Power Play Needs to be Kronwalled

Saw this, made me puke a little.  All that talent.

Red Wings Power Play

Even when the Wings were fully healthy, Detroit's power play was...well...a turd out there. 
Babcock knows this.  He's aware.  What's frustrating is nothing has changed for him all season long, even when his Wings were flying high with the home-winning streak.

They skate through their own zone and central ice with no sense of urgency.  Players stand on the blue line, waiting, looking at the puck as if there is no plan to enter the zone--as if the defense is going to open up and let Zetterberg skate right in.  Stood up and shut down.  It reminds me of watching the 1995 Stanley Cup Finals against New Jersey.  All that talent.  All that talent and no way to utilize it.  Hell, why not just fire the puck in from their own net and send four skaters in chasing after it?  Icing maybe, but at least they wouldn't turn it over between the blue lines!

Detroit lost to Philly on Tuesday 3-2.  They were 0-4 on the power play and gave up a short-handed goal.  Games should not be lost that way,   not in the midst of a close division and conference race.  The Blues are too good.  The Canucks are too good.  The Predators could be better than everybody. 

The Wings need to fire on all cylinders in order to keep pace for the top spot in the Central and the West.  Players will get healthy, the team will stabilize, but unless something changes with the special teams play, all that talent will merely glaze over any malfunctioning component...until the playoffs.

The power play needs a jump, a jolt, a Datsyuk, or perhaps a bone boiling blast from Kronwall.

Voracek got knocked back to the Czech Republic with that latest edition of Kronwalled!.  Good news with this hit: Kronner did not receive a suspension.  Bad news with this hit: the NHL has pooped in its own hat again.

Not from TSN

TSN's Bob McKenzie tweeted, to the dismay of Flyers fans, that the principal point of contact on the hit was to Voracek's stupid head, but it was a body-to-body check.  Huh?  I mean, that's true, but why state it like that?

Brendan Shannahan is doing the best he can to break down legal and illegal hits and deal out punishements when warranted, but the NHL is bungling the verbage of its own rules, and patience is thinning and tempers are flaring around the leage.  It was a clean hit.  The league deemed it a clean hit.  It's obvious that Kronwall didn't aim for Voracek's stupid head.  Voracek aimed his stupid head for Kronwall.

Any hockey player, and fan, knows: Hold your head up, boy! Hold your head up, boy! Hold your head up, boy! Hold your head high!



One of the Morons

 It concerns me that the league cannot come to a consensus on the rules--there is a lot at stake here.  The fans get in an uproar everytime a hit is declared dirty or clean.  Moronic anti-physicality morons feast on this controversy and use it in their war to "clean up the sport".  With concussions running rampant and NHL poster-dork Cindy Crosby continuously wearing wobble pants, the lines between fighting and hitting are succesfully being blurred by boobies who have no invested interest in the sport other than investing interest in themselves.

Clean hitting is part of hockey.  It's as much a fiber of the game as the ice that its played on, but if the NHL cannot draw a fine line with how they word its rules, the morons will win and the sport will pay the consequences.

Peace. AWP