Winging It In Motown Welcomes New Contributor

by stripe on Sep 13, 2011 1:05 PM CDT in Grand Rapids Griffins

-Editor's Note: We'd like to welcome a new member to the WIIM family, as we got a great find in Jason "Stripe" Kasiorek, the manager of Griffinscentral.com, the web's best fan source for coverage and news on the Wings' AHL affiliate Grand Rapids Griffins. Jason is going to be bringing us news from the western half of the state this season so we'll be able to keep track of how the future Red Wings are developing. Please give him a warm welcome.-

Hello, 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.

I'm excited to be joining the WIIM crew to bring you Griffins news all season. We'll have recaps of almost every Griffins home game at Griffinscentral which will be linked here at WIIM and I'll be bringing you team and player status updates as the season goes along. Please let me know if you have any questions. There's also always a good group of people at the Griffinscentral message boards to help out if you're looking for info. Looking forward to another year of hockey!

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WOO!

of all the AHL teams, the only one i have even kind of a clue about is the Kings’ farm team, the Manchester Moncharchs. good to know that i can follow my actual favorite team’s farm team too. woot! welcome Jason! looking forward to it!

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

by uvgt2bkdnme on Sep 13, 2011 1:15 PM CDT reply actions

Looking foward to your work

nice to have you aboard.

J✈E✈T✈S✈ JETS! ✈JETS! ✈JETS!

by SLAUGHTERHOUSE on Sep 13, 2011 1:18 PM CDT reply actions

You know you’ve picked a good Griffins writer when their dog is named “Griffindog”

by Apocalyptic0n3 on Sep 13, 2011 1:27 PM CDT reply actions

That’s completely serious, no sarcasm. Don’t want to look like a jerk here. Stupid internet and its inability to indicate sarcasm.

by Apocalyptic0n3 on Sep 13, 2011 1:28 PM CDT up reply actions

this

Stupid internet and its inability to indicate sarcasm.

has got me in trouble more than once.

by SlapshotGoal on Sep 13, 2011 1:52 PM CDT up reply actions

Tell me about it. There should be a dedicated sarcasm font on all sites.

by zfan16 on Sep 13, 2011 2:05 PM CDT up reply actions

I would prefer a giant red button on your desk that you slap real hard and every time someone reads your sarcastic comment, disembodied voice from PTI and Around the Horn screams out “SAR-CAS-IM!”

by Apocalyptic0n3 on Sep 13, 2011 2:07 PM CDT up reply actions

Thank You!!!!

Finally we have more prospect updates!!!! I asked JJ about this earlier this year and HE DELIVERED!!! Great Job everyone and welcome to the show.

by Red Wing Nut on Sep 13, 2011 1:49 PM CDT reply actions

aside from my wife

who says we don’t listen ;)

It was pretty much the first thing we started looking for this summer. having read Stripe’s work over at Griffinscentral, I’m really excited that he agreed to come on board and help us out with this part of the coverage.

by J.J. from Kansas on Sep 13, 2011 2:07 PM CDT up reply actions

Echo what JJ said

The #1 thing that people wanted (besides no shirtless pics of the authors) was more Griffins coverage, and we think that Stripe is going to give everyone a ton of news and updates regarding the Griffs.

Welcome aboard!

Winging It In Motown

by Amerinadian on Sep 13, 2011 2:56 PM CDT up reply actions