“Good afternoon hockey fans, Im Doc Emrick beside Eddie Olczyk, we are here in Detroit Michigan at Joe Louis Arena! We have a good game coming, San Jose Sharks vs. Detroit Red Wings game 7 of the 2016 Stanley Cup Finals”. “Yeah Doc, this has been a tough series, very physical game play by these two teams, we've seen stats we have never seen before in the cup finals, each team is averaging 60 shots on goal a game, that is insane!” “Thanks Eddie, now we go to center ice for the puck drop.” I was really nervous, in my rookie season, 19 years old, my team and I got to the cup finals, now we are in game 7, an elimination game, It seems like it was just yesterday I heard the guy at the 2014 NHL entry draft say “The Detroit Red Wings select…
The Detroit Red Wings head into arguably their toughest road trip of the season in the “Western Swing”. Detroit will begin their road trip in the Golden State, California to face the Ducks, Kings, and Sharks. After that they’ll make their way to face Chicago with a meeting against the Blackhawks then finishing up two days later in Dallas. This road trip could play a huge part in what Detroit does moving forward. The Wings are currently seven points behind for a top 3 spot in the Atlantic…
“You get that feeling that it’s going to be one of those things again, we feel from the get-go this season that we got the team to do it again,” Toews said during the post-game interview. “For a while people were saying this series looked like it was probably going to come down to one goal at the end, and it did.” Chicago had an attempt to make history. The last team to repeat as Stanley Cup champions was the Detroit Red Wings in 1997 and 1998; nearly twenty years of history. The Blackhawks…
The National Hockey League (NHL) was founded in 1917. This league consisted of six teams, called the original six. These teams were the Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, and the New York Rangers. These teams played for twenty five years until the leagues first expansion. Today, there are thirty teams in the NHL. There are six players on the ice, one center, two wings, two defenseman, and a goalie. This is one line, and each team…
The low budget film Net Worth, is about a true story of the hockey players in the NHL, but more specifically the professional hockey team The Detroit Red Wings; and their struggle to protect their rights as workers against management and greedy, power-hungry owners of the NHL. The main character Lindsay tries to express to his teammates how important it is to form an organization to protect the rights of the athletes as workers. With a lot of motivation and struggle this action ultimately lead…
you can feel like you have done something. This success my go unnoticed and often many people won't even know what you have done. With the recent passing of Mike Ilitch i could say i want to model myself after him. It was recently discovered that he paid rosa parks rent for her apartment or house for a period of time. He also gave employment to hundreds of thousand of people based on a vision that selling cheap decent quality pizza. It also put an affordable product for many families that are…
For my comparative analysis I will be analyzing and comparing the 2014 NHL winter classic, featuring the Toronto Maple Leafs against the Detroit Red Wings. For the AFL match I will be analyzing game 7 of the 2015 AFL season featuring the North Melbourne kangaroos against Essendon bombers. Pre-game show In the NHL match, my video source does not include a full pre-game coverage show. However, the video coverage opens with both teams standing on the blue line, with each team standing on the…
Crystal Allen author of How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy is trying to portray thirteen-year-old Lamar as a confident self-proclaimed maddest, baddest, most spectacular bowler ever at Striker’s Bowling Paradise. Lamar’s summer is about to begin and with it comes the best bowling games, the opportunity in getting a job, and will finally get the girl of his dreams. Not to mention that his bowling idol Bubba Sanders is going to make an appearance at his favorite bowling place to…
Columbus took Zach Werenski eighth overall from the University of Michigan, after the freshman defenseman had a phenomenal season under the tutelage of Red Berenson. Werenski graduated from high school in three years, accelerating his schooling in order to get an early start on college. He won’t turn 18 until July 29th, but the poised, confident defender had a pretty astute scouting report of how he plays. “I play a two-way defenseman type of role, someone that can hopefully play a lot of…
3rd grade: I was staring that club write in the eye, it was staring at me like a hawk. The contact was so loud, it sounded like a bomb, my ears rang so loud it hurt. I put my hands on my head but something was not right, instead of my fingers stopping at my forehead they went inside. I looked at my hands and they were just red, all red. My instinct was to scream, so that’s what I did, even though I didn’t feel anything. I laid down and some random guy sat on top of me and started to hold my…