Category Archives: Detroit Red Wings

Red Wings Fly Into New Season

Posted on October 8, 2014 by

Perhaps the headline is more wishful thinking than reality. The Red Wings preseason was not kind to the team. Out of eight games, only three were winners. Three other games were regulation losses and then there was one OT loss … Continue reading →

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Homo Homer

Posted on April 17, 2014 by

Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want April. The cruelest month. Mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with Spring rain. How do we put this? There just wasn’t a whole lotta Captastical in “America’s Hockey Capital” this season…even … Continue reading →

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Red Wings, Frozen Tide Weekend Hockeypoolza

Posted on January 23, 2014 by

Martin Luther King Day weekend was excellent for live hockey consumption for me. Not only did I get to see my Red Wings in action against the Rangers at MSG, I also went south to catch the annual Iron Cup … Continue reading →

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Winter Cluster

Posted on January 7, 2014 by

Don’t buy in the hype the media lays on with a trowel about the Winter Classic. They love their precious narrative about a boy’s love of the game in its purest form, but they have no clue. They are firmly … Continue reading →

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Winter Classic Fan Zone: FUN ZONE!

Posted on December 30, 2013 by

Rough Trade™ As part of our Whirlwind Winter Classic Vacation™, we had to check out the Coke Zero™ Fan Zone™ at the Sirius/XM™ Hockeytown Winter Festival™ on Saturday. (Pretty much everything in that last sentence is trademarked except the word … Continue reading →

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Are The Red Wings Ready for a Classic?

Posted on December 29, 2013 by

It’s a rough season to be a Detroit Red Wings fan. On Monday the season is half over for the Wings as they play at Nashville. It’s tough to say how they’ll fare in Nashville. They lost to them earlier in … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the East!

Posted on September 16, 2013 by

September is much grander this year than last as there was nothing stopping the NHL getting underway. The season started Monday night for me as my two favorite teams, the Detroit Red Wings and the Pittsburgh Penguins, meet up for … Continue reading →

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Bracket Troubles

Posted on June 13, 2013 by

I don’t do well at brackets. I have enough sense to stay away from the NCAA basketball bracket madness. I do torture myself though playing the NHL Stanley Cup bracket challenge. This year was particularly bad. I know the playoffs … Continue reading →

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Round 2 Preview: Hawks v. Wings

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

The regular season has come and gone, as has the first round of the playoffs. Since dead week/finals week/Breaking Bad prevented me from doing an end of the year wrap-up or a playoff preview, here’s a first round wrap-up of … Continue reading →

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Get’cha Head In the Game

Posted on April 21, 2013 by

Here we are, coming to the end of a truncated NHL season. I should’ve written far more by now—a season preview, some quips of how the Red Wings are doing when they play the same night Glee airs, various write-ups … Continue reading →

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