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On a passé une partie de la soirée sur le site Abel to Yzerman hier soir. Ainsi, on a pensé vous faire partager quelques bons moments de la soirée.

7:43 -Matt: Heh, the O’Byrne gaffe makes Lilja/Sammy/[enter goat name here] look like HHOF first balloters…

7:46 -Alzy: someone shut up McGuire. PLEASE?! Anyone?

7:47 -Andrew: Habs aren’t really fighting for it in the neutral zone, but they’re doing well limiting chances.  They’re making every Wings line look like a forechecking/energy line.

8:03 - Gabriel: we’re looking better than last game.- Of course we are. It’s the first period. By the third we’re going to look like the Mighty Ducks before Emilio Estevez shows up.

8:19 - Gabriel: Alright…intermission ethical question: Is it wrong to hope you can drink enough to lower your immune system and catch a cold just so you don’t have to do Thanksgiving with the inlaws?

8:28 - HockeyJoe: Bobby Clarke lending “Insight” during the intermission is the most unintentionally funny thing on television.

8:54 - Andrew: Listen to that– the 8,000 Habs fans at the Joe are chanting “Gary, Gary…” They know which side their bread is buttered on too.

And there’s 3-0.  For *#$%@&’s sake.

8:59 -Alzy: (Faché contre ses Wings) They know they won the Cup. But this team seems to expect everyone else to bow at their feet.

9:07 -Hockeyjoe: The Wings need a cranial-rectal inversion delivered by Uncle Mike between periods.

9:41 -Mudshark: How come Price has had plenty of meltdowns this year, but against us he’s playing like Ken Dryden?

Because we’re playing like the 1977 Boston Bruins.

9:46 -Andrew: Mule.  That was…jaw-dropping.  How the hell are we gonna keep him?

10:01 -VooX: Pure class at JLA as TSN shows Wings fans shaking hands with Habs fans on the way out the door.  Now that hand smells like stale cigarettes, too bad.

10:02 -Gabriel: I can’t believe the Wings had the nerve to actually lose a game in regulation this season. What the hell are they thinking?

Fire Kenny. Fire Babs. Trade Lidstrom, Dats and Z.

À SFC, on continue à s’intéresser à nos collègues de la blogosphère.

Cette fois-ci, en marge du match contre les champions de la Coupe Stanley, on s’intéresse au blogue Abel to Yzerman. Le ton et l’approche un peu trash de celui-ci nous plaît, c’est pour cette raison qu’on a voulu aller au fond des choses.

On a posé au blogueur Bill Houlihan quelques questions.

SFC: Since you’ve been blogging since 1977, how could you describe Jacques Demers’ value to the team?

A2Y: Yes, it’s been a long time.  And it’s been fun to watch the evolution of hockey blogs from ‘77 to now.  I think all of us remember Demers very fondly because he was, in a very significant way, responsible for the resurgence of hockey in Detroit.  Of course, having a guy named Yzerman with him didn’t hurt.  That heavy French accent confused most of us, but he still made more sense than Mike Babcock does.
 

SFC: Tell me more about The Enigma (Robert Lang). Is he the best looking hockey player Detroit ever enjoyed?

A2Y: Without question, The Enigma is the most handsome man to ever play hockey in Detroit.  And he made sure everyone knew it every night.  Straight out of a Warren Zevon song.  Smiling Bobby Lang was 0 for 858 in defensive zone faceoffs while in Detroit, but his hair was perfect every shift. 
 

SFC: Is Marian Hossa a real Red Wings?

A2Y: Marian Hossa could be elected mayor of Detroit today.  Then again, qualifications for that job are not necessarily high.  Yes, he’s a real Wing because he sacrificed all that cash because he wanted to win a Cup. Red Wing players have been doing that for years.  It was common practice, before Gary Bettman ruined the league and many of our lives, for Wing players to re-structure their contracts, to take less money in order to play in Detroit.  Hossa’s move was similar.  Hossa, even if he doesn’t stay past one year, will always be popular in Hockeytown.
 

SFC: You seem to think Mike Babcock has a “syntax problem”, as many Montreal players and journalists do. Is it because there’s so many swedes on the team, is he creating a new language?

A2Y: Most of the Swedes, with the exception of Holmstrom, speak better english than Babcock.  It’s because he’s so smart.  He’s thinking three and four sentences ahead of the one that’s actually leaving his mouth. So he’s not really into finishing them all.  He kind of leaves you hanging, like…”Homer’s back is killing him, we’re going to have to…Conklin wears 29 because over the summer I caught 29 perch in two days and then we’re going to put Hudler on the first power play unit.”

SFC: Claude Lemieux may make an NHL comeback. Could you forgive him?

A2Y: Yes. I forgive him.  I forgive him because the image of him in the fetal position getting pummeled by Darren McCarty at Joe Louis arena is still the poster my children gather ’round to sing Christmas Carols to every year.  It’s brought us all so much joy.  Now, if he plays for San Jose?  Beating them will be that much sweeter.  Lemieux’s the gift that never stops giving. 
 

SFC: Which team do the Red Wings’ fans hate the most?

A2Y: Good question.  Hate is such a harsh term. And I love it so.  We despise Anaheim.  Hate them? Yes.  Chris Pronger is not a popular man in our schools.  Our children are taught that he’s evil, which he is.  In fact, most of our second graders are ahead of Pronger, developmentally.  Few things would be sweeter than meeting the poultry in the conference finals and exacting revenge. 

Oh, and we also hate Colorado because it’s a law in Michigan.

Je vous invite à lire attentivement le glossaire. Un compte-rendu intéressant de la culture des partisans de Hockeytown.

Puisque le CH affronte les champions de la Coupe Stanley ce soir, nous vous proposons quelques liens qui pourraient nous en dire plus sur ces premiers de classe.

Un peu d’espionnage industriel pour supporteurs question de voir comment ça marche à Hockeytown.

Ingrédient #1: Développer le talent. Exemple: Johan Franzen, “The Mule”.

Franzen was basically banished to bandy after getting suspended from hockey for 10 months following a run-in with an official.

“I accidentally touched a referee,” Franzen said. “He went down. There were no cameras or anything. He stopped in front of me. I didn’t stop. I was a kid doing a stupid thing. I was 18, I think. I guess I didn’t see him.”

Assistant general manager Jim Nill, who is in charge of the Red Wings’ draft, said the suspension didn’t factor into their decision when they selected Franzen in the third round, 97th overall, in 2004.

“That was never an issue with us,” Nill said. “We talked with people. We knew he was a character person.”

Ingrédient #2: Faire de bons achats. Exemple: Marian Hossa.

He has been their best player so far, dominating at both ends of the ice. He’s dangerous with the puck because he can shoot and pass with equal deftness. He forechecks, backchecks — and paid the check after a recent team dinner in Vancouver […]

Ingrédient #3: Cent fois sur le métier… Exemple: Mike Babcock.

“The West is good, it’s going to be tough, it’s going to be tight. I would have liked to have gotten to 15 (wins), but 32 points at this point is a good effort. I thought our defensive play has been better since that Pittsburgh game where we had the meltdown (7-6 overtime loss on Nov. 11). Like most teams, we’re a work in progress.”

Finalement, Ingrédient #4: Bien manger. Exemple: Chris Chelios