WINGS WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RED WINGS WIN GAME FIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One win to go to earn the Stanley Cup!

With the return of Pavel Datsyuk as an inspiration, the Wings blew out the Penguins tonight at the Joe 5-0. The Pens fell apart and took a bunch of really dumb frustration penalties which let the Wings keep on the power play for good chunks of the second and third periods.

This is the first time in this entire finals series when my team actually played like the Red Wings!

worried for my beloved Red Wings

The schedule and injuries are killing my team. Not to take anything away from the Penguins, who are a damned good team - but the injuries and schedule are killing the Red Wings. I could not watch game four because I was at work, but from what I understand they were reeling from exhaustion and making all sorts of dumb mistakes as a result.

The decisions on the part of the NHL to move the finals up by a week and have back to back starts for game one and two has probably destroyed most chances for the Wings to win the Cup this year.

I think if the Penguins win game five tonight, they will win the Cup in game six. If the Wings somehow manage to win game five, I think it will go seven games - and anything can happen in a seven game series.

fireworks

This weekend is the Milan fair, and tonight they had the fireworks.

I love fireworks!

Last year I really wanted to go, but couldn't because I felt so poorly. That was back before the doctors had diagnosed the Grave's Disease, and I felt like my life was slipping away bit by bit.

This year I was tired - I was sound asleep on the couch when Dan got home from work - but I went - and we had a truly grand time!

tired

Wow, I am really tired. Work has been kicking my butt this week. My Wings lost game three tonight (though in truth I was not expecting a team with so many injuries as the Red Wings to sweep a team as good as the Penguins! I have nothing but the highest respect for the Pens!)

I am about to take great joy in a hot shower and then heading to bed.

This new slightly higher synthroid dose does not seem to be helping much...

another bad day for my poor Michigan

GM has now joined Chrysler in bankruptcy. Thousands more jobs lost, one of them my brother-in-law's who works at the Orion plant. Thousands more mortgages in jeopardy, even as property values will probably plunge some more.

And the thing is - it is not just the line jobs that are lost. It will also be truckers, office people, support staff. The husband of one of my friends lost his job early in the year - and he worked for a company that did human resources for small auto parts supply companies.

So you are probably looking at thousands more jobs lost that serviced GM on top of the thousands of GM jobs lost.

Will this devastating economic downturn ever end? Or even ever hit bottom?

game two

I couldn't watch or listen to any of it, since I was at work (and worked sucked hugely tonight, which is a whole 'nother story) but my beloved Red Wings (led once again by the defensive work of Hank Zeterberg, the magical goal tending of Chris Osgood, and the Grand Rapids minor league kids)won game two of the Cup finals, again by a 3-1 score.

Two more wins to earn the Cup!

Wings win game one of the finals!

WOO HOO!!!!!!!!

Red Wings win game one of the Stanley Cup finals!

3 more wins to earn the Cup!