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On the Eleventh Day of Christmas, Ken Holland Gave to Me

[Over the next 12 days, we here at WIIM are going to be bringing you the 12 Days of Christmas, only we'll be putting a Red Wing spin on things. Starting today and for the next 12 days, check back for a new reason to be proud to be a Wing fan.]

On the Eleventh Day of Christmas, Ken Holland gave to me

11 Stanley Cup Banners

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Ten Filppula Finishes

Nine Shitbox Penalties

Eight Teams in Our Conference

Seven Years of Kronwalling

Six Bert Spin-O-Ramas

FIVE FRANZEN GOALS

Four Helm PKs

Three Homer tip-ins

Two Euro Twins

And The Perfect Human Nicklas Lidstrom

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Look at that young kid.

So dusty in here.

Coach Bowman given first skate with it. What a friggin' team that was.

Best European-born captain to ever lift the Cup

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12's gonna have a tough time topping this

chills every single time i see the 1998 Cup handed to Konstantinov

You wanna tell me that to mah face?!
YET ANOTHER Detroit Red Wings blog.

by uvgt2bkdnme on Dec 23, 2011 1:44 PM CST reply actions  

On the Twelveth Day of Christmas, Ken Holland Gave to Me
12 brutal Red Wings Checks
Vlady’s 97 Cup final is a must

by Jedi Knight Rob on Dec 23, 2011 10:11 PM CST up reply actions  

Really?!?!?

Wow, Ken Holland is amazing. Delivering banners to the franchise before he was even born!

Fan of the Detroit Tigers, Lions and Red Wings.

by Elfuego51 on Dec 23, 2011 11:26 PM CST reply actions  

I was expecting this from a non-wings fan.

by J.J. from Kansas on Dec 24, 2011 12:19 AM CST up reply actions  

I almost went with the "That picture only has 10 banners"

The one above won out.

Fan of the Detroit Tigers, Lions and Red Wings.

by Elfuego51 on Dec 24, 2011 8:29 AM CST up reply actions   1 recs

2002 Video, last 3 seconds

Looks like Scotty pushes on of our goalies to the ground
never noticed that before

by DarthSparty on Dec 24, 2011 12:17 PM CST reply actions  

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