NHL 2011-12 Season
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Nice to see the team of Ken Daniels and Mickey Redmond (Fox Sports Detroit) calling the game on NHL Network. Where else can you hear comments about wearing underwear inside-out during an extended roadtrip.Plus, all that honest, accurate, no-holds commentary.
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Absolutely. The Wings go for #20 against the Flyers this evening on NBCSN (aka Versus).
Wow! The Rangers are still on fire! Can they keep-it-up going into the Stanley Cup playoffs? We shall see...
Wings tie the 1929-30 Boston Bruins and the 1975-76 Philadelphia Flyers with their 20th consecutive home win with a 4-3 victory over the Flyers this evening.
20 straight home wins is huge. I wonder though if they counted the ties from the Bruins and Flyers in their numbers since there was not a shoot out during those years. If not Wings would not have tied either since a game or two of theirs in the 20 wins came from a shoot out win and in the old rules would have been just a tie and both teams would have received a point.
They had 2 Home ties, but they were not during the streak.
They ended the year with thier 20 straight, going into the playoffs.
They went 36-2-2.
Into the playoffs, they won thier first round winning at home and losing on the road, won series 4-3, next round they lost thier 1st home game and won the second in OT. Then lost 4 straight in the finals ...
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Red Wings so far this year if you count anything into OT as a Tie, the Red Wings home record is a very respectable 19-1-6
Flyers were 36-2-2
Wings so far 19-1-6
So the Wings record is great and I would love my team to have that record but it is not as impressive as the previous record holder then. The Wings have 3 games that would have been marked as a tie and would have killed the streak during their last 20 home wins. 11 home wins would have been the largest streak for the wings this year. Again a great accomplishment for the Wings but not as impressive.
Well, that question is valid for every team...but when you are 36-13-5 after 54 games, it's not a question of 'on fire' anymore. It's just a team playing well.
Can they keep it up in the playoffs? All the ingredients are there except the power play. Last year Ryan Callahan broke his foot at the end of the regular season, and that was it. Hopefully that kind of injury doesn't happen again.
Sandra
JAG72 said:
I'm fine with ties during the regular season. The SO win would be much more palatable if they didn't award a point to the loser. "I win, you tie, we both win!" Sounds a lot like outcome-based education, which is why you really have to suck in order to have a sub .500 record in the NHL.
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SandraC said:
My point is even the best teams suffer through a dry-spell when things aren't quite clicking (injuries, hot netminding, just can't buy a goal, etc.)...the Rangers haven't faltered yet from what I have seen. Very few teams dominate from start to finish.
Regardless, this year's Stanley Cup playoffs should be a humdinger!
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Jimbo said:
Dammit Jim!
I thought you said Home Fries and Steak...I must be getting hungry, and tired of eating rabbit food.
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Well, as a Ranger fan I'm conditioned to think there is a very good chance that dry spell will come during the second half of April...
Sandra
Thats pretty much what I was pointing out.
That said, the Wings had, like you said an 11 game streak and then started right up with another 9 game and counting streak !
Dammit Jim!
I thought you said Home Fries and Steak...I must be getting hungry, and tired of eating rabbit food.
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I think injuries will tell the tale and how well they play thru them ....
No teams are truly injury free, hockey players just play thru it more than alot of other sports.
I gotta love the Playoff injury reports, Upper Body Injury or a Lower Body Injury .... thats it !
They are currently only on a 1 game streak if you don't include shoot outs. Before that shoot out they only had 2 wins since the last shoot out victory.
