Wings Win Game 1

The Red Wings took game 1 in fine fashion. I won't go on about the refs making another garbage call against Holmstrom for interference...except to say that it was another garbage call for interference. In any case, the Wings won the game and held Sidney Crosby to 3 shots. Good enough for me.

By the way, here's an interesting story about Kris Draper, from Yahoo Sports:

The rugged forward also had a laugh when asked about minor league baseball player John Odom, who was traded this week by the Calgary Vipers of the Golden Baseball League to the Laredo Broncos of the United League for 10 Prairie Sticks Maple Bats.

That’s a king’s ransom in the world of Draper, who was dealt by Winnipeg to Detroit 15 years ago for the whopping price of one dollar. Draper played in only 20 games for the Jets in four years after being chosen with the 62nd pick in the 1989 draft.

“Well, 10 bats are a lot more expensive than one dollar, so that’s not too bad,” said Draper, who has scored 141 NHL goals and won three Stanley Cup titles. “To this day, I never found out if it was an American dollar or a Canadian dollar. That’s the one looming question that I always have.”

Photo: Samuelsson Scores in Game 1/AFP/Getty Images/Jim Mcisaac