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LB: I Know A Change Has Come
by VooX on 02/03/10 at 08:35 PM ET
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Following a solid effort against Los Tiberones, the tide may have begun to turn for the Red Wings.
Then again, it may not. Kronwall is out again. Apparently Jobu is still alive.
Four unanswered goals is a refreshing change. A comeback with a solid effort for 50 minutes of shut-down hockey.
Is Puck Possession hockey beginning to return to Detroit? Or can the team only only rise up to the challenge against tough teams, losing easy points against easy teams?
Well, I’m no pharmacist, but I’m also not a pessimist. This is my team, and I will stand by them until my last breath.
We are facing our bitter rivals, the *ucks. Albeit neutered without the knuckle-dragging neanderthal, Chris Pronger, the *ucks are no ordinary rivals. And our song for the evening is no ordinary song.
I’ve decided to reach into the annals of soul music to find a piece of optimism. Beautiful, sweet optimism. A reminder that although things have not been what we would have liked so far, never, never, never, never give up.
I believe last night’s effort was a collective effort between all 18 players (17 in the third period, Fuch you Jobu) and our coaching staff. The team was hungry and tenacious checking deep into the opponent’s zone. Something absent for far too long.
I believe the Wings are turning a corner. And I refuse to let negativity enter my mind tonight as we face the *ucks.
I’d like to see two convincing victories back-to-back for the first time in a long time. And I know I’m not the only one.
A quick H2H update. Our ticket block is now SOLD OUT, bitches, simply amazing stuff.
From Jennyquarx, one of the 19’s resident Super Grrrls:
I have no more tickets left. People can get them through Ryan Michaels at the DRW ticket office - his number is on the H2H website. If people are NOT going and have RSVPed, they need to let me know ASAP. IF people are going and have not paid, they need to do that by 2/21/10 or their tickets will be released back in to the general pool. People can STILL get them through Ryan after that for the same price, but I can’t be left hanging for money and I need to pay Ryan. So please let the 19 know this.
The Hockeytown Cafe money needs to get paid to me too. The sooner the better.
The hotel rate for our block of rooms is only good until 2/23 so if people need that, they need to email me ASAP and take care of this.
Please have people check the website often. We have some kick ass stuff for the prize drawing, stuff that is not listed yet but will be soon (that we just got confirmation for) that you all will FREAK OUT over. So please check often, tell your friends, tell the world.
If you can’t help with money, help by spreading the word:
Herm 2 Hockeytown Website
Please pay for your ticket and Hockeytown Cafe deposit (if coming) as soon as possible, if you haven’t already:
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Leave your pessimism at the door, Red Wings faithful only tonight. And the faithful know there is always hope.
It’s a Live Blog, bitches. I hope you’ve rested for another Left Coast game in the town that Disney built.
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what’s with the depressing video full of disasters?
Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 02/03/10 at 08:46 PM ET
Good old Sam Cooke, a velvet voice. Died too young. Anyhoo… I will settle for a well played game tonight but would like a point or two.
Posted by calquake on 02/03/10 at 08:46 PM ET
what’s with the depressing video full of disasters?
There were only a couple of videos I could find with that song that was actually being sung by Sam Cooke and not a cover. Unfortunately, they were both really glum.
Listen to the words and music, ignore the visuals. Like Stevie Wonder does, who I’m watching at the White House right now, receiving the Library of Congress Gershwin Award from President Obama.
You’ll definitely be hearing from Stevie in the future, bitch.
Posted by VooX from Behind the Bar in the Hasek Club Car on 02/03/10 at 08:48 PM ET
Tickets bought, booked hotel today, shat myself when I saw the room size, might make the fiancee calm down easier at my wingnut antics 
can’t wait to meet all of you!
Posted by FranzensMouthguard from Chicago, IL on 02/03/10 at 08:50 PM ET
so hey A2Y friends.
i took a stab at my first member blog. i thought it was perhaps a better way to post a long rant than simply as a comment on an A2Y thread… but as of now, I don’t think anyone’s even seen it. nobody’s left a comment, that’s for sure.
could be a controversial entry around these parts… curious what you all think about the issue
Here is a link.
Posted by perfection from LaLaLand on 02/03/10 at 08:54 PM ET
No LB tonight, too late for this guy. So do me proud, 19. Immature and intelligence, Immature and intelligence.
Our enemies have no idea what hit them when we get ‘em with Immaturity and intelligence.
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste Marie on 02/03/10 at 08:55 PM ET
Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 02/03/10 at 08:54 PM ET
Are those Jimmah’s? I’m pretty sure I saw that same scrotum make a save late in the third yesterday (or this morning, I guess.)
Posted by Lola from down by the bay on 02/03/10 at 08:57 PM ET
Welcome back
Thanks, Gramps.
Posted by perfection on 02/03/10 at 08:54 PM ET
Took a look at it, nice work. Although I have to disagree with your proposal to let Maltby go. Tick Tock rewards loyalty and is loyal himself.
What would my suggestion be? Well, I’m too stupid to think of all the options and it makes my brain hurt just trying to comprehend the decisions Tick Tock will make.
I’m glad to let the experts make the decisions in the best organ-I-zation in sports. I’m not the president, but I am a fan.
Posted by VooX from Behind the Bar in the Hasek Club Car on 02/03/10 at 08:59 PM ET
Are those Jimmah’s? I’m pretty sure I saw that same scrotum make a save late in the third yesterday (or this morning, I guess.)
Yes, that’s his- I never forget a scrotum.
Posted by monkey from here to Timbuktu on 02/03/10 at 09:02 PM ET
what’s with the depressing video full of disasters?
The 2009-10 Detroit Red Wing video yearbook.
Posted by monkey from here to Timbuktu on 02/03/10 at 09:03 PM ET
I’ll be missing the LB tonight as I will be at my Mom’s house watching the game. Behave…
Posted by stayouttamalibu from Temporarily in Tempe, AZ on 02/03/10 at 09:04 PM ET
nice blog post, perfection. well written and thought out. easy read.
maybe I’ll collect my posts about Bertuzzi and polish them into a blog post and see how flamed I get 
Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 02/03/10 at 09:05 PM ET
I’ll be missing the LB tonight as I will be at my Mom’s house watching the game. Behave…
show her the LB, see what she thinks of the 19
Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 02/03/10 at 09:07 PM ET
nice blog post, perfection. well written and thought out. easy read.
Thanks for the compliment, although I’m not sure if that is a subtle request for less words and more posts from me.
Posted by VooX from Behind the Bar in the Hasek Club Car on 02/03/10 at 09:08 PM ET
i took a stab at my first member blog. i thought it was perhaps a better way to post a long rant than simply as a comment on an A2Y thread… but as of now, I don’t think anyone’s even seen it. nobody’s left a comment, that’s for sure.
could be a controversial entry around these parts… curious what you all think about the issue
Posted by perfection on 02/03/10 at 08:54 PM ET
It’s been viewed over 2000 times.
Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 02/03/10 at 09:09 PM ET
I’ll be missing the LB tonight as I will be at my Mom’s house watching the game. Behave…
Your mom is not the issue here!
could be a controversial entry around these parts… curious what you all think about the issue
I just got off the phone with Ken Holland, and he told me that these things tend to take care of themselves (read: don’t worry, someone else will blow a knee soon enough).
Posted by monkey from here to Timbuktu on 02/03/10 at 09:10 PM ET
It’s been viewed over 2000 times.
But only read twice. 
I keed I keed.
Posted by calquake on 02/03/10 at 09:11 PM ET
Thanks for the compliment, although I’m not sure if that is a subtle request for less words and more posts from me.
not at all. “easy read” can be interpreted as “even though it was a lot of words, it wasn’t too many, as it was an ‘easy read’.”
Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 02/03/10 at 09:11 PM ET
Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 02/03/10 at 09:11 PM ET
Cheers. Have a drink on me.
Posted by VooX from Behind the Bar in the Hasek Club Car on 02/03/10 at 09:12 PM ET
Starting the LB early eh? Trying to pad your stats eh? I see through your ruse.
The only way I’m on board with getting rid of Leino right now is if we can pull a high draft pick for him. Otherwise, his potential is a bit to tantalizing still. I’d rather lose Meech for nothing. Between him and waiving May, we’re back under the cap.
I’m also a bit curious to see just how long Lils and Franzen’s LTIR time drag out. Every game (or is it day?) they’re on the LTIR, their cap hit goes down. At this point, each day they’re out is almost a good thing. Regardless, I think the roster spot is a bigger problem than the cap.
Posted by Nate A from Detroit-ish on 02/03/10 at 09:15 PM ET
Starting the LB early eh? Trying to pad your stats eh? I see through your ruse.
Busted.
Actually I won’t be able to watch the game tonight, have to watch it tomorrow off the DVR. I just wanted to stop by with some Sam Cooke before I had to take off.
Posted by VooX from Behind the Bar in the Hasek Club Car on 02/03/10 at 09:17 PM ET
I’m really waffling on the H2H game. I want to go, but I don’t want to drive the 9.5 hours by myself. I also have no idea how much the Hockeytown Cafe deposit is, so added to the price of the ticket (and my shitty financial situation), things are looking glum.
Flarp.
Posted by RedMenace from the darkest recesses on 02/03/10 at 09:21 PM ET
Evenin’ Bitches, every one of ya.
The Anafag F*cks are up tonite…..I hope someone shoves a stick right down Corey Fairy’s throat.
Something we ain;t seen in a long time….....SKATE TO THE THROAT!!!!
Posted by Wings_Fan_In_KC from ...somewhere southwest of The Motor City... on 02/03/10 at 09:25 PM ET
The way the cap works, as I understand it, is pretty simple- you add up all the annual salaries of all the active players on the roster, and you can’t go over the limit. It gets complicated with situations like the Red Wings’, where they’ve got a bunch of injured players, and they signed Drew Miller mid-stream, etc, but the simple fact remains: with Lilja and Franzen returning soon, they have to shed salary. it doesn’t really matter how long they take to get back, once they’re back they count against the cap, and once they do we’re over it unless something else changes.
You can also look at it as a one-for-one swap: other people are using up the roster/cap space of Lilja and Franzen, and once the regulars return the temporary help gets the boot.
The only way to bring back Lilja and/or Franzen and not move anyone else would be to leave them on LTIR until the playoffs. There is no salary cap in the playoffs.
Posted by monkey from here to Timbuktu on 02/03/10 at 09:26 PM ET
Hockey gods, I don’t ask for much, but can you please give us a Red Wings win and a Corey Perry injury tonight?
Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 02/03/10 at 09:27 PM ET
Evenin’ Bitches, every one of ya.
The Anafag F*cks are up tonite…..I hope someone shoves a stick right down Corey Fairy’s throat.
Something we ain;t seen in a long time….....SKATE TO THE THROAT!!!!
Posted by Wings_Fan_In_KC from the End Of The World As We Know It on 02/03/10 at 09:25 PM ET
Please… don’t sugarcoat it.
Posted by calquake on 02/03/10 at 09:27 PM ET
Of course there’s probably some shitbag rule about the roster, the trade deadline, people who are injured past a certain date can’t play until such and such, who knows.
Posted by monkey from here to Timbuktu on 02/03/10 at 09:28 PM ET
Hey Bitches….
Got my H2H Tshirt in the mail.
OUTSTANDING!
Can’t wait to christen the beauty with duck sauce and dribbled IPA as I spit up a HOLY CRAP as Z sinks another impossible angle goal tonight.
Posted by The Hurricane on 02/03/10 at 09:28 PM ET
Dude, I shoulda taken a pic… the other day I saw a huge ass 3/4 ton diesel Ford with big ass tires etc… swinging from the rear hitch reciever were a pair of actual nuts (like that go on a bolt) hanging from 4” of chain painted John Deere Greene.
Funny.
Posted by MOWingsfan19 on 02/03/10 at 09:29 PM ET
swinging from the rear hitch reciever were a pair of actual nuts (like that go on a bolt) hanging from 4” of chain painted John Deere Greene.
Yeah, but they were not brass my friend. They were not brass.
Posted by monkey from here to Timbuktu on 02/03/10 at 09:30 PM ET
Can’t wait to christen the beauty with apple sauce and dribbled IPA as I spit up a HOLY CRAP as Z sinks another impossible angle goal tonight.
Fixed.
Posted by dougie on 02/03/10 at 09:32 PM ET
It’s been viewed over 2000 times.
But only read twice. I keed I keed.
Posted by calquake
Look out, Cal is on another roll…
Posted by CaptainDennisPolonich from Warm and sunny SoCal on 02/03/10 at 09:32 PM ET
Posted by pgoody from #8 spot in the West on 02/03/10 at 09:19 PM ET
That should be changed into something promoting Z.
Posted by monkey from here to Timbuktu on 02/03/10 at 09:32 PM ET
You know what I loved about last night’s game? They looked dangerous. Especially Pav’s and Z. They came into the offensive zone with balls blazing. Awesome. I watch every game on center ice, first time in a long time that they looked like that, Fuching dangerous.
They’ll keep it up tonight, bitches.
Posted by twistedwrister on 02/03/10 at 09:33 PM ET
They might have been brass - trickier to find hardware in brass or stainless steel, but you can find them if you hunt around the hardware aisles.
@ Red -
The deposit for the Hockeytown Cafe party is $20.
Is there someplace halfway where you could take a break each way, so it wouldn’t be an unbroken drive? That might be a little easier on you.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 02/03/10 at 09:33 PM ET
They might have been brass - trickier to find hardware in brass or stainless steel, but you can find them if you hunt around the hardware aisles.
Brass nuts are hard to come by.
Posted by monkey from here to Timbuktu on 02/03/10 at 09:34 PM ET
Monkey, the only quibble I’d have with your take on the salary cap is that theannual “hit” is the average salary over the contract rather than the each year’s actual annual salary so someone who is on a 5 year deal making 3, 3, 2, 2, 1 is a hit of 2.2 per year.
You’ve got the rest of it right on.
Posted by Wings_Fan_In_KC from ...somewhere southwest of The Motor City... on 02/03/10 at 09:35 PM ET
Brass nuts are hard to come by.
I think you meant “with”.
Posted by calquake on 02/03/10 at 09:36 PM ET
Monkey, the only quibble I’d have with your take on the salary cap is that theannual “hit” is the average salary over the contract rather than the each year’s actual annual salary so someone who is on a 5 year deal making 3, 3, 2, 2, 1 is a hit of 2.2 per year.
Correct- my post should say “average annual salaries”.
Posted by monkey from here to Timbuktu on 02/03/10 at 09:36 PM ET
I think you meant “with”.
Not in my experience.
Posted by monkey from here to Timbuktu on 02/03/10 at 09:36 PM ET
Is there someplace halfway where you could take a break each way, so it wouldn’t be an unbroken drive? That might be a little easier on you.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 02/03/10 at 09:33 PM ET
Not really—not that wouldn’t cost even more money. This whole thing is hinging on me being able to scrape together the money, and the generosity of my extended family, who I haven’t contacted yet about staying with.
I’m a procrastinator of extraordinary magnitude, and one of these days it’ll bite me in the ass.
Posted by RedMenace from the darkest recesses on 02/03/10 at 09:37 PM ET
Look out, Cal is on another roll…
When he is in prime time, he is in prime time form.
Posted by VooX from Behind the Bar in the Hasek Club Car on 02/03/10 at 09:38 PM ET
Hi bitches. I don’t own a curling iron, but hopefully I can stick around for most of the LB anyway.
Posted by Bella on 02/03/10 at 09:40 PM ET
I don’t own a curling iron,
Who let you in?
Posted by monkey from here to Timbuktu on 02/03/10 at 09:42 PM ET
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