Earlier tonight, the Board of Governor’s meeting made a decision about next season’s conference alignment. For years, the Red Wings have hoped to moved into the Eastern Conference, playing more games within their own time zone and preventing their fans from staying up until 1am watching games out west. With the Atlanta Thrashers moving North […]

Well, this is certainly interesting. MLive broke the news late last night after the game, but it appears that the Detroit Red Wings are in line to host one of the next two Winter Classics (New York City is the other). But, as Ansar Khan reasons, with the Rangers playing in this year’s Classic (in […]

Click to enlarge. Last week’s gradient is here. Notes: Filppula has moved up. His play in the past two games has been great, and is probably the most impressive forward we have right now (vying with Franzen and Datsyuk for that spot). Emmerton is making little mistakes and not making up for them with anything […]

Click to enlarge. Last week’s gradient is here. Notes: Again, only Petrella and my votes are in at the moment, check back later to see if either of the other guys input their votes. Updated with Hollis’s scores at 2:30 pm EST. Thursday’s game against the Sharks doesn’t have much weight on the votes, since […]

I went to bed last night like many of you reading this right now did: pissed off, dejected, completely over “it”. The “it” of course being this iteration of the Detroit Red Wings, a team with talent up and down the lineup, but sub-par results to show for it. I didn’t bother to read the […]

Click to enlarge. Here’s last week’s gradient. Notes: Petrella and I are the only votes here, and his votes did not reflect last night’s game. Hollis got his scores in this morning,  so I’ve updated the gradient at 6:45 ET to reflect that. Zetterberg and Datsyuk have crept farther up the Failure axis. They are […]

When the Wings played the Oilers on Friday night, an odd thing happened (or, at least, it would have been an odd thing if the Wings could figure out how to count to five this season). The home team was called for too many men, a bench penalty that isn’t necessarily assessed to any one […]

CLICK to enlarge. Here’s the last gradient. Notes: We have a very distinct cluster of players right around 2. Those guys have been playing their ass off and it shows. Lidstrom is back to near perfect. Where he belongs. Other than Zetterberg’s goal in the Ducks game, we don’t feel as if Datsyuk and Zetterberg […]

When I moved into my current residence last year, our landlord was busy showing us all of the great features of the house when I happened upon a large, raised planting bed on the front patio. Prior to that point, there’s nothing in my history to indicate that I would be a prime candidate for […]

During the vicious rout at the hands of the Washington Capitals, Matt Saler from On The Wings coined the term “gradients of failure,” specifically in reference to performance on the power play. The term was too good to languish in Twitter archives. After some discussion and development, and a lot of time with Photoshop, we’re […]