Uncategorized 23 December 2009

It’s Festivus!
And part of the traditions of celebrating Festivus is the “Airing of Grievances”–a declaration of how you’ve been disappointed by those in your life the past year. We may be only 30+ games into the season, but I’ve still got enough grievances to share…
Chris Osgood: You really let …

 TOV,TP:60 23 December 2009

Abbreviations abound (and alliteration).
The second episode of The Obstructed View is up and available here.  You can also subscribe via iTunes (search: Obstructed View).  This week’s episode brings Jessie from Bingo Bango, George James Malik from Snapshots, and the Chief from A2Y.  I listened to it at work today and …

 H2H 21 December 2009

The economy sucks, but it’s still the holidays.  If you haven’t heard about it already, the Chief and the rest of the 19 are raising funds to get Guilherme, the blogger at Red Wings Brasil, into the Joe Louis Arena to see his beloved Red Wings live.
30 hours since the …

 game recap 20 December 2009

Hey, Chicago?  Congrats on winning against the Grand Rapids Griffins.  This is not being bitter as a Wings fan, it’s a fact that Detroit iced about half of the team they had when they played in October.  So here’s a pat on the back for shutting out a Red Wings …

 game preview 20 December 2009

The Wings are headed to Chicago to take on the Blackhawks Sunday.  I’ve been saying that Babcock giving Osgood the nod to play this game says something about Osgood’s position as the number one goalie.  But I realized that it’s a slightly hasty statement.  I’m not backtracking, but what I …

 game recap 19 December 2009

Yeah, we probably shouldn’t have lost that.
Goals were as follows:
Detroit: Tomas Holmstrom (Bertuzzi, Datsyuk); Pavel Datsyuk (Bertuzzi, Lidstrom); Todd Bertuzzi (Datsyuk, Miller)
Dallas: Karlis Skrastins (Ribeiro, Benn); James Neal (Richards, Eriksson); James Neal (Skrastins, Eriksson); Karlis Skrastins (Richards, Neal)
Pluses
+ During the first period Ken and Mick commented that last season …

 game preview 19 December 2009

This is going to be crazy quick because the game starts in 15 minutes.
The Wings did a great job rallying on Thursday when Zetterberg went down, so let’s hope they can continue to channel that determination.  Helm is back in the lineup.
Marty Turco’s in net for the Stars
Career stats vs …

 Uncategorized 18 December 2009

By now I’m certain everyone’s heard the news that Zetterberg will be out a minimum of two weeks with a “slight shoulder separation” after getting decked by Mattias Ohlund Thursday.  I personally can’t imagine how any shoulder separation is slight, but at least he’s not out for extremely long term.
In …

 game recap 18 December 2009

Goals were as follows:
Detroit: Drew Miller (Rafalski); Todd Bertuzzi (Holmstrom, Datsyuk); Patrick Eaves (Lidstrom, Rafalski)
Tampa Bay: none
This whole game was one big effing Minus because of what happened with a minute and change left in the first period.  Mattias Ohlund plastered Henrik Zetterberg, and I died on the inside when …

 I'm a terrible blogger 17 December 2009

It’s a slow day today.  Twitter’s broken.  Blackberry is experiencing an outage.  Today is my company’s in-house holiday party, so no one’s getting any work done (clearly, myself included).
This is just a reminder to update bookmarks to www.redmachineblog.com and to make sure to get the new RSS feed when it’s …