Tag Archive | nhl
Who is to blame for the Detroit Red Wings’ Game 3 loss to the Anaheim Ducks?
The question of who to blame for the Red Wings in these playoffs is getting harder and easier at the same time. When a team loses 4-0, it’s hard to single out one person to direct all your acrimony towards. But when a team loses 4-0, the correct answer on who to blame is everybody. […]
Figuring out who is responsible for the outcomes of Game 1 and Game 2 in the Detroit Red Wings-Anaheim Ducks series
As you settle into a nice balance between being giddy about Gustav Nyquist’s overtime winner and being glum about that three goal lead the Red Wings gave up, you”ll find yourself wondering, who’s responsible for all this? Well, there are a few places you can figure it out. Winging it in Motown’s CSSI (Common Sense […]
The third grader’s guide to the Detroit Red Wings playoff scenarios
Welcome, class! I see you guys haven’t been here for a while. I’ll remember to take it slow. See, your Red Wings have reached the final three games of the season and still sit outside of the playoff picture. You’re currently experiencing what all the little kids in Calgary and Los Angeles and Buffalo experience […]
The hidden variable? How much does the selection of referees affect the Detroit Red Wings?
For all the stats taken and conclusions jumped to in sports, there’s one thing in the box score that people have rarely paid attention to, something that we’ve seen in some sports used to manipulate the game: the referees. I’ve begun tracking them for all sorts of different things, many of which I’ll touch on […]
Breaking down the myriad of Red Wings trade deadline deals…
After all the flurry of activity yesterday, I’ll start by breaking down the Red Wings’ trade deadline deals thus far: Kent Huskins went to Philadelphia for a conditional seventh-round pick back on March 30. Huskins wasn’t doing anything. This seventh-round pick has a very small chance of doing something. Analysis: good trade. On to the next deal: […]
Red Wings thoughts and rambles vs. Minnesota Wild, 3/20
The Red Wings were playing on national television with a chance to put some distance between them and the teams currently not in a playoff spot, and they were doing it against the two major free agents that spurned the team last summer. Wednesday’s game was the perfect time to reprise the classic ‘Red Wings […]
The Book On: Damien Brunner
In a way, Damien Brunner owes his shootout career to Pavel Datsyuk, Valtteri Filppula, Henrik Zetterberg and Sergei Bobrovsky. If one of Brunner’s teammates had scored on Sergei Bobrovsky back on January 21, 2013, he may never had gotten a shot to prove what he could do. Fortunately, none of them did, forcing Mike Babcock […]
Does it make sense for the Detroit Red Wings to trade for the now-injured Stephen Weiss?
Now that Florida’s Stephen Weiss, premium chum for the fake trade waters, is out for the season due to wrist surgery, he’s fallen out of the public eye just enough so we can take a brief interlude from the James Mungro Memorial Award to talk about him. Before Weiss’s surgery, it was the Red Wings […]
