Warm Up:
Well folks, we're one week away from playoff hockey!
Tonight the Wings face off against the Carolina Hurricanes. These two teams haven't faced off against each other since January of last year where the Wings won 3-1. The Hurricanes are currently sitting in 9th place in the East and are looking for a win if they want to continue their season into the playoffs. The Wings on the other hand need the win if they want to fight for 2nd place in the West.
Injuries/Scratches:
Niklas Kronwall- not a shoulder problem...but an upper-body injury... which means he probably has a boo-boo on his knee from falling off a bike...or he has a cut on his chin from shaving... or his tummy hurts. (yes, a bit dramatic here, but what else am I supposed to think if we can't know the truth?)
Chris Osgood- ... yep... I really have nothing to say about this 'injury' of his anymore. And for someone who is and always has been a HUGE Osgood fan... I'm thinking Ozzie is at the end of the road. (I hope you all realize how much it took for me to come to terms with that.)
Drew Miller and Jiri Hudler are the scratches as of yesterday... but we all know these things can change.
Other Notes:
ESPN has a pretty cool thing for the playoffs. It's a sort of fantasy hockey where you pick a line-up for the first round of the playoffs... then each round you can change your team around. I literally spent 2 hours the other night trying to put together what I think is "the perfect team." Check it out, its under the "Fantasy" tab on the ESPN website.
Stay tuned for a post about my feelings on Osgood, the upcoming playoffs, and more...
Predictions:
Final Score-
Stef- 4-1, Wings
Danielle- 5-2, Wings
Player of the Game-
Stef- Darren Helm
Danielle- Pavel Datsyuk
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Warm-Up: St. Louis @ Detroit
Warm-Up:
The Wings host the Blues tonight for the 6th and final match-up this season. The Wings are winning this series 4-1 so far, so hey, why not kick them while they're down? The Wings are coming off of a overtime loss against Chicago on Monday night, while the Blues fell short to the Minnesota Wild yesterday in a shoot out.
Joey Mac will more than likely be in the net tonight too.
Injuries/Scratches:
Jimmy Howard- Shoulder
Pavel Datsyuk- Lower Body Injury
Kris Draper and Ruslan Salei are scratched tonight.
Other Notes:
I'm taking Rundown Roomie #1 to her first Wings game tonight. This should be fun. Either she'll enjoy it or just think hockey fans are completely insane... she probably already thinks that anyway.
Babcock has also scratched Ruslan Salei tonight... apparently Salei and Kindl are battling for the 6th d-man spot for the playoffs. It should be interesting to see how this whole thing plays out.
Also, the new Wings site, twentystraight.com is AWESOME. Check it out, it's all about the Wings and their 20 straight years of making it to the playoffs.
Predictions
Final Score-
Stef- 3-2, Wings
Danielle- 4-1, Wings
Player of the Game-
Stef- Jiri Hudler
Danielle- Drew Miller
The Wings host the Blues tonight for the 6th and final match-up this season. The Wings are winning this series 4-1 so far, so hey, why not kick them while they're down? The Wings are coming off of a overtime loss against Chicago on Monday night, while the Blues fell short to the Minnesota Wild yesterday in a shoot out.
Joey Mac will more than likely be in the net tonight too.
Injuries/Scratches:
Jimmy Howard- Shoulder
Pavel Datsyuk- Lower Body Injury
Kris Draper and Ruslan Salei are scratched tonight.
Other Notes:
I'm taking Rundown Roomie #1 to her first Wings game tonight. This should be fun. Either she'll enjoy it or just think hockey fans are completely insane... she probably already thinks that anyway.
Babcock has also scratched Ruslan Salei tonight... apparently Salei and Kindl are battling for the 6th d-man spot for the playoffs. It should be interesting to see how this whole thing plays out.
Also, the new Wings site, twentystraight.com is AWESOME. Check it out, it's all about the Wings and their 20 straight years of making it to the playoffs.
Predictions
Final Score-
Stef- 3-2, Wings
Danielle- 4-1, Wings
Player of the Game-
Stef- Jiri Hudler
Danielle- Drew Miller
Thursday, March 17, 2011
The Rundown: Old MacDonald
Let's pretend that it isn't St. Patricks Day and I miraculously spell every word in this post correctly.
First Period-
Drew Miller!!!! Drew decided to show Babcock that he DESERVES to play every game. Miller had a nice goal only 33 seconds into the game. This has just got to be the sign of the beginning of a good night. Its St. Patricks Day, Miller scores, time for a Miller Lite.
Miller had another great shot on goal, however, Mason saved. But then, soon after, Miller decided to make the period all his and get into a fight. Someone is going for the Gordie Howe Hat Trick... why not?
Filppula scored his second goal in two nights as well. Keep it up, Fil.
And Joey MacDonald, I talked sh-- about you in the Warm-Up. YOU OWNED THE ICE during the first period. I can only hope that you will play like this the ENTIRE game.
First Intermish-
Mickey York said that Larry Murphy was "a little lucky charm" then Murph laughed uncontrollably. Then I laughed uncontrollably. The York said Murph would do an Irish Jig during the Second Intermission. I'll let you know if that really happened.
Second Period-
Too many men on the ice penalty. DUMB. DUMB. DUMB. Let's get these outrageous penalties out of our systems now though...
Pretty boring second period though.
Second Intermish-
Murphy did not do an Irish jig. Total disappointment.
Third Period-
SHIT! Datsyuk went into the locker room with the trainer. BAD NEWS BEARS. While we're at it, Rafalski went down again too...
Johnathan Ericsson-- you're not the brightest, buddy.
P.S. Modano's face after the ref brought the octopus off the ice... PRICELESS.
Time to pretend to be Irish... In Mickey Redmond's words, Time for a few ginger ales! Happy St. Patricks Day!
First Period-
Drew Miller!!!! Drew decided to show Babcock that he DESERVES to play every game. Miller had a nice goal only 33 seconds into the game. This has just got to be the sign of the beginning of a good night. Its St. Patricks Day, Miller scores, time for a Miller Lite.
Miller had another great shot on goal, however, Mason saved. But then, soon after, Miller decided to make the period all his and get into a fight. Someone is going for the Gordie Howe Hat Trick... why not?
Filppula scored his second goal in two nights as well. Keep it up, Fil.
And Joey MacDonald, I talked sh-- about you in the Warm-Up. YOU OWNED THE ICE during the first period. I can only hope that you will play like this the ENTIRE game.
First Intermish-
Mickey York said that Larry Murphy was "a little lucky charm" then Murph laughed uncontrollably. Then I laughed uncontrollably. The York said Murph would do an Irish Jig during the Second Intermission. I'll let you know if that really happened.
Second Period-
Too many men on the ice penalty. DUMB. DUMB. DUMB. Let's get these outrageous penalties out of our systems now though...
Pretty boring second period though.
Second Intermish-
Murphy did not do an Irish jig. Total disappointment.
Third Period-
SHIT! Datsyuk went into the locker room with the trainer. BAD NEWS BEARS. While we're at it, Rafalski went down again too...
Johnathan Ericsson-- you're not the brightest, buddy.
P.S. Modano's face after the ref brought the octopus off the ice... PRICELESS.
Time to pretend to be Irish... In Mickey Redmond's words, Time for a few ginger ales! Happy St. Patricks Day!
Warm-Up: Detroit @ Columbus
Warm Up:
The Red Wings will hopefully be feeling the luck o' the Irish tonight when they face off against the Columbus Blue Jackets. The Wings are coming off a nice win from last night when they took down Ovi and the Capitals. The Wings won playing some good ol' fashioned Red Wings hockey... which was nice to see again. Hopefully the Wings aren't too tired from last night and will be able to get another W.
The Blue Jackets and Wings have met 5 times already this season. Tonight will be their last match up for the season. The Wings have the upper hand on the series, 3-2.
Injuries/Scratches:
Ruslan Salei will be out tonight, his wife just had the couples 3rd child.
Don't know yet what's going on as far as the "Miller/Draper/Eaves/Hudler/ whoever else shouldn't be scratched but probably will be" rotation.
Other Notes-
Osgood isn't starting in net tonight, like he probably should have been because he's still "sore." So that means that we'll be watching a presumably drunk Irish goalie tonight in Joey MacDonald.
Predictions-
Final Score-
Stef: 4-1, Wings
Danielle: 4-2, Wings
Player of the Game-
Stef: Drew Miller
Danielle: Danny Cleary
Go Wings!
P.S. I can't promise a Rundown tonight...
The Red Wings will hopefully be feeling the luck o' the Irish tonight when they face off against the Columbus Blue Jackets. The Wings are coming off a nice win from last night when they took down Ovi and the Capitals. The Wings won playing some good ol' fashioned Red Wings hockey... which was nice to see again. Hopefully the Wings aren't too tired from last night and will be able to get another W.
The Blue Jackets and Wings have met 5 times already this season. Tonight will be their last match up for the season. The Wings have the upper hand on the series, 3-2.
Injuries/Scratches:
Ruslan Salei will be out tonight, his wife just had the couples 3rd child.
Don't know yet what's going on as far as the "Miller/Draper/Eaves/Hudler/ whoever else shouldn't be scratched but probably will be" rotation.
Other Notes-
Osgood isn't starting in net tonight, like he probably should have been because he's still "sore." So that means that we'll be watching a presumably drunk Irish goalie tonight in Joey MacDonald.
Predictions-
Final Score-
Stef: 4-1, Wings
Danielle: 4-2, Wings
Player of the Game-
Stef: Drew Miller
Danielle: Danny Cleary
Go Wings!
P.S. I can't promise a Rundown tonight...
Saturday, March 5, 2011
The Rundown: Dogs. Woof Woof.
Well the Wings came out to play, but then couldn't finish. Sigh... Yet, Coyotes goalie, Ilya Bryzgalov got off to a pretty slow start, which the Wings took full advantage of. Also, hockey shouldn't be played in the desert. So the Rundown is a bit different tonight, I blogged as I watched the game unfold. So everything you read, I typed as it happened...
The Rundown....
First Period-
Oh Hey Ilya Bryzgalov... there's a hockey game you should be playing... you know, you're supposed to stop pucks before they go into the net, right?
Bryzgalov didn't show up on time tonight which ended in me drinking a Miller Lite. Thank you Drew Miller... I think I explained it before but for those of you who missed out, every time Miller scores I have to crack open a Miller Lite. Milllller Tiiiiiiiime. 1-0
Johan Franzen!!! Power play goal!! Finally... after 15 games!!!! Franzen hadn't scored a goal since the night he scored 5 goals in one game. Maybe he should leave the goal streaks to one or two a game instead of 5....? Maybe? 2-0
Goaltender interference? Yep. 2-1.
Second Period-
Jimmy Saves! Jimmy made some WONDERFUL saves through out the entire second period.
So Johnathan Ericsson made a really nice play (yes, you read that correctly) at center ice a little more than half way into the second. Ericsson lost the puck and saw a Coyote behind him who was going for the puck too. So what does Ericsson do? He shows the Coyote whats up and pretty much pulls a Nik Kronwall. Well played, Ericsson, well played.
Valterri Filppula with a nice goal. His first goal since coming back from his knee injury. Fil shot the puck and it bounced of Bryzgolov's pads and into the net. 3-1.
Darren Helm with an AMAZING short handed goal. That was a one big F-YOU to Phoenix. Beautiful goal by a beautiful man. 4-1.
Larry Murphy even tried to give us his take on the whole Charlie Sheen situation. If anyone should talk about Charlie Sheen, it's Larry Murphy.
On another Larry Murphy note, Murph ended his second intermission commentary by taking a bite of a hot dog. Murph Loves Hot Dogs.
Third Period-
Is that? Could it be? No... that's not Hasek in the net for us again? 4-2.
Okay, so the Wings are on a power play and then all of a sudden the refs blow the whistle. Why? Because one of the straps on Bryzgalov's helmet came off. Its not like the entire helmet came off. Come on, grow a pair. You play in the NHL.
JIMMY, JIMMY, JIMMY!!!!!!!!! (happy now?) Jimmy has been making some GREAT saves tonight.
Ugh. Apparently I spoke too soon... Jimmy let in 2 more goals, 4-4 tie with 90 seconds left in regulation.
Fil tried to end things in regulation. But the game only ended with The Tuzzi threatening Shane Doan's life.
Onto OT-
Wings with so many great chances so far in OT. None of them getting past Bryzgalov. Seems like he finally woke up.
Shoot Out-
Not even worth talking about. Goal Posts. Damn It.
Next up- King Cobra and the LA Kings at Detroit on Wednesday.
Go Wings!
The Rundown....
First Period-
Oh Hey Ilya Bryzgalov... there's a hockey game you should be playing... you know, you're supposed to stop pucks before they go into the net, right?
Bryzgalov didn't show up on time tonight which ended in me drinking a Miller Lite. Thank you Drew Miller... I think I explained it before but for those of you who missed out, every time Miller scores I have to crack open a Miller Lite. Milllller Tiiiiiiiime. 1-0
Johan Franzen!!! Power play goal!! Finally... after 15 games!!!! Franzen hadn't scored a goal since the night he scored 5 goals in one game. Maybe he should leave the goal streaks to one or two a game instead of 5....? Maybe? 2-0
Goaltender interference? Yep. 2-1.
Second Period-
Jimmy Saves! Jimmy made some WONDERFUL saves through out the entire second period.
So Johnathan Ericsson made a really nice play (yes, you read that correctly) at center ice a little more than half way into the second. Ericsson lost the puck and saw a Coyote behind him who was going for the puck too. So what does Ericsson do? He shows the Coyote whats up and pretty much pulls a Nik Kronwall. Well played, Ericsson, well played.
Valterri Filppula with a nice goal. His first goal since coming back from his knee injury. Fil shot the puck and it bounced of Bryzgolov's pads and into the net. 3-1.
Darren Helm with an AMAZING short handed goal. That was a one big F-YOU to Phoenix. Beautiful goal by a beautiful man. 4-1.
Larry Murphy even tried to give us his take on the whole Charlie Sheen situation. If anyone should talk about Charlie Sheen, it's Larry Murphy.
On another Larry Murphy note, Murph ended his second intermission commentary by taking a bite of a hot dog. Murph Loves Hot Dogs.
Third Period-
Is that? Could it be? No... that's not Hasek in the net for us again? 4-2.
Okay, so the Wings are on a power play and then all of a sudden the refs blow the whistle. Why? Because one of the straps on Bryzgalov's helmet came off. Its not like the entire helmet came off. Come on, grow a pair. You play in the NHL.
JIMMY, JIMMY, JIMMY!!!!!!!!! (happy now?) Jimmy has been making some GREAT saves tonight.
Ugh. Apparently I spoke too soon... Jimmy let in 2 more goals, 4-4 tie with 90 seconds left in regulation.
Fil tried to end things in regulation. But the game only ended with The Tuzzi threatening Shane Doan's life.
Onto OT-
Wings with so many great chances so far in OT. None of them getting past Bryzgalov. Seems like he finally woke up.
Shoot Out-
Not even worth talking about. Goal Posts. Damn It.
Next up- King Cobra and the LA Kings at Detroit on Wednesday.
Go Wings!
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Warm-Up: Detroit @ Buffalo.
It's Miller Time! Modano's Back!
The Wings are in Buffalo tonight to take on Sabres. It's a battle of the Millers tonight as Drew and Ryan will compete against each other. It would be pretty neat to see Drew get a puck past big brother. Ryan Miller has been a hot goalie lately, not allowing more than 2 goals in his last 5 starts.
The Wings are coming off of a 2 game losing streak and should come out fighting and wanting to win. The Wings also have 2 players coming back into the line up. Mike Modano will be making his return to the ice for the first time since November. I am SO EXCITED to see Modano come back, as I am sure many of you are too. Filppula is also back tonight after suffering a sprained knee.
Also, Rafalski is out tonight due to back-spasms. Franzen may or may not be playing since his wife is supposed to give birth to their first child. If she does, Franzen would be making a quick flight back to Detroit.
Now the predictions-
Player of the Game-
Stef- Nicklas Lidstrom
Danielle- Niklas Kronwall
Final Score
Stef- 2-1, Wings
Danielle- 3-2, Wings
The Wings are in Buffalo tonight to take on Sabres. It's a battle of the Millers tonight as Drew and Ryan will compete against each other. It would be pretty neat to see Drew get a puck past big brother. Ryan Miller has been a hot goalie lately, not allowing more than 2 goals in his last 5 starts.
The Wings are coming off of a 2 game losing streak and should come out fighting and wanting to win. The Wings also have 2 players coming back into the line up. Mike Modano will be making his return to the ice for the first time since November. I am SO EXCITED to see Modano come back, as I am sure many of you are too. Filppula is also back tonight after suffering a sprained knee.
Also, Rafalski is out tonight due to back-spasms. Franzen may or may not be playing since his wife is supposed to give birth to their first child. If she does, Franzen would be making a quick flight back to Detroit.
Now the predictions-
Player of the Game-
Stef- Nicklas Lidstrom
Danielle- Niklas Kronwall
Final Score
Stef- 2-1, Wings
Danielle- 3-2, Wings
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