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NIGHT STARTS NOW BABY ROLL WITH US It is, in fact, October yet. After a horrifically long off-season — one that saw Red Wings fans have to say goodbye to Chris Osgood, Kris Draper, Mike Modano, and Brian Rafalski; and say goodbye in a much more permanent way to Ruslan Salei, Brad McCrimmon, and Stefan […]
Hockey is back, and although it’s only preseason hockey, that’s as good of a reason as any to dust off the cynicism and overanalyze the hell out of the 3-2 Wings loss to the Penguins last night. OK, I’m not ACTUALLY going to overanalyze anything because – as we mentioned – this was just a […]
There will be no parade up Woodward this summer. The Red Wings were eliminated in seven games by the Pacific Division champion San Jose Sharks. We’ll have a full postmortem up in the coming weeks and months, as we dissect everything that was the Red Wings’ brilliant season. But right now, it’s time for reflection. […]
TONIGHT, TONIGHT, TONIGHT Game 7. Here we are. Much has been said about what the Red Wings are on the brink of, but I don’t think any of that’s relevant. Our boys don’t have to win four straight games anymore. They only need to win once — tonight, in San Jose. I haven’t made up […]
The triumvirate of The Production Line gentlemen are out of pocket at the moment, so there won’t be any analysis yet again (and for that, we apologize). But your Detroit Red Wings have forced a seventh game against the San Jose Sharks. I’ll spare you the bullshit statistics and won’t bore you with the minutiae about the […]
Final Red Wings 4 Sharks 3 Sharks lead the series 3-2. Thoughts When these playoffs opened, Mike Babcock laid out the phrase “Race to Four” when describing how the Red Wings would approach each series. If that mantra carried over to this series against the Sharks, then the Red Wings are playing the part of […]
WHAT’S ALL THIS THEN?! Game 5. Win or go home. The Wings have survived one elimination scare, and the next test comes tonight in SanJo. We’ve been in this situation before, with this entire series feeling like the five gamer we had with the Sharks last season. The Wings will look to finally break the […]
(Ed. Note: With all of Team TPL travelling, there’s no analysis tonight. Just enjoy the fact the Wings will play another day and enjoy a tall, stiff drink wherever you may be.) Final Red Wings 4 Sharks 3 Sharks lead the series 3-1. Thoughts See you Sunday.
WHAT’S ALL THIS THEN?! Game 4. Win or go home. Which is only a short car drive away for the Red Wings, but it’s still home. Personally, I’ve set up shop in the California Bay Area in order to inflict the maximum amount of pain and suffering on myself should the season wrap up tonight. […]
WHAT’S ALL THIS THEN?! Wings and Sharks. Game 3. As we mentioned during the podcast, who better than Billy Oce………………….. Fuck it. Dire times call for dire measures, and this is the dreaded MUST WIN situation. We all know how Game 3 against the Sharks turned out last year and TPL is committed to doing […]