stars of the week 28 April 2010

I wanted to post up my three stars of the series for the Red Wings against the Coyotes, and kind of pick up again on this little weekly feature that I had done earlier in the season…
#3: Jimmy Howard
You gotta hand it to the kid. His first ever playoff series, …

 game recap 28 April 2010

(I’m kind of embarrassed to admit that the first thing that came to mind when I started writing this wrapup was “Phoenix Down.”  Clearly I’ve been playing too much Final Fantasy in my off time.)
Now that’s what I’m talking about.  I had faith in this team that they would bring …

 game preview 27 April 2010

The Wings will get it done in the desert tonight.
I believe.

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 Uncategorized 25 April 2010

Not even kidding.
I received the opportunity to conduct a phoner interview with Brendan Shanahan, currently the VP of Hockey and Business Development (or, as his Twitter profile says, VP of “blah blah blahblahblah”) at the NHL.  I had a double-take moment where I debated the validity of this offer, and …

 game recap 24 April 2010

Sorry, no real Game 5 thoughts from me, other than the Wings have a chance to close this series out back home at the Joe, and I hope they bring it.  Skate to throat, let’s do it.
Stay tuned for something super cool coming up this weekend at Big Red Machine, …

 TOV,TP:60 23 April 2010

I had the pleasure of hopping on this week’s episode of The Obstructed View with Andy from Fight Night at the Joe, the other half of The Production Line, Discher, Matt Saler of On the Wings, and of course, Chris Hollis from Motown Wings.  Topics on this episode include the …

 game recap 21 April 2010

A fun treat: the Joe Louis Arena goal horn as a ringtone.  Download it here.  I edited it down from a longer, 20 second ringtone, to the horn going off three times.  Marlon did a favor of humoring me by calling my phone so I could hear it, and it’s …

 Uncategorized 20 April 2010

Nicole from the Red Wings emailed out a link about a viewing party that’s taking place at Hockeytown Cafe for Friday’s Game 5 in Phoenix.  Here are the details, which can also be found on Facebook:

Start Time:
Friday, April 23, 2010 at 10:00pm

End Time:
Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 2:00am

Location:
Hockeytown Cafe

Description,
Join …

 game recap 19 April 2010

I don’t want to talk about it.  I really don’t.  That game sucked in more ways that I know how to express.
The only plus from Game 3 was Shane Doan getting upended by Jimmy Howard and crashing into the boards, and going out for the remainder of the game.  Except …

 game recap 17 April 2010

My former roommate, and recent convert to Red Wings nation (and hockey in general) back in New York IM’d me shortly after the game ended and made a comment that caused me to laugh a little:
ok, don’t get me wrong, i’m glad we won
but i wish that the entire game …