Red Wings Rumblings
The Red Wings host the Calgary Flames at LCA tonight. The team desperately needs to put together some sort of win streak. Not a must, but it would be nice. We’re about a quarter of the way through the season now, so I guess we know what this team is by now. Still, a lot can change one way or the other.
Here’s a nice article from the Red Wings official site that followed Marco Kasper along to read to some elementary students in Madison Heights. Good guy alert! (and good hockey player)
William Lagesson will sit out three games for the Griffins after disciplinary action from the AHL as a result of a “roughing incident” on November 24th. It was an ugly situation where he appeared to have a player in a chokehold.
Dude is lucky to only get three games.
In other news, if you’re an absolute sicko and choose to go out Black Friday shopping, there are some cool events happening around Metro Detroit like this one at Vintage Detroit Collection.
Other News
Former NHLer Paul Bissonnette was banged up after intervening with a couple of drunken dipshit golfers at a restaurant. The group was reportedly giving the staff a hard time, it escalated, etc. TMZ has all of the assailants mugshots posted in the linked story. Hope it was worth the assault charges, dorks!
Pittsburgh Gets Tomasino from Nashville
23-year-old forward Philip Tomasino is a Penguin, and it only cost them a fourth-round pick in a few years. He hasn’t quite lived up to his rookie season but this is a low-cost, low-risk move that could pay dividends for a struggling Pittsburgh team.
