I was expecting a loss for most of that game, especially OT. I just keep saying "This has dominate but lose written all of over it."
Dats, Fil, Gus, Andersson, Howard and Eaves all had great games.
We're not winning the Cup so please stop hyperventilating and come to grips with that. Are you okay now? Great, now let's just sit back and see which of our young players have a shot at carrying this team in 5 years.
At the same time it saddens me that we no longer have the young Danny DeKeyser on our d line. It's incredible how much hockey sense that kid has, I mean when he played he was easily our best defenseman. I don't think I'm being too generous at all with my praise on him. We are so incredibly lucky that he signed with us and if he develops further he will be one hell of a hockey player.
But yeah Jonathan, was good, should stay good. Smith, was better this game as well, although I did see a few plays that I didn't like from him. Nothing to lose your **** over though.
what do you mean by 'we are not winning the cup so just relax'? what the heck are we playing for then?
btw just because they are youngsters doesn't mean they get a free pass. I understand they aren't as good but they should be held accountable for their performance. We can not afford to let them have freebies during playoff. That's why they spent all those years down in AHL.
Yeah I have news for some of the people ripping on our young players: guess what? We are not winning the Cup this year. If they can accept that it's actually cool to see our younger players get ice time. Z ain't doing much this series. Pavs is going into beat mode. Howie can hold his own so long as his team isn't playing gutless hockey. We need some younger guys to develop and the only way that happens is if they get ice time at the NHL level and get to find their game. Smith showed some nice flashes tonight. Andersson is coming along really nicely, he's been our rookie of the year and it's not even close. Nyquist is proving he should have been up all season. Tatar should be as well.
We're not winning the Cup so please stop hyperventilating and come to grips with that. Are you okay now? Great, now let's just sit back and see which of our young players have a shot at carrying this team in 5 years.
Same thing with people ripping on Holland. Expecting holland to sell the farm for rental 35+ers' and players who haven't worked out on 2-3 other teams or are past their prime is simply insane.
You must have been reading that somewhere else because I sure as hell didn't see that here.
It's real simple.
People thought Pavs and Hank weren't legit because they struggled in their first playoff experiences.
It means you don't write Howie off because the team in front of him plays gutless hockey.
It means you don't rip a guy mercilessly in his second playoff game where - by the way - he was +1 while playing 20 minutes.
Some people want to make snap judgments and then don't want to own up when they are dead wrong on certain players. They need to get over themselves and let our young guys develop. Pavs once stunk it up in the playoffs. Hank once stunk it up the playoffs. Ozzie did too.
Let the young guys play. Our older guys like Z aren't making much of a contribution, so we need to give our younger guys some ice time and accept they will have their good and bad moments.
Do you really think this Red Wings team is going to win the Cup? A Red Wings team that won 4 games against playoff teams during the months of March and April? A team that qualified for the playoffs on the last day of the regular season?
Same thing with people ripping on Holland. Expecting holland to sell the farm for rental 35+ers' and players who haven't worked out on 2-3 other teams or are past their prime is simply insane.
Holland isn't without his faults. But criticism here has certainly has gone overboard this season.
Z-Datsyuk-Sammy
Franzen-Flip-Cleary
Nyquist-Andersson-Brunner
Eaves-Emmerton-Bertuzzi
Wings are breaking all kinds of young guys in. And instead of protecting them, Babcock throws them to the fire.
Nyquist-Andersson-Brunner -- that's a disaster waiting to happen.
Lashoff-Smith on the PK
Lashoff-Kindl at even strength
Sometimes your rookies make rookie mistakes -- and all the protection in the world won't help them (Brunner giveaway).
Sometimes, you can avoid costly mistakes by protecting your guys. (goals 3 and 4).
For one, you shouldn't have Lashoff in the lineup at all. But if you must, don't pair him with Smith on the PK for ****'s sake.
Kronwall-Kindl
Smith-Ericsson
Quincey-Lashoff
On the PK:
Kronwall-Ericsson
Quincey-Smith/Lashoff
Easy enough
+1Amazing job by Gus not to run the goalie on that...
Howard allows 2 goals and plays OK, and there are his supporters calling him the best goalie ever.Where the Jimmy Howard haters at?
GDT losing streak averted by some great play by Datsyuk, Nyquist, Howard and I even think Ericsson had his best game of the series.
Lashoff finished the game +1. Babcock loves him. We have a lot of offensive Dmen, we need some defensive Dmen. He is not my 1st choise either, but ...Great gutty win and Hiller looked completely gassed all of overtime, maybe we can get him again, he hasn't been a workhorse all year this might take a toll and give us an easy game. Him being tired might have made all the difference he should have come out and got that and just froze then used a weak poke check and flailed out of position.
Great work by the third line tonight. Datsyuk and Zetterberg controlled play, they wanted it more tonight and it showed. Howard made some big saves and they did a much better job getting to the front of the net.
Gus two overtimes, two career points in overtime.
Lashoff was a disaster tonight, he needs to come out of the lineup.
That line is going to be a nightmare with their speed.I did not expect to be this excited about the playoffs this year.
Between Kindl, Dekeyser, Smith, Brunner, Nyquist, Andersson, Tatar, and the guys who haven't made it yet the future is pretty bright.
Looking forward to a Nyquist-Helm-Tatar 3rd line next year.
And this is the problem. People saying Howard has been excellent. Howard has been OK at best in this series.Pretty obvious I don't know **** about hockey because I thought the Wings were done after game 3.
Then they come out with this effort. I was proud of their play just to get to OT. Datsyuk had a pretty miserable game up until that goal. Howard was excellent, he has been the whole series, the entire team melted down in game 3 (and I thought that would continue).
Good game, good series, good hockey.
I am by no means down playing Helm but as far as 3rd line center he has lost his spot as of this season. now where the heck do we put him?