Ducks @ Wings - Pregame

Good to be back at TTD Headquarters. Hope all 4 of you had a good holiday.




Wings goal of the year so far. Disregarding the game itself (sucked), it's #1 on awesomeness alone. Mule is a god.

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A look from the enemy's side at one of the Interweb's finest, The Battle of California.

"Patterns: For both the Ducks and Red Wings, the current-year versions have been surrendering way more goals than they did last year -- each team is giving up around 2/3 an extra goal-per-game, with some of that comes from a declining penalty kill. Each team has found a way to generate wins despite a shakier defense, though, mainly through an improved team offense."

(BoC)
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Wings expected lineup:

Cleary-Datsyuk-Hossa
Franzen-Zetterberg-Samuelsson
Hudler-Filppula-Kopecky
Meech-Draper-Maltby

Lidstrom-Rafalski
Kronwall-Stuart
Lebda-Lilja

Osgood (starts)
Conklin

(Red Wings Corner)

Homer's still out. At least he won't have to worry about getting skull-fucked by a caveman.

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All commercials should be this good

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Cherry Picking ...

It's a somewhat different looking Duck squad so far with notably better offensive numbers and a drop off defensively. Their current pace has them giving up about half a goal more per game than last year, and they're allowing the 5th most shots per game in the league. But they have the 5th ranked 5-on-5 goals/goals against ratio (Wings are 12th), the 6th best power play (21.6%), and Ryan Getzlaf (5 assists against the Wings last game).

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Chris Pronger eats puppies. Recap late tonight.