4/27/2014

SEASON'S END


The Boston Bruins beat Detroit 4-2 in Game 5 to win the series 4-1

Detroit weren't able to fend off the Bruins in Game 5 and the season is over.

However...

"The sated day is never first.
The best day is a day of thirst.
Yes, there is goal and meaning in our path -
but it's the way that is the labour's worth.
The best goal is a night-long rest,
fire lit, and bread broken in haste.
In places where one sleeps but once,
sleep is secure, dreams full of songs.
Strike camp, strike camp! The new day shows its light.
Our great adventure has no end in sight."

- Karin Boye (translated by David McDuff)

...I am already looking forward to next season and a chance at a 24th straight playoff.

4/24/2014

OH CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN

The Detroit Red Wings hope to get a welcome boost tonight against Boston when their captain, Henrik Zetterberg, returns to action after missing the last two months due to back surgery. The Wings are down 2-1 to the President's Trophy winners and can sure use the help. The Detroit youngsters have been excellent down the stretch of the regular season but, in the last two games they have struggled against the juggernaut that is the Boston Bruins. It remains to be seen if Zetterberg is fit to play. His playoff beard certainly is.


4/17/2014

34 YEARS OF BEARD

During the 1980 Stanley Cup playoffs, Ken Morrow, Clark Gillies and a few other of the New York Islanders let their beards grow and wouldn't shave until their cup run had ended. That year, and for the next four seasons, they would be Stanley Cup champions. During that span they won an incomprehensible 19 straight playoff rounds (still a record today).

Though their decision to let the fuzz grow didn't create much reaction at the time, it has since become a tradition. So let's make this Throwback Thursday with a picture from the Islanders glory days...


4/15/2014

BEST OF THE YEAR

Some season highlights...


With all the injuries the Red Wings suffered this season it's nothing short of spectacular what the team pulled off. Making the playoffs for the 23rd straight year with a roster consisting mostly of young players from The Grand Rapid Griffins.

“We have a lot of young kids, and they just play,” Holland said. “They make some mistakes. They don’t really look at the scoreboard, which is a good thing and a bad thing. When you are up by a couple, you wish we would play a little safer. But the reason that they are fun to watch is, they just play.”

I also think Mike Babcock deserves to win the Jack Adams award for coach of the year. He was forced to completely reshape the way Detroit plays the game to suit this young and inexperienced team. And the result speaks for it self.


4/14/2014

4/12/2014

23RD STRAIGHT

Just a bunch of kids, but they pulled it off.

Even though the Detroit Red Wings lost in a shootout against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the point they earned was all they needed to secure a playoff berth. The 23rd straight. The Wings haven't missed the playoffs since the 1989-90 season. It is the longest active playoff streak of any of the four North American major professional sports leagues (NHL, NFL, NBA, MLB).
The Boston Bruins hold the record for the longest playoff streak in franchise history making the cut from 1967-68 through to 1995-96 (29 seasons). So only six more seasons to go...






4/10/2014

TREVOR'S BACK

Will the first order of business be to bring back the jersey? Let's hope so.