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Junior Fans Are Bringing Out The Knives, While Wings Fans Want Another Win

by VooX on 03/08/10 at 05:10 PM ET
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The Hawks and their fans had a taste of succes last season making the Western Conference Finals.  This season, their palate will find anything less than a Stanley Cup Finals appearance distasteful.  With high expectations, comes high stress.  It is a slippery slope to have expectations of Stanley Cup appearances from the outset.

Red Wings fans are blessed with the perpetual expectation of greatness, but it was not always this way.  Certainly not when I became a fan.  Since the Organ-I-zation hit its stride, there is no group with higher annual expectations than the Red Wings along with their fans.  This is why the 19 have the Stress Train.  While it barrels down the tracks, we gather in the Hasek Club to console ourselves as we imagine every possible scenario which will lead to our postseason demise.

In years past we had doubts about our goaltending and grit.  This season we have doubts about overcoming that cruel bastard Jobu and how he has cursed the health and well-being of the Wings.  Our playoff appearance, often a certainty, is now in doubt.  Yet I believe the vast majority of the 19 remain optimistic.  Heavily intoxicated, but optimistic.

In Chicago, the fans are losing their optimism and are becoming a fractured mess.  Doubt is taking over and they do not have the experience to overcome it. 

The knives have come out in Chicago and there is a call for blood.

While Junior’s management chose to keep Cristobal Huet instead of Khabibulin, the fans are strongly doubting their choice.  Maybe doubting is too mild a word.  Hawks fans are absolutely crapping their diapers with the stress of questionable goaltending and defence.

Huet looks like a house of cards ready to collapse at any moment.  And while Junior is stacked with talent, they are not stacked with goaltending talent.

The same could be said of the Red Wings, but we have Osgood who has a mysterious STFU switch which he has managed to flip in the post season on a regular basis.  Huet has no such switch, and Hawks fans are starting to feel the heat.

Enough of reveling in yesterday’s glory, 19, tomorrow is a new day with another huge challenge.  We host the Flames who are right on our heels in the Peloton of Suck.  Every game is important, especially against teams like Calgary who are waiting for us to stumble to overtake us.  The entire league awaits our demise, salivating in anticipation.  The Wings must spoil their appetite, and take our rightful place at the playoff table.

Recently the Red Wings have been making a statement and many are noticing, and that is troubling our enemies.  The Wings are healthy, hungry, and hustling towards a playoff berth.  The Wings cannot falter in any future games.  There is no way to survive and make the playoffs if we lose games, especially to those caught in the Peloton of Suck with us.

The Clusterfaux to the Playoffs continues tomorrow. 

Do we stay with Iggy and his Stooges to get us through another LB?  That remains the only question for the 19 to answer.  The rest of the answers have to come from the Red Wings. 

The 19 are merely observers in this macabre spectacle of Jobu who claimed the Serial Killer as his latest victim yesterday.  Stillwoozi was having his best game in a long time, and that is exactly what Jobu hates seeing.  We should only pray that Dangle-Dangle’s foot is okay.  If not, the 19 may succumb to the continuing kick in the nuts Jobu has been delivering.  There is only so much one fan can take before breaking.

Hang on tight, bitches, this will be a wild ride to the playoffs.

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