16 & 19: Unassigned. Right on Bill!

Posted by Osrt on 03/09/08 at 09:41 AM ET

Beat me to it Osrt.

Good move, Chief - I shudder to think what kind of tutelage V.K. would have provided to some of our younger D.

Still just a heartbreaking shame.

I’ll never forget hearing about “the accident.” I was managing a cigar shop with a great buddy of mine who happened to be a rabid ‘Wings fan, his favorite player being V.K. We were still recovering from the cup celebrations and were both hung over and trying to open the store. Listening to WDFN, guzzling coffee to try to cope and then we heard the news.

Neither of us said a word, my buddy threw his coffee cup against the wall, we both cried a little bit (in a manly, non-sobbing fashion, of course) and we closed the store, went back to my apartment, drank beers, smoked bongs and played NHL ‘94 on the Sega.

Detroit Vs. Chicago or Calgary or Vancouver.

V.K. made Fleury’s head bleed.

Banner submission coming, and it will suck mightily.

Posted by TeamDub from The gratch. on 03/09/08 at 09:58 AM ET

That may be the comment of the year right there Dub.  I’ll be AT THE FRIGGING MALL until game time.  See you guys in chat if you’re around.

Posted by IwoCPO from Washington, DC on 03/09/08 at 10:02 AM ET

Heh, grab me a thing of homoberry body wash, will ya?

Sheesh.

Have fun at the mall, see you in chat?

Posted by TeamDub from The gratch. on 03/09/08 at 10:08 AM ET

Dammit, “William Tell” was my suggestion for Samuelsson!  Shows just how coherent I was with that suggestion.  Or how many people were listening because they thought it was an individual shard of genius.  So yeah, if it merited going in at all, it merited going in for the wrong player.  Sure, I’m pouty.

Eh.  I’m over it.  Back to watching Steel Magnolias (also known as Ovechkin makes Crosby cry like a six-year-old in culottes in the Pens vs. Caps game on NASN)…

Posted by AndrewFromAnnArbor from in front of the TV while doing my nails... on 03/09/08 at 12:22 PM ET

My mistake Andrew. Don’t know what I was thinking. I may have been drunk. Wait, it was only 8am. Yeah, I may have been drunk.  Fixed.

Posted by IwoCPO from Washington, DC on 03/09/08 at 01:14 PM ET

Hah!  Chief, you rock.  Send some of that early mornin’ stoned pimp vibe my way.  This game would be nail-biting if I cared one whit about the Pens or the Caps.  Instead, it’s lip-bitingly boring, with the added threat of another shootout.  I need chemical enhancement to make this one watchable.

Side note on Feds-- it doesn’t look like he’s having much trouble adjusting to playing second fiddle to Ovechkin…

Posted by AndrewFromAnnArbor from desperately rooting through the liquor cabinet on 03/09/08 at 01:42 PM ET

that early mornin’ stoned pimp vibe

My vote for quote of the year; hell, that should be our playoff banner…

Posted by Osrt on 03/09/08 at 02:50 PM ET

Hmm, what the heck happened today?  I watch the first two periods and Wings are up 4-0 and I leave to take my daughter to skating practice come home and find out the Wings held on 4-3.  Good thing I didn’t see that, I would have been going crazy.

For those of you that haven’t heard it yet.  Floppa has a groin injury and is out indefinitely.  Foote has a hip injury and is out and the Dive lost two more defensemen this afternoon against the Evil Empire Jr. (Leopold and Salei, injuries not yet known.) Dallas infuriates me.  They are reminding me of the Poultry except not as talented.  Plenty of dirty hits and cheap shots to go around....Still if the Wings play Dallas in the playoffs, I’m not worried.  The Poultry worries me. Gah, more red wine please!

Posted by hockeychic from Denver, CO on 03/09/08 at 08:39 PM ET

Hockeychic:

Combination of two things.  Detroit eased up somewhat (bad form, but understandable) and the officials started looking for penalties to “even things up” - which I hate.

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 03/09/08 at 10:58 PM ET

My vote for quote of the year; hell, that should be our playoff banner…

Sorry SRT, ain’t mine.  Old-skool Kid Rock.  Though the fact that someone else made it up never stopped the Chief-- go on, let’s rip off Kid Rock for our playoff slogan!  Somebody else can design the banner, though, because I’m uh...lazy.

Good job from Nicklas Backstrom breaking his fans’ hearts.  This morning, NHL.com has Ice Age up on the front page-- Backstrom’s Calder hopes.  Not if he keeps knocking in own-goals.  Still, he’s young and has a long career ahead of him-- if that’s his most embarassing moment, he can count himself lucky.  He has my gratitude that he kept the game from going to yet another shootout.

As for the game that mattered, well, I’m just glad I didn’t watch it, otherwise I’d have less hair than I already do.  And it sounds like I still need to carry out my Official Murder Spree, with a Lilja kneecapping as a sideshow.  Who ever said that violence doesn’t solve anything?  Still, two points is two points, and if the third period provided some sort of wake-up call, it’s worth it.

Forsberg’s pernicious injury appears to be creeping up his body...or else ‘groin’ is Dive code for ‘that damned foot again.’

Posted by AndrewFromAnnArbor from the top of the CN tower, trigger finger at the rea on 03/10/08 at 04:52 AM ET

Great Pavel photo:
http://info.detnews.com/redesign/blogs/wingsblog/index.cfm?blogid=1245

Posted by w2j2 on 03/10/08 at 08:41 AM ET

Chief:  Great job on the glossary update!  The typical adolescent humor that makes me laugh and that I’ve come to expect and appreciate here at “A2Y”.

Ditto OSRT’s observation:

16 & 19: Unassigned. Right on Bill!

Posted by Jeff OKWingnut from Hockey Netherworld on 03/10/08 at 10:11 AM ET

Great Pavel photo:
http://info.detnews.com/redesign/blogs/wingsblog/index.cfm?blogid=1245

anybody know if that was called?

Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 03/10/08 at 11:39 AM ET

It wasn’t called Paul. I checked the box score right after I saw it.  Have to think at least one of the two refs was, you know, watching the puck. I guess not.  Thanks Gary. Ass.

Posted by IwoCPO from Washington, DC on 03/10/08 at 11:50 AM ET

My two cents…

-- After the San Jose incident, both refs were probably watching the netting to make sure the puck wasn’t out of play.

-- Man, those Rbk Edge jerseys certainly are aerodynamic. Datsyuk’s speed is literally lifting Weber off the ice! (We’re probably lucky Pavel wasn’t suspended for the unsportsmanlike conduct of creating a speed hazard.)

-- I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again...sometimes Datsyuk and Zetterberg are too strong on their skates. It’s a real mixed blessing when it comes to drawing penalties.

-- If we ask nicely, do you think little gary would let Reebok come up with tear-away jerseys for next season?

Posted by YzermanZetterberg on 03/10/08 at 03:45 PM ET