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Ah. What a game. Twig will be here soon with a recap, but until then, let's not let Dan McNeil forget that Detroit just smoked his precious Hawks just one day after writing this: The Blackhawks are too fast for Detroit. They're too deep. The Hawks are much more experienced, especially at the blue line. They're too well conditioned. Chicago is too everything for a Wings team that appeared out of gas after going a full seven games against Anaheim in the first round... Enjoy these not-so-spicy Wings, who are nothing more than an annoying impediment that won't take long to remove. Today, Detroit was too everything for the punk-ass Hawks and their bandwagon fans who didn't make a sound. So take a moment and remind Dan how much Detroit just "hammered" the Hawks - his Twitter handle is @DanMcNeil670. LGRW

What did I tell you? Nothing you didn't already know in your Red hearts: The Detroit Red Wings can beat this team. Chicago is good, but not the invincible juggernaut some claim they are. Not by a long shot. What you just witnessed was a scene from Rocky. I know Chief over at A2Y kind of has the market cornered on awesome Rocky references, but I need to steal this one. Before Rocky and Apollo fight for the first time, Apollo comes out clowning around as if his victory is assured. He got in some shots at Rocky and looked to be in complete control, but then Balboa absolutely drilled him and down went Apollo Creed. He got right back up, but the look of horror on his face said it all. He had asked for this. He had thought it would be easy, but he was in the ring with a guy that could hit him harder than he's ever been hit before. Now what is Detroit going to do with this new life they’ve earned? More after the jump: This was probably the easiest game Howard has played all year. Chicago really didn’t have many great chances. Detroit played tough and kept Toews and the rest of the Hawks away from high percentage shooting areas. Smith and Cleary combined their powers to cause Chicago’s only goal, but both made up for it the rest of the way. I like Smith when he pinches. I think he could be a little like Mike Green in that he’s practically a forward out there, but that means he’ll give up 2 on 1 chances. At the end of the day, he created more chances by pinching than he gave up. Zetterberg is an amazing captain. He’s following the likes of Yzerman and Lidstrom, so we can’t say he’s the best we’ve had, but maybe one day with the way he plays. Smart and gritty. Tough to beat that and so far Toews has not. Brunner is shaping up to be something of a Hawk-killer. Not sure if he’s still been credited with the first goal, but either way, he’s playing great and getting great chances. Crawford has been exposed. His numbers are good, but those were from playing a bad Wild team that was slipping going into the playoffs. Wings have hit at least 4 post/crossbars over the two games and he’s giving up tons of rebounds. NOHS Three Stars of the Game: First Star: Henrik Zetterberg. 2 assists today and hard work on Toews from start to finish. Second Star: Brendan Smith. Keep pinching and scoring GWGs. Third Star: Jimmy Howard. Did he steal this game? No, he didn’t have to because the team played well. Still, only the one goal beat him. Honorable Mentions: Filppula for reminding me of the 2008 finals. Franzen for the snipe. The ENTIRE “third” line for being awesome. Again. Nice punch, Rocky, but Creed got up. Now what? Game 3 is Monday night. LGRW!!!!!

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You might be thinking 'Road Signs' is a rather odd topic ~ and possibly rather boring,The Tale of Two Cities... Chester is such a beautiful city!...Crewe, on the other hand, not so much :((Caroline ~ England)...but you would be mistaken! A very faded and worn sign that shows that walkers and bikers are welcome - but not mopeds.(Tina ~ Norway) Road SIGNS are interesting, (Jade ~ Thailand) Cool(Becky ~ Philedelphia) and tell us SO much about a place!A sign for the "The Tube" in London.(Maddy ~ visiting England) We are wanting to taste this global community, that we are ALL part of:(Singwa ~ Hong-Kong) Road Signs are a great way to get a flavour! (may we apologise for the late running of this post!)

Blackhawks fans can slow their roll now. After 60 minutes of dominant hockey on Wednesday night, most Hawks fans were wondering why the Hawks were even bothering to waste their time with the Detroit Red Wings. Perhaps the next three games would be a nice time for everyone to pad their stats before getting down to business with the Kings.Well, nobody told the Red Wings this was the plan. The Wings returned the favor this afternoon, turning Fort Kickass into their private playground for 60 minutes of impressive rink-tilting, dispatching the Hawks 4-1. Let's get to this: THE GOOD: The Hawks got smacked down, which means they know they're in a real series now. The Hawks blueline especially seemed to play as if they'd spent the past few days reading their press clippings. You can never sit back on any team that has Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg on the ice and Mike Babcock behind the bench. The fact that this trainwreck probably signals the end of Gorilla Salad dressing for the Hawks. The biggest need for the Hawks today was being able to carry the puck up the wings through the neutral zone. Which means both Joel Quenneville and Viktor Stalberg need to get over their asshurt and put the best players on the ice. THE BAD: Holy shit, did Dave Bolland ever suck today. 3 penalties, all of the boneheaded variety. But hey, 6 for 11 on faceoffs...yay? No, he's come back and has basically become Gorilla Salad Redux. The Hawks are ill served with one of those, let alone two.THE UGLY:The fact that outside of a few players, the Blackhawks just didn't show up this afternoon. The players who already have Stanley Cup rings need to remember what got them there the first time, and tell the others exactly what it takes. Otherwise, they will be polishing up their putters far sooner than anybody around here would like.Game 3 is Monday.All content copyright 2013 hockeenight.com. Any reproduction or reuse of this material without the written consent of the authors is prohibited.

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Scott Feldman “scattered” 7 hits and a walk over his 6.2 innings of work (we get to say scattered because he didn’t give up any runs, and the hits were all singles), and pitched quite well once again. The Cubs’ bats exploded for eight runs, and Starlin Castro, of all players, was the only regular without a hit. There is a lot of goodness to highlight today, but I’d like to point this out … Full box. Related posts: Enhanced Box Score: Mets 3, Cubs 2 – May 17, 2013 Matt Harvey did Matt Harvey things, and the Cubs did... Enhanced Box Score: Cubs 5, Giants 2 – August 30, 2011 That's two in a row that the Giants really couldn't... Enhanced Box Score: Mets 6, Cubs 7 – September 3, 2010 Blake DeWitt continues to rock as a Cub, and Starlin...

Oliver Perez picked the wrong time to have a rare off day, giving up a leadoff single and then a double to Asdrubal Cabrera in the ninth. The Mariners intentionally loaded the bases with none out after that and brought Yoervis Medina on to pitch. But Mark Reynolds then hit a shot to the left side that a diving Brendan Ryan made a stop on. But Ryan was off-balance when he threw home and had no chance to get the runner. Mariners take their second straight walk-off loss, 5-4. The loss came after the Mariners had tied the game in stunning fashion in the top of the inning. After spending most of the day going through the motions, the Mariners were down to their last out, trailing by two runs and with nobody on base. But Raul Ibanez kept hope alive with a solo homer to right and then Justin Smoak tied it up moments later with his own solo homer to right-center. That's two hard hit balls by Smoak today, an earlier double nearly going out to left field before striking the top of the wall. That's a welcome sign for the Mariners. Unfortuantely for them today, they waited too long to get untracked. Had they actually done anything on offense prior to the eighth inning, they might not have still be tied in the bottom of the ninth.