5/06 Quick Links
Until I post my conference finals predictions sometime Wednesday evening, here are some quick links:
Valtteri Filppula did not practice today with the team due to a knee injury suffered during the last round. Bruce MacLeod is reporting that Mike Babcock believes Filppula will play in Thursday’s game, but if Filppula can’t practice with the team tomorrow, Babcock’s plans will change.
Jamie Samuelsen at WDFN interviewed Kris Draper about playing in overtime in the playoffs and the Detroit-Dallas match up. You can listen to it here.
The Detroit Free Press Twist section did a nice piece on Leslie Winfield-Baker, who makes meals for the players, DRW staff, and the media.
Her moment at center ice: When she turned 40, team members assembled on center ice and beckoned to Leslie to join them. “They all started singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to me, and then I got a face full of shaving cream,” laughs Leslie. “I’ve pieced it together. It was (Kris) Draper. Plus, a couple of guys told me it was him.”
A team’s affection: On her 20th anniversary on the job, the team called her into the dressing room, where Draper announced that because of all she did to take care of them, they wanted to give her a little something. It was a necklace with a Stanley Cup image and inscribed “Love, the boys.”
Ansar Khan at MLive.com writes about how Aaron Downey is staying positive despite being a healthy scratch for the entire playoffs.
“You can sit back and feel sorry for yourself because you’re not playing, (but) you know what, the situation is we got good players in this locker room and I knew that coming into camp,” Downey said. “I said if I make the team I might be lucky to play 40 games, and I played 57. I’ll take that, and I was happy. Playoffs? We’re halfway done and I could still get some games, but if not, I still feel a part of it. … Doesn’t matter what I got to do to win a championship. If I got to fill water bottles, doesn’t matter to me.”
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May 7th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Aaron Downey gets an attaboy for his attitude, way to be.