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by IwoCPO on 01/17/08 at 05:46 PM ET
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It’s pretty damn hard for me to sit here and criticize our Wing-dumb Detroit columnists when I haven’t written anything more substantive than a few lines per game on our now bad-luck Wing chats.
But I will anyway. Bob Wojnowski’s writing about the Wings, so you know football season (at least in Michigan) is over. What does he have to say? You’ve read it by now, but we’ll re-hash because that’s how we roll here at A2Y.
Well, it only took him two sentences and less than twenty words to make his first NFL reference. From that point forward, exactly nothing original. Pistons and Wings, your solvents to somehow keep you interested between the Lions and Tigers.
In my continuing role as humble public servant, I’ve analyzed both teams, matched their strengths and weaknesses, picked through their stars and role players, and discovered—no shocker here—they win with amazingly similar methods. Matt Millen and the Lions are advised to pay attention.
Blah, frigging blah, bluh, blah, blah. Wojo’s analyzing, picking through and discovering. He’s your humble servant. Hey Big Boy, when’s the last time you squeezed into the JLA press box?
Are we talking adversity now? Is this the stretch of ADVERSITY the Wings, according to the MSM, hadn’t experienced up to this point? Will a 3 or 4 or 5 game losing streak actually help your Red Wings when mid-May rolls around and they’re knee deep in a conference final with the Poultry? Nope. This isn’t adversity. This is simply a stretch of piss poor play.
They’re 3 for their last 29 on the power play and that’s just not good. Given up 13 goals in three games and that sucks hard. 5 pp goals against the last two games and that’s reminiscent of last January when San Jose became the Team We Don’t Speak Of due to a 9-4 prison-bathroom assault. Oh, last January? Are you saying this is a trend? Is that your point? Let’s take a look. Five game winning streak until the first week of January…then a 3 game losing streak. 17 goals against in three games. Ugly.
Of course that was followed up by five straight wins. And we all know by now that a Babcock-led team hasn’t lost 4 in a row.
Yet.
Injury or not, guess who hasn’t scored in almost a month? Yeah. Homer. Think Luongo’s a fan? Hopefully around 2200 tonite, he’s a Homer hater.
Oh and hey? Yeah. Since we started the “live chat” thing instead of the live blog thing, the Wings have lost three in a row. I’m not superstitious, but I take full responsibility. So, we’re doing it again tonite. Make sense? No. I know.
So you want some Hossa? Is that what you’re telling me? You’re thinking he showed enough in the embarrassment the other night to warrant a StillWuzzi-like stint in Detroit? Deep Digger captain Ansar Khan(!) makes some pretty fine points as to why it may or may not happen.
Q. Why would Atlanta, in the thick of the playoff race, trade one of its best players?
A. Contract talks with Hossa, an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season, are reportedly going nowhere, and the Thrashers might not want to risk losing him for nothing. However, it’s extremely important for Atlanta to make the playoffs, so you have to believe they would want someone who can help them now more so than draft picks and prospects, which does a general manager no good if his job might be in jeopardy if he doesn’t win now.
Khan(!) also points out that Cap restrictions (Gary…ass) may relegate Hossa to rental status. He’s gonna come expensive, just like Beerlesscuzzi did. How expensive? Kindl, Howard, Errickson, Axelsson expensive. Maybe even Filppula or Hudler expensive.
I don’t see it. I see Holland dealing for a dman if one comes available, and that’s it. A 3 (or 4 or 5) game losing streak isn’t enough to panic Ken Holland. And Atlanta’s got a guy name Waddell pulling the strings, and he may have learned a thing or two in Hockeytown, I’m guessing. Kevin Allen pointed it out yesterday. That team’s on the cusp of the playoffs. Dealing Hossa, despite overtures from the West Coast, wouldn’t make a lot of sense. Then again, there’s over a month left until the deadline.
Chat tonite, in the A2Y room. I’ll go out on a limb and tell you this: Roberto Luongo is not exactly a remedy for a slump. I’m just sayin’.
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Burn out?!!...well, welcome back chief. The paucity of postings had me perplexed. I was afraid you had “gone to New Zealand” again..wink, wink, nudge, nudge…say no more.
Posted by Rumbear from Top O da Hasek, sippin rum & catchin some rays on 01/17/08 at 11:38 PM ET
Wojo wrote something that was at least better-thought-out than the crap Sharp spewed, or Caputo’s allegations that Hasek and Osgood don’t like each other (after Hasek said that he and Ozzie are two peas in a pod).
The diggers are only stirred by negativity, and that’s sad. I guess that’s the truth of the matter about all this stupid talk about the Lions—sports journalists only know how to criticize, so they don’t know what the hell to do when they’re faced with the challenge of covering a team that, save this most recent hiccup, wins and wins and wins.
Posted by George Malik from South Lyon, MI on 01/18/08 at 06:15 AM ET
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worthy of note:
at least wojo wrote something - albom’s column a week ago was a reprint of a “chelios is old” bit from last year’s playoffs, the lazy bum.
wings could lose next 10 games in regulation and still be on a pace for 100 point season. enough adversity for anyone, that.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 01/17/08 at 07:25 PM ET