Proud of the Wings
After the first two games of this series, I was happy and excited about how the Wings had played.
After games three and four, I was a bit discouraged to say the least and had definitely hopped aboard the stress train.
After game five? I’m proud of my team.
The Wings played with class. They scored on the power play. They scored shorthanded. Twice. Numerous players got in on the action (not just one line like in games three and four). Chelios. Zetterberg. Datsyuk. Cleary.
I saw Datsyuk and Cleary hit Dion Phaneuf. I saw Bertuzzi basically swing Dion down to the ice like he was a light toy after Dion tried to throw a few quick ones. The Calgary Herald described that moment like this:
At JLA on Saturday, with the upper hand in this suddenly-interesting series at stake, the Flames landed harder than rag-doll Dion Phaneuf after the Ol’ Canoli Truck, Todd Bertuzzi, body slammed him to the ice with such casual ferocity you could hear Eddie Whalen up there in the big wrasslin’ ring in the sky, squealing: “Now THAT was a ring-a-ding-dong-dandy!”
I’m not ashamed of how they played last night and I am very grateful that they didn’t start fights or any nonsense after some of the dirty plays that Calgary did.
I just hope and pray that the Wings show up tonight and cleanly win tonight’s game. I know they have to be pissed off at the stupidity by Calgary, but just get the job done and come home. We can’t afford anymore injuries (especially if Lebda ends up being out for the rest of the playoffs with a knee/ankle injury).
And as Rob Burgundy (from the movie Anchorman) would say, “Stay classy, Detroit. Stay classy.”
This clip from NBC has a recap of the game. If you go to 2:15, you’ll get to see Bertuzzi lay down the law. I’ve been quite pleased with his play over the last two games and we’re starting to see him be more physical and I like it.
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