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9:17am Vancouver time and the Wings are already up 2-0

Zadina finally contributes. Game winning goal as Wings survive a last-minute scramble to win 2-1

Wings fall 5-2 to Edmonton and have to wonder if the Wings will be part of the Bedard lottery after all.

Back at it...finally.

Has it really only been 10 days since the Red Wings last played? It feels like a month.

I think this year's protected 1st plus Zadina would have got it done. Raty was once a projected top 5 pick, then slid to mid 2nd round. Jury is out on him.

My uncles saw Hull and the Hawks win the Stanley Cup on Olympia ice in 1961.

Yep, an all-time great player, a lousy person by any standard.

Wings got blanked 2-0 last night. I believe the Islanders had lost 7 straight before that. Season over.

I think it's way too early to assume Kasper is part of our core. #8 overall picks are already getting into iffy territory. We drafted Zadina at #6 and Rasmussen at #9, what if Kasper is little better than them? What are the chances Kasper will ever be good as Horvat - 25%, 33%? Fun fact: Horvat has scored 31 goals already this year. Zadina has 25 career goals and Rasmussen career goals. Why do we think the Canucks would see much value in them. Let alone Veleno, McIsaac, etc.

I think it was also Rasmussen who had the shot blocked leading to the weird 2 on 0 right before the Wings winner. Dach and the other came in on Husso practically in single file with Dach looking behind him for the other guy

Fabbri scores in OT. Are we sure it wasn't offside?

Ex-Hab Chiarot clangs it off the post in OT. Still tied.

Wow, what an end to regulation. The Wings, on a penalty kill, risk a rush up the ice with 15 seconds to go. Habs rush back and Husso big save on a one-timer keeps the game tied.

Wings have been pushing for the win the past few minutes; 1 point would be unacceptable tonight. 3-3 with 5:07 to go.

Shouldn't need OT to beat San Jose at home, but I really can't complain about a win. I really like Horvat and would pay a pretty high price for him. Including Kaspar. Or this year's first. Certainly Cossa. Good point about the skewed G-A ratio, which would suggest he plays more like a winger but I don't think the case.

Kasper was a #8 overall pick. I'd have no hesitation including him in a deal for Horvat. Would depend on the overall deal of course.

This was the cover of Sports Illustrated the week the Lions last won the NFL championship. https://vault.si.com/vault/1958/01/06/all-hail-the-lusty-lions It was the last Sunday of 1957, but despite the season it was an absolutely perfect day to play football. The sun was shining, the air was almost balmy and the seams of Briggs Stadium in Detroit were near to bursting with the 55,263 people who were willing to pay up to $10 apiece to watch their home-town Lions play the Cleveland Browns for the national professional football championship. As these once shunned and unwanted Lions racked up touchdown after touchdown, it seemed that Briggs Stadium could hardly contain the civic joy, but that is getting ahead of the story.... Two days earlier on a cold, blowy midnight, a line of people on Michigan Avenue in downtown Detroit stretched off into the darkness. One man was wrapped in an old multicolored quilt and another had a brown Army blanket draped tastefully over his shoulders. It was a good-natured line, and when a radio announcer asked the man in the quilt if he thought the Lions had a chance to win the following Sunday, the man said at the top of his voice, "We'll kill the Browns." The line cheered and continued to wait patiently to buy tickets to the game.... Governor G. Mennen Williams wired the commissioner of the National Football League and earnestly asked that the Lion-Brown championship game be put on television since it was a sellout. Bell refused (see page 22). Representative Thaddeus Machrowicz, of Detroit, wired the commissioner and pleaded passionately that the game be put on television. Bell refused. A filling station operator spent $200 to have an outsize aerial put on his service station and entertained his customers with the telecast of the game, picked up from 75 miles away; he too watched and didn't sell any gas.... That was Detroit before the Lions entertained the Browns. Like San Francisco the week before, when the Lions played the 49ers for the right to be in the championship game, Detroit was a hysterical city. Quarterback Tobin Rote was bigger than General Motors. Coach George Wilson was more important than the new Fords and Chryslers, and a ticket to the championship game was about as valuable as a Cadillac.... Detroit has always liked professional football. Detroit is a lusty, thriving, vigorous city and it has found a soul mate in the lusty, thriving, vigorous game. This year's Detroit Lions have endeared themselves to Detroit for a number of reasons, some of them logical. Maybe the biggest reason was the innate American love of the underdog; the Lions fulfilled the role of underdog to a T. They, started the season by losing a coach. Buddy Parker, the moody, intense man who had guided the club to two world championships, announced as the season was about to begin: "I have a situation here I cannot handle. This is the worst team in training camp I have ever seen. The material is all right, but the team is dead. I don't want to get involved in another losing season, so I'm leaving Detroit football. I'm leaving tonight." He said this at a Detroit Lions boosters banquet, then stepped down from the podium and left. So the Lions had one big strike against them, and quite a few football fans figured the second strike followed immediately when the club named George Wilson as head coach to replace Parker.

I actually feel better about his chances after this vid.

Winging It In Motown is on the ropes, as are most other SB Nation hockey sites. https://twitter.com/wingingitmotown/status/1616468627196186626?s=61&t=UKC2zn5uChGmq0uhL69xrA

Mickey Mouse couple of weeks in the Canucks organization. Finally officially put Boudreau out of his misery today. Jim Rutherford finally got his man, Rick Tocchet. Is he even any good?

Sure like Raymond was about to tie it with 5 seconds to go. The goalie's pad was half in the net behind the line, so if Raymond had shot it a few inches to the left the pad "save" would have counted as a goal. But should have never had come to that. The Wings seem to be way too inconsistent to make a legit run at a playoff spot.

Wings have been flat all night. 2-1 now with 40 seconds to go