Wednesday Morning Coffee- Back In The Village...

we posted at the exact same time!!

Makes me want to punt kittens. He’s that bad.

Nice article as always, but one comment stood out:

“If you don’t want us to have these ideas, these conspiracy theories, then make some sort of standard in the NHL for the officiating, for the games, so we don’t have to resort to saying someone’s out to get us,” said South Lyons’ Robert Masters, 23, who has his own Wings blog, etchedincold.blogspot.com.

Sounds kind of familiar to what I said a while back in my ‘C is for…’ article. Of course he follows with this:
“I believe the NHL has its own interests besides individual markets,” he said. "They’re trying to look out for the big picture. They want parity.

“What’s the best way to get parity in the league than taking out the biggest dynasty. It makes sense a little bit.”

I don’t get the outrage about the disallowed goal though. When you look at Daniel’s disallowed goal, and use that as a watermark, there’s no possible way that goal is gonna stand. Yeah it sucks when it happens to your team, but that wasn’t even close.

THIS

I would like to thank Detroit and their fans for taking the conspiracy theorist heat off of Vancouver’s head and wearing it as proudly as a cabbie with an “I Survived a Patty Kane Fare” tee-shirt… Thank you Detroit fans for being even more sanctimonious and bitter than Vancouver media. Thank you Detroit fans for having a bigger and more misguided sense of entitlement than anyone. Even bigger than ours was last year. Maybe even bigger than Chicago’s this year.

Newton: Herc! Herc! The refs are out to get us! We’re the biggest Dynasty since the Montreal Canadiens … no no …. we ARE the biggest dynasty!!

Herc: You silly centaur, I think we just plain suck.

you said the other lines need to step up? I think what you meant was the third and fourth lines need to step up. Kesler’s line, despite Burrows struggling a little, has not only been helping to neutralize the Hawks top guys, but putting points on the board and be dangerous almost every shift, even shorthanded. Guys like Wellwood and Demo need to step up.

Burrows somewhat but as long as he’s still being aggressive on the forecheck, not taking penalties, and checking (after all, he’s paid like a checker), I dont mind it.
But the problem with the Canucks last year against Chi-town was that they were only getting production from their 1st and 2nd lines. And if the 1st line got shut down for a game (It happens, sometimes) and the 2nd line can’t carry the entire workload because its kind of slow or has to kill penalties all the time (Mats Sundin, Ryan Kesler), then the Canucks are in trouble. Bernier is taking the Death to Scoring chances moniker from Taylor Pyatt. Wellfed needs to just play…better. More scoring, if he can manage it. Other than that, no other obvious deficiencies besides our defense, of course. I miss Mitch and Trev. Trev turned it on during the playoffs.