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Don’t Waste This

by IwoCPO on 05/07/09 at 09:58 AM ET
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Time for bluntness: losing this series would be worse than ‘06, worse than ‘03, even worse than losing to these cheating scumbags in 2007.  This would be the biggest waste of talent in NHL history.  This would be the most heinous missed opportunity we’ve ever seen.

Dynasties don’t lose to one-line (plus Selanne) teams.  Dynasties don’t lose to a Swiss boy, a forest myth and a deadhead. 

And Marian Hossa didn’t sign for 5 bucks to lose to this team, in this round.

But we have to get by tonite first.  And it’s still eleven hours away.  That’s frigging obscene. 

Answer me this Gary, you imcompetent little fu**.  Tell me how a 2 seed has to travel three time zones away.  And it wouldn’t be any different if we were a 1 seed.  Why do we even have Eastern and Western delineation when a team has to travel this far to play a conference playoff game?  Does anyone have to do that in your daddy David’s Association?  No. 

And the only team who has had to deal with that travel every year?  Detroit.  The only fans who have to deal with it every year? Us.  As much as we hate Bettman, I guarantee you he’s despised even more in the Wing organ-I-zational offices. 

We have five kids joining this team in Anaheim. They’re probably there already.  Of the five: Kindl, Yabbadabahoopitydoobiebrothersdoo, Leino, Howard and Downey…who plays tonite, if anyone?

Probably no one, but just for fun…debate it.  Leino for his scoring ability? Home keys for his grit?  Downey?  That’s intriguing but not realistic. I just don’t see wasting a spot on him for less than ten shifts. I just don’t see it. And who sits?  Maltby or Kopecky?  No idea. 

If anyone? I’d probaly make it Abdelkader and sit Kopecky.  But I’m betting none of them play.

Yesterday was tense.  You bitches were sniping at each other, quibbling.  Polonich was lobbing grenades in here, not giving a shit about collateral damage.  Obviously irritated.  Many took the bait. Others sat back and watched.  You all held hands, swayed back and forth and made up later…but there was tension. 

How could there not be?  This is absolute torture and you all know why. 

Because if they lose tonite then we’re looking at almost certain emotional destruction.  Why? Because it’s what we said above.  Losing is one thing when you’re an upstart. It’s another when you’re good and playing an equal. 

But it’s a whole other matter when your team is playing an inferior squad of goons, coached by a whining bitch, led by a captain who exemplifies everything the Midwest is not and typified by a scum bag illiterate *#$%@&.  It’s a whole other matter to lose to that team, a team we know the Wings should beat. 

This isn’t Denver in ‘02, a team with equal talent.  It’s not even close.

If the Wings lose tonite, and lose this series, we will be forever jaded because the only reason for it will be lack of effort and heart.  And that would hurt.

But. It’s not going to happen that way because the Wings know it simply can not.  They have to understand by now what is required and how it will have to be done. 

We’ll know in about sixteen hours.  We’ll know whether Sunday means something, or if it’s just the final step in a drawn-out ten-month trip through a sick post-Cup hangover and malaise.

I’m feeling optimistic.  I was sick when I got up, stayed sick for a few hours, and was even queezy when I started this post.  But right now I’m feeling pretty good and here’s why.  One word.

Lidstrom.  It has to be the Captain.  One way or another it has to be him.

11 to 12 bitches.  11 to 12.

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