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PUCK DADDY, who is still number-one in the business, dug up all of the responses from Red Wang Nation in regards to a recent Buccigross column that says Zetterberg and Datsyuk, gasp, are past their primes.
Go here to check out the actually Bucci column.
Here is George Malik's whinefest.
Red Wings fans, aside from a couple of level-headed people, can't believe that an analyst thinks the Wings "dynasty" is done. Bucci gave truckloads of corroborating proof that the NHL is a young man's game; that players will put up their seasonal career highs before they reach at least 30 years of age. The two most dynamic players on the Wings roster, Zett and Dats, are 29 and 31, respectively.
Couple that with Nick Lidstrom reaching the end of his road, the ever-shaky situation in the Detroit net, a serious injury and subsequent surgery to the ever-fragile Johan Franzen, and the revitalized Central Division, the case is there that the Red Wings aren't the "powerhouse" anymore that their fans have gotten so used to. But most Wings fans and Malik-esque fanboys refuse to acknowledge this.
Let's face it: going into the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals, the Red Wings were an intimidating force. The Pens hadn't seen anything like it during the season, and it was the Red Wings' year, anyway. In the 2009 Finals, the Pens were ready, and the rest is history. The Pens were one year older yet still so much younger than the Red Wings. The microcosm of the entire series came on Jordan Staal's shortie, when Brian Rafalski pretty much gave up on life.
Last year's Cup win was the changing of the guard, the passing of the torch, although the Red Wings fans themselves couldn't find a way to pass their AIDS to Pens fans. It wasn't so much a passing of the torch to the Penguns as it was a passing of the torch to a younger NHL.
If you think the Red Wings' fans' denial is sad, wait till you see the game-winning goal Chris Osgood gave up in Phoenix...
The Coyotes are now 6-2-0.
Those 12 points are leading the West Division.
"They might not even win a game this season. Man.
It will be one of the most meaningless seasons in the history of North American sports."
- Pensblog, September 30, 2009
In looking up the Coyotes' record, we were stunned by a few things we saw in the NHL standings:
-Team goals-per-game: Something is in the water in Alberta.
-Colorado...
-New Jersey is 4-0-0 on the road. They'll be at the Mellon Saturday night.
-Coyotes: 12 goals against. Jesus.
-Sabres: Stunned they're at the top of the Northeast. Only 14 GA, too.
-Toronto still hasn't won a game.
-Even with Scuds, the Kings are up there in goals against.
Boston and Philly wore their Winter Classic tuques during warm-ups Thursday night.
Go Pens.
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