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by IwoCPO on 02/13/08 at 05:32 PM ET
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Updated at 1835 (below) with severeal outright lies from Ken Holland. Attaboy. Oh come on. Take a joke already. Ken Holland didn’t say that in his giggles-for-all, four-way, no-holds-barred phoncon with the NHL media today.
But he might as well have.
“At this time of year, you’re looking for experience,” said Holland. “Everybody would love to have a top-six forward or a No. 4 or 5 defenceman. Everything depends on price.”
In case you’d forgotten, there are a couple rules to live by where Ken Holland and the trade deadline are concerned.
Holland Rule Number 1: Tell the media nothing
Holland Rule Number 2: If you have to have someone speak to the media, have Uncle Mike do it. Phonics isn’t his strong suit.
Holland Rule Number 3: Lie to everyone except the players and, sometimes, the coaches. Lie, lie, lie. Admit nothing. Hint at nothing. Tell the truth about even less.
And as we’ve repeated here before, we dig that about him. I like to be surprised. I like it. I liked ‘99. That was an amazing frigging day. I had this silly little sports watch that sent me scores and sports updates. Every time I looked at it the Wings were doing something: Clark, Samuelsson, Ranford...Chelios. Frigging nuts. All day long, the hits just kept on coming. Were they all good trades? Nope. But that was a fun afternoon. And none of us saw it coming.
This year? Your expectations, as clearly stated in the posts below, are that the Wings don’t need to do much other than get some rest, simplify their game and stay healthy.
The only thing that’s certain is that whatever happens, the organ-I-zation won’t tip its hand before it happens.
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Hey, just read this story from Dave Waddell. Wanna hear something cool? Everything Ken Holland said was an absolute lie. Ready? Here we go.
Detroit Red Wings general manager Ken Holland said he hasn’t decided how aggressive he’ll be this year…
Oh..no he dint. Kenny you lying liar fibber liar. Of course he knows how aggressive the Wings are going to be. He knew it the minute Cleary got hurt, the minute Kronwall got hurt. Re-phrase: he knows how aggressive he wants to be.
Holland said he’ll shortly begin checking the price tags around the league.
OMG. LOL. ROFLMAOLOLBFFASAPCINCPACFLT. Gonna start “shortly”, eh Kenny? You are one lying bastard of a liar.
...he expects the trade talks to really heat up with the league’s GM’s gathering early next week for meetings in Florida.
Oh...I see. They’ve been cold up to this point right? Ken’s left his cellphone at home because the talks have been so cold that there was no reason to bring it before the big GM confab with hookers and firetrucks and slip and slides down in Florida, EH?
Lie to us Kenny. We deserve it.
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A top-4 defenseman is all this team needs. Once they get Cleary and Kronwall back, they’ll have balanced scoring and somewhat solid D pairings, but they need to make a move to sure up the non-aggressive blueline. Too many games recently have shown the Red Wings inability to move players away from around the net, and if the Wings expect to go far in the playoffs they that body.
Posted by Jeremy from Bowling Green, OH on 02/13/08 at 06:49 PM ET
Derek Meech is gone. Gone, gone, bubbye, gone! Our boy Kenny is going to do something to get rid of #14 and bring in a new one. How do I know this? I’ll tell you… the security code says “fine14”. I’m sure I’m not the only one who looks at things like this, this time of year either.
anyways… is the 26th going to be crazy or what? You know damn well it is. I’ll be here. Anybody else plannin on takin the day off their regularly scheduled duties?
Posted by cementslinger from a snowbank in Midland on 02/13/08 at 07:10 PM ET
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. Happy stays here and he develops into an all around strong hockey player. He goes elsewhere and will soon be playing in Europe.
Will Cleary be back and be able to play with bite? Nope. Antropov is big but is he aggressive enough to knock out Dion or Perry?
This is quite the soap opera and I can’t wait till I find out who gets shot.
With us the force may be (that was for you chief)
Posted by Osrt on 02/13/08 at 11:21 PM ET
They should bolt Cleary’s jaw shut, put a cage on him, strap an oxygen tank to his back, and throw him out on the ice.
He’d be like RoboCop on the ice.
Posted by Nathan on 02/14/08 at 08:57 AM ET
Cory Cross..yes. lol. True story- my son and I had the chance to go into the Wings’ locker-room after one of their games (had connections to J.Williams). Jason and Dats both signed his jersey and my son sees Cory Cross walking out of the room and goes to motion towards him before I yank him back. I felt bad but didn’t want him ruining the jersey. I had to explain later in the car that he wasn’t that good.
I do have one question- We hear a lot about scouts being in attendance. How much more insight can they gain on a player that they can’t see on tapes? Don’t they just sit in the press box and watch it on monitors anyway?
Posted by millsz from Brownstown, MI on 02/14/08 at 09:07 AM ET
They should bolt Cleary’s jaw shut, put a cage on him, strap an oxygen tank to his back, and throw him out on the ice.
And when Kronwall gets back, maybe they can encase him in a protective plastic bubble.
Posted by YzermanZetterberg on 02/14/08 at 09:18 AM ET
I don’t know, I wasn’t going to get too geeky, but since you brought it up, I was thinking they should give Kronwall the X-Men Wolverine treatment, and coat his bones in some sort of strong alloy.
I’ll stop now before the conversation turns to calculus or pocket protectors.
Posted by Nathan on 02/14/08 at 10:52 AM ET
No need to worry. I just heard that Uwe Krupp has been skating once a week and is ready for a tryout with the Griffins.
Posted by YzermanZetterberg on 02/14/08 at 01:56 PM ET
And heck, if worse comes to worst, the Wings can just pull Larry Murphy out of the broadcast booth on Feb. 25 and sign him to a “Foppa” deal. He’s obviously still in shape, with all that training he does with those kids on FSN.
GO MURPH!
GO WINGS!!!
Posted by YzermanZetterberg on 02/14/08 at 02:00 PM ET
I don’t know, if Murph plays half as drunk as he sounds during broadcasts, I don’t have a lot of faith.
Posted by Nathan on 02/14/08 at 02:32 PM ET
I don’t know, if Murph plays half as drunk as he sounds during broadcasts, I don’t have a lot of faith.
Posted by Nathan on 02/14 at 02:32 PM
I don’t know Nathan, you’re starting to sound like a Leafs fan, bashing good ol’ Murph like that. I may have to give you a BC two-hander! 
Posted by YzermanZetterberg on 02/14/08 at 03:00 PM ET
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