GDT: WCQF | Game 1 | Detroit Red Wings @ Nashville Predators | 8:00 PM EST | FSD, CBC

[chances14]

Originally Posted by WingedWheel1987

What are they saying?

probably the same doom and gloom that has infested this board

[LeighDx13]

Can't wait, only a few hours away to my favorite time of the year. We'll see what Wings team will show up to play.

Go Wings!

[Bench]

I'm nervous.

HELP I'M ALIVE!

[DeYarmond Edison]

I got 6 tickets for game 4. Which is also the day of my 21st birthday. Hopefully the series isn't 3-0 Preds by then. I think we have a great chance if we win one of these first two games. GO WINGS!!!!

[Bench]

Originally Posted by DeYarmond Edison

I got 6 tickets for game 4. Which is also the day of my 21st birthday.

This is pretty incredible. The Wings have been in the playoffs literally every single year you've been alive.

[DeYarmond Edison]

Originally Posted by Bench

This is pretty incredible. The Wings have been in the playoffs literally every single year you've been alive.

Ain't it great?

[Spitfire11]

I want to see Cleary put together a 2002-Yzerman like performance in this year's playoffs

[Vladdy84]

LGRW. I wanna see Kronwall blow up Radulov along the boards in the 1st period. Set the tone

[Brodie]

let's kick some ice

[MrTaterSalad]

I hope, I want a breakout in this series from Gustav Nyquist! 3G/4A in this series!!!

[Spitfire11]

Originally Posted by Vladdy84

LGRW. I wanna see Kronwall blow up Radulov along the boards in the 1st period. Set the tone

He usually saves all his big hitting for the playoffs. I was surprised how many he dished out during the regular season this year.

[GentlemanMasher*]

Originally Posted by Vladdy84

LGRW. I wanna see Kronwall blow up Radulov along the boards in the 1st period. Set the tone

All Radulov has to do is milk it and Kronner will get 5 10 and a game. It's not about the hit anymore, it's about a) the reputation of the hitter and b) how badly the hittee takes the blow.

[Sameheda]

Originally Posted by GentlemanMasher

All Radulov has to do is milk it and Kronner will get 5 10 and a game. It's not about the hit anymore, it's about a) the reputation of the hitter and b) how badly the hittee takes the blow.

Really? That's not what Voracek said.

[ricky0034]

so any word on whether it's Nyquist or Emmerton in? don't see anything about it on mlive

[GentlemanMasher*]

I welcome that exception to the rule lol

[joe89]

Corey Masisak @cmasisak22
Most productive line in #NHL this year w/107 pts together at ES was Zetterberg, Filppula + Hudler.

Who would have thought?

[theYman]

Let's do this!! Big Red Machine!!!!!!!

[Datsyukian]

Knit Picking but Geoffrion is on Montreal now

[SoupNazi]

LGRW. LGRW!

Keep chanting it...

[theYman]

Originally Posted by iRep TheWingedWheel

I still say sit one-legged Cleary and play Conner.

Yeah really.

These should be the lines

Filppula - Zetterberg - Hudler
Franzen - Datsyuk - Nyquist
Miller - Helm - Bertuzzi
Conner - Abdelkader - Holmstrom

[GentlemanMasher*]

Connor looks to be sitting once again. Sorry but what a joke. That kid has playoff hockey written all over him. I rarely say this if ever but I don't care that I'm just seeing it from the stands or on TV, that kid has to play and Emmerton has to sit. Connor and Helm paired together would give their D fits.

[ThankYouBasedGod]

Hal Gill not out for warm ups, won't play. Is Hillen in for them now?

[ThankYouBasedGod]

This love fest over Conner is ****ing ridiculous. To many hard ons for an insignificant player that wouldn't make a lick of difference in this series. Never though an AHL player could be so overrated LOL.

[Systemfel]

Originally Posted by ComeAtMeBro

Hal Gill not out for warm ups, won't play. Is Hillen in for them now?

He is.

http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreport...2/RO030181.HTM

[GentlemanMasher*]

Originally Posted by ComeAtMeBro

This love fest over Conner is ****ing ridiculous. To many hard ons for an insignificant player that wouldn't make a lick of difference in this series. Never though an AHL player could be so overrated LOL.

So....why? All he's ever done in the NHL is play well considering his role. And all he ever gets is **** on. He's developed the rep as a career AHLer even though he's clearly not. Yet we stubbornly stick with projected NHL guys even though they're clearly not. It's not about play it's about reputation sometimes.