Have you earned your red wings ?
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no... and im not sure i want to lol
1004447
Contact your local team & they will tell you if you have what it takes.
440849
sometime in the next decade or so if they ever quit rebuilding their team.  any team with lindros never goes too far. just believe it someday they will rise again.  look to see the wings and how long it took them to rebuild and get to where they are now.
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The only reference I could find  was to James Cook, who won the Rick Kozuback Award in 2003 in the Central Hockey League.  I don't know if he is in professional hockey now, or where he might be found.\nThere is a sports writer for the Traverse City Egale named James Cook. This could be your guy:\njcook@record-eagle.com <jcook@record-eagle.com>
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have you got your own religion?\n\n sign me up!
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If you're going to have anybody pitching your product around here these days, you couldn't do much better than Lindy Ruff. \nWith a big assist from the Sabres' head coach, some Clarence Central School District youngsters are closing in on their goal of raising enough money to travel later this month to Knoxville, Tenn. They will compete in the global finals of the Destination ImagiNation tournament, a kind of mental Olympics in which student teams do creative problem solving. \n\nThe vehicle to get them there - aside from the bus on which they'll travel - is a rubber wristband. Kids and their parents are selling 6,000 of them in the Sabres' old and new team color combinations, as a fund-raiser. \n\nRuff purchased four of the rubber bracelets for good luck, then talked about them at a news conference earlier this week. His endorsement appears to be paying off, according to Helena Kleinlein, president of Clarence "DI" Boosters, a parent organization that assists the student teams and conducts fund-raisers. The group already had raised about $8,000. \n\n"I don't think [Ruff] actually meant to endorse the bracelets. I think he was just being a good sport and supporting the children, but we do appreciate his comments," Kleinlein said. \n\n"I would imagine the words "Creative Teamwork' that appear on the bands might have struck home with some and, perhaps, that is what any team manager hopes to achieve with their team," she added. \n\nAnd as his team gels into playoff success, it's what Ruff has had in mind for the Sabres. That's the same lesson Kleinlein hopes will be instilled in the young participants in the Destination ImagiNation competition. \n\n"I absolutely see parallels," Kleinlein said. "When you begin the year . . . with seven individuals [on a team], each of these students thinks that their idea is the biggest and brightest. The challenge, as a team manager, is to get the children to step back and listen to their teammates and find a way to work together to accomplish a goal. \n\n"Once a team becomes a family, that is when they can really achieve greatness. They respect each other, they listen to each and they acknowledge good points that everyone brings up. They use each other to raise the team higher," she said. \n\nSeven teams from the Clarence School District qualified for the state competition, held April 8 in Binghamton. Ruff's youngest children, 11-year-old twins Brian and Madeleine, are on one of the three Clarence teams that qualified for the global finals, scheduled for May 24-27. \n\nThis is the fourth year teams from Clarence have been in the competition, and the second year that any have made it to the global finals. \n\nKathy Cipresso, treasurer of the "DI" Boosters, has a daughter on one of the three teams in the finals. This year's team is made up of elementary and middle schoolers. \n\n"We're trying to grow the program. There's such an interest now that we may end up having a high school team next year," Cipresso said. \n\nTeams from all 50 states are in the global finals, as well as teams from Israel, China, Great Britain, France and Spain. \n\nAt the invitation of the Sabres organization, the youngsters and their parent boosters were at the HSBC Arena pavilion before the start of Game Four Thursday to sell what remained of their rubber wristband inventory. The items were sold for $2 apiece. \n\n"The goal is to make sure that the travel expenses of the children and their team managers are met. It's imperative that the children are not held back by finances," said Kleinlein. \n\nDoes it matter to them that those buying the bracelets may have been motivated more by helping the Sabres than assisting Clarence Destination ImagiNation team? Not really, said Kleinlein. \n\n"The message on the bracelet is far-reaching. If it has another meaning for some, that&#39
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I do!  The spirit of the Red Wings is with them and the CANES WILL WIN THE STANLY CUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Well, everybody knows they're Detroit Red Wing history now.  I'd also like to add that during the playoffs, Detroit suspends a huge octopus from the rafters named "AL the Octopus".  Although, all the posts on here about it starting back in 1952 are 100% correct.  but nowadays many people convert the resemblence of the eight tentacles to represent the eight teams from each conference to make the playoffs, which is false.  Also, I know for a fact, in Detroit, I've never seen a penalty assesed for the throwing of octopus or hats for that matter.  although when it is thrown, it's usually during a stopage of play.  But we all love to see it.  It pumps us up.  Go Wings
1141805
it was the Detroit Red Wings in 1997 and 1998. this first team to do it since the penguins in 91 and 92. under the same coach scotty bowman
857419
Love the Sharks, Red Wings\nHATE the Avs.
639015
Without a doubt, the Wings will triumph 5-2 before winning 4-2 in Game 7.  The first bump in the road on the way to lifting their 4th Stanley Cup in 10 years.
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Red Wings, not that I care.  I hate sports.  I'm from Michigan though so it's all I hear on the radio :P.
637342
I am absolutely ecstatic and have been on cloud nine since last night's glorious triumph by our proud Sabres over the hated flyers in front of their evil fans. I've already spoken with some friends and family back home in the Buffalo area and everybody is feeling great and very optimistic about our next big challenge: taking on the Ottawa Senators, top seed in the Eastern Conference. The battle shall be rejoined in Ottawa on Friday night and my Sabres shall be ready! :)\n\nLET'S GO BUF-FA-LO! LET'S GO BUF-FA-LO! LET'S GO BUF-FA-LO! LET'S GO BUF-FA-LO!
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Get some wings, Dude!
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nope \nits more like "how many own goals can you score before your coach takes you out the game and before your teammates take you out."
538687
I am absolutely ecstatic (if a bit hungover this morning), Moon! :) On one glorious sporting day, Liverpool won their 7th FA Cup and my Buffalo Sabres defeated the Ottawa Senators to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals. You cannot top that! Well, aside from when my Sabres beat Carolina (presumably their next opponent) and then defeat the Western Conference champions (likely Anaheim) to win the coveted Stanley Cup! :)\n\nLast night's Sabres-Sens game was a hard-fought affair, each team trading goals until it went into overtime, tied at 2-2. Typical of the Sabres' grit and determination -- to say nothing of their youth, skill and blinding speed -- young Jason Pominville went in on a shorthanded breakaway just 2 and 1/2 minutes into OT and scored a highlight reel goal that set off a celebration in Buffalo which I could feel here, nearly 400 miles south!\n\nAre we celebrating? Erm, did I not mention that I was hungover this morning? ;) Sabres fans all around the country (and the world) are celebrating this upset victory and feeling very excited about our prospects of winning it all. Bring on the Hurricanes (or the Devils) and let's keep this train rolling right along! WOO HOO!!! Thank you, Sabres!!!\n\nLet's Go Buf-fa-lo!!!
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I think they have a chance--everyone does.  I don't want them to win, but it's impossible to predict how well they'll perform. (I think back to my favorite Western Conference Quarterfinals--2003--and everyone said the Wings would run over the Ducks easily and it didn't happen!)