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JJFromKansas: My name is J.J. and a I've been a Red Wings fan since Gary Thorne's dulcet tones sold me on a brilliant captain named Steve Yzerman and the brutal efficiency of five Russians showed me how beautiful a game hockey can be.  Despite not being fortunate enough to be born into Red Wings fandom, I've found a lot of great friends in the Red Wings' online fan community and am happy to be writing for Winging It In Motown as a home for my overly long comments. .

Amerinadian: I'm Graham, and I'm a guy born and raised in Toronto who discovered the Wings in the late '80s to the disappointment of my Maple Leaf-loving father. When I was 25, I decided I needed to put myself through more misery by moving to Chicago and immersing myself among Blackhawk fans. The Red Wings have a place in my heart bigger than almost anything, with the exception of my family and closest friends. 

JeffHancock41: I'm Jeff and I've been a Red Wings' fan since I can remember.  I was born and raised in southeast Michigan, but currently live and work on in Boston, MA.  The Red Wings will always be my first true love.  Steve Yzerman might be the greatest human being ever.  I'm still a Sergei Fedorov fan.  My dog's name is Shanny.  I'm the world's biggest Brendan Smith fan.

Stripe: My Name is Jason and I have been around hockey for most of my life at one level or another. I currently reside in Grand Rapids, MI with my wife, two daughters and Griffindog. I have been a Red Wings fan since Randy Ladoucer wore #19, but will admit to having a soft spot for the Oilers as well. I currently run www.griffinscentral.com a website primarily dedicated to Grand Rapids Griffins, current farm team of the Red Wings. I have been writing about hockey for the last ten years for a couple different sites most notably Red Wings Central. My favorite former Wing is Gerard Gallant closely followed by Chris Chelios.

Please Note: Everything posted on this blog is our personal opinion and absolutely does not represent the views of the Detroit Red Wings.


"Am I playing some of my best hockey? I hope not," Datsyuk said. "I think I'm playing somewhere in the middle. I hope to have more energy in my game. I have another level as I get older and get more experience. I can be better and I will."

Tim Wharnsby at CBC - Give the whole thing a read. Wharnsby, like many before him seems to struggle with explaining why Datsyuk is so good while staying complimentary, but the other players in the league are at no loss for words when it comes to talking about his skill and humility.

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NHL.com got Jimmy (along with others) to write a small blog during the All-Star weekend. Here's the first entry.

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A condensed pair of tweets from @ayronatthewings:

"humane society will win from me either way; whichever team raises the most wins from me a full set of the 6 bobbles from this season to give away to people who pledged to them. Cool?"

Here's how things will work with the bobbles. Get your pledges in!

The top pledger via The Production Line and the top pledger via Winging it in Motown will take home the Red Wings Bobblehead of their choice to go with their giant animal-loving hearts. The other four will be raffled off in a randomized drawing. For every $5 you donate to the cause (via our little shindig here) will get you an entry into a drawing.

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WIIM/TPL All-Star Fantasy Draft Challenge: Meet Team WIIM

So the draft is complete and here is your soon-to-be winning team. Head on over to The Production Line to check out their lineup as well.

THE FORWARDS

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Pavel Datsyuk


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Steven Stamkos


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Jarome Iginla


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Daniel Sedin


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Jason Spezza


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James Neal


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Phil Kessel


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Daniel Alfredsson


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Corey Perry


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Joffrey Lupul


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Scott Hartnell


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Milan Michalek


Meet the rest of the team below and get a breakdown of how the scoring will work.

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WIIM/TPL All-Star Draft Underway

We'll be dropping all the picks as they happen in the comments.

Graham picked first and of course he took Pavel Datsyuk.

Stay tuned for the rest.

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Coming Soon: The WIIM/TPL All-Star Challenge: Rematch

Editor's note: Post moved back to the top of the page. We're doing the draft today and will be live-tweeting/blogging the results. Don't forget to get your pledges in to benefit the Humane Society of Michigan. Stay tuned for the fun

As you'll remember from last year, we here at Winging It In Motown and the awesome gentlemen over at The Production Line got together with the mutual goal of making the All-Star weekend more exciting for people who just kind of wanted to see the regular season resume. Together, the two blogs had a fantasy All-Star player draft where we picked among the All-Stars and the rookies that were in Raleigh that weekend and watched as our teams earned us points in the Skills Competition and the All-Star Game proper.

At the end of the weekend, it was the good guys at WIIM pulling off an incredibly narrow victory over the TPL braintrust (it came down to Patrick Sharp winning the post-game MVP award and the points that team WIIM needed to overcome the deficit caused by Team TPL's Alex Ovechkin actually earning penalty minutes in the All-Star Game). Good times were had by all and to the victors went the beery spoils when we got together at H2H2.

This year, we've been in touch with our friends at TPL again and have decided that we had too much fun last year to not do it again. We're still yet to finalize all the details about whether we're going to change any rules or what we're going to have riding on it, but that will all get decided later this week and we'll get the draft done. Of course, part of the good that came from last year's challenge was the money everybody raised for charity in the run-up to H2H2 back then. We've decided to open up the pledge drive for the weekend for this challenge.This year, we're working on pledges for the Humane Society of Michigan.

So have some fun with us this weekend as we watch the All-Star game and why not make a few pledges based on the outcome? You can pledge whatever you want for whichever side, or bid for individual players. If you want to put $5 to charity for Datsyuk scoring an All-Star hat trick or if you want to put a certain amount on your favorite team's point totals (for reference, the points score was 57.6 to 50.4 last year) let us know. Let's have some fun and earn some charity money for the Humane Society of Michigan while we're at it.

Tweet, email or comment with your pledges. Thanks and let's go Red Wings!

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NHL 2012 All-Star Draft Open Thread

Hey Jimmy. You get picked first, you tell them take me too, ok?

Team Chara and Team Alfredsson set their rosters tonight with the All-Star draft. NBC Sports Network will have live coverage of the draft at 8EST tonight.

I know a lot of people don't particularly care for the All-Star Game, but I'll tell you that I absolutely love the new Draft format. I think the NHL actually got something done better than any of the other professional leagues in how they handle their All-Star weekend. The draft brings a new level of interest to an otherwise stale setup.

So who do you think goes last this year? Phil Kessel's teammate Joffrey Lupul is an assistant captain to Zdeno Chara this season and you have to think that he avoids getting the car two years in a row.

How many picks do you think they go before our boys Pavel Datsyuk and Jimmy howard are taken?

Who do you think wins it if they add a diving contest to the skills challenge?

What's your favorite part of the All-Star weekend?

It's your Thursday night open thread. Have at it.

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Things I Have Read This Week Which Make Me Laugh: Thursday

Remember folks, there's no such thing as a stupid question...

Ok, actually there is.

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In series news, I'm going to be putting this one away until it feels natural to bust it back out. These are more fun when I come across them naturally. I don't really want to spend any more time actively searching the web for people to ridicule.

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Detroit 50 33 16 1 67
St. Louis 49 29 13 7 65
Nashville 50 30 16 4 64
Chicago 50 29 15 6 64
Columbus 49 13 30 6 32

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