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Detroit Red Wings
Recap of the 2009-2010 Season: The 2009-10 season was not very kind to the Red Wings fans. The injury bug bite us hard. The one game I attended this past season we had 7 regulars out of the line up. Several games during the season we were missing 9 regulars.
Miraculously we were healthy following the Olympic break. Managing to cruise into the playoffs, and sneak into fifth place in the Western Conference. After a nail biting 7 game series against the Coyotes, we lost in 5 games to the Sharks.
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Located at: Joe Louis Arena
General Manager: Ken Holland
Coach: Mike Babcock
Team Captain: Nick Lidstrom
Players Everyone Should Love:
Nick Lidstrom: Called “The Perfect Human” by teammates, Nick is 40 years old now. He looked a little bit off at the beginning of the season but by the second half he had returned to form. He’s quite good looking for a man old enough to be my father.
Pavel Datsyuk: He can stick handle inside of a phone booth.
He’s finally starting to get more comfortable with his English. He’s actually done a commercial for the local Fox Sports station, and he is hilarious.
Tomas Holmstrom: Tomas Holmstrom is known around the league for driving goalies crazy. But we love him in Detroit, even though his skating is not that great.
Going into his 14th year with the team, Homer still mangles the English language all the time. His claim to fame on the team is speaking Swinglish. He’ll be asked a question in English, and respond in Swedish or respond in both languages together. Even his Swedish teammates don’t understand him half the time. All of his teammates tease him for his language issues forcing him to make speeches.
Jimmy Howard: I’m somewhat biased on this one. I watched Jimmy play in Grand Rapids the four previous seasons, and he was my favorite player. Coming into the season the coaching staff hoped Jimmy would start 30 games. After the first few games, most fans were hoping he would only start 3- the ones he’d already started. In November, after the first rash of injuries Jimmy took over, keeping us somewhat close to the rest of the West until the team was healthy. Jimmy ended up playing 63 games, and was nominated for the Calder.
Valterri Filppula: He dressed up as a pimp for Halloween while he was playing for Grand Rapids. And he’s gorgeous.
Patrick Eaves, Henrik Zetterberg and Mike Modano: They are all gorgeous.
Who We Don’t Love: I love them all, but if I have to choose
Derek Meech: He drives me crazy sometimes. He a defenseman that plays swingman. Some nights he’s a defenseman that makes stupid plays, and other nights he’s a forward that tries for a wrap around any time he gets a chance. And then occasionally he surprises me and plays well. I will probably always blame him as the reason we lost Kyle Quincey, because 2 years later I’m still bitter about losing him.
Todd Bertuzzi: Todd made a very stupid decision in the past. And is prone to taking dumb penalties. He looks like a thug in the video of what they look forward to during Christmas time.
And his poster is quite lovely as well “Kids N Wife”
Who We Got: Ruslan Salei, Jiri Hudler (he’s back from Russia a year early.) Mike Modano! Ilari Filppula, Valterri’s big brother.
Nick Lidstrom- there were a lot of rumors that he was going to retire. And Chris Chelios-he did retire, and now is a part of the front office is a position yet to be determined.
Who We Lost: Andreas Lilja, Jason Williams, Brett Lebda, Kirk Maltby? And Steve Yzerman.
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Hotness Level: 8 The Wings are getting younger every year. And our oldest players are quite good looking for guys old enough to be my father.
