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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Don’t give up

I will write a season-ending post as soon as the season ends.
For now, there’s still one more game to play. And possibly another one after that.
I could list about 276 sports cliches right here and they’d all be just as boring as they are true.
So instead of taking that shit one game at a time [...]

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

It worked last year…

… we posted this before Game 7 against the Ducks, and it worked. We did not post it for Game 7 against the Penguins, and we all know what happened.
There’s not much you can say before a deciding game, but I will say this: I haven’t hated the Coyotes throughout this series. They are nowhere [...]

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

In which The Rookie proves me wrong once again…

I don’t have the skills, the footage or the video editing equipment necessary to put it together, but someone, somewhere on the internets needs to cobble together footage of Jimmy Howard and set it to ‘Jimmy’ by MIA.

If they started playing the chorus at the Joe during stoppages in play after a big Howard save, [...]

Monday, April 19th, 2010

There is another level … right?

The Phoenix Coyotes are a much better team than the Colorado Avalanche. The Phoenix Coyotes also have home-ice advantage in their series with the Detroit Red Wings. The Colorado Avalanche do not in their series with the San Jose Sharks.
But if I’m picking a team that is trailing 2-1 to come back and win a [...]

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Fearless Playoff Predictions…

… that are well on their way to being wrong.
I do most of my non-Red Wings NHL blogging over the The Gamesheet — where the second half of my Dispassionate Playoff Predictions went up a few hours ago.
Head on over there and check it out, if you give half of a snivelling shit about the [...]

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Full Circle

(I’ll have full playoff previews up at The Gamesheet sometime in the next 24-48 hours — they’ll be up by Wednesday morning, okay? — but since this is still where all the Wings fans come for hockey, here’s the only series that really matters.)
Fourteen years ago, the Winnipeg Jets left for Phoenix, and became the [...]