And now you're stuck with me.

Now with Drew on his way to Sweden, you bitches are stuck with me. I'm a bit like the Brent of the Triple Deke, here for a post occasionally, except without the effort or the writing talent. And of course, I have my first law school exam on Friday, so reason would think that hockey would be #2 in my life right now. But fuck that. Seasons starting tomorrow and I'd watch Atlanta play the local Mite house team right now. So law school can wait.

A few little comments to maybe get all of your opinion on:

-Did anyone see anything out of Eaves in the preseason? I only caught him here and there and wasn't that impressed.

-Time Warner finally got a deal in place for Center Ice, now I just need to convince them that they need to put NHL network in my package for the 35 Wings games the network carries.

-It truely seems that the Wings are excited as hell to play in Sweden and I say good for them.

-Howard will be fine in net. He had the best save percentage in the preseason of any Wings goaltender who isn't known for a photoshopped beach ball scoring behind him. The Wings need to figure out how to play in front of him.

-On that note, Conkblock, who I liked, has also been horribly overrated by the media. He's a solid goalie, noting more. Did he really play that well last year, or did Ozzie play that bad. We won't miss him.

-Everyone is picking the Flyers this year. Really? I see them as a Slapshot sort of meathead team. Yes, I know that the Chiefs won the Federal League, but its a fucking movie, that shit doesn't happen in real life. And jesus, Pronger is no Reg Dunlop.

Plus can you see Briere really fitting into this team? I see a bench brawl in their future and Briere crying on the bench, until he sees his lover Sidney in the stands. Briere skates out to center ice and strips off his uniform - with the arena band getting into the act by playing "The Stripper." Suddenly, the teams stop fighting and stare in amazement at Briere, who shouts, I'm gay for you Cindy. And later we'd find Bobby Clarke dead, of a gunshot wound to head, and a note saying he couldn't live another day knowing that he signed a man as flaming as Danny boy.

-Dear Chief, please come back. Signed - Wings fans everywhere.

Philly beats up on Grand Rapids

That's what the title should have said to last night's game. Philly played just about everyone in this preseason tilt. The Wings played almost noone.

Here's a taste of who the Flyers had dressed...

"Danny" Briere
Carcillo (Ok I know he sucks, but he is a fantasy beast)
Carle
Carter
Gagne
Hartnell
Pronger
Richards
Timonen


Now here's the Wings top players that played...

Lidstrom
Rafalski

So basically, who gives a flying f*** about that game.

But Osgood, please don't let five go in ever again, I don't care if you are playing for Team Jamaica in Mighty Ducks 2 and you are facing Team Iceland and all your team is hurt from the pre-faceoff hipchecks that were thrown, stop the puck five more times than you did and we won't have any problems.



Or we send you back to the Islanders.

Wings Lose 5-2 to Flyers

Well...I guess the thing to take away from last night's game is, um...it wasn't a loss to that other team from Pennsylvania. I repect the Flyers, I do, their fans too. No matter how bad the Flyers have been in the past, and there has been some bad seasons, at least THIS Pennsylvania franchise has never gone bankrupt (twice) and almost left town. I know we've lost three in a row now, but it's just the preseason, so relax.

The Big Rig put in an unassisted slap shot from the point. Look to see a lot more of that clapper this year, it won him the Hardest Shot Competition in the AHL a couple seasons ago. The Kris's teamed up for the only other goal scored by Detroit, as Newbury put it the biscuit in the basket resulting from a give and go with Draper.

The Wings had yet another 3-1 first period in the opposition's favor and never really recovered.

Ozzie played the whole game and faced 30 shots total.

Wings beat Flyers in Pre-Season Opener

Via the Associated Press...the pic was obviously from last season.

Kris Draper, Jamie Tardif and Jeremy Williams scored to lift the Detroit Red Wings to a 3-1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday night in the preseason opener for both teams.

So far, so good for Detroit. They might not lose a game all year...seriously.

Red Wings' starting goalie Jimmy Howard made six saves in a little over 30 minutes and Daniel Larsson stopped 14 shots.

Six saves in thirty minutes-plus played? That's a shot every five minutes...Detroit must have been playing keep away while the Flyers thought the name of the game was hot potato. Fourteen saves for Larsson sounds pretty solid. I should have went to the game...couldn't find anyone to accompany me.

Van Riemsdyk opened the scoring 3:26 into the second period when he beat Howard with a wrist shot from the left circle.

So Jimmy stopped 5 out of 6 shots for a .833 save percentage while Larsson went 14 for 14...uh oh, Jimmy. Better get your act together.

Draper tied it at 1, 9:36 into the middle period when he put a rebound past Emery.
Tardif gave the Red Wings the lead with 1:52 left in the second period when he put in a one-time shot from the slot.

Way to go, Drapes...earn that 4th line spot. Tardif, the 24 year old right winger is coming off of a mediocre season in 2008-2009, so it's nice to see him contribute in this situation. No chance he makes the big squad, though.

Williams scored 3:35 into the third when he flipped in a loose puck from a goal-mouth scramble.

I've seen a few clips of Jeremy Williams playing, the kid looks good. He has a nice scoring touch and actually was used by Toronto in shootouts last year. He's a long shot of making the Wings, but he's not going to be a quick throw-away down to Grand Rapids. Especially if he keeps putting the puck in the net.

Always fun to beat Pronger, since we have less opportunities to do so now that he's in the Leastern Conference.