An absolute, utter f*cking embarrassment. The most incomprehensible loss of the season. They probably blew the President’s Trophy by losing tonight.

Posted by Mandingo from The Garage on 03/27/09 at 09:03 PM ET

A post following a loss a mere minutes after the game ends… we should put the Chief on suicide watch.  Take away his belt and shoelaces and leave him his beer and cheddar.

Posted by VooX from Behind the Bar in the Hasek Club Car on 03/27/09 at 09:09 PM ET

I never heard so many rings off a post in a game…regardless not a good enough effort tonight

Posted by FearDuck from Huron, MI on 03/27/09 at 09:11 PM ET

Look on bright side: we had 3 solid PKs tonight…

I’ll get me coat.

Posted by mrfluffy from Long Beach on 03/27/09 at 09:18 PM ET

A post following a loss a mere minutes after the game ends… we should put the Chief on suicide watch.  Take away his belt and shoelaces and leave him his beer and cheddar.

Posted by VooX from The Canadian Hinterland with a belly full of booze on 03/27/09 at 10:09 PM ET

You beat me to it Voox! I was just about to say the same thing.

Posted by Jennemy of the Skate from putting the b*tches in the box on 03/27/09 at 09:37 PM ET

I kinda wish we had kept Joey Mac right now.

Posted by Tyler from Arizona on 03/27/09 at 10:34 PM ET

That was sad. The only saving grace was that MSU beat Kansas. That helps make me feel happy.

Chief - I’ll be in your neck of the woods this week at a conference. I’m guessing I won’t get the Wings game at my hotel and I’m kind of feeling good about that now (as I don’t want to throw things through my TV). I do have to find somewhere to watch the State game…

Posted by GE on 03/27/09 at 11:14 PM ET

They sleepwalked through the 2nd period, and looked just fine in the 3rd period.  Did everything short of scoring a couple… and yes… I’ll bring up the posts.  One of those 4 guys goes in and it’s a different game.  So there, I did it.  The Wings had 42 shots on goal, and this wasn’t one of those easy-shots-from-40-feet-and-no-screen type efforts.  There were many quality scoring chances that MacDonald just made ridiculous saves on.  It’s a loss, and it sucks, but it’s not like they embarrassed themselves out there.  8-0, 8-2… that’s embarrassing… 42 shots, 4 posts, against an unconscious goaltender… that’s not embarrassing.

I know panicking is what we do around here, but jeez.

Posted by Incognetis from Delaware... Hi... I'm in... Delaware on 03/28/09 at 12:33 AM ET

What the *#$%@& is wrong with this team?

Why are so *#$%@& intent on making their road to #12 so much harder? I don’t get it. We get first in the West, that means home ice advantage for the playoffs. do they really feel that comfortable with trying to take a game in San Jose? not to mention the fact that by finishnig second they’d have to play the Flames in the second round, and that would be brutal.  They’d win in six, but it’d still be a grind.

What just makes me pull my hair out though is, how can they not find this embarrassing? Like Chief said, the *#$%@& Islanders are 56 points behind the Wings. When they got down 1-0, how did they not get the motivation to just crush the Islanders to bits?

I’m really questioning Uncle Mike here. This has been a season-long problem, and I can’t believe he’s still letting this slide. These guys clearly don’t seem to get the message that you need to put in 100% every game.

But the even worse thing is, I still think with only a 75% effort, we will make it to the Western Conference Final, only perpetuating the notion that it’s ok for them to slack off. We’ll get mangled by the Sharks at only 75% though.

I’m looking squarely at Babcock. This shit has to stop.

Posted by Alzy from Innisfail, Alberta, Canada on 03/28/09 at 12:34 AM ET

You guys are ridiculous.

Watch the game, not the score.

Sometimes the pucks just don’t go in.  It happens.

Posted by Ryan from Toronto on 03/28/09 at 01:03 AM ET

Good thing we never had the rights to Joey MacDonald…Boy did he stick it to us…

Posted by BP29er from In a TeePee skinnin' me some Blackhawk on 03/28/09 at 02:31 AM ET

U of M, shut out 2-0 by Air Force.

Wings, shut out 2-0 by the Islanders.

Excuse me while I go pay five euros to cross onto the Millau Viaduct bridge and then jump off it.

How itn the HELL did this team get shut out by JOEY MACDONALD (who never was that good—certainly never good enough to shut out one of the most talented scoring teams ever assembled) and the NEW YORK ISLANDERS, who are nearly certain to have the choice of Tavares or Hedman come July?!?  (There—I used an exclamation point.  Deal with it).  I bet you somebody in the Islanders organization uses the term ‘measuring stick’ today.  You’re damn right this was a measuring stick, but not for them—for us.  And dammit, did we ever come up way short.  Somewhere, Karl Hungus is laughing at us.

Sigh…On the bright side, Ozzie only let in two goals.  First time this season a good performance by him has been let down by the team, rather than vice-versa.  Poor guy.

I guess let’s take the loss, move on, see what happens in the playoffs.  None of us are very confident about that, I know.  But if I’m sitting in The Globe in Stockholm in October, watching a Wing team that was dethroned five months earlier put in the same kind of performances as we’ve seen all year, then win or lose I’ll light the torches and distribute the pitchforks and we’re marching to the castle for Uncle Mike’s head.

Posted by AndrewFromAnnArbor from Fortress Europe on 03/28/09 at 02:53 AM ET

And no, I don’t want MacDonald back.  He was never that good for us and hasn’t been all that good for the Isles, bar a few good games.  His stats bear this out.  That being said, he’s been better than Osgood…dammit.  Dammit.

*#$%@& late-blooming goalies.

Posted by AndrewFromAnnArbor from Fortress Europe on 03/28/09 at 02:56 AM ET

So I go for a dinner with my folks (it’s my mom’s birthday today) and knowing full well that the Wings were playing the Isles, I figured even if it’s a 1-nil win or a 6-5 SO win, it’s a win and a record-tying win #50 is in the history books.  Also, knowing earlier today before the Wings played, the Wolverines men’s hockey lost to AFA 2-nil.  I figured the Wings winning would even things out.

I’m such a presumptuous ass.

After savoring a terrific lobster bisque, I excused myself from the table to go to sportsbook to check on the Wings.  2-nil in the second with 30 minutes in the match left to play.  I had a bad feeling about it.

Half hour before the Wranglers game started, dinner was over and I checked the score one last time at the ‘books.  Wings lose 2-nil to the Isles.  An injury-depleted Isles.  The last place team Isles.  I was not in a good mood for the Wranglers game.

After one period of play in the Wranglers match against the Aces, it was already 2-nil in favor of the Aces.  FFS, my hockey day was turning into a BOHICA kind of day.  Wranglers mustered only four SOGs to the Aces’ eleven.  BOHICA.  All the way.

But something happened in that Wranglers dressing room because for the next period and a half and despite losing the Ferraro brothers to suspension and a season-ending injury AND a depleted forwards corps re-stocked with a couple of college kids, they pulled off a stunning comeback with four unanswered goals to take the lead 4-2 Wranglers with about five minutes left.  The Aces get one more goal to make it 4-3 and pulled their keeper with 1:40 left to play.  The Wranglers score on the empty netter with seven seconds left to make it 5-3 and that’s the final score of the match.

The point?

Maybe it’s desperation for validation that motivated the Wranglers to dig in deeper within themselves to keep plugging away.  After that horrendous “18 and Over” night and the loss of the Ferraro brothers, I thought, “This is not going to turn out well at all.”  Man, was I happy to be wrong.

When a team has nothing left to lose (i.e. Isles), that’s when they’re at their most dangerous.

Wings sure could’ve been inspired tonight by both the Isles and the Wranglers.  I really think they should take on the underdog mentality.

Posted by SYF from a "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" on 03/28/09 at 04:22 AM ET

Don’t know why we even bothered to watch, we all knew what was coming….
1st home game after a road trip, against a nobody….
Highest scoring team in the league, best PP in the league…
0 for 6 on the PP….

1:00 PM Yahoo is streaming the
NYR (87 pts) 7th,
at
PIT (88 pts) 6th.

Avery, Malkin, Crosby…...YAHOO

Will be the first time I have cheered on the Rangers,
since Boston beat them in the finals.

Posted by HockeyTownTodd on 03/28/09 at 05:43 AM ET

I’d be more upset if I hadn’t gotten bored mid-game and wandered off to do other things.  More exciting things, like folding laundry.  Figured it would happen.  Happy for MacDonald, though - he played well this game.

Edmonton beat Anaheim after losing embarrassingly to the Coyotes.  The Oiler fans are getting whiplash worse than Detroit fans.  And Montreal is no better.

If the NHL got kickbacks from alcohol and drug sales, and counted that as hockey-related revenue, the salary cap would go up approximately 12.7% every year. 

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 03/28/09 at 07:39 AM ET

This is going to be a long rant.  For those of the “19” that watched the DET feed, remember Hank’s interview comment”  ” . . .we are ready for the playoffs.”  He may want to retract that one.

The only half-good thing about last night was Ozzie; shaky as he was, only 2GA.  The “19” pretty much agreed that we would rather lose 1-0, if the team played well.  Abominations do not count.  I said in the thread last night, this game proves the Wings cannot win playing only 20 minutes of hockey even against the worst team in the league.

You want to know how you can easily tell your team played piss poorly, check this out:
Three Stars
1: Joey Macdonald, 2: Kyle Okposo, 3: Josh Bailey

I know the Isle are beat-up and all that, but just who in the hell is Bailey.  How many HHOF are on the Wings, All-Stars, $6+ mill/yr players.  See any of them up there?  Josh effin Bailey (no offense Josh, I am sure you EARNED that selection).

Uncle Mike after that disaster, via Khan!:

“I thought the Islanders were prepared and worked real hard, competed real hard,” Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said. “(MacDonald) gave them good goaltending. It took us a while to get started. Anytime you’re playing from behind all the time, that’s just losing hockey. Now, you’re pressing instead of just executing.. . “

“This is exactly what we talked about before the game,” Babcock said. “We knew they were going to be energized and working hard and competing hard, and we had to do the same thing ourselves. We had another level to get to and it took us until the third period to do that.”

Does anyone know how much the Diggers get paid to do their job?  I don’t, but I’ll tell you that it is too effin much.  Khan doesn’t bother to ask the $64,000 question:
Coach, why did it take until the 3rd period for your team to start playing?  Geebeezers to hell!  We all watched the game, for petes sake.  W.T.F. is wrong with your team?

Finally, this from Babs: 

“I thought Ozzie did his part,” said Babcock, who had not decided on his starting goalie for Sunday’s game against Nashville.

I’ve got my bags packed and boarding the Hasek for the duration; this effin team.  They get the idea that they are in a scrap, but much too late.  I’m terrified they won’t figure out that they need to put skate to throat until they are down two GAMES in a series, and then it’ll be too damn late.  Kind of like the game last night, they played a good 3rd period, but still couldn’t manage squat.  Do that in a series, well, hello golf bag.

Rant over, but the Wings damn well better play 60 mins Sunday afternoon or they may be golfing sooner rather than later.

Posted by Jeff OKWingnut from Quest for 12 on 03/28/09 at 08:23 AM ET

It’s only a game. It’s only a game. Kinda like saying “serenity now,serenity now.”

Say it enough and you end up in the bin.Bitches.

Lets Go Red Wings!!!!!

Posted by Kate from Pa.-made in Detroit on 03/28/09 at 08:36 AM ET

Here are some more odds and ends from last nights game, no thats not right, last nights 1/3 game.

Dave Waddell, Windsor Star: made this observation:

The Wings launched a 19-shot blitz at MacDonald in the final frame, but couldn’t solve their former teammate. 

Valtteri Filppula hit the post inside two minutes and MacDonald twice stopped Samuelsson from close quarters. 

During a pair of Wings power plays in the final 10 minutes, Datsyuk hit another post and Zetterberg fired the rebound high. Seconds later, Johan Franzen rattled the pipe for a fourth time.

Detroit finished scoreless on six power plays and has now gone one-for-20 with the extra man in the past five games.

George Sipple at the Detroit Free Press musta had his lemming on java last night, because he has a little more from Uncle Mike (but still no prize):

The Wings hit iron four times in the game, including three times in the third, but couldn’t get one past MacDonald.

“It took us awhile to get started tonight, and anytime you’re playing from behind, that’s just losing hockey,” said coach Mike Babcock. “You can look back and say, ‘We hit these posts and we had these chances.’ But the bottom line is the game’s usually fair if you get started on time.”

Radek Martinek’s cross-checking penalty at 11:55 of the third gave the Wings some hope. Pavel Datsyuk hit the post on a backhand attempt at 13:02, and Johan Franzen hit a post 24 seconds later.

“Time and time again we had a great opportunity on the power play. It didn’t go in,” Babcock said. “I thought our execution on a lot of it was really good, but I thought they were desperate. I thought the goalie was good, I thought they blocked shots and competed real hard.”

Posted by Jeff OKWingnut from Quest for 12 on 03/28/09 at 08:39 AM ET

The puck just wasn’t going in. We had 42 shots. MacDonald played the game of his life & so did his posts.

What’s bothering me is 1/20 PPs in the past 5 games. Yuck.

Posted by SteveYzerman on 03/28/09 at 10:17 AM ET

If you don’t frequent James Mirtle’s site, first - what is WRONG with you? - but go over there and read the best summary of the Detroit Red Wings season ever written. 

http://www.fromtherink.com/2009/3/28/813283/islanders-2-red-wings-0#comments

(It’s the comment in green because it’s been recommended.)

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 03/28/09 at 10:45 AM ET

Yeah, I mean, this wasn’t just a game this year’s team would lose, this was the type of game we all expected them to lose because they lost these sorts of games in ‘95, ‘96, ‘97, ‘98… etc. You get the point. Makes it easier to take, I guess.

Bright side was that Ozzie was very good. The team was just plain soft on the forecheck. None of the forwards, save for maybe Draper, Kopecky, and Filppula, had a good work ethic through the first 50 minutes of the game.

If you want to take another silver lining from the game, think of it this way—the D has been much better of late. Ozzie has been MUCH better of late. The offense and PP have faltered. But the thing about offense and the PP is that when you have that much talent, it’s hard to keep it down for long.

Posted by Nathan from the scoresheet! on 03/28/09 at 10:58 AM ET

I think that all the angst over this game stems from the point of the season in which it happened not the outcome.  Can any of the 19 really say that if this same loss had occurred in Nov. or Dec. we’d be just as upset?  The fact that it comes so close to playoff time is the true kick in the ‘nads.  It seems almost every year at this time the Wings stumble as they approach the 2nd season.  Without it, would the Hasek get to full capacity by the first playoff game?  As it is I can see the platform jammed with A2Y residents, bottles and small animals in hand, ready to lay waste to the environs know as the ‘inner sanctum’ of the Hasek.  ALL ABOARD. (I would’ve used exclamation points but since the Chief has deemed them ‘not manly’ I chose to not upset him so as to spare the neighbors in their rebuilt home with the new kitty-kat)

Posted by calquake on 03/28/09 at 11:23 AM ET

What’s bothering me is 1/20 PPs in the past 5 games. Yuck.

doesn’t bother me one bit.  remember, in the playoffs the refs jam the whistles yon arse, and power plays are fewer and far between.

I really think the Wings will “get up” for the playoffs.  they’ve shown that they do this for games that mean something.  and whether we think last night meant anything (vis-a-vis the standings) or not is irrelevant.

Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 03/28/09 at 11:37 AM ET

Freezing rain and snow here today, up to 9” according to some of the weather guessers…. I’m hunkered down in the woodshop and ignoring the outside world.
I have a slight case of the “eff” its today. I’m not operating power tools, but cleaning up the shop after completing a headboard and footboard, and starting some drawings for the next 2 projects so the Irish Ale’s flowing already.  If I was smart enough to post pics, I’d show the 19 my handy work.
Seeing KU lose last night doesnt make me any happier today either.

Posted by MOWingsfan19 on 03/28/09 at 01:05 PM ET

Seeing KU lose last night doesnt make me any happier today either.

Sorry bout that MO, as that game was the only highlight of an otherwise miserable Friday night at my house. 

Baroque, thanks for the pointer, that was hilarious.

Paul has posted an interesting article by Scott Cullen, TSN, over on the main KK page.

Here’s a team-by-team look at records with and without notable players who have missed at least 10 games so far this season (records through games of March 26):

DETROIT RED WINGS
RW Johan Franzen
6-3-2 (.636) without him; 43-13-7 (.738) when he’s in the lineup.
D Brad Stuart
9-4-2 (.667) when he’s out; 40-12-7 (.737) when he’s in.
RW Tomas Holmstrom
20-8-2 (.700) when he’s hurt; 29-8-7 (.739) when he plays.
D Andreas Lilja
10-2-1 (.808) when he’ sidelined; 39-14-8 (.705) otherwise.

I would have thought Lil’s absence would have hurt the team rather than helped,  here is to Big Jonny.

Seriously though, I would like to see Lil and Big Rig as the third D pair in the playoffs.  Lils has to be an upgrade over Lebda.

Posted by Jeff OKWingnut from Quest for 12 on 03/28/09 at 01:35 PM ET

Apparently, Uncle Mike is cracking the whip today.  Khan! has updates from Wings practice today, Ozzie in net against NSH:

Update from Saturday’s practice: Chris Osgood will make his second straight start Sunday when the Wings host Nashville. The last time the teams met, Feb. 28 in Nashville, the Predators rolled to an 8-0 win. Defenseman Brian Rafalski was given the day off, but he will play Sunday.

Here are the lines they skated with:

Franzen-Datsyuk-Holmstrom
Cleary-Zetterberg-Hossa
Hudler-Filppula-Samuelsson
Kopecky-Draper-Maltby

Lidstrom-Meech/Chelios (subbing for Rafalski)
Kronwall-Stuart
Ericsson-Lebda

Osgood (starting)
Conklin

Posted by Jeff OKWingnut from Quest for 12 on 03/28/09 at 01:46 PM ET

Yup. Start Ozzie. Ride him the next couple of games. I don’t see any other choice.

Posted by mrfluffy from Long Beach on 03/28/09 at 02:18 PM ET

Well, it’s entirely possible Ozzie was our best player last night, so he might as well get the start.  The skaters on the other hand…

Bag skate.  Drive ‘em hard.  Make ‘em feel the wrath of Babcock in their blood and their bones.  You think they’re tuning him out?  Yeah, so do I.  I don’t honestly give a flying *#$%@&.  Punish ‘em.  Make ‘em know that there are consequences to playing twenty-minute games, serious ones.  You think you get paid millions a year to skate eighty-two games plus playoffs?  Wrong, my friend—you get paid millions a year to PLAY eighty-two games plus playoffs.  Don’t like it?  Put in a full sixty-minute effort, no matter if the opponent is the midget league Happytown Fluffy Bunnies or the world-beating Grislyville Destructicons.  THEN you can have a day off.  But know that for every shift you take off in a game, you’ll pay for it tenfold in practice.

What was it they used to say about Scotty?  That his players hated him three hundred and sixty-four days of the year, and the only day they liked him was they day they picked up their Stanley Cup rings?  Yeah.  That sounds about right.

Whiskey sometimes makes me angry.  But don’t blame me—blame the Wings.  They drove me to drink it tonight in the first place.

Posted by AndrewFromAnnArbor from Fortress Europe on 03/28/09 at 03:34 PM ET

(It’s the comment in green because it’s been recommended.)

Nice find Baroque, I got a big chuckle.

Last night,
No big deal, it is just hockey and unlikely to happen to the Wings 4 out of 7.
The Presidents cup is over-rated, somewhat resembling a hard to peel tangerine.

I don’t see a problem now that Babs has banned Van Halen from the dressing room.

Tonight, HNIC:
Missing Eddie Shack has become a weekly thing.

Posted by HockeyTownTodd on 03/28/09 at 04:12 PM ET

  Airport 1975 Suspense, 1974, PG, **1/2, 01:47, Color, English, United States, - A jumbo jet’s midair crisis puts a stewardess (Karen Black) in the cockpit until a pilot (Charlton Heston) can board by helicopter.(L, V)

AMC-8:00 PM tonight

Posted by HockeyTownTodd on 03/28/09 at 06:09 PM ET

If the Red Wings had a leader as strong as Ovechkin on their team, they wouldn’t have lost that game against the lowly Islanders.

Posted by capsfan8 from DC on 03/28/09 at 06:17 PM ET

Sorry bout that MO, as that game was the only highlight of an otherwise miserable Friday night at my house.

Yeah, I’m not an MSU or U of M alum (Lawrence Tech alum, go nerds!), so I don’t have a serious interest in either team’s success or failure, of course I always like to see my state well-represented, I suppose. But that game last night was crazy. Great finish… even when MSU was down 13 you kinda had to have this feeling that they were just going to chip away at it. I mean, when Suton is having a game like that, you just know they can’t lose. Sure enough, they chipped at it slowly, and finally took the lead after a few impressive possessions.

Course, it helped that the guy on Kansas that the announcer was on the nuts of all game blew his 1-and-1 on the first shot at the end of the game. Love it.

Posted by Nathan from the scoresheet! on 03/28/09 at 08:37 PM ET

If the Red Wings had a leader as strong as Ovechkin on their team, they wouldn’t have lost that game against the lowly Islanders.

Yeah huh. Who wears the C on that team? What is Ovie’s rating…+11? Yeah…I’ll take Datsyuk, Lidstrom, or Zata over Ovie anyday…atleast they can play defense.

Posted by mrfluffy from Long Beach on 03/28/09 at 10:11 PM ET

How many posts? Spent some quality time with gma watchin the game Friday (big wings fan, bigger Datsyuk fan). Not much for the analysis, but she’s convinced the team is just skating around until round 1 starts, but is just as uneasy as the rest of us about how that first round might turn out. Frigging amazing game by Joey Mac.

Sharks/Coyotes 2-1 middle 2nd.

(Lawrence Tech alum, go nerds!
Posted by Nathan from To Jonny Ericsson! on 03/28/09 at 09:37 PM ET

Wow, you too huh? That’s a freakish coincidence.

Posted by Nate A from Detroit-ish on 03/28/09 at 10:36 PM ET

Yeah huh. Who wears the C on that team? What is Ovie’s rating…+11? Yeah…I’ll take Datsyuk, Lidstrom, or Zata over Ovie anyday…atleast they can play defense.

Ovi is number one in goals for the league, and he is hands down the best player—Datsyuk isn’t even close.  You guys would hate to face us in the finals; you would actually probably only win one game max.

Posted by capsfan8 from DC on 03/28/09 at 10:43 PM ET

Ovi is number one in goals for the league, and he is hands down the best player—Datsyuk isn’t even close.  You guys would hate to face us in the finals; you would actually probably only win one game max.
Posted by capsfan8 from DC on 03/28/09 at 11:43 PM ET

Your team has a proven one year wonder in goal. We have a guy who has won two Stanley Cups.

Ovechkin is a better goal scorer than Datsyuk, of course. Ovechkin is the best pure scorer in the NHL today. But Datsyuk is a much better playmaker, he has the best set of hands in the NHL, and he’s the best defensive forward in the NHL.

We have the best defence in the NHL bar none. Yes I said it. Despite that loss to the Islanders, nobody can touch the Red Wings defence. The same as no one can touch the Red Wings’ offense. Ken Hitchcock said it a couple weeks ago “when they play like that (this was after the Wings’ 4-0 victory over the BJs) you might get lucky and win a game. But no one will beat them in a 7-game series.” The Red Wings’ A-game cannot be matched. Hell, the Red Wings’ B-game can be matched by only a few (Sharks being one of them).

If the Wings play the Capitals in the Stanley Cup Final, sorry dude, but it’s the other way around. Ovechkin might get you one win on his own, but the Red Wings are too deep and too talented for your team to handle.

Posted by Alzy from Innisfail, Alberta, Canada on 03/28/09 at 11:38 PM ET

If the Red Wings had a leader as strong as Ovechkin on their team, they wouldn’t have lost that game against the lowly Islanders.

They also would not have won 4 cups in 11 years.

Suck it.

Posted by Incognetis from Delaware... Hi... I'm in... Delaware on 03/29/09 at 01:00 AM ET

We have the best defence in the NHL bar none.

Huh? Where is that number?

WINGS ARE BORED. THEY ARE BORED WITH THE BS AND READY FOR THE PLAYOFFS.

The regular season is Gary’s toybox…his way of telling the world it’s ok to have a small penis. We know better….we have Jonny 9’65” Ericsson. Who one made love to an apartment complex and gave birth to The CN Tower later that afternoon….and still made the trip to Edmonton.

THE WINGS ARE BORED…they are ready. Bring on the Blues!

Posted by The Hurricane on 03/29/09 at 01:16 AM ET

Airport 1975 Suspense, 1974, PG, **1/2, 01:47, Color, English, United States, - A jumbo jet’s midair crisis puts a stewardess (Karen Black) in the cockpit until a pilot (Charlton Heston) can board by helicopter.(L, V)

AMC-8:00 PM tonight

I saw that- I laughed my ass off.  When the nun started playing the guitar and singing for the sick little girl I thought I was going to piss myself.

Posted by monkey from here to Timbuktu on 03/29/09 at 08:11 AM ET

You guys would hate to face us in the finals; you would actually probably only win one game max.

Uh- no.  Wings in no more than six. 

Looking that far ahead (and it is ridiculously far ahead) the only Eastern teams that would scare me in a Finals match-up are Carolina, New Jersey, and Pittsburgh.  It’s all about experience, my friend, and the Caps have none.  They would not understand what they were up against until it was too late.

Posted by monkey from here to Timbuktu on 03/29/09 at 08:19 AM ET

Wow, you too huh? That’s a freakish coincidence.

Extra freakish because we share a name…

Posted by Nathan from the scoresheet! on 03/29/09 at 08:34 AM ET

No Wing fan anywhere, no one who’s watched this team this year, is surprised in the least. 

All aboard.

GiddyUp.

Posted by RWBill from the Land of 12 in 12. on 03/29/09 at 08:46 AM ET

Seeing KU lose last night doesnt make me any happier today either.
Sorry bout that MO, as that game was the only highlight of an otherwise miserable Friday night at my house.

Guess that came out backwards… I meant seeing KU lose didn’t make me as happy as usual. Not a real big basketball fan, but here in KC the MU-KU rivalry is good for starting some “harmless” bickering if nothing else.
Now which freaking team will play for us tonight? Jeckyll or Hyde…. the Preds plyed an OT game yesterday if that will make any difference.

Posted by MOWingsfan19 on 03/29/09 at 08:49 AM ET

Posted by SYF from Las Vegas, NV on 03/28/09 at 05:22 AM ET

BOHICA, awesome, a one time favorite I’ve forgotten about.

Richmond’s minor league hockey team just folded, never was the fan interest since the ECHL franchise left.

I was trying to sort thru old posts when I was in LAS to find the sports book and the bars you mentioned, but my wireless internet connections were few and far between.  I’ll have to plan better before I go next time, whenever that is.

Posted by RWBill from the Land of 12 in 12. on 03/29/09 at 09:17 AM ET

You guys are ridiculous.

Watch the game, not the score.

Sometimes the pucks just don’t go in.  It happens.

Posted by Ryan from Toronto on 03/28/09 at 02:03 AM ET

this is what fans of teams who are fishing by April 30th say.  “yeah but it was a fluke, we had so many more shots on goal, and that’s what shows who the better team is.”

Posted by RWBill from the Land of 12 in 12. on 03/29/09 at 09:20 AM ET

OBTW, the Flyers took care of the NYI Saturday, I guess we wore them down.

Posted by RWBill from the Land of 12 in 12. on 03/29/09 at 09:21 AM ET

Reprinting Baroque’s article for the continuing benefit & enlightenment of all bitches concerned:

RED WINGS PLAYER STRIKE CONTINUES
Associated Press
March 27, 2009 at 11:47 PM EDT

DETROIT — A Wildcat Strike by the players of the defending Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings has entered a third week. The Red Wings are in the midst of a work slow-down to press their demand that the remainder of the NHL regular season be cancelled and the playoffs begin immediately.

The players are practicing an unconventional strike tactic known as “work to rule.”

“We learned it from some of the old auto-workers who remember job actions,” said Red Wings starting goaltender Chris Osgood. “We’ll show up to work, put on our uniforms and take the ice, but we’re not going to do any more than the bare minimum required by the rules.”

“Look, we’re bored out of our minds, here”, said team player representative and veteran defenseman Chris Chelios. “We’ve known that we were going to make the playoffs since October. You cannot expect Ozzie to stand in front of 100 mile-an-hour slapshots for no reason. We’re ready for a game that means something, already.”

The Wings have done little more than skating and breathing, and occasionally waving a stick at a puck for over three weeks. Surprisingly, they have still managed to win 6 of their last 10 games.

Center Kris Draper insists there is no crack in the players’ united front. “Everyone is on board. The Swedes are from a country that is 90% unionized and Pavs insists that this is the way they brought down Communism,” he said referring to Russian-born center and Red Wings leading scorer Pavel Datsyuk. “Still, sometimes Pav’s mind wanders and he scores on a breakaway. But it’s inadvertent. He’s totally down with the program.”

“We are prepared to continue to go through the motions until mid-April if need be.” says six-time Norris Trophy-winning defenseman Nicklas Lindstrom. “Really, what are we going to prove by playing the Islanders? Let’s start the playoffs and everyone will be happier.”

Posted by truth? fiction? from somewhere between entitlement and complacency on 03/29/09 at 10:44 AM ET

I didn’t write it - I just found it.  I would have spelled Kris Draper correctly (as well as waving) the first time. 

It did express my own feelings perfectly, though - this team is bored out of its collective mind at going through the rest of the season before the playoffs start.  Frustrating, but I can’t really blame them.

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 03/29/09 at 10:55 AM ET

The only schizophrenic ones are posting here. The wings have
Been consistent all season. Won’t see the 3rd round. Bitches.

Posted by Lurkre on 03/30/09 at 01:57 AM ET