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by IwoCPO on 01/01/09 at 04:14 PM ET
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I’m reminded of a ditty we wrote earlier this week. If you’re not a Wing fan, I’d recommend you just stop reading now.
Or you’re going to get irritated. Again.
And, man, wouldn’t it suck if the bastard Wings, the bit players in this farce of an NHL carnival, kicked some Hawk ass tonite, then did it again on Thursday? Whew. All those wasted headlines. So many plots down the drain if a four point lead turned into 8 and the “best team in the league” was suddenly put back where they belong.
Statement made.
Reaction and the cooler imagery I can find will be placed here on this post. Let’s start with some great stuff from Guralnick.
I think despite being the defending Stanley Cup champions, a lot of other teams have gotten more attention this season. This stage gave the Wings an opportunity to be back in the spotlight and show why they are always the team to beat. It’s very tough to repeat in this league. A lot of things have to go your way, in addition to playing well, but the Wings aren’t going to let go of Stanley that easily. And the Blackhawks are a good, young team, but the Wings basically took them to school today.
More Guralnick.
Late-game, rabbit-ears penalty and goal included, the Detroit Red Wings roared back from a 3-1 deficit, scored five straight goals, and “made a statement” to both the Chicago Blackhawks and the NHL, which wanted the Winter Classic II to be the Blackhawks’ two-nation-wide and international “coming out party.”
The statement? In the words of “The Dread Pirate Roberts” in The Princess Bride (I never thought I’d use this to describe a hockey game): Get used to disappointment.
Courtesy of Mirtle.
Jonathon Toews, in his postgame presser.
“They just kept coming.”
Eric McErlain’s all over Wrigley. He talked to a couple of geniuses during the first intermission. Wonder how they’re feeling right now?
Guralnick again. Hide your bitches.
Patrick Kane, in his presser...and looking about 12.
“They’re the best in the world. They’re a team that can just take over when they want to. You’ve seen it when they beat the Sharks, then us, then they took it to us today. You win nine in a row then the Wings handle us with ease. It’s frustrating and it seems like they continue to keep proving to everyone in the league that they’re the best in the world.”
Guralnick, following Oompa’s first goal.
McErlain in the Wing lockerroom. Talks with Conk, Lidstrom, Draper.
Pierre LeBrun during his live blog with Scott Burnside at ESPN,
Pretty quiet now at Wrigley. A realization, I think, that not only is the game over, but perhaps the sobering thought that their young team isn’t ready to challenge the Red Wings for supremacy. The Hawks entered the week with a chance to tie the Wings for the division lead with a home-and-home sweep. The opposite will happen, leaving the Hawks eight points back and needing to pick up the pieces moving forward.
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That’s a Datsyukian deke, bitches, and he put it in five-hole. For sure I thought he’d go top shelf but apparently that’s too easy for Datsyuk. LOL!
Go Wings!
Posted by SYF from Las Vegas, NV on 01/01/09 at 04:54 PM ET
Babblepimp. Awesomeness.
Pav schooling the kids. Awesomeness.
The look on Little Gary’s face right now? I’ll wager it’s priceless.
Posted by Alzy from Innisfail, Alberta, Canada on 01/01/09 at 04:55 PM ET
Poor little Pat Kane whining in the post game.Bitches.
Lets Go Red Wings!!!!!
Posted by Kate from Pa. on 01/01/09 at 05:16 PM ET
Poor little Pat Kane whining in the post game.Bitches.
Do we have another Cindy on our hands?
Posted by WingsFanInBeanLand from Earth. on 01/01/09 at 05:27 PM ET
How long before little Patty Kane is referred to as Gary. Ass’s illegitimate love child?
Posted by WingsFanInBeanLand from Earth. on 01/01/09 at 05:35 PM ET
Red Wings still in a different league. Impressive handling of the youthful Hawks over these last two. Good atmosphere, lots of fun back and forth between Chicago and Detroit fans at Wrigley . . .
Kane basically told it like it was in his presser.
Unseemly whining about scripting from you guys in the first period over on the Live Blog. Good for a laugh. Haven’t you yet figured out to be patient? But no doubt, Detroit laughs last this time. And it’s a deep hearty laugh . . .
Posted by eternal_fields on 01/01/09 at 06:22 PM ET
Chief,
First of all, you are on top of all this shit. Kudos! You want immediate content… come here. Honestly, if I were to do this, my wife would kick my ass.
Being an Air Force vet from the 70s who was always irritated by the fact that the Navy personnel at the time got to wear blue cotton shirts and bell bottom jeans as their work uniform when both were in style in civilian life, I grudgingly bought a pea coat several years ago for the stinking cold winters in Grand Rapids. Now here in Virginia there’s not many opportunities to wear it but I did today.
Why? Because it was Winter Classic day and my wife and I were going to our friends house to watch the game. We met at the Virginia Tech hockey games (yes, VT plays hockey) and he’s a retired Navy Chief. Plus it was chilly here. Think - flaunt - because he gave his pea coat away because it “shrunk.” Keep that in mind, Chief. Not being cocky, my AF uniforms “shrunk” too.
Today’s game, combined with the last 4-0 game with Chicago and the 6-0 win over San Jose, makes me hopeful that the Wings will do what it takes to win the games that are necessary to win. Ultimately we’ll see…
Posted by Cwix from Roanoke, VA on 01/01/09 at 06:42 PM ET
Back from the game bitches! I’ll get some pics up when I get ‘em off my camera. BTW, You can see me and my awesome sis (who bought me the ticket) in the first picture. On the left side of the screen, she’s the one with the blue scarf, I’m the idiot with the camera in front of his face.
The atmosphere was amazing and there were a ton of Wings fans in the stands. The seats we were in, we could barely see what was going on. We really only saw the top halves of the players and, thanks to McDonald’s ads on the back of the penalty boxes, couldn’t see anything in the neutral zone. Still, What a game! I just hope that the sampling of Chicagoans sitting around us wasn’t really representative. I’ll give credit to the guy in front of us who really knew what he was talking about, but the two people next to me seemed pretty proud to brag about how little they knew about hockey. The guys behind me spent as much time putting down Havlat as anything else. The “Detroit Sucks!” chants were common, but were funnier than anything else once I realized that Hawks fans don’t know how to root for their own team so instead they just root against the other guys.
I still haven’t seen Lebda’s goal. They didn’t show a replay in the stadium while it was being reviewed and showed a bad angle afterwards.
Unfortunately, I didn’t get a sign into the game or an octopus, but I did get an angry look directly from Gary.Ass about 15 minutes before gametime when he walked close enough to me to hear me yell “Boo, Gary Bettman sucks!”
Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 01/01/09 at 07:08 PM ET
Unfortunately, I didn’t get a sign into the game or an octopus, but I did get an angry look directly from Gary.Ass about 15 minutes before gametime when he walked close enough to me to hear me yell “Boo, Gary Bettman sucks!”
Well, even though you didn’t get an octopus in, you’re still my hero for telling Gary. Ass. that he sucks. 
Posted by Jennemy of the Skate from putting the b*tches in the box on 01/01/09 at 07:26 PM ET
The game was fantastic. A little weird because we couldn’t hear the refs whistles or any of the usual noises coming from the rink. The atmosphere was more like a football game than a hockey game. The anthem, of course, was awesome. Saw Vince Vaughn up close, he looked like he had a rough night. It was colder than a welldiggers ass when the wind blew, but i regret nothing.
My #1 highlight: Not sure if they showed it on TV, but before the game started they had all us fans do a card stunt where we held up colored cards that were taped to our seats to spell out something. So we held up our cards and looked around to see what the hell this was all about. The other side of the stadium spelled out “Blackhawks”, and it took about five seconds for us to realize we must be spelling out “Red Wings”, and another five seconds for the Hawks fans to realize they just got punkd and toss their cards in the air. I’ve seen videos of Disco Demolition Night and always thought it was one of the coolest things to ever happen in sports fandom. This reminded me of Disco Demolition Night.
All in all a great experience. And the fact that the Wings bitchslapped the Chickenhawks made it all the sweeter.
Posted by cephalopod from Chicago, on the poop deck, not over it yet on 01/01/09 at 07:28 PM ET
Missing caption: This is a Family Organ-I-zation, capiche?
Overheard at the game:
“Uncle Mike” Babcock: Hey Moustache, make sure you introduce yourself to #55 in black after the game.
Paul “The Funny Moustache” MacLean: You got it, boss. What do you want me to do with the body?
PS- I got MacLean’s nickname from The Mafia Name Generator… can’t argue with those results. 
Posted by VooX from Behind the Bar in the Hasek Club Car on 01/01/09 at 07:30 PM ET
Guralnick kicksfreakingass.
Might be a tad premature, but the last 2 games have proven me wrong on some comments this year eerrrr last year about this team having a hole in its chest where the heart ‘n’ soul should be.
The 1st period exhibited some scripted calls but it didn’t seem to carry over into the second nor 3rd.
Skate to the throat, 2 in a row.
Bored says The Mastermind, me thinks we weren’t boring the last 2 games fo’ sho’.
Babblepimp looks dorky in that Fedora style hat, as do the Mc Assistants. Sorry but that’s something I’d wear when I lose a bet.
Effin A. What a great day to be one of the 19.
Posted by MOWingsfan19 on 01/01/09 at 07:41 PM ET
Babblepimp looks dorky in that Fedora style hat, as do the Mc Assistants. Sorry but that’s something I’d wear when I lose a bet.
I am disappointed by your tastes MO (what can I expect from a Tragically Hip lover)… Babcock’s pimp hand is strong, young one.
Posted by VooX from Behind the Bar in the Hasek Club Car on 01/01/09 at 07:50 PM ET
My gf said Babblecock looked like Freddy Krueger in that hat. I’m not too sure about that, but I do know Coach Q looked like a McDonalds manager.
Posted by monkey from Waiting for the lambs to stop screaming on 01/01/09 at 08:09 PM ET
Cephalopod and JJ, thank you for your ‘at the game’ insights. Chief, actually getting an octopi on the ice would’ve been a miracle, but I’ll gladly take JJ’s Bettman comment instead. Deserves to be somewhere on the right side column don’t ya think?
Posted by calquake on 01/01/09 at 08:10 PM ET
Games vs. the Wings account for 11% of the games the Hawks have played so far, yet the Wings have scored 22% of the Hawks’ goals against. Just sayin’.
Posted by monkey from Waiting for the lambs to stop screaming on 01/01/09 at 08:13 PM ET
I am disappointed by your tastes MO (what can I expect from a Tragically Hip lover)… Babcock’s pimp hand is strong, young one
All music aside, I’m a red neck with only enough culture to survive. I hunt deer, have a garage full of woodworking tools, wear a baseball hat no mater what.... pimp is something I know nothing about. I am from a town of less than 500 people man.
Anyway, great effing game by the Real Wings. Definately a step in the right direction. Dad taught the kids a couple lessons in the woodshed… hit’um hard with that belt far enough from the house where Mom (aka Gary.Ass) couldn’t save the precious kids from it.
Posted by MOWingsfan19 on 01/01/09 at 08:23 PM ET
JJ and Cephalopod representing the 19 live and bringing back good stories. The fact JJ had a chance to take the “emperor” down a notch is icing on the cake. Public humiliation at its best. Li’l Gary did everything he could to stack the deck in favour of the Hawks, and was surprised I’m sure as much by the astute observation as by the chance encounter with a non-bandwagon hockey fan at the stadium.
Everytime the Wings foil Li’l Gary Bettman’s grand schemes, they just reinforce the fact nothing this commissioner did on his own accord has been successful. Thanks Gary. Blow Me. Ass.
Question for the 19, I started the Blow Me addition to the Gary. Ass. in honour of the Windy City and the winter classic. Should I continue to remind Li’l Napolean to blow me for the rest of the season? Restraint doesn’t seem part of the A2Y 19 credo.
Posted by VooX from Behind the Bar in the Hasek Club Car on 01/01/09 at 08:39 PM ET
Great pictures and quotes. A great day for Red Wings hockey.
Posted by hockeychic from Denver, CO on 01/01/09 at 08:42 PM ET
And MO, you’re a good guy no matter where you’re from or what music you listen to. As a great saying goes, “There’s no such thing as wrong taste.”
Unless you’re a Dive fan.
Posted by VooX from Behind the Bar in the Hasek Club Car on 01/01/09 at 08:42 PM ET
Question for the 19, I started the Blow Me addition to the Gary. Ass. in honour of the Windy City and the winter classic. Should I continue to remind Li’l Napolean to blow me for the rest of the season? Restraint doesn’t seem part of the A2Y 19 credo.
I’m all for it, although I don’t think you should limit it to this season.
Posted by monkey from Waiting for the lambs to stop screaming on 01/01/09 at 09:06 PM ET
Yes! It’s a good thing Chelios was there to play all 1:57 of the game that he did. Awesome. Sorry Kopecky...hope you weren’t excited to play.
And because I had too many tabs open, I first posted this comment on an entry from 2006. My bad.
Posted by scsgoal31 from Huntington Woods, MI on 01/01/09 at 10:33 PM ET
Blow Me.Gary.Ass. Can take some comfort in seeing the WC mentioned on Good Morning America… doubt it makes up for his love child #2 getting stomped yesterday!
Anyone know what the tv ratings-viewership for the WC were in comparison to the feetsball games? Just curious.....
Posted by MOWingsfan19 on 01/02/09 at 08:42 AM ET
Obligatory famous Chicago native in attendance photo:
http://www.daylife.com/photo/04sA8g12bW860
B_ndw_gon H_wks F_an
Posted by O-Joe on 01/02/09 at 12:12 PM ET
Back from the garden state of Arizona. New Years, stars...sounded good at the time....
Watched the game on a TV with rabbit ears. ..... Reminded me of watching Soupy Sales as a kid with bad “snowy” reception. On a good day you could get Channel 9 out of Canada.
Line of the game was when the announcer said a gust of wind blew Pavs past the Hawk D. yeah, right skippy, keep telling yurself that.
Great game....the Wings were not bored the past few days.
Mo what the heck do you do with all the venison? Must have half a ton in the freezer!
Posted by Rumbear from Sandy Eggo on 01/02/09 at 12:17 PM ET
Mo what the heck do you do with all the venison? Must have half a ton in the freezer!
The state of Missouri has a serious excess of deer. I eat some and donate some to a program called “Share the Harvest” where the meat is donated to charity and those that truly need it. I have to pay a small fee to have the animals processed and packaged, but WTF I can easily afford it, I am helping someone who truly needs it and it keeps me hunting! It’s about as charitable as I am being a cranky ass damn Yankee anyway.
Damned great to be a Wings fan. Haven’t had many chances to say that this year!
Posted by MOWingsfan19 on 01/02/09 at 12:41 PM ET
Awesome reference Ceph...almost forgot about that special day when Chicago natives (insert Brett Lebda here if you are Eddie O) showed their true colors:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpQfCcsqQ0E
This is one time where I wish I was at the game instead of suffering through NBC’s awful coverage. I’d rather have a shrivelled foreskin than have to listed to one (DC.)
Posted by The Hurricane on 01/02/09 at 12:56 PM ET
3 Points:
Kane was playing hurt this game, and probably would not have played if it was a normal game. He was a non - factor.
Apparently almost all of the goals were scored on the right field side of the rink.
Was this a fact, and was it caused by the wind or the sun? I didn’t think sun was a factor, so maybe it was the wind.
That hit on Cleary putting him ass over appetite into the Hawks bench was a thing of beauty.
Posted by w2j2 on 01/02/09 at 01:34 PM ET
NHL.com’s Winter Classic page has a picture of Vince Vaughn in the retro-Hawks jersey schmoozing with Gary.BlowMe.Ass.
[shivers]
Ew…
Posted by SYF from Las Vegas, NV on 01/02/09 at 01:49 PM ET
W2j2, when did you become a Blackhawks fan? While that hit on Cleary, from a purely neutral point of view, was indeed a sight to behold, I make no bones about that fact that I’m partisan. ANY hit on a Wing (and especially one on the poster child for the Babcock Way) is out-and-out thuggery, plain and simple. Traitor.
I have to pay a small fee to have the animals processed and packaged
MO, remind me to tell you the story of when a friend of mine, a Kansas redneck transplanted to Michigan, hit a deer in his truck and we gutted it, field-stripped it, and hung it to bleed out and age at his father’s place in the boondocks. On second thought, don’t remind me, because it might have been me that nicked the small intestine…
And speaking of famous Chicagoans in attendance, anyone seen the coverage on the NHL’s website? Truly sickening-- they’ve even got a ‘news article’ about all the celebritwunts in attendance. Made even worse by a photo of Little Gary cuddling up to a hungover and obviously sickened by LG’s presence Vince Vaughn. I really am sick of all this celebrity-fawning the NHL’s been doing the past few years. It never used to be like this. That’s one facet of the old clutch-and-grab league I’d like back.
I’m off for my better half’s 40th birthday tomorrow and will be in VERY sporadic contact for the next few weeks-- basically whenever I can get to an internet cafe for a reasonable amount of time. So when you’re liveblogging, spare a thought for me frantically scrabbling for Wings score updates on my old cell phone…
Posted by AndrewFromAnnArbor from Fortress Europe on 01/02/09 at 01:52 PM ET
Line of the game was when the announcer said a gust of wind blew Pavs past the Hawk D.
I loved how during the replay he was talking about Pavel’s “burst of speed”. as he got through the two D, the announcer says “right...THERE” even though the moment he said Pavel had a burst of speed, he was COASTING.
Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 01/02/09 at 02:17 PM ET
Apparently almost all of the goals were scored on the right field side of the rink.
both teams had an equal amount of time on that side, so…
Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 01/02/09 at 02:18 PM ET
Apparently almost all of the goals were scored on the right field side of the rink.
both teams had an equal amount of time on that side, so…
Dammit Paul...stop using logic!
Posted by Rumbear from Sandy Eggo on 01/02/09 at 02:51 PM ET
AndrewFromAnnArbor: Perhaps you forget all the shots of Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon in MSG back in 1994 and subsequent seasons as well as back in Gretzky’s LA Takeover Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn as well as camera-mugging non-celebrity Dyan Cannon getting lots of airtime watching Gretzky make hockey cool in Los Angeles. How about the band Pantera being the Stars’ house band in 1999?
The celebs are always there, just they usually keep Gary away from them.
Posted by HockeyJoe from Upstate New York on 01/02/09 at 03:13 PM ET
I was really impressed with the entire event yesterday. I think the NHL did a great job.
I also think they talked to the teams in the first intermission and told them to quit the pushing and shoving after the whistles - not the image the league wants for such a national event.
Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 01/02/09 at 03:30 PM ET
I believe the announcer in question was none other than the D.C.! Talking about Pavs burst of speed. That was too funny.
Posted by Jeff from Loveland, CO on 01/02/09 at 03:37 PM ET
W2j2, when did you become a Blackhawks fan? While that hit on Cleary, from a purely neutral point of view, was indeed a sight to behold, I make no bones about that fact that I’m partisan. ANY hit on a Wing (and especially one on the poster child for the Babcock Way) is out-and-out thuggery, plain and simple. Traitor.
Agreed- obvious headhunting, should have been a five minute major and a game misconduct. The Wings got called for a penalty on that hit. Hard to believe.
Posted by monkey from Waiting for the lambs to stop screaming on 01/02/09 at 03:54 PM ET
W2j2, when did you become a Blackhawks fan? While that hit on Cleary, from a purely neutral point of view, was indeed a sight to behold, I make no bones about that fact that I’m partisan. ANY hit on a Wing (and especially one on the poster child for the Babcock Way) is out-and-out thuggery, plain and simple. Traitor.
Taitor?
Dan Cleary may be my favorite player in the NHL.
He was expecting payback for his nice hit on Kane in the prior game, and he got it in spectacular fashion.
After the game, he was laughing about it, and I was laughing about it at the time. And then to make matters worse, they gave him a penalty for going back to his own bench. What a cluster…
I love great hockey, and if that makes me a traitor in your eyes, I’m OK with that.
Now if they did that to Pavel, Hank, or Nick, I would have destroyed my television.
Posted by w2j2 on 01/02/09 at 03:59 PM ET
If you’re talking about celebs....besides drinking a crappot of alcohol in the Hasek, the only other thing I look forward to during an Edmonton game is the potential re-appearance of Shania. She makes the beef that much more tasty up there!!!
Posted by The Hurricane on 01/02/09 at 04:24 PM ET
Poor little Pat Kane whining in the post game.Bitches.
Do we have another Cindy on our hands?
Posted by WingsFanInBeanLand from New Hampshire on 01/01/09 at 05:27 PM ET
That’s what happens when you are treated like royalty and the Second Coming, you get a feeling of entitlement and when other teams don’t see it that way the Anointed Ones come to the realization that truly earning it will come harder than promised to them.
Gary. Ass. Bridgestone.
Posted by RWBill from jabbing a six inch sewing needle into my eye. on 01/02/09 at 04:41 PM ET
RE Pavel’s “wind-aided” goal:
Let’s forget about how the same gust of wind that allegedly propelled Dats past those two Hawks defenders would have also aided the defenders. What those of you watching on TV probably didn’t realize was that the wind yesterday was coming from the SSW and Pavs was skating toward the SE on that goal. If anything, he was going against the wind (Hey! Another Seger reference!)
The Douche Canoe’s Douchiness Quotient apparently goes up to 11 .
Posted by cephalopod from Chicago, on the poop deck, not over it yet on 01/02/09 at 04:44 PM ET
Favorite quote of the day came fromt he boyfriend during DC’s “Wind aided” comment. He said, “Wind aided, my ass!”
He’s even made up a little song for the DC, it cracks me up every time he sings it.
Posted by hockeychic from Denver, CO on 01/02/09 at 06:26 PM ET
He’s even made up a little song for the DC, it cracks me up every time he sings it.
well, that’s what YouTube is for!
Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 01/02/09 at 07:31 PM ET
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