Entries from March 2010

Monday, March 29th, 2010

6-0-1, aka The Magical Give-A-Shit Switch

I guess — much like me and blogging, he said humbly, the great ones can only goof off for so long.
Considering hockey is supposedly a winter sport, the idea of a team hibernating like fucking bears for four months, only to emerge when the snow begins to melt, seems pretty antithetical. It is, however, exactly [...]

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

1-0-0

1-0-0. That’s the only record that really matters.
34-23-12? Ugly, by Motown standards, but utterly meaningless.
0-1-0? That would be the record of the only other team we’re watching now.
Sure, the Predators may stumble, and the Avalanche and Kings may choke. But if the Red Wings can finish the next 13 games with a better record than [...]

Monday, March 15th, 2010

The season begins tonight

(Yeah, it’s been a while. But the season only really began a week or two ago, so sue me.)
Tonight — about six weeks after pundits began to say that we’ll see what the Detroit Red Wings are truly made of — we’ll get to see what the Detroit Red Wings are truly made of.
I said, [...]