Gordie 84 years young next Saturday...and still no fondness for Habs. What a guy!

Injury to Hockeytown North goalie....talk about a freak injury.

Best wishes for his full recovery, or should I say just being able to walk again.

Nice article by Nick Cotsonika on our Jimmy, being a new father, and being a NHL goalie.

Go Jimmah! Have a great time at the ASG.

Malik posted the link to this Sportsnet story. I thought it was well worth passing on here. As said by others...have your tissues ready.

RIP McCrimmon, Salei, Liv and all the members of the Lokomotiv family.

According to Khan in link Eaves fractured his jaw on that hit from Jossi.

Red Wings need to quit using their faces to stop the puck!

Ran across this and just had to put it up. It is one of the most beautiful, but heartwrenching blogs I have ever read. Make sure you have a box of Kleenix.

Update: Oops, just saw PD has it up...really didn't see it there beforehand.

Wade Belak was found dead in his Toronto condo Wednesday afternoon. This is the third this off-season and fourth including Probie last summer. What's happening to the tough guys!

UPDATE: Per Paul at KK from Toronto Sun…sources say that Belak took his life. OMG even sadder.

RIP and thoughts and prayers to your family and friends.

From The Checking Line shows Red Wings allowed 5th most quick-strike goals in 2010-2011 at 60 goals. Interesting read and it certainly seems to validate what we were all feeling about our defense last season.

How I dreaded the first and last minute of a game period...and when we'd get the big goal only to have opponent get one back within a minute or two.

Great interview with Malkin over on Puck Daddy translated by Dimitry. He mentions Wings a lot...but not in a bad way. In fact, it sounds like he likes and respects our guys.