Does anyone know if Datsyuk has become a US citizen? The entry page to his site sure is patriotic, with US and Russian flags in the background. Site has video gallery and some interesting bio pages.
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About time someone got around to signing him. Sheesh. Congratulations, Manny! And good luck. We’ll be seeing you.
The Illitches have moved one of their chief executives over to head a team investigating two options: a new arena and renovations of JLA. Personally, I can’t imagine the Wings without the Joe so I hope they end up deciding to renovate. I don’t want to go to some fancy new arena with some corporate name and zero character. But that’s just me. The News has a story on this too but I can’t access it right now (”Server too busy”). Maybe you can.
I’ve been tagged by Christy to post five things about me that may be found to be weird.
1) I read. A lot. I’m currently reading a 1296-page history of the British Isles. For fun.
2) I like history. You know that’s weird, all you history haters.
3) I work landscaping/lawn maintenance and don’t smoke pot. That’s very weird, I’m told.
4) I played football and did Quiz Bowl in high school, as did a number of my fellow athlete friends. Ask the QB teams that utterly destroyed us in tournaments whether or not that combination is weird. The geeks…
5) I hate my alarm so much that I always wake up before it goes off so that I don’t have to hear it. Even when I’m getting up at 5:00 AM (for the most part).
I haven’t been following this conversation all that closely so I’m not sure who has done it and who hasn’t. I tag whoever’s not done it!
I found these pics in an undeveloped disposable camera. They are from the summer of 2003, when Sergei had his Enzo parked at a dealership for safe-keeping. And with Hasek coming back for his third tour, is it really beyond Holland to bring back Sergei? It won’t be next season, though, as Feds is making $6.08 million.
Interesting that the first hockey blogger to get their own NHL.com column is also a Wings fan. (fans of the 29 other teams can insert *evil laugh* here) Congratulations, Paul!
A2Y has a sober reflection on the Hasek deal up. He likes it. I’m still not a big fan of it.
Sure, it could be great. In a perfect world.
Hasek is going to go down with a groin injury. Does anyone really believe he won’t? The only question is when. Will it be 20 games into the season? Or will it come halfway? Say he pulls his groin in an All-Star Game shootout.
“So what?” you say, “They can always make a trade for a goalie, right?” Sure. Holland had a perfectly good goalie market this summer and couldn’t find it in himself to send a precious player from the inviolable roster in order to get it done. He’ll have to get over such sentimentality if he wants to swing a trade at the deadline.
Maybe Hasek’ll make it until after the trade deadline and injure it in a meaningless game after he’s already locked up the Vezina and the Wings have locked up the Conference if not the League. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?
It could happen at any time, early or late in the season.
We’ve seen Dom go through both early and late (well, mid-season) groin injuries and he made it back from neither. Maybe this time will be different. Maybe not.
Will it have been worth it if Hasek carries the team to the best record once again but hurts his groin down the stretch and misses the playoffs? Maybe, if you’re satisfied with another President’s Trophy.
If Hasek’s ready for the playoffs, great. In that case, the Wings could go all the way. But they ought to lock him in a cryogenic chamber between now and the end of March, 2007 or else they could be stuck with *gasp* Chris Osgood (horror of horrors!) and end up right back where we were before yesterday when Hasek was still a UFA. Where’s the gain in that? My point here is, if that’s what ends up happening, we’d have been just as well off going with Osgood all along and saving the $750,000 for, say, a forward.
Maybe they should have signed Dom mid-season a la Steve Thomas. My concern is that the healthy Dom will be wasted on the regular season, which no self-respecting Wings fan gives a squat for any more.
I fully expect Hasek to be excellent. He proved last year that he still can be great. But I don’t want Vezina Trophy candidate Dom. I want Conn Smythe candidate Dom and you’ll have to forgive me if his last tour in Detroit put a damper on my hopes for seeing that.
If Hasek end up being healthy all season and through a lengthy (if not successful) playoff run, I will look back favorably on this move. That is an enormous if, however.
