at the end there.”

In control? Are you freaking kidding me. That crazy mutherf#!ker spent the last thirty seconds without a stick, flopping around on his back like a crab trying to somehow get back in the water. There’s no doubt that he’s at his best when he’s completely out of control.

As for the game, we all knew Dom would give up at least one “goofy” goal in the series. But who would have guessed the building would give up a goofy goal. Crazy stuff!

And what about Homer? I knew he’d come back with renewed energy after his forced layoff, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen him play like such a beast as he has in the first two games. The Flying Circus is virtually unstoppable now.

Man, I’ve so wound up right now I may have to either get off the train and run alongside for a few miles or open another bottle of wine to calm down.

Hmmm. Porter!

nice win.  very nice win.  if not for the lucky bounce off the glass for Nashville it’s a 4-1 win.  Hasek solid in net, Wings outshoot them badly, defense is solid, very physical play.  game 1 looked like the regular season up a notch, today looked like a playoff game.  win one in Nashville, series done in 5.

That’s fair, but at NBC it’s not their job to be versed in Wings hockey.

it’s their job to be versed in hockey, which includes Wings AND Predators for today.  obviously they are only versed in Predators hockey.  you seriously don’t see what’s wrong with that?

We had a little issue with comments after #200 not showing up.  Now fixed so continue on....

Talk about snakebitten--Filppula had at least three goals gift-wrapped and handed to him and missed every one.  He still has that annoying habit of trying to stickhandle through people instead of just taking the puck wide and letting everyone else set up.

Franzen missed a couple of gimmes too.  I still can’t believe how much he improved this year.  He’s become much faster and a better puckhandler.

There are some people here who owe Samuelsson an apology.  He was superb today, especially in the first two periods.

Remarkable game by Draper, too.  If he had any skill left in him, he probably would have had another goal or two.

There were a few good shot blocks in that game, too.  That’s something I’ve always wanted to see more of from the Wings.  (Although having seen two potentially disastrous injuries already these playoffs from shot blocks, I’m not too disappointed when someone like Datsyuk doesn’t go down for a point shot in the second period.)

After only two games and six goals (excluding the empty netter), 14 out of 20 Red Wings have a point.  The forwards without a point are Cleary, Samuelsson, and Filppula are the forwards; Stuart, Lilja, and Chelios the defencement.  What happened to our lack of secondary scoring?  It’s not because the top line isn’t producing, either--they scored half of those six goals.

It pains me to say, but once again Tootoo was the best Predator player.  Unlike last game, he was even better than Ellis this time around.  There’s just no way Nashville can win unless that changes.  Arnott and Dumont have been invisible.

Replace Hudler with Abdlekader!  And I apologize to Samuelsson.  He’s playing well.  Hasek, Defense, all look good but Lilja.  Forwards look good, except Hudler.

Oh, also worth pointing out that the hits ended up 26-25 for Nashville, but the Wings had a slight edge most of the game.  Interesting fact: the only two Red Wings not credited with a hit were the Dynamic Duo, Lidstrom and Rafalski.  The Predators had seven players not credited with a hit.  If it was ever Nashville’s game plan to hit the Wings into submission, they flew off the rails somewhere.

Whew, thought I busted A2Y with my comment @ 200.

Woo-hoo!  Way to go, Angry Rabbit!

Ok, I’m getting tired of all the whining in the stress train.  The turd-fondling Douche Canoe deserves everything he’s getting, Millbury has somehow managed to bother me even more.  However, I don’t think Doc is getting a fair shake in here.  I know, I know - 3 straight days of frenetic nerve-fueled binge drinking didn’t exactly set us up for logical analysis.  Right.  That said, let’s not become DC’s ourselves; Doc’s as solid as they come and his call of McCarty’s goal was as genuine as could be without being biased.  Blast away at the Douche Canoe, Millbury and Ol’upchuck - but Doc hasn’t earned any of that.

Bottom line: who gives a rodent’s rump about commentators, predators or anybody not wearing the winged wheel.

Good enough g