Back to the Grindstone

So as you can tell, I don't blog a whole lot anymore...I swear to all two of my followers that I will start up again all the time, then I have to go to work. Or something more interesting comes up, like that episode of Family Guy that I have only seen 4 times. I think I am ready to start again.

Why?

Because, that's why. I don't need a reason, which is the beauty of having your own blog. In any case, my motivation for starting up again is not important, but I do have a few things to say.

1. If the Wings can win without Datsyuk, Zetterberg, and Helm in the lineup, why do they struggle when they are? I mean, It may not actually be struggling, per se, but could they get a W at home? Please?

2. If Gustavsson is 8-1-1, has a GAA of 2.05 and a SV% of .930, and Jimmy Howard is 6-8-7 with 2.35 and .910, then why isn't Gustavsson the starter? Im not knocking Jimmy, his numbers or solid. There are goalies out there that would punch their own grandma in the face for a .910 SV%, but it looks like Gustavsson is having better luck. And sometimes that's all it takes.

3. This home ice thing. Yeah yeah I hear it all the time about how the Wings lost pretty much every home game(or whatever) in 97 and still brought the Cup to Detroit, but it cant last. How dumb would it look to drop the Wings playoff streak in their first year in the East? Its supposed to be soooo much simpler, right? Right?

4. Does anybody actually know what a healthy Red Wings team looks like?

5. IRT #3, how long before we start seeing empty seats at the Joe? More empty seats that is...

Anyways.... for some reason, the Wings are still the 4th seed in the playoffs if they started tomorrow. Which is more than I can say for Kenny Jenzen's 9th seed Rangers (15-16-1) and Johnny Long's 10th seed Stars (14-10-5). However....the playoffs DO NOT start tomorrow, we are not even halfway through the season. So all of that could change.