Conference 7.286::sports_91

    Too bad Sergei Federov didn't make the all-star game.  Murray's done
    a great job since taking the team over and bringing them back to 
    respectability.  Great home record.
    
    Walt

    Saw Federov play against the Habs in the Montreal Forum earlier
    in the season.  He is definitely a great skater and asset to the 
    Detroit club.  
    
    Now all they have to do is play at least .500 on the road and they
    are back on the road to success.
    
    
    Jim

    Questions:
    
    Heard this rumour that Paul Ysaebart is out.
    
    Any Wing fans know if this is true?
    
    Thanks,
    Jo
    

    
    Jo, Yseabart got injured during the Wings game vs the Olympic team.
    I remember reading about it but can't recall the type of injury he
    sustained. There was another prominent Wing that was also injured
    during the same game.
    
    
    Steve
    

    Steve,
    
    Was it serioius or a day-to-day thing?
    
    Jo

I'm pretty sure both players will be out several weeks.
Making a bet on Detroit or somin' Jo??




Steve

    
    Nope!  She's just a co-GM wiff the Cathmeister in a fantasy hockey
    league and we picked up Ysaerbart.  Need to know if he has to go on IR.
    
    T'anks from co-GM #2!
    
    
    Cajun_cath
    
    

    RE: .6 
    
    Yeah, silly me forgot all about a co-worker from the Detroit area with
    family there....he's gonna keep me posted on the scoop!
    
    Thanks!
    
    Jo

    "Dead" Wings lead their division with 36 pts.... only Montreal,
    Washington and Vancouver have more points...

    RE: .9
    
    >> "Dead" Wings
    
    I haven't heard that since 1987 ... reading old magazines ?

Vancouver must be on steroids.....

    Probably that celebrity spokesperson... who was it?  Kitten Natividad?
    

    Hahaha....too funny Walt.
    
    I really think Vancouver is doing well due to the trade they made with
    St. Louis late last year.  I thought St. Louis got robbed...Vancouver
    showed immediate signs of improvement last year.
    
    Jo

Walt, it just goes to show you how much interest i have in Detroit sports
teams! Congrats to the first place Dead Wings! 8^)

Didn't they get off to a slow start? Then there was some contoversy surrounding
Yzerman and the coach that didn't help matters? Anyway, they are tons better
than my Broonz are, which aint saying much. Sheet I bet my Sunday morning
hockey team could give the B's a game.


Steve

    Phewwww.....
    

    Man was I nervous when I heard that game had gone into OT.  Maybe
    this'll light a fire under there butts...
    
    And /Don, the Reebok one with John Daly is cool, I can take or leave
    the others...

    Down 2-0 and headed to Chicago...
    
    Not looking good (again)... but maybe they need to be down to win...
    

    Probie can travel to Canada a-gain....
    
    so far so good... too early to get too excited...
    

    Isn't Probert Canadian? I always thought it was funny how they banned
    him from his own country. Sure, Canadian drug laws are generally
    tougher than the US, but the whole thing seemed more like a railroading
    of a high profile public figure than anything else.
    
    Tom

    Yup, but if he went back, he wouldn't have been able to leave.  Since
    there are more NHL teams in the US, and the Wings are here, he couldn't
    go back without knowing he could return to the US based on his visa...
    

    It wasn't the Canadian authorities banning him.  If he left the US to
    play in Canada, the U.S. authorities would have interpreted it as
    Probert having voluntarily deporting himself.  He was allowed to remain
    in the U.S. while the case was under appeal in the U.S. courts.
    
    pete

>    It wasn't the Canadian authorities banning him.  If he left the US to
>    play in Canada, the U.S. authorities would have interpreted it as
>    Probert having voluntarily deporting himself.  He was allowed to remain
>    in the U.S. while the case was under appeal in the U.S. courts.
    
We had a couple of players on our Rugby team who had to be careful of
similar things.  They couldn't go on tour and stuff like that.  Fortunately,
it all worked out in the end....


'Saw

�We had a couple of players on our Rugby team who had to be careful of
�similar things.  They couldn't go on tour and stuff like that.  Fortunately,
�it all worked out in the end....
    
    That's probably because they were illegals who wouldn't be able to get
    back into the country once they left.

>    
>    That's probably because they were illegals who wouldn't be able to get
>    back into the country once they left.

No.  One had been recently married to a girl from the US, and the other
HAD a visa but was not sure about being able to get back in....


'Saw

�No.  One had been recently married to a girl from the US, 
    
    That's not an automatic qualification for citizenship any more.

>    That's not an automatic qualification for citizenship any more.


I think that's why there was some question.  But since then, everything
has turned out fine....


'Saw

    How hard is it now to cross the border?  If'n it's anything like
    MExico, I'd imagine as long as you are careful and don't end every
    sentence with "eh!" you'd get through OK.  Is it any different flying
    in?
    
    Brews