Author: John Pawlik

X Ways To Rig A Game

By John Pawlik | Apr 14th 2011 | 3 min read |

1 down, 15 to go.  There is only 1 goal this time of year and 1 path to get there.  It always seems that first win is the hardest.  There’s a...

X Ways To Finish With A Bang

By John Pawlik | Apr 11th 2011 | 2 min read |

Well, the pre-season is done.  And after 82 games, we get on to the ones that matter.  It only takes 16 wins between April and June to secure your p...

X Ways To Have A Good Weekend

By John Pawlik | Apr 3rd 2011 | 2 min read |

Well, that was a great weekend.  Possibly the best 120ish minutes the Wings have played all season.  And the results were even better.  Clinch the ...

X Ways to S the Bed.

By John Pawlik | Mar 31st 2011 | 2 min read |

Well, this is a game I’d rather forget about.  What looked like it was going to be a strong statement game by the Wings, quickly devolved into ...

X Reasons That Games Are 60 Minutes Long And Not 20.

By John Pawlik | Mar 22nd 2011 | 3 min read |

Well that was not quite what I expected. I had 3-0 Wings and a Jimmy Howard PotG. Shortly into the second, I thought was negatively right, with a 3-0 ...

X Ways to Not Get Capped

By John Pawlik | Mar 17th 2011 | 2 min read |

Well, that was a heck of a game.  And about what I expected.  Up and down hockey, but still a pretty defensively tight game.  Ovechkin is one of th...

Slump Breakers!!! Wings 2, Oilers 1 OT

By John Pawlik | Mar 11th 2011 | 5 min read |

Well, who would have predicted that for the H2H2 game?  Unfortunately, there were no aisleway pushups, but the real winners here were the kids at Chi...

V Reasons Shark Bites Can Be Fatal

By John Pawlik | Mar 4th 2011 | 2 min read |

Well, this is the end of the California games for the season.  Well, at least until playoffs when the schedulers will ensure that east coast games ar...

V Reasons West Coast Games are the Devil

By John Pawlik | Mar 3rd 2011 | 1 min read |

As usual when we play these games that start about 20 minutes before dawn, I’m only going to give V reasons rather than the usual X.  It’...

X ways to win Game 1.

By John Pawlik | Feb 23rd 2011 | 2 min read |

Well, now that I’m on staff here, I figured we’d move these out of the dark, shadowy underbelly of humor over on the right side of the pag...