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Wings Fans: What’s Going On, And Should We Be Worried?

The Red Wings recent struggles are quite obvious.  In their last four games, the Wings have lost 3 out of 4 and 6 of their last 10.  As of this writing, the Wings are 6 points back of St. Louis with…Read More

Detroit Red Wings: If the NHL were a Batman Comic, Red Wings Would Be Two-Face

Photo courtesy of yahoo.com   I came up with the headline as I was discussing hockey with a few friends tonight. My circle of friends is a pretty broad one when it comes to favorite NHL teams. I…Read More

Detroit Red Wings Start Road Trip With a Win in Edmonton, Face Vancouver Canucks Wednesday Night

Photo courtesy of thehockeynews.com The Detroit Red Wings have finally, after two mediocre years, have brought back the fear in opposing teams when entering the Joe Louis Arena posting a 13-2-1 record…Read More

Wings Must Get Iginla

  Jarome Iginla should be a Red Wing. The power forward’s loyalty and commitment to the Flames has been beyond admirable. He still, like all politically savvy players, maintains that it is…Read More

Wings Get Wild

While taking notes during tonight’s game against Minnesota, there came a passing sequence that prompted me to scribble down: “Russian 5″.  Now I won’t go on about days gone by,…Read More

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Howard, Filppula Dazzle Against Canucks

Certainly the story of the first 20 minutes of tonight’s game against the defending Western Conference…Read More

Wings Win With Style

I’ve seen enough exhibition games over the years to know that the pre-season, means next to nothing.…Read More

Does Fitness Matter?

Last June I wrote a piece I made a post over at The Sin Bin Chronicles calling on the readers to be the…Read More

Throw Your Wings Up!

I don’t usually start off with a music video but I thought this would be fitting… The Detroit…Read More

We’re halfway there…

… Well through defeating the San Jose Sharks in the second round that is. It has taken the Red Wings…Read More

Countdown to Take Two in the Shark Tank

To say game one was a bit of a disappointment for the Red Wings and their fans is probably the biggest understatement of the post season. So lets not dwell on that. Stand up. Brush yourself off. Put…Read More

5-4 OT Loss? What the F@#$?!!

Really!? 4-1 going into the 3rd, turns into a 5-4 Shootout loss?! What the F@%#$?!! Its like the entire team forget about defense and was only thinking about the rush! Okay, their scoring goals so we…Read More

Franzen Scores 5 Friggin’ Goals!

I think the title says it all. What else needs to be said? The Mule has recorded his first regular season hat trick. He has recorded three playoff hat tricks, including one diring last post season against…Read More

Wing’s Update(Letter to Kee)

So this is going to be a different kind of post than I normally write. Let me give you the back story. I have just recently left the Navy. I was on a 688 class submarine. One of my good friends, Stephen…Read More

Wings Fly Past Struggling Oilers

In what ended up being a very one-sided affair, the Wings found themselves on the winning side of the puck for the tenth time in 14 games this season, and it was the second time a win came against Edmonton. The…Read More

2010 Playoffs: 5 things I liked

This is a contrast to my previous post where I discussed 5 things I think sucked about the playoffs. #5. Chicago showing their true colors Up until this year I didn’t share the hatred that so man…Read More

Roster round up: Who should stay? Who should go?

There are a few other blogs (NOHS, WIIM, WOAW) that are analyzing player performance and whether or now they met expectations. These are all good reads and I encourage you to read them. I particularly…Read More

The stages of grief

It’s been a full 7 days since the season ended in a very disappointing fashion.  That was just enough time for me to (whimsically mind you) go through 5 stages of grief… Denial I woke up…Read More

Why the Wings make the world a better place

The Detroit Red Wings have not only been successful as an organization making it to the Stanley Cup Finals 5 times (winning 4) in the past 13 years, but the hockey minds that have helped the Red Wing organization…Read More

George Malik delivers perfect response

I’m sure the vast majority of you know who George Malik is and I just read his post in response to more Red Wing haters telling us to shut out pie holes for bitching about the hit on Franzen and…Read More

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