Just finished listening to the Wings game on My Very Expensive Radio and am gratified to report...
NASHVILLE, TN - APRIL 02: Danny Cleary #11 of the Detroit Red Wings celebrates after scoring the overtime game winning goal against Pekka Rinne #35 of the Nashville Predators on April 2, 2011 at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Frederick Breedon/Getty Images)
We won! I've not posted a lot on the Beloved Wings of late, as their record has been.... ummm... less than sterling as we get down to the end of this season. But today's game showed the Wings still have a lot of heart left, coming back from a 3-0 deficit as they did in today's game. We'll not make excuses for their performance over the last ten games even though we COULD, seein' as how the injury bug bit down hard on our Wings. It's tough to win games when you have to call up a goalie from your farm club to be the back-up for your third-string goalie.... and your leading scorer misses four games out of the last ten due to injury. But here we are... four games left to go and the Wings with their 11th consecutive 100-point season. I like the way things look at the moment.
Update, 1635 hrs: Courtesy of KK reader paustn31634, Cleary's winning goal:
Sweet.
Yay for your Wings!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lou!
ReplyDeleteYour Wings and my Celts (different sports, of course) have been performing in a less than stellar fashion as of late. I hope we're both seeing teams that know when to turn up the gas and not teams that are running out of the stuff. I suspect that's the case, but still it is worrisome at times.
ReplyDeletePains me to say that once again, the Wings are for real.
ReplyDeleteClass organization, from top to bottom.
Did you catch the Leaf/Wings game last week? The excitement/tension in the crowd was tremendous.
They really should institute that original 6 teams play each other at least 4 times a year.
Leafs/Wings was a GREAT rivalry.
Leafs/Wings was a GREAT rivalry.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, in spades. I think the re-org of the league that put the Wings in the west was the travesty to end all travesties... for a number of reasons, not the LEAST of which was destroying one of the greatest rivalries in sports. I became a Wings fan back in '85 and remember those Leafs/Wings games very well.
As to your other points, Mr. Mayor: yes on all counts, again!
Jim: We'll see what we see, no?
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