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Dear Mr. Howe: A Reflection on a Detroit Red Wings Legend

Dear Mr. Howe, I was born 13 years after your final season of NHL hockey. You were already a legend, an inspiration to generations of players, and remain in the record books as one of the greatest players in the history of the game. I never got to see you

Gordie Howe: A Thank You To The Hero I Never Yet Always Knew

Like many hockey fans, I was deeply saddened and blindsided by the passing of Gordie Howe. Despite never watching him play the game that he came to define, his legendary impact on the sport of professional hockey was not lost on me. Here is my thank you letter to the one and only, "Mr. Hockey&q

A Eulogy for one of the greatest athletes of all time: Gordie Howe, a hockey legend

With the passing of hockey icon Gordie Howe, we celebrate his triumphs throughout his illustrious career. We may never see anything like it again.

WIIM's First Round Playoff Series Predictions

With the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs getting ready to start, it's time for a well-worn tradition of WIIM staff farting around in the dark trying to pick the winners of the eight series to start things off. We're playing the WIIM Bracket Challenge too (and you should

Check out WIIM's Fanpost Section and Help us out

There's a real good chance that you've already seen the call for applicants to join the WIIM staff that we put up last week. Well, applications are still open, but we've already received over 100 by this point and are in the process of trying to narrow things down. We're

Want to write about the Red Wings? Join the Winging it in Motown team!

Winging it in Motown is officially seeking out passionate Red Wings fans to join our staff! If you are an aspiring writer, or even just a Red Wings fan who wants to write about the team, we are accepting all submissions using the form posted below. NOTE: To start, we

What #BellLetsTalk Means to Me

Do you remember the worst day of your life? I don’t mean that phrase in a casual or hyperbolic way; I mean can you, the person reading this post, literally identify the single most difficult day that you have ever experienced? I hope you can’t, because if you

WiiM to hold a Reddit AMA with /r/DetroitRedWings

It's finally happening. Grab your pitchforks and light your torches. Several of the members of Winging It In Motown will hold an AMA on /r/DetroitRedWings. Bring all the questions your heart desires and we'll do the best we can to answer them! The AMA will take place Monday night

WIIMChat: A Powerplay Tactics Discussion

On occasion the staff here at WIIM get to chatting about a particular topic, and sometimes the discussion takes a life of its own. The penalty killing post here earlier got some of us talking about some issues with power play tactics, and below you can read that conversation.

Happy Thanksgiving from our WIIM Family to yours

We're going to take the day off and be with our families today, but we didn't want to leave you without a place to potentially escape the craziness and talk some hockey with friends and, dare I say, your WIIM family? In the spirit of things, here's what we're thankful

Hockey Fights Cancer - NHL Becoming Impactful Organization for Movember Foundation

By now, most of you likely know what Movember is. For those of you who might not know about it, or what it's goal is, let me give you a quick rundown: The Movember Foundation is a movement that works tirelessly year-round (that's right, not just one month) to have

New Girl: Welcome WIIM's Newest Contributor

After a two-year stint in the comments, Winging It In Motown has called up redwinger43.

How I Fell In Love With The Detroit Red Wings

I think about hockey a lot. More specifically - I think about Detroit Red Wings hockey a lot. The amount of love I have for this organization goes way back to my younger years when I would spend most of my summers on my grandma's uneven driveway standing in front

Winging It In Motown Welcomes Kyle McIlmurray

[Editor's note: Please give our newest writer a warm welcome. Some of you may remember Kyle from his excellent interviews with Red Wings prospects Jake Paterson and Tyler Bertuzzi. Well we're calling him up and burning off his remaining waiver exemption. As is custom, we want to give everybody a

A Special Memory: 2014 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic® Recap

Members of the Masthead give their perspectives on a day for the ages.

Introducing Motown's Newest Personality

After a trial run this past summer that included everything from viral articles to terrible yearbook pictures, Winging It In Motown is getting a bit of a shakeup.

Game Thread Primer & .gif-Holding Post

Game threads are imminent. Let's get ready.

Happy New Year from the WIIM Crew!

Another year in the bag and lots has occurred.

Let me introduce myself

A lockout. Another freaking lockout! Despite it being common knowledge for the past month that the NHL was heading towards yet another lockout I can't really say that it has sunk in on me until today. I mean, what are we going to do all winter? Nonetheless, I am proud

Site News: WIIM Gets a New Logo, More Cool Stuff to Follow

A few days ago, one of the readers asked about the site logo and all I was allowed to say was something about how it wouldn't matter for very long. Today, I'm proud to unveil the new WIIM logo. SB Nation founder Tyler Bleszinski has the write up to explain

Revisiting The BOLD Predictions

The last 2 years, we have had some fun with prognosticating the upcoming season. Not content to just say things like "the Red Wings will make the playoffs" or "Corey Perry will act like a dickwad", we wanted to come up with a challenge. Being the competitive people that we

WIIM Community Guidelines Update

In August, we ran out a rewritten set of community guidelines for how we like to do things around here. Those guidelines have done well for us this season and we've enjoyed a very good fan experience with regulars and guests alike. Recently, we were given a change to the

Prediction Contest: Programming Changes

We're going to be automating the system for our WIIM Prediction Contest, starting tomorrow. We have all of your previous guesses recorded, but will have to manually enter those into the new system. You will need to register for this system in the application box below. If you have a

WIIM Prediction Contest Update

We're back with the standings of the WIIM Prediction Contest we've been running this season. The race at the top has gotten fairly tight and there's still plenty of time for people to catch up and join the folks at the top. Check out the standings chart and then read

It's Banmesty Day at WIIM

Welcome to the start of a grand experiment for WIIM. Today we throw caution to the wind and attempt a project more likely to go down in flames than filling the air compartment of a zeppelin with hydrogen and the passenger compartment with nitrous oxide. For today, we un-ban non-spam