Paul McCann: Game Night - Ole Friends

We're on a mission to hopefully put an end to this meaningless playoff streak in order to finally rebuild, and also send our Head Coach & GM packing, deservedly so.

Please don't prevent us from doing that tonight, make it quick & merciful.

These ain’t your dad’s Red Wings… when’s the last time you have seen them at the bottom of the conference standings? Yeah… if you started following hockey when the Preds started in 98, you ain’t never seen it before. There is a serious risk of this Red Wing team missing the playoffs for the first time since Bush 43 was president.
- Paul McCann

In fact, I did start following hockey in '98, not because of the Preds, but because of the Nagano Olympics (curse you, Jagr!). That, of course, made the Red Wings the first team that I saw win the Stanley Cup. So, yeah, I've never experienced a playoffs without the Wings in it. I hadn't thought about that until you brought it up.

BTW, I think that you meant that it'll be the first time missing the playoffs since Bush 41, since their last miss was in '90. Bush 43 was 'W'.

Does it seem to you when the Preds pour on SOG, often there are few or no goals scored. Preds can make goalies look better than they are, Mrazak's game last night was an anomaly, historically, for him. I chalk it up to the curse of the "Perds".