Sharks Vs Red Wings, Dec 18/08: Enough Is Enough

A message to the Detroit Red Wings: It's time to s@#% or get off the pot. No more 50 percent efforts. No more one-goal games. No more embarrassing losses to basement teams. It's time to start playing like the defending Stanley Cup champions and tonight is the night that you show the league exactly why you're the team to be feared in the NHL. If ever there was a game this season where the outcome could be foretelling of a season's future it will be this one. The Sharks have clearly become one of, if not the best teams in the NHL and for the Wings to say the same they'll have to put in their best game of the year to date. How does the saying go? "To be the best, you have to beat the best". Teams used to have to say this about Detroit but the Wings don't have a regulation win in their last five games and the sub-par efforts put in recently will not win them this game or any respect around the NHL unless changes are made to their game and tonight's game can be a ... (link)