Osgood Getting A Bit Long In The Wings

The idea of these penaltykill.net blogs is to make public your feelings on how your Hockey team is faring, right? So if I was say ‘Meh’, would that suffice?
The Wings form is so back and forth it’s making me feel sick. We’ll string together a couple of wins, and then we’ll lose in OT, [...]

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Detroit Red Wings: Don’t Stop Believing

“Just a city boy, born and raised in SOUTH DETROIT, he took the midnight train going annnnyyywheeerrreeee”
I bet on that midnight train he was sat next to Chris Osgood, who will of course be trying to hide himself away from the young upstart Jimmy Howard.

GOALIES:

W

L

OT

Sv%

GAA

J. Howard

6

4

1

.902

2.70

C. Osgood

6

5

3

.897

2.75

Poor Ozzy. He’s like [...]

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Year-Over-Year Comparison For Teams of The .Net

One of the things I picked up on this season is the idea that the milestone for determining your hockey team’s capabilities is where they stand on (US) Thanksgiving. That little nugget taught me two things.
First I learned that the hockey pre-season isn’t like other sports’ pre-seasons. Hockey players have said that the pre-season is [...]

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Red Wings Physio Earns His Money

Any hope we may have had that the Wings were about to start their charge to the higher reaches of the table, have now been swept away. Our form is back to it’s on/off frustration, and we’ve now lost Kronwall for up to 8 weeks with a knee injury, thanks to a George Laraque ‘trip’. [...]

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Detroit Red Wings: Good Times

Funny isn’t it, how Hockey can turn on its head, throw the stats in the bin, and provide you with such mixed emotions?
The Detroit season is 18 games old now, and the second set of 9 games are a whole other world away from the first set. In the first 9 games Detroit played [...]

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Choose The Detroit Red Wings‏

Choose 1 single enforcer (Brad May) in your whole roster, that hardly plays anyway.
Choose the least amount of fights in the NHL last season, dropping the gloves just 12 times.
Choose getting beaten 5-1 by the Toronto Maple Leafs, who recorded their 1st home victory that night.
Choose hideous injuries to key players early in the season, [...]

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Have The Wings Been Clipped?

You know it’s funny. The Red Wings are setting up a season of being excessively average (5-4-3), but I still can’t imagine us not making the playoffs.
Maybe it’s optimism, maybe it’s because we’re used to being in the top 2-3 teams, or maybe it’s because life without the playoffs is too scary to contemplate.
Our main [...]

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Detroit Red Wings: Hockey Obsession 101

My office is full of people discussing the top football (soccer) games last night, or the cricket scores, or even what’s happening in the rugby. I sit alone at my desk, unable to join in most of the time, unless someone mentions non-league football. It’s rare, but has been known to happen that I’ve been [...]

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Detroit Red Wings: A Step In The Right Direction

If the last two games have shown anything, it’s that confidence and motivation matter as much, if not more than skill and ability.
The home game against the LA Kings was a game of penalty kill. With 12 minor penalties in the game, it’s amazing that there was just 1 powerplay goal. Both teams penalty kill [...]

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Detroit Red Wings: Has Motor City Broken Down?

We’re 5 games in, we’ve lost Franzen for 4 months, we’re missing the majority of last year’s attack force due to salary cap limitations and tonight we play one of the most aggressive teams in the league so far (obviously the Maple Leafs are far and away the most regular inhabitants of the penalty box [...]

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