Hockey

Game #4 – Oilers vs. Hawks Spotlight: Now We’ll Find Out Where Ken Holland Was Born

By Sam Fels October 14, 2019 0

Due to the decade-plus-long streak of Red Wings exceptionalism, it was just a given that Ken Holland was a genius who prolonged the mid-90s dominance constructed by Jimmy Devellano by unearthing gems like Nicklas Lidstrom and Niklas Kronwall and Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg. And yeah, that’s quite a foursome to back up the free-spending […]

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Ladies And Gentlemen…The Edmonton Oilers

By Sam Fels May 8, 2019 0

To try and add to this would be the definition of overwriting, overthinking, overdoing the story, but that’s what we do around here. Ever since the rumors started over the weekend that the Oilers brass has backed up an armored truck or six to the door of Ken Holland, and then it came to fruition, […]

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Game #61 – Hawks vs. Red Wings Spotlight: It’s Hard To Leave When You Can’t Find The Door

By Sam Fels February 20, 2019 0

It almost seems to perfect. You wonder if Ken Holland even sees it coming. He has to, right? Maybe it was always the plan (not a process). But Steve Yzerman resigned as GM of the Lightning, right before the Wings rebuild is supposed to pivot. They’ll likely have yet another top-five pick to play with. […]

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Game #61 – Hawks vs. Red Wings Q&A: It’s Still Kyle

By Sam Fels February 20, 2019 0

Kyle has been the editor over at WingingItInMotown.com as long as we’ve been doing this, which means he hasn’t gotten any more of a life than we have. And we thank him for that. Follow him on Twitter @KyleWIIM. Anyway, this is the Q&A we did with him like, last week when the Wings were […]

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Game #56 – Red Wings vs. Hawks Spotlight: Dylan Larkin Finally Points The Way

By Sam Fels February 10, 2019 0

We can thank Dylan Larkin for one thing. And that’s putting end to the always-horseshit “The Red Wings Let Their Prospects Overmarinate” myth. The hockey media peddled that fucking thing for like a decade, and it eventually turned out that the reason they did all that is their prospects were middling at best, fuckwits at […]

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Game #56 – Red Wings vs. Hawks Q&A: Kyle From WIIM, Who Like Us Won’t Grow Up

By Sam Fels February 10, 2019 0

Kyle has been the editor over at WingingItInMotown.com as long as we’ve been doing this, which means he hasn’t gotten any more of a life than we have. And we thank him for that. Follow him on Twitter @KyleWIIM. Well, the Red Wings seem to get how this whole tank/rebuild thing is supposed to go, […]

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Game #49 – Hawks vs. Red Wings Spotlight: Andreas Athanasiou…They Couldn’t Wait Another Day…

By Sam Fels January 25, 2018 0

You’ve probably heard all the complaints and conspiracy theories about baseball’s offseason. Be it tanking teams, teams that are only “tanking,” collusion, analytic front offices, whatever the cause you might think has led to everyone being quite bored. But if anyone actually paid attention to hockey, or if the players had a union worth a […]

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Game #49 – Hawks vs. Red Wings Q&A: Our Q&A With JJ From Last Week, Because We’re Not Talking To Wings Fans Twice

By Sam Fels January 25, 2018 0

Not that much has changed since the Hawks laid an egg against the Wings 10 days ago. So here’s what we asked JJ From Kansas then.  You can follow him on Twitter @JJFromKansas and read his work on WingingItFromMowtown.com, if you really feel the need to mentally injure yourself.  Let’s start here: The Wings are […]

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Your Friends And Neighbors – NHL Team Previews: HAHAHAHAHAHA!

By September 7, 2017

I’ll let you in on a little secret. There was a massive brawl here at the Lab over who got to do the Detroit Red Wings preview. After all the shit we had to eat for a decade or more from this Packers fanbase-gone-wrong, and even with all the depression daily life brings these days, […]