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The Malik Report
Red Wings GM Ken Holland explains why he more or less stood pat at the deadline
by George Malik on 02/27/12 at 07:01 PM ET
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Updated 7x with outside analysis at 11:48 PM: Update precedes the rest: Mike Babcock made a brilliant comment about the deadline to the Free Press's Helene St. James:
More #RedWings Babcock: The price for other pieces wasn't what we were willing to pay, or teams weren't willing to trade them to us.
Red Wings GM Ken Holland spoke to 97.1 the Ticket's Mike Valenti and Terry Foster about his decision to only jettison Mike Commodore at the trade deadline, and 97.1 the Ticket posted a superb summation thereof…
"In most cases, in all cases, the players that were moved, we were aware of, in some cases, we made offers. Ultimately, obviously, we couldn't, didn't offer enough or they didn't like what we were offering," Holland said, adding that he "would have liked to make a move or two today."
He added that he was disappointed in the lack of moves, but "there wasn't anything there that fit."
97.1 The Ticket's Jeff Riger reported earlier that Detroit dealt defenseman Mike Commodore to the Lightning for a conditional 7th round draft pick. Commodore played in just 17 games with Detroit, registering two points, and was never really able to make a positive impact on the coaching staff to get consistent playing time, Riger said. Co-host Terry Foster told Holland many fans were disappointed a big move wasn't made, asking, "Is this team capable of winning the Stanley Cup?"
"I think anybody that makes the playoffs is capable of a Stanley Cup run, history has shown that since 2005," Holland responded. Holland talked about the Wings' depth at goaltender, saying the team added Kyle Quincey five days ago.
"We've made the playoffs for 20 straight years," Holland said. "Sometimes you pick high in the first round, we're trying to hang onto our draft picks since 2005, it's time to make some good deals, but if the good deals aren't there, don't do anything."
Did Ken Holland speak to Scott Howson about Rick Nash? Kinda.
"I did talk to Scott [Howson] and his name came up, we haven't had many conversations," Holland said, adding he didn't know if Detroit was "on that list."
"The bottom line is we like our team," Holland said. "Would I like to be on this call (saying) we added two or three players? Yes. We've got some young kids. The young kids are going to be our depth."
Here's his interview:
Biggy update: Here's more on Lidstrom, Quincey and why the Red Wings chose to jettison Mike Commodore via the Free Press's Helene St. James...
Smith has been called up from Grand Rapids and will play Tuesday when the Wings are at Columbus, to offset the loss of defenseman Jonathan Ericsson, who is out a month with a wrist injury. General manager told the Free Press defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom is "bruised, and is day-to-day" and that Kyle Quincey "has a sore groin, also day-to-day.
"We'll see how Nick and Kyle feel in the morning."
If one can't go, Jakub Kindl will take his place. If neither can play, the Wings will need to call up another defenseman, probably Doug Janik, from the minors.
Holland said he had several conversations with colleagues around the NHL leading up to the 3 p.m. trade deadline regarding a forward, but the Wings ultimately opted to go with what they have up front, as their depth extends to Gustav Nyquist in the minors.
The Wings get a conditional seventh-round pick for Commodore. Commodore became extraneous last week when the Wings acquired Quincey. Commodore was signed last summer to a one-year, $1 million deal last summer for his size, but he never was able to become a regular in the lineup. He played just 17 games, registering two points.
The Wings are, on the other hand, very high on Smith, their 23-year-old, first-round pick from '07. He has two assists in the three games he's played for them this season.
"I was in Grand Rapids a couple of times this week," Holland said. "Brendan Smith was on the all-rookie team last year in the American league. He's got 10 goals. Obviously a tremendous college career. To think that Mike Commodore can play 20 games in the NHL - he's played 17 - and then go into the Stanley Cup playoffs? That's pretty hard. So, Smith is playing. Kindl is a 25-year-old. They've got younger legs."
Via RedWingsFeed, here's MLive's Ansar Khan's Deadline report...
Aside from trading defensemen Mike Commodore to Tampa Bay for a conditional seventh-round pick, the Red Wings stood pat as the trade deadline passed.
They weren't able to acquire the depth forward they were seeking, but feel good about what they have. Holland said there were about four players who were traded today that they had interest in but they weren't close to a deal.
"I don't know if the prices were high, at the end of the day there just wasn't a fit,'' Holland said. "Tried to make a couple of moves. Sometimes our picks weren't high enough because our team's too high in the standings, sometimes we didn't have the young players.
"There wasn't a lot of rentals today. It has a lot to do with how many teams are in the hunt for a playoff spot.''
They were interested in Buffalo center Paul Gaustad, but the price was too high. He was traded to Nashville for a first-round pick.
And a fourth-rounder….
And here's 5:38 of Ken Holland speaking to the media on the Wings' website…
As well as a 4-minute interview with Mike babcock
Update #2: Here's a little double posting from the Per the Windsor Star's Bob Duff:
#redwings Holland: "I don't know if the prices were high, but at the end of the day there just wasn't a fit."
#redwings Holland: "Sometimes our picks weren't high enough because our team's too high in the standings.
#redwings Lidstrom: "I took a puck to the ankle the last game and it was very swollen yesterday, but it's gotten a little better today."
#redwings Holland: "We made a move five days ago. Would we have liked to do something? Yes. But there wasn't a fit.''
#redwings Holland: "We like our team, I like our depth. So we'll see.''
#redwings Holland: "Some teams are bigger, they don't have our skill. Let's play."
#redwings Holland: " I don't know that there was a move today that we could have made that could have gotten us bigger."
#redwings Holland: "There was 3-4 players we would have liked to added . . . (con'd)
Holland (con'd) ". . . but ultimately, we either didn't offer enough or they didn't like what we were offering.''
And more from the Free Press's Helene St. James:
#RedWings Babcock on deadline: It's like going shopping - when the coat you want is 3,000 bucks, I'm too tight for that. (continued)
(continued) #RedWings Babcock: "That's just the way I am. Pretty tight. So, I'll keep wearing what I got."
Update #3: In the unsolicited comments department, from CBS Detroit's Eric Frost:
It's okay to be disappointed. There is no blockbuster trade coming to the Red Wings this year. Fans who had deluded themselves into saving up for the Rick Nash jerseys sporting the winged wheel have been left wanting. Wings fans were in froth for something to happen. It's kind of like inviting all of your friends over for a fireworks show and after the fuse sparks into the cylinder nothing happens. Now we all stand around staring at our Twitter screens and figure out what to do next.
The Red Wings have done an admirable job. Detroiters are talking hockey in February. That is a feat itself. Jimmy Howard became an All Star this year, the streak even made parts of January relevant, and Joey Mac was a local version of Rocky. All of this drama and intrigue, along with the spectre of Rick Nash making an entrance, has spoiled us. We were probably thinking there would be a splashy move because there has been so much splash so far in the NHL this year. Detroiters feel within striking distance of Stanley and maybe the Wings are one piece away.
Not so fast. The Red Wings can absolutely win the cup this year but it has nothing to do with the lack of forward depth. The Wings can score even though they are currently in a drought. They are only going as far this year as Jimmy Howard can take them. The good news is that the third year goaltender has been phenomenal. Despite a recent respite of losses. 35 has had an amazing season. He has played well in those recent defeats with the blue line evaporating into mist and leaving Howard vulnerable. The fact that your Twitter feed was nothing but a collection of dancing tumbleweeds at the trade deadline has absolutely no bearing on the ability for the Red Wings to get a championship this year.
Red Wing law states that you might be disappointed but in the end it will be the right move. I know that is a total analysis cop out but it's also the truth. No organization in hockey has been as successful as the Ken Holland administration and to question its moves at this point is unnecessary.
Here is the good news: there really wasn't anything that happened in NHL trade deadline. The Blackhawks are getting no help and Rick Nash is staying in Columbus. The Blue Jackets wanted a king's ransom for Nash, a player that they will lose any way to free agency in the summer. Paul Gaustad heading to the Preds so Nashville is looking more dangerous. The Rangers acquired John Scott from Chicago in their continuing effort to resemble a UFC cage fighting team.
Vancouver is clearly thinking about going for a cup this year, trading rookie Cody Hodgson for Zack Kassian. Time will tell if Vancouver will get better from that move, but at first sniff it looks like precisely what the Wings did not do. The Vancouver trade looks a little panicky, as if there a number of tweaks separating Lord Stanley's return to Canada.
The NHL will remain largely frozen for the rest of the year and that's good for the Wings. Status quo has been pretty good to them as long as they are playing in downtown; the focus now shifts to securing home ice throughout the playoffs. In years past home ice has mattered little in the playoffs but this year provides a major psychological advantage.
I imagine the real free agency heat happens this summer. Holland has a lot of cap room to play with and will be poised to make some moves. It sounds like the instances of overvaluing players and asking for the ridiculous was ubiquitous at the sound of the trade horn. Vancouver may have over reached but Detroit left itself in a good position for this year and next.
As soon as Datsyuk gets healthy and the blue line plays better they can compete for home ice. It would have been a mistake for Ken Holland to overreact to the recent good fortune, trading away valuable role players and prospects for a big name. But let's face it, that wasn't going to happen anyway.
And here's the Detroit News's Ted Kulfan's deadline report....
"There wasn't a fit," Wings general manager Ken Holland said of Monday's inactivity. "We tried to do a couple of moves, but either our (draft) picks weren't high enough because our team is high in the standings, or we didn't have the young players (other teams wanted)."
The Wings were reportedly in the hunt for Buffalo forward Paul Gaustad, but the Sabres were able to deal the big center to Nashville for the Predators' first-round pick — something the Wings didn't have anymore after trading for Quincey. Florida forward Mikael Samuelsson, a former Red Wing the organization would have liked to add, was not traded by the Panthers, who kept all their prospective unrestricted free agents for a playoff push.
"There was not a lot of rentals," Holland said. "It was a matter of how many teams are in the hunt for a playoff spot."
Holland was not frustrated by the lack of a trade, however.
"We're second overall and we have a good team," Holland said. "We made one move today. We think Brendan Smith is real close (to being an NHL regular) and it's not fair for Mike Commodore to be here and be passed over by Brendan Smith. Our depth is internal. We made our move five days ago (Quincey). We'd like to have made a move, but there wasn't a fit."
Very, very, very well said, per FSD's Art Regner (this is update #4) and his deadline report:
"We tried to make a couple of moves, but sometimes our picks weren't high enough because our team is too high in standings or we didn't have the young players," Red Wing GM Ken Holland said of his team's quiet day. "If somebody offers a second-round pick, we've got to offer a first-round because of where we sit in the standings. So ultimately there wasn't a fit."
Holland seemed to be a little disappointed but likes the depth of his team, saying that the Red Wings' move was made last week, when they acquired defenseman Kyle Quincey from the Lightening for a first-round pick. Many pundits believed that the Wings were seeking a big veteran forward to shore up their third or fourth line. Speculation is that coach Mike Babcock is apprehensive to use some of the Red Wings' younger forwards during the playoffs because they lack size and experience.
"In order to get bigger, we've got to reduce the skill level," Holland said. "I think that's something that has to happen over time, over two to three years. You can't sit here and think, in one day, you're going to change your team from a skill team, that we're going to eliminate skill and add size."
The Wings are who they are, and that's fine with Holland. He's more than happy to take this current roster and let them play the year out. Depending on how they do will determine what direction the team will go during the offseason. Trade-deadline day use to be a free-for-all, a trade being announced every 30 seconds. Holland said that those days are long gone.
"It's a draft-pick and prospect league," Holland said. "What I mean by that is that a lot of your team has to be homegrown."
Parity is also an issue. So many teams are still in the hunt for a playoff spot that there are many more buyers than sellers. Term and length of contracts also plays into the mix.
"We're committed to a retool, a rebuild," Holland said. "We like some of our kids. That was part of the Commodore trade today. We want Brendan Smith to play. (Gustav) Nyquist is a young player we like, and there are some others. We didn't want to do anything foolish today and sacrifice a whole bunch of future pieces for a one-shot run."
Update #5: Here's Holland, via RedWingsFeed, talking to Ansar Khan about why he stood pat...
"You sit in that room, you work the phones, all your staff is there,'' Holland said. "A phone call comes through, a name comes up. You look at everybody (and say), 'Here's what it's going to (take).' Everybody's nodding 'No, no, no, it doesn't make any sense.' You pick up the phone and make a (counter) offer and the other guy comes back and says, 'No, no, no, we don't like what you're offering.' Well, that's all we really got to offer.''
And so the Red Wings did not acquire that decent-sized depth forward they were seeking. They made offers for a few players, including Buffalo center Paul Gaustad, but the price was too high.
"There wasn't a fit, so we weren't close on anything,'' Holland said. "We like our team, we've played at a high level. There were 3-4 players we would have liked to added but we either didn't offer enough or they didn't like what we were offering.''
"I think it's the standings,'' Holland said. "You look in the West, so many teams close. If somebody offers a second-round pick, we got to offer a first (rounder) because of where we sit in the standings. Ultimately, either we didn't have the assets or they weren't the type of players we were looking to add to our team.''
"I thought we did a real good thing, trading a first-round pick, and got Quincey,'' Babcock said. "We really felt we needed depth at that position.'' He added "you can always hope for a whole bunch of players. It's like going shopping. You want to buy a lot,'' Babcock said. "But when the coat you want is 3,000 bucks, I'm too tight for that. So I keep wearing what I've got.''
We're probably not a big team. In order to get bigger, we got to reduce the skill level. That's got to happen over time, over two and three years. You can't think you're going to change your team from a skill team and add size at the deadline.''
"I think we do have the depth up front and we added Quincey,'' Lidstrom said. "And I know Kenny is real high on the depth that we have in the minors. So I feel confident with the team we have."
"We're sitting in second in the West with who we are, we might as well continue to be who we are, see where it leads,'' Holland said. "Reassess in the summer time.''
And Holland told Khan that he was not amused about the Stuart rumor:
"Somebody is sitting at a computer and making up stories, playing general manager,'' Holland said. "And in this world today, when you got one person playing general manager, the whole world jumps on it and runs. On one hand it's amusing, but on the other, it's real people, (and) there's absolutely zero truth.''
Holland, who told Stuart six weeks ago that he wasn't going to be traded, said he had a brief conversation with Rangers GM Glen Sather three weeks ago, but it wasn't about Stuart.
"I have no idea how a rumor like that starts,'' said Holland, who called it "ludicrous.'' He added, "I think the players also understand it's a different world today and rumors run rampant.''
Stuart will be an unrestricted free agent this summer. The Red Wings approached him about extending his contract, but he said he will decide on his future after the season. The club is not optimistic he will return. Stuart's family lives in San Jose and can't relocate for personal reasons, forcing the defenseman to make long commutes a few times during breaks in the schedule. He might seek a deal with a team closer to home.
Update #too many: Mike Commodore spoke to both MLive's Ansar Khan, DetroitRedWings.com's Bill Roose and the Macomb Daily's Chuck Pleiness about hsi exit, and Ken Holland weighed in, too:
"To think that Mike Commodore can play 20 games in the NHL, this year he's played 17, and then go into the Stanley Cup playoffs, is pretty hard," Holland said.
"You can't play 20 games and be ahead of guys on the farm team," Holland said. "Mike wanted to play. It's an opportunity for Mike and it's an opportunity for us, too I didn't feel right bringing up Brendan Smith and having Mike Commodore being passed over by Brendan Smith," Holland added.
"Smith was on the all-rookie team last year in the AHL, he's got 10 goals, tremendous college career," Holland said. "We're very high on Smith, he's young but when the playoffs start, we expect to have Jonathan Ericsson healthy, we think our seventh and eighth defensemen are going to be Jakub Kindl and Brendan Smith, also got two vets down there in Doug Janik and Garnet Exelby. When you start getting into your 10th and 11th and 12th defensemen, we're as deep as anybody. Part of the puzzle of going for a long playoff run is health."
Commodore, 32, was injured in the preseason so fell behind early. He played only 17 games and has no goals, one assist and 12 penalty minutes.
"It would have been nice to see this thing through here," Commodore said. "They've got as good a chance to win as anybody else, but this is probably better for me. I get an opportunity. I never really got an opportunity here, was in and out."
He was a healthy scratch for 30 games.
"I have no idea why," Commodore said. "You'd have to ask (Babcock). The D core is really good here. I don't even want to speculate. I'm fine," Commodore added. "It just didn't work out. It's not the first team where it didn't work out. It's time to move on."
Not surprisingly, Pleiness says that Holland and Lightning GM Steve Yzerman hashed out the deal when Kyle Quincey became a Wing…
And as the Windsor Star's Dave Waddell suggests, letting Commodore leave more or less gives Commodore a fighting chance to salvage his career:
"They got as good a chance to win as anybody else, but this is probably better for me," Commodore said "I played 17 games, was a healthy scratch for 30 games, that's not going to cut it. Hopefully, I get a better opportunity in Tampa Bay."
Wings coach Mike Babcock played the realist Monday when asked about the team's inability to acquire a physical forward.
"It's like going shopping. You want to buy a lot," Babcock said. "But when the coat you want is 3,000 bucks, I'm too tight for that. That's just the way I am. I'm tight, so I keep wearing what I've got."
"I thought we did a real good thing, trading a first-round pick and got Quincey," Babcock said. "We really felt we needed depth at that position. We acquired the depth we needed."
However, finally having the 23-year-old Smith in Detroit certainly seemed to lift his spirits. The six-foot-two, 199-pound Smith has 12 goals and 32 points in 63 games for Grand Rapids this season.
"He came on the West Coast with us (last fall), he was good enough to play on the team at that point," Babcock said. "We felt the minutes in the minors were important. We felt he'd be on the team by the end. He could've probably played all year, probably could've played last year. Actually, if the truth be told, the coaching staff wanted him, the general manager wanted to make sure he got some seasoning."
The Wings' players also said they were fine heading into the post-season with what they already have.
"I think we do have the depth up front and we added Quincey and traded Commodore today to add to the depth," Nick Lidstrom said. "I know Kenny is real high on the depth that we have in the minors as well, so I feel confident with the team that we have now."
"When the playoffs start we expect to have Jonathan Ericsson healthy," Holland said. "We think our seventh and eighth defencemen are going to be Jakub Kindl and Brendan Smith. "When you start getting into your 10th and 11th and 12th defencemen, we're as deep as anybody. "Part of the puzzle of going of going for a long playoff run is health."
The Free Press's Helene St. James provides a superb overview...
Ken Holland kept coming back to the same phrase as he assessed why the Red Wings were quiet on trade deadline day: There wasn't a fit. They wanted to add a forward, but not at the prices charged by the few NHL teams that were sellers before Monday's 3 p.m. closing bell. The Wings made the one move they considered vital last week when they beefed up their defense by acquiring Kyle Quincey, trading their first-round pick in June to do so. Quincey's arrival, in fact, prompted the one small deal the Wings did make Monday, which was to ship extraneous defenseman Mike Commodore to Tampa Bay for a conditional seventh-rounder. They turned around and called up highly touted prospect Brendan Smith, who will be in the lineup tonight against Columbus. So the deadline came and went for the Wings. Critics will bemoan they should have done something — especially after Western Conference rivals Nashville, Vancouver and Chicago all did — but Holland isn't the panicky type, and doesn't buy into having brawn over brains.
"I like the skill," he said Monday afternoon, standing in the middle of the Wings' locker room at Joe Louis Arena. Within sight was the NHL standings board, which showed Detroit second overall in the league.
"Some teams are bigger," Holland said. "They don't have our skill. Let's play. I don't know that there was a move today that we could have made that would have gotten us bigger. The bottom line is, if you are going on a long playoff run, the top half of your roster for the most part has got to be healthy. You can have the odd injury. Part of it is matchup, part of it is luck."
Wings coach Mike Babcock offered a savvy analogy for what went down around the league: "It's like going shopping. You want to buy lots, but when the coat you want is 3,000 bucks, I'm too tight for that. That's just the way I am. Pretty tight. So, I'll keep wearing what I got. You can always hope for a whole bunch more, but the price for other pieces wasn't what we were willing to pay, or teams weren't willing to trade them to us. That's just the way life is."
Were they close to making a deal? "Not very close at all," Holland said. "Talked to a lot of teams. We made some offers. There were three or four players we would have liked to have, but either we didn't offer enough, or they didn't like what we were offering."
The Wings didn't want to move any of their regular players. Prospects like Smith and forward Gustav Nyquist were off limits. It really came down to offering draft picks, and because the Wings finish so high season after season, they pick low — meaning that if most teams offer a third-rounder for someone, the Wings would need to use their second-round pick to compete. Ultimately they decided to stick with the players who'd had won a league-high 41 games — in the West's toughest division, no less.
"We like our team," Holland said. "We've played at a high level. I'm not going to move a bunch of future pieces for one shot at a run. There either is a fit, or there isn't a fit. There wasn't a fit. Are we a big team? No. I can't do that in one day. In order to get bigger, we've got to reduce the skill level, and I think that's something that's got to happen over time. You can't sit at the deadline and in one day think you're going to change your team from a skilled team, and add size. We're in second in the West with what we are. We may as well continue to be who we are, and see where it leads us."
The one thing Holland was pissed off about? The bogus Stuart to the Rangers rumor, as the Macomb Daily's Chuck Pleiness noted. Stuart was all smiles when the media came to his locker telling him the word was that he'd been traded, politely playing it off with a grin as opposed to panic given that he knew the Wings were keeping him…
"I'll have to go check my phone," Stuart said. "I really don't know what's going on. That's kind of funny. It's an eventful day," Stuart added. "A lot of it is sitting around and watching nothing happen. You definitely pay attention around you unless you're on the ice practicing. You have no control of it, you just have to wait and see what happens."
Holland found it a bit amusing as well.
"Somebody is sitting at a computer and making up stories, playing general manager," Holland said. "And in this world today, when you've got one person playing general manager, the whole world jumps on it and runs."
Holland said six weeks ago Stuart, who's an unrestricted free agent after this season and may not re-sign, wasn't going anywhere.
"I haven't talked to Glen Sather in three weeks," Holland said. "We've had one brief conversation and I haven't talked to anyone with the Rangers and my conversation with Glen had nothing to do with Brad Stuart. I have no idea how rumors like that starts," Holland added. "If you're Brad and you're sitting there, it's a ludicrous rumor, I don't know how it starts, he's got a family, but I think the players also understand it's a different world today and rumors run rampant."
And that's exactly what several Wings players talked about when speaking to the Windsor Star's Bob Duff, either today or over the past four or five days as I recall some of these quotes from last Thursday and Friday:
"I don't know what I'd do if I had to go somewhere else," Kindl said, spying the blank space where Commodore's nameplate once hung. "Probably freak out."
The frothing of the mouth in anticipation, and hand-wringing frenzy at its conclusion, conceal a stark reality about trade-deadline moves. This isn't fantasy sports, These are real deals, involving real people.
"It changes people's lives," Detroit defenceman Niklas Kronwall said.
That's the part of hockey that you never know," Wings forward Jan Mursak said. "Most of the hockey players switch a lot of teams during their careers."
"One of the guys asked me today if I had my cellphone on vibrate," Kindl said.
Mursak was struck by the reality of the situation.
"You never know when will be the last day with some of the players here," he said.
"The whole hoopla of the day, it's kind of funny to watch, but it's not really ever that much fun to be part of it," Emmerton said.
In terms of the actual reality of the day for the Wings' players, Pleiness notes that the Wings were and are more concerned with the health of Nicklas Lidstrom, who will probably play tomorrow despite a sore ankle, and Kyle Quincey, who probably won't due to a sore groin, and both injuries happened to occur during the Wings-Avs game which took Jonathan Ericsson out for the next month:
"The puck came hard around and kind of skipped and hit me right in the ankle," Lidstrom said. "I hope the swelling goes down so I can put my skate on, that's been the problem getting the skate on and tying my skate, so we have to wait and see how it is in the morning."
The injury occurred in the second period and didn't allow him to untie his skates in the locker room before the third.
"I know that I couldn't do it because it would have swollen up right away," Lidstrom said. "So I kept it on and waited until after the game and then it got real sore."
Quincey tweaked his groin in the first period Saturday against his former team.
"It was the first period," Quincey recalled. "I actually played with a broken skate blade on my left skate, I was almost skating on one leg, which didn't help the groin any. Then it gradually got worse. I felt pretty good in the third."
Lidstrom and Quincey also spoke to Fox Sports Detroit's Art Regner...
"It's day-to-day," said Quincey, who had a battery of tests done to make sure the injury isn't serious. "I hope to get back in the swing of things. It"s frustrating."
Both Lidstrom and Quincey expect to play Friday night vs. Minnesota. Red Wing coach Mike Babcock told reporters Monday that Smith and Jakub Kindl will both be in Detroit's lineup against Columbus.
"Injuries are a part of hockey," said Kindl, who has appeared in 42 games this season for the Wings and has a goal and 10 assists. "I didn't expect that I was going to be in the lineup this quick. You never want to see a teammate go down, but it happens. I just have to be ready."
Kindl says the key for him will be to keep his game simple and "show them I can play."
As for Smith, he has an admirer in Babcock.
"He's an NHL player, probably could have played this year, probably could have played last year (in Detroit)," Babcock said. "If the truth be told, the coaching staff wanted him, and the general manager made sure he got some seasoning. That's what we do here."
Smith, 23, has appeared in 47 games for Grand Rapids and has 10 goals and 22 assists. He's a plus-7 and has 74 penalty minutes. Smith was named to the AHL All-Rookie team last season. When asked about Detroit's lack of activity during Monday's trade deadline, Babcock was somewhat philosophical.
"It's like going shopping," he said. "You want to buy lots, but when the coat you want is 3,000 bucks, I'm too tight for that. That's just the way I am, pretty tight. So I just keep wearing what I've got."
And after offering you an interview WXYT's Ken Kal gave to WBBL's Huge Show...
I'll conclude for the moment with this from Pleiness:
"You sit in that room, you work the phones, all your staff is there," Holland said. "A name comes up, a phone call comes through, you look at everybody, here's what it's going to be, everybody's nodding no, no, no, it doesn't make any sense. You pick up the phone and say it doesn't make any sense, so you make an offer and the other guy comes back and says 'No, no, no, we don't like what you're offering.' Well, that's all we've really got to offer. It is what it is. We like our team, I like our depth. So we'll see."
Update #7: I know that many of you believe that the Wings absolutely lost the Stanley Cup—or something close to it—when the Predators acquired Paul Gaustad and the Wings didn't, so here are outsiders' takes on the Wings' moves:
Here's ESPN's Pierre LeBrun's assessment of the Wings' inactivity…
The Detroit Red Wings are a big-time Cup contender. Again. They added defenseman Kyle Quincey last week in what was a solid addition, but weren't able to fill their other need, bottom-six forward size and grit. They tried on Paul Gaustad but didn't have what it took to make the deal: a first-round pick, which they dealt for Quincey. They checked on Samuel Pahlsson but didn't have the pair of fourth-round picks the Jackets wanted. Such is life. I'm not too concerned for the Wings, they're still a big-time powerhouse and now have all kinds of cap room ($20 million-plus) for the offseason.
And Scott Burnside, who gives the Wings a "stock down" rating:
Detroit Red Wings: The Red Wings had significant interest in Paul Gaustad, but having traded their first-round pick in the 2012 draft for Kyle Quincey, Detroit GM Ken Holland didn't have the resources needed to get a deal done.
In his insider blog, ESPN's Craig Custance has this to say about Rick Nash...
There will be no shortage of suitors for Nash during the offseason with the Philadelphia Flyers, Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver Canucks, Boston Bruins, Sharks and Rangers all potentially making a run at it him around the draft. In the meantime, there will need to be some fences mended. Nash's agent, Joe Resnick, made it clear that the Nash camp would have preferred to have this situation settled by the trade deadline and now it's going to drag out until the summer, which isn't an ideal situation for the Blue Jackets or for Nash.
And this about the Predators' decision to hang onto Ryan Suter:
In the competitive Western Conference, there won't be an easy round, so there's no guarantee Nashville even matches last year's trip to the second round. If Suter decides he's not crazy about the future in Nashville, the return for his negotiating rights at the draft in Pittsburgh will be considerably less than what Nashville would have received today.
None of TSN's insiders weighed in regarding the Wings, and NHL.com's Adam Kimelman offered a "blurb"...
The Red Wings said they wanted to depth at forward and on defense at the deadline, and were able to make one wish come true with Quincey. The cost, however, was high, with the team sacrificing a first-round pick.
But USA Today's Kevin Allen believes that the Wings did okay:
7. Detroit Red Wings: The Red Wings were quiet on trade deadline day, only moving Mike Commodore for a seventh-round pick, but last week they added Kyle Quincey who will play 20-plus minutes for them. Given the lack of major deals, the Quincey deal looks even more impressive
Sportsline's Adam Gretz didn't rank the Wings as a winner or a loser, nor did the Sporting News's Jesse Spector, but the Hockey News's Ryan Kennedy tosses us a change-up via his take on the Commodore trade:
ANALYSIS: Looks like we should get used to seeing Detroit-Tampa trades in the next few years with former Wings lifer Steve Yzerman helming the Bolts. In this specific deal, Commodore provides the Lightning with a warm body after several years in the wilderness with Columbus and most recently the Red Wings. The affable veteran gives Tampa size and a spot on a porous blueline that already dealt Pavel Kubina to Philadelphia and lost Mattias Ohlund to long-term injury. With Victor Hedman and Marc-Andre Bergeron also on the shelf, Commodore will be a welcome addition for at least the short term and his $1 million salary is easy to swallow. The big blueliner will be an unrestricted free agent this summer. The conditional draft pick acquired by Detroit is mere gravy; the Wings had little use for Commodore. -RK
The Ottawa Sun's Chris Stevenson didn't mention the Wings in his analysis, and the Globe and Mail's Eric Duhatschek believes that the "winners" will be determined in April and May, Yahoo Sports' Greg "Puck Daddy" Wyshynski was amazed at the price Gaustad fetched, Yahoo Sports' Nicholas J. Cotsonika didn't mention the Wings during his winners/losers column, and…
The Score's Chris Lund notes that the Wings may have not made many moves, but over 9,000,000 people issued 5,700+ Tweets about the Wings' activity over the course of February 26th and the 27th up to the deadline itself:
The Red Wings, who figured to play a larger role than they did, were only mentioned 5,742 times. Sure it seems like a lot, but when you compare that to the Predators who were active, picking up Andrei Kostitsyn and Paul Gaustad, and mentioned 8,888 times, it's not that much activity. The Red Wings have a much bigger fanbase though, as they had 9 million impressions to the Predators 12 million, despite the big disparity in tweets. Simply put, the Preds fanbase just doesn't have the social media presence other teams do. Detroit on the other hand was expected to be active on deadline day but simply didn't pull the trigger on anything. Kyle Quincey was their big acquisition this past week.
Update #7.5: Per Pro Hockey Talk's Mike Halford's take on the top ten deadline day stories:
Motor City silence: If Detroit falls short in the playoffs, Red Wings fans might look back at the deadline and wonder why GM Ken Holland wasn't more aggressive. Here's his explanation after doing nothing more than ship out Mike Commodore: "There wasn't a fit. We tried to do a couple of moves, but either our (draft) picks weren't high enough because our team is high in the standings, or we didn't have the young players (other teams wanted)."
Also of note from the Tampa Tribune's Erik Erlendsson:
"We really think a couple of young players have gone by Mike this year," Detroit general manager Ken Holland told TSN television. "And Mike has been a real good pro and if he felt there was an opportunity to play here, he wanted to stay.''
Holland said he stayed in contact with Tampa Bay general manager Steve Yzerman after the two pulled off the trade that sent defenseman Kyle Quincey to the Red Wings in exchange for a first-round draft pick.
"After we did the Quincey deal I stayed in touch with Steve and told him we might have an opportunity to move Commodore, so we stayed in touch and completed it this morning,'' Holland told TSN. "(Commodore) really wants to play and try to earn a contract for next year.''
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Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. Disappointed? Yes. Angry or pissed off? Hardly. The Wings are going to go with those that brought them this far. That's not a bad thing. My only real concern is the PP… and if that improves then I'm quite happy to go up against any team in the league. Get on the Stress Train if you want. Me? I'm waiting until the playoffs start.
Posted by calquake from a.k.a. Uniquake, workin' on my manifesto on 02/27/12 at 09:50 PM ET
There is so much incorrectness floating around from some of you naysayers. Fil, Sammy and Franzen were the second line in the 08 team, not the third.
Posted by shanetx from Floydada, Texas on 02/27/12 at 10:09 PM ET
Teams aren't lining up to help us (unless your name is Steve Yzerman).
Yeah? Well guess what? That's one more team than ANY OTHER TEAM HAD lining up to help them.
Do you think there were teams lining up to help Vancouver, the most hated team in the league that also happens to be the defending Western Conference champs? No, but they were still able to make moves.
Posted by Garth on 02/27/12 at 10:16 PM ET
Knowing how much KH values his 1st rd picks post lockout; when he traded his this year, I guess that it meant he was rolling the dice on this year. It got my hopes up that they would plug another hole or two in their line up today. I guess that's why I am so disappointed. I'm not advocating KH should trade Nyquist for an UFA, but there had to be something out there.
Parity sucks. But dilussional canadian hockey teams that refuse to sell when their ship sunk two years ago is stupid—yeah you CAL and MTL.
Posted by 11B3PF7 in MN on 02/27/12 at 10:34 PM ET
But… we could have had ANDREI KOSTITSYN!
Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 02/27/12 at 10:37 PM ET
Also, there had to be something that we could have assembled to get a RFA like tj galiardi from col. Although, I know there was a lack of common ground to acquire Quincy, thus the three way trade; this was for a different player, position…
The loss of eaves really hurts with other injuries.
Posted by 11B3PF7 in MN on 02/27/12 at 10:50 PM ET
It's like going shopping - when the coat you want is 3,000 bucks, I'm too tight for that.
The thing is you CAN afford that $3,000 coat, Mike! Buy that bitch and pimp it at the Stanley Cup parade. Oh, but we can't trade away a prospect or two who may or may not be ready to play 5-10 regular season games in 2016?!
Personally I don't expect Detroit to bid for Parise or Suter/Weber this coming off season. I think they'll re-up Hudler, extend Filppula, move Ericsson to the 2nd pairing and play Kindl/Quincey on the 3rd pairing.
Posted by godblender on 02/27/12 at 11:13 PM ET
The wings do not any more bottom 6 guys. Galliardi is not a top 6 guy.
Posted by shanetx from Floydada, Texas on 02/27/12 at 11:13 PM ET
Agree or disagree: The grading has started to come in on the Wings. ESPN:
The Detroit Red Wings are a big-time Cup contender. Again. They added defenseman Kyle Quincey last week in what was a solid addition, but weren't able to fill their other need, bottom-six forward size and grit. They tried on Paul Gaustad but didn't have what it took to make the deal: a first-round pick, which they dealt for Quincey. They checked on Samuel Pahlsson but didn't have the pair of fourth-round picks the Jackets wanted. Such is life. I'm not too concerned for the Wings, they're still a big-time powerhouse and now have all kinds of cap room ($20 million-plus) for the offseason.
Burnside (among the teams "that didn't quite get to where they wanted to go):
Detroit Red Wings
The Red Wings had significant interest in Paul Gaustad but having traded their first-round pick in the 2012 draft for Kyle Quincey, Detroit GM Ken Holland didn't have the resources needed to get a deal done.
Hockey and baseball are similar in that people want to scream over the trade deadline (not as much the draft), where in football it's about the draft more. Basketball, it seems to be in between, no?
Posted by Bugsy on 02/27/12 at 11:21 PM ET
I know there wasn't much out there that was worth spending for, and Holland's wisdom in staying put was sound. Its just frustrating to watch the Wings stay in neutral roster wise. I think this crop of forwards lacks some heart and that San Jose and Vancouver are a bit in their heads. The Wings need fresh blood at forward. Since it didn't happen today, they're gonna have to get several lucky breaks to reach the finals. Better win the Central boys, and this backslide needs to stop tomorrow.
GODDAMMIT this is frustrating.
Posted by bezukov from the kids are alright. on 02/28/12 at 12:06 AM ET
Who ever said "blow the team up?" not me. Their slump is just that, a slump. That being said, not very confident going into the post season without getting a piece that seems to be missing. I'm a bit frustrated like many Wings fans today. Just my opinion. No need to take to heart.
Posted by Wings_in_NYC on 02/28/12 at 12:35 AM ET
It's like going shopping - when the coat you want is 3,000 bucks, I'm too tight for that.
That's a great, except that you were given 100,000 to buy a wardrobe and you have 10,000 and you NEEDED A COAT, and when you're done shopping you don't get to keep the money you didn't spend, it just disappears. Wouldn't you rather have the coat than not have it? It gets cold in the D.
Knowing how much KH values his 1st rd picks post lockout;
So much so that he's he's traded away 3 of the last 7? And like in 2009 when he valued his 1st so much that he traded the 30th pick overall straight up for the 32nd? Accomplishing nothing?
Yeah, he cherishes them…
Posted by Garth on 02/28/12 at 01:58 AM ET
My biggest disappointment today is fully realizing how much I hate having signed Ericsson in the off season, and giving him a NTC (are you kidding me?!).
I think everyone agrees that we paid too much for him and didn't desperately need him. With the Quincey signing, we now have an over abundance of defensive depth to the point where we're giving away players for packs of gum, and paying a #5 defenseman 3.5 mil.
What happens in the off-season? I could waste time typing up a bunch of scenarios, but basically… that Ericsson deal is going to be a problem when it comes to signing guys. Ian White will want a raise, for starters.
Good luck, Kenny.
Posted by DrewBehr from The Mitten on 02/28/12 at 02:04 AM ET
Posted by Garth on 02/27/12 at 10:58 PM ET
I share your frustration Garth. I think Holland is a little too tight fisted with prospects and picks (after all, they make new ones every year). But after taking a look at the folks who actually moved today, I'm not sure that the benefit any of them could provide now outweighs any of our prospect's potential. If it weren't for his onerous contract, Nash would have been worth going for broke over. But even so, there is no way in hell Howson was going to trade him to Detroit.
I'm pulling my hair out too, but no one on the market was worth selling the farm to get. I'm not mad about it anymore. It just sucks because this team won't go any deeper this year without some external factors working out in their favor.
I'm looking forward to a blockbuster free agency KH.
Posted by bezukov from the kids are alright. on 02/28/12 at 02:14 AM ET
You guys are ruining my glass of scotch…
If anything, KH should have upgraded the medical team and facilities today (I'm sure they're the best money can buy). The Wings need to be able to remain healthy and recover from sustained injuries as fast as possible. The West is going to be a guantlet this year.
The cost of doing business is steep when you have about 20 teams thinking they have a shot at the Cup this year. The Wings are probably the in the top three, maybe two, most skilled teams in the league…KH knows what he's doing.
Posted by Jesters Dead on 02/28/12 at 02:37 AM ET
I think the Zack Kassian pick-up was the best. Think he'll end up a lighter faster Lucic. Hard-nosed guy who has offensive upside. If the Nucks can keep him they got a good deal. He'll do good on a tougher team.
The first thing that came to mind when I saw this trade was the Canucks saying something along the lines of 'We didn't get the shit kicked out of us, rather we couldn't score' during the Cup finals.
Hodgson has sick hands and a ridiculous shot. I think the Sabres picked the Canucks' pocket on this one.
Posted by Jesters Dead on 02/28/12 at 04:19 AM ET
Seriously. Kassian is highly touted, Gragnani has won AHL rookie of the year and Dman of the year, but Hodgson was the only real sniper on the team. They all rely on bounces and tap-ins.
If you look at Hodgson's goals, every one is skill; he can ace the best goalies from way out. A kid like Kassian is one bad decision away from a suspension or a broken hand. What they needed against Boston was not a rookie tough guy…..but a fvcking GOAL SCORER!
Anyway, I feel sick, but we really needed the dman, so we'll see.
Posted by tuxedoTshirt from the Home of the 1937 World Champions on 02/28/12 at 05:00 AM ET
George, 1 suggestion if you haven't seen this already (and if you don't mind me posting links ahead of you the last several weeks/while you were out—scratch that, no-one really noticed my links while you were out): link to this video from ESPN analyzing the trades. None of the panel put Detroit higher of course, but they all kept Detroit as second best team in hockey, Melrose flipping Detroit and Vancouver 1 and 2:
If you believe Melrose, LeBrun, and Custance: the message is don't panic.
Posted by Bugsy on 02/28/12 at 05:15 AM ET
Thanks…The ESPN clip conked out halfway through for me.
Posted by George Malik from South Lyon, MI on 02/28/12 at 06:10 AM ET
The cost of doing business is steep when you have about 20 teams thinking they have a shot at the Cup this year. The Wings are probably the in the top three, maybe two, most skilled teams in the league…KH knows what he's doing.
Posted by Jesters Dead on 02/27/12 at 11:37 PM ET
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House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home (Paperback)
Staff Reviews
This is a near perfect book (and I kinda hate memoirs).— From Jason's Picks
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"Vivid. . . . Affecting. . . . A liberating demonstration of the power of faith."
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"An absorbing account of growing up in the 1960s South, living with a disability, becoming a writer and finding faith. Richard's book attests to the power of words (and the Word) in shaping a life. . . . Richard is a fiercely gifted writer. . . . [His] special childhood results in considerable powers of observation, empathy and imagination."
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"Gritty and engrossing. . . . His is an account, at times exquisite, of a youth laced with pain, surgeries, body casts, beatings, fear, drinking, isolation, rebellion. With flashes of brilliance. With mysticism and the supernatural and strokes of what many would call luck. . . . An interesting, well-crafted narrative girded with compassion and feeling, this is a good read."
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"Lovely. . . . Richard captures what is often misunderstood about the Southerner's intimate parlay with God. Appearances to the contrary, it is not about certainty. . . . A fascinating journey."
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"Supremely animated. . . . [Richard's] spiritual journey, conducted in fits and starts and finally claimed in gorgeous hosannas of prose, forms the book's narrative DNA."
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—Darcey Steinke, Los Angeles Review of Books
"Affecting. . . . Fans who have been waiting to hear from him ever since [Charity] won't be disappointed with his new memoir, which sees the welcome return of Richard's charismatic prose style."
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"The precision of the descriptions is marvelous in this memoir of growing up with infirmity. The depth of Richard's heart is profound, exhilarating, frightening, instructive. House of Prayer
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"Mark Richard says important things about finding one's way, about love in action, about being a father, and he does so with the precision and grace of an artisan from another time. This is some of the finest writing you will ever read."
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Former Thayer School registrar Marion C. Morhouse, 98, died March 18 in Shelburne, Vt., where she had lived since 1996. In recognition of her 22 years of service to Thayer, she was inducted into the Dartmouth Society of Engineers as an honorary member. Born in 1914, she graduated from Bradford Academy and attended Middlebury College. She lived in Woodstock, Vt., for 22 years and Enfield, N.H., for 27 years. She was involved with the Girl Scouts, local garden clubs, school groups, the Congregational Church, historical society, and Shaker Museum. In her 80s she delivered Meals on Wheels, hiked the Milford Track in New Zealand, and parasailed at age 86. Morhouse is survived by two of her four children, 10 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
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What a mensch was Peter Falk. An average-Joe hero, he embodied the best of us on our worst day. He was best known as TV's Lieut. Columbo, who, for 30 years, taught snooty murderers that, however crafty they thought they were, he was smarter. Every episode in the series was a class struggle, which reached its peak in the mid-1970's, played as a comedy of manners and won by the wily proletarian. But Falk, who died last night at 83 at his Beverly Hills home after a draining siege of Alzheimer's, was also a significant figure in American cinema. He spanned the gulf between mainstream movies (like The Cheap Detective and The In-Laws) and indie movies (notably those of John Cassavetes) with the ease of a Colossus navigating a mud puddle.
He had one of the great loopy stares in movie history, courtesy of a glass eye that was the trophy from a childhood disease. But Falk's ocular eccentricity would not relegate him to weird comic status; he saw acutely into the human condition of the American male, 20th century, second half. Blessed with a crinkly face that viewers found it hard not to smile back at, Falk would stab the air with his cigar stub as an artist used a paint brush. He played tough guys, gangsters and cops, hundreds of times, managing to show the fraternity of both groups, the humanity of each. A modern folk (or Falk) poet of exasperation, he used a repertoire of eloquent gestures to portrait the weight of the human condition; the slow descending of his shoulders had the grace of Pavlova's dying fall in Swan Lake.
(See pictures of Peter Falk's life on screen.)
Falk, born in New York City in 1927, didn't let his disability stop him from participating in sports. In a 1997 interview for Cigar Aficionado (a magazine for which the actor could have been every issue's cover boy), he recalled a baseball game in high school: "The umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe. I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, 'Try this.' I got such a laugh you wouldn't believe." It was an early example of Falk's career trajectory: winning by losing, falling upward.
Rejected by the Army for World War II service, Falk enlisted in the Merchant Marine. Back in the States and bored with college, he tried joining the Irgun, but the war for Israel's independence ended before he could help. By 1953 he had secured a master's in public administration from Syracuse University, and got a Connecticut state job in Hartford, where he started working in theater. Soon he was on Broadway, with a small role in the Phoenix Theatre's 1956 production of Shaw's Saint Joan and, the following year, in an adaptation of Ostrovsky's Diary of a Scoundrel, with Roddy McDowall, Robert Culp and Jerry Stiller.
(Read TIME's 1973 cover story on Columbo.)
The forceful patois of his rough-tenor voice must have made an impression in revivals of classical European dramas; but Falk's was a face made for the movies' medium close-up. He got an early starring role in Julian Rothman's Z-minus The Bloody Brood (1959). Playing Nico, a drug dealer masquerading as a beatnik creep, he watches an old man collapse in front of him with a heart attack and lets the man die as a kind of performance art. ("Death is the last great challenge to the creative mind.") He would play variations on that role, minus the preening sadism, for most of the next decade: in the films Pretty Boy Floyd and Murder, Inc. and on TV in The Untouchables. Graduating to gangster parts in A-list movies, he appeared in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles, as the chief bad guy in the Sinatra-Dino-Rat Pack Robin and the 7 Hoods and, finally above the title, as Maximilian Meen in Blake Edwards' The Great Race.
In the 1969 Vegas crime film Machine Gun McCain, he played the mob boss as harried CEO. ("What's the matter, I can't make an investment? I'm not allowed to make a dollar? I ain't got that right?") The movie wasn't a keeper, but it cemented Falk's friendship with John Cassavetes, its star. Soon these two and some other adventurous spirits — Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassell, and Cassavetes' wife Gena Rowlands — formed a kind of Rat Pack of indie film to make, under Cassavetes' direction, a series of anguished, sprawling, semi-improv psychodramas. Falk was one of the wandering spouses in the 1970 Husbands, and the decent guy watching his wife (Rowlands) spiral into madness in the 1974A Woman Under the Influence. He also teamed with Cassavetes when they played two pals in Elaine May's nighttime odyssey of anxiety, Mikey and Nicky.
While other members of the troupe might flex their Actors Studio chops to chew the material to gristle, Falk usually kept his tone nuanced and conversational; he was one of the few Method-era actors who didn't demand a big screaming scene as a statement of his power and purity. Somehow he knew that he had already commanded the viewer's attention, and that a whisper — or, in Columbo's case, the trademark pause at the suspect's door and a querulous pitch to the phrase, "Just one more thing…" — was as good as a wail.
Neil Simon, who had given Falk a Broadway lead as the unemployed businessman contemplating suicide in the 1971 The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Jack Lemmon got to play that role in the movie version), finally handed the actor two starring film roles in the classic-mystery parodies Murder by Death and The Cheap Detective. In the first, Falk was "Sam Diamond" (think the hard-boiled shamuses Sam Spade and Richard Diamond), one of five detectives summoned to solve a crime. In the second film, as "Lou Peckinpaugh," Falk anchored Simon's comic hommage (commage?) to The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca and the prime films of Humphrey Bogart — a movie icon, who like Falk, spent a decade playing supporting roles as gangsters before he found his star voice as a grizzled guy on the right side of the law. (In 1996, Falk and Woody Allen played the pugnacious old vaudeville stars in a TV remake of Simon's The Sunshine Boys.)
He had first played Columbo in the 1968 TV movie Prescription: Murder, which became a series in 1971 and continued off and on until 2003, for a remarkable 35-year fusion of performer and character. But because each season contained no more than eight, and usually three to six, feature-length episodes — and because the movie audience loved Falk as much as TV spectators did — the actor was one of the few living-room stars able to duplicate his clout simultaneously on the big screen. He became a reliable conduit for crime capers with a comic tinge: a light retelling of The Brink's Job and Andrew Bergman's The In-Laws, with Alan Arkin as a nebbishy dentist drawn into a possible murder scheme by Falk, the father of the groom. The two actors later paired for the ill-fated Big Trouble, which Bergman walked away from as director, to be replaced by Cassavetes — his last, most frustrating gig behind the camera.
As Cassavetes had subsidized his indie films with roles in so-so movies and TV shows, so did Falk use Columbo as his day job, allowing him to go trekking into illuminating back alleys. In Wim Wenders' angel tale Wings of Desire, he plays a visiting Hollywood actor (and ex-angel) who teaches a new friend some primal joys, simple things: "To smoke, have coffee. And if you do it together, it's fantastic!" (Falk also appeared in Wenders' Wings of Desire sequel, Faraway, So Close.)
That craggy, warm voice of authority was perfect for one of Falk's late signature roles: the old man reading his grandson the story that is the movie The Princess Bride. Who better than Falk could sell a kid the idea of the greatest kiss the world has ever seen? Who wouldn't want a grandpa, a friend, even an enemy like the ones Falk played? Even now, at his death, we wish, like the boy in The Princess Bride, that Peter Falk could come over and read to us again tomorrow.


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No. 2 Duke rallies past No. 4 Ohio State 73-68
Buckeyes blew an 11-point lead at halftime
DURHAM, N.C. — Mason Plumlee had 21 points and a career-high-tying 17 rebounds, and No. 2 Duke rallied late and held on to beat No. 4 Ohio State 73-68 on Wednesday night.
Rasheed Sulaimon scored 17 points and Ryan Kelly added 15 and hit 3-pointers on consecutive trips downcourt early during the 20-7 run that put the Blue Devils (7-0) ahead to stay and sent them to their third win over a top-five team this month.
Deshaun Thomas scored 16 points for Ohio State (4-1), while Aaron Craft and Lenzelle Smith Jr. had 11 apiece.
Shannon Scott pulled the Buckeyes within 66-64 with a free throw with 28.9 seconds left before Quinn Cook sealed it by hitting six free throws in the final 27.3 seconds.


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So far we have all these social networks and apps for keeping track of friends and family: Facebook, Foursquare, Path, Google+, Glancee, Banjo or Highlight -- but what if we don't want to be found? That's when users need Hell is Other People, a new app that lets you be as anti-social as you want to be.
Although it really only works as the anti-Foursquare, since it lets you avoid Foursquare friends, it's still a bit indicative of some of the population overwhelmed by giving out too much information. Creator Scott Garner explains to TIME, "This project is partially a satire, partially a commentary on my disdain for 'social media', and partially an exploration of my own difficulties with social anxiety."
Foursquare users must log into the Hell Is Other People's website to launch a Friend Map powered by Google Maps and Foursquare. The program them plots friends as orange dots based on their most recent check-ins, and then recommends a "safe distance" from them which is plotted with green dots. (Garner does include a video where he attempts to skirt his Foursquare friends in Manhattan as an anti-social experiment, but no one checks in and he just manages to tour all of the island's little-known parks.)
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While the app is likely effective, wouldn't it simply be easier to just quit using Foursquare? In some ways, Garner is trying to say that people experience social pressure to be part of social media, so they partake in it. The only problem is then they need a socially acceptable way out, and that generally is something a little passive-aggressive like Hell is Other People.


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Second woman charged in Clermont Co. child abuse case
Babysitter accused of causing baby's injuries
Sheriff's deputies have charged a second woman in a Clermont County child abuse case.
Investigators said 19-year-old Alexsis Sexton caused head injuries to a 14-month-old boy in her care.
The boy's mother, 19-year-old Victoria Gans, was previously charged with child endangering in the case.
Gans brought her son Wednesday to a hospital, and deputies said her account of what happened was inconsistent with the child's injuries.
Deputies said the child was hurt sometime Tuesday, and Gans told them she wasn't home at the time. She told deputies that she left the boy with two adults she knows while she left for about four hours.
Sexton was charged Friday with two counts of felony child endangering.
Investigators did not provide an update on the boy's condition.


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pink Schwinn Mirada 1995
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Year: 1995
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High court upholds most of Texas' redistricting
Most of Texas' redistricting map upheld
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld almost all of Texas' Republican-friendly U.S. House election district map.
By a 5-4 vote, the court said the 23rd District in southwest Texas, represented by Republican Henry Bonilla, violated the Voting Rights Act because its design trampled the rights of some Hispanic voters. Reshaping the district, a task that apparently now is assigned to federal court in Texas, would force a change in at least one other neighboring district.
But the high court ruling preserved the other districts, in the Houston area and elsewhere, that were created by the Texas Legislature in 2003. This includes a Dallas-area district whose constitutionality was challenged by black voters.
The Supreme Court today also upheld the right of states to change their congressional district boundaries more frequently than the traditional every 10 years following each U.S. Census.
The court also said there is "nothing inherently suspect about a legislature's decision to replace mid-decade a court-ordered plan with one of its own."
"Even if there were, the fact of mid-decade redistricting alone is no sure indication of unlawful political gerrymanders," the court said.
That part of the ruling could open the door to more map-drawing nationwide whenever one party or another regains control of a state legislature.
The 2003 map was engineered by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, as part of a strategy to cement Republican control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
He is accused in Travis County of illegally diverting funds to the campaigns of Republican candidates for the Texas statehouse in 2002. Once in office, those lawmakers redrew the state election map to favor the GOP and helped send six more Texas Republicans to Congress in 2004. That brought the composition of the Texas delegation to the House to 21 Republicans and 11 Democrats.
Justice Anthony Kennedy said Latino voters had shown ample evidence that their voting power had been diminished in Bonilla's district. The redrawn map, he said, "undermined the progress of a racial group that has been subject to significant voting-related discrimination and that was becoming increasingly politically active and cohesive."
"Against this background, the Latinos' diminishing electoral support for the incumbent (Henry Bonilla) indicates their belief he was unresponsive to their particularized needs," Kennedy said. "In essence, the state took away their opportunity (to elect a candidate of their choice) because they were about to exercise it."
State Rep. Richard Raymond, D-Laredo, a member of the House Redistricting Committee, said he believes the only way to fix the map is to put Laredo in one congressional district. The Republicans had split it between Bonilla's 23rd District and Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar's 28th District.
"There isn't an easy repair. Any time you've got to move 100,000 people, there's a domino effect," Raymond said. "The easiest fix is you put Laredo back together."
The high court ruling apparently means there will have to be a new primary and/or general election line-up for the 23rd District and others.
Political appointees at the U.S. Justice Department, which must review Texas redistricting plans because of past discrimination against minority voters, had approved the map even though career lawyers in the department objected. The objectors had concluded that the map illegally undermined minority voting rights by reconfiguring districts in North Texas, resulting in blacks losing voting strength, and in South and West Texas, where Latino voters were disadvantaged.
A three-judge panel upheld the map after a trial in Austin in December 2003.
The U.S. Supreme Court first considered a challenge to the map last year, but the justices returned the matter to Texas for reconsideration. The result in Texas was the same, prompting objectors to the map to try again.
This time, the high court accepted four cases from Texas and heard arguments just days before the March primaries, which took place as scheduled, using the disputed map.
The plaintiffs argued that the new map was a deplorable partisan power grab that violated the Constitution and the federal Voting Rights Act. But Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz, aided by a lawyer with the Bush administration, argued that the map simply corrected Democratic gerrymandering in the past and now more accurately reflects voting preferences in a state that gave President Bush 61 percent of the vote in 2004 and where all statewide officeholders are Republicans.


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The Windows software, Unix software and Mac software pages all have duplicated content, plus there are categories for all this stuff if people want to browse by platform: [Category:Software:Platform:Windows], [Category:Software:Platform:Linux] and [Category:Software:Platform:Mac OS X].
There is more duplicated content in the Panorama Viewers page.
I suggest that categorised stub pages are created for each piece of software and non-platform specific pages created for the duplicated subsections:


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Re: Framing a Graph
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- Subject: [mg112805] Re: Framing a Graph
- From: Raul Martinez <raulmart at mac.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 05:41:28 -0400 (EDT)
Either specify the plot range (PlotRange -> {}) or specify PlotRangePadding -> Scaled[0] Good luck, Raul Martinez Sent from my iPad On Sep 30, 2010, at 1:50 AM, Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I need help in tweaking the appearance of a graph. I'd like axes shown on all four sides of a 2D plot. This can be done by including a frame as in the following. > > Plot[x^2, {x, 0, 8}, > Frame -> True, > GridLines -> Automatic, > AxesOrigin -> {0, 0}] > > The problem with this approach for my particular purpose, however, is that the origin of the graph and the lower-left corner of the frame are not coincident. The origin (0, 0) is set in and appears at the first tick on the horizontal and vertical axis. Likewise, the outermost point, (8, 64) in my example here, is not coincident with the top-right corner of the frame. Is there any way that I can get a frame to lie on top of the axes? > > Much appreciated, > > Gregory > >


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For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~T.S. Eliot
Dooley celebrated his 13th birthday in January, but we had to say goodbye in June. Trapper came into our lives in March and celebrated his first birthday this month. I turned 50 in June. In September, after six years, John and I went our separate ways. There were many tears in 2012, but I cherish mostly happy times, friends - old and new, family, health, a beautiful place to call home, amazing food and wine, my blog, doors opening to reveal new adventures, and the Newfs in My Soup who will always share my life through its ups and downs.
|Dooley and Trapper meet in March
|Goodbye, sweet boy - Wynship's Seabiscuit "Dooley"
(01/17/99 - 06/11/12)
Travel was limited, but we kicked off 2012 with a week at The Home Ranch in Colorado where we provided food and ranch photography while savoring gourmet ranch cuisine, cross-country skiing, horseback riding in the snow, and cozy evenings in front of a roaring fire. Blog posts with more photos of our visit can be found here and here.
|The Home Ranch, Clark, Colorado
|Ranch breakfast of Tuscan Eggs
|Making Pasta with Chef Hunter
|Cross country skiers with ranch dog Amos leading the way
|Venison Chops
|Early Morning - Rancho La Puerta's dining courtyard
|Breakfast Hike to Rancho Tres Estrellas, the organic farm, and
La Cocina Que Canta "the kitchen that sings"
|Spa Cuisine
Although I haven't figured out a way to make a full-time, second career from blogging, it has opened several doors to exciting new ventures. I joined Wine & Dine San Diego as a reporter and photographer and have contributed articles about local restaurants and food and wine events. Our Friday lunch at Bali Hai with Chef Ben Lieberman (who has unfortunately moved on to a restaurant in Arizona) was particularly delectable with his creative presentations of local seafood and farm produce.
|Bali Hai Island Sashimi Salad
We had a great time sampling a dozen or so Coronado happy hours to write this feature. In the fall, we were thrilled to attend the Tyler Florence Wine Dinner at Herringbone, La Jolla where I met and chatted with one of my most admired celebrity chefs turned winemaker.
|Tyler Florence talks wine
We were excited to be part of the audience for The Greatest American Chefs Tour's final San Diego filming at House of Blues. Local chefs Matt Gordon, Ryan Johnston, Isabel Cruz and William Gustwillers entertained and enticed taste buds during an evening that began with lobster and ended with chocolate.
|Chef Matt Gordon - Greatest American Chefs' Tour
|Saiko Roll at Coronado Saiko Sushi's Happy Hour
|Dessert of the Year - Butterscotch Budino with Salted Caramel
Sip Wine Bar, at Flavor Del Mar (similar recipe here)
My next assignment in January promises to be one of the best adventures yet, combining travel, food, world renowned chefs, and stunning winter scenery at the annual Chefs' Holidays, Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite.
We provided food photography services for several Coronado restaurants, including Il Fornaio, Coronado Brewing Company, Leroy's Kitchen, Village Pizzeria, and Delux Dogs, and photographed various food and wine events, including San Diego Bay Wine and Food Festival, Gingerbread City, Celebrate the Craft, Suzie's Farm Strawberry Jam, Wine & Dine Prohibition, Navy Southwest Culinary Competition, Evolve Cuisine's Cambrian Event, and many Tuesday Night Tastings at Il Fornaio.
I spent an afternoon in the San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival's Chef of the Fest judging tent. The Chef of the Fest Competition is judged by the San Diego Chapter of the American Culinary Federation, a professional organization of chefs and culinarians. In addition to ACF judges, celebrity chef guest judges rounded out the judging panel and included Food Network alum and James Beard award winner for 2001 Outstanding Pastry Chef of the Year, Gale Gand, Food Network alums, The Hearty Boys, and Chef Suzette Gresham of Michelin-rated San Francisco restaurant Acquerello.
|San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival Celebrity Judges for Chef of the Fest Competition
|Gale Gand's Bergamot Bread Pudding
San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival Celebrity Chef Luncheon
|Chef James Caruso, La Boca, Santa Fe, New Mexico
San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival Sherry Amore Class
|Suzie's Farm Strawberry Jam
|Wine & Dine Prohibition Party
|Village Pizzeria, Coronado
|Il Fornaio, Coronado - Tuesday Night Tasting
Festa Regionale Sicily
|Il Fornaio, Coronado - Tuesday Night Tasting
Festa Regionale Puglia
|Coronado Brewing Company Wahoo Tacos
|San Diego Polo Club Spreckels Cup Finals
|Chef Bernard Guillas, The Marine Room, La Jolla
Garnishing Lobster Bisque at Gingerbread City
I continued cooking along with French Fridays with Dorie, but not as much as I would have liked. Several of us exchanged Christmas cards and it was very touching to receive so many cards from all over the world, including one from Dorie in New York. A few stand-out recipes I tried from Around My French Table included Nutella Tartine (divine), Mussels and chorizo with pasta, Cocoa sablés, Warm scallop salad with corn, nectarines and basil, Endives, apples, and grapes (unique and surprisingly one of my favorites), and Chicken tagine with sweet potatoes & prunes.
|Endives, apples and grapes
|Orange-Cranberry Crepes with Nutella and Hazelnuts
Inspired by Dorie's Nutella Tartine
|Mexican Hot Chocolate Sables
Inspired by Dorie's Cocoa Sables
Our Coronado Concert in the Park culinary challenges continued during the summer, with a little less involvement due to so many other projects. The first concert of the season, An Evening in Corsica, was inspired by one of Saveur magazine's dinner party menus. I shared my blog post with Saveur and we were awarded Plugrá Gourmet Club of the Month in August 2012. We received $500 to throw a gourmet dinner party which has yet to be planned.
|Insalata di Baccelli e Pecorino (Fava and Pecorino Salad)
Themes for the other concerts in the park included: Mushrooms, Flowers & Weeds; Diners, Drive-ins and Dives; The Pacific Northwest; Fusion; Twisted; Beach Shack Snacks, and Stripped and Dipped. We polish off so much food and wine on these Sunday afternoons making it next to impossible to choose a few favorites. Out of my contributions to the picnic table, I loved Grandma Maroni's Meatballs (Diners, Drive-ins and Dives) and Salmon, Halibut and Scallop Ceviche (The Pacific Northwest) an interesting ceviche due to the combination of fish, coconut milk and lime juice in the marinade, and presentation in chunks of fresh coconut.
|Salmon, Halibut and Scallop Ceviche
|Grandma Maroni's Meatballs
I'll conclude this year-end recap with a few more notable recipes of the year, in no particular order:
|The Amazing Thomas Keller's Curried Cauliflower and Chickpea Salad
|Tyler Florence's Ginger Spice Cake with Warm Cranberries
for Kai and Hillari's Novemberfest Party
|Shucks, Why Did We Wait So Long?
Grilled Oysters with Garlic-Chile Butter
|Pasta Love: Strozzapreti all'Amatriciana
|Take Me Back to New Orleans! Donald's Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya
|Trapper's Pumpkin Peanut Butter Holiday Treats
I look forward to many adventures in 2013, in and out of the kitchen, and wish you all a very Happy New Year filled with love, laughter, travels and, of course, good food and wine.
Denise & Trapper
|Hotel Del Coronado Wine and Spirits Party
|Elf on the Shelf Holiday Party
|Trapper and his summer watermelon treats
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The Danish manufacturer Muuto calls for entries for its first Muuto Sketch Challenge. Creative people are invited to submit illustrations of a space and include a minimum of 3 Muuto designs – the starting point can also be a current project, a previous competition or your most crazy idea. The winner and the runner up will get attractive prices – 5000 and 2000 € in muuto products – and all the best entries will be displayed as part of the Muuto exhibition at Rosanna Orlandi during the upcoming Salone Del Mobile in Milano. The entries should be in A4 or A3 format and sent to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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HIGH or LOW BEAM REPLACE HALOGEN XENON HID
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Pair of 13800LM 60W(120W) Bridgelux LED H1 Car Headlight Kit
"Latest Flip-Chip Technology, CANBUS (Error Free), EMC Filter"
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The customized sixth generation led headlights stay same power as last version but more light output with latest flip-chip COB technology which has less thermal and electrical resistance but more light output and less heat production.
The customized sixth generation led headlights stay same power as last version but more light output with latest flip-chip COB technology which has less thermal and electrical resistance but more light output and less heat production.
The best solution for high power led light will be flip-chip technology in the future. The record for one single flip-chip in lab is 2433.6 watts/per chip so far.
The new headlight kit has more other features to achieve much better performance than last generation. The built-in CANbus and EMC filter improve the headlights more compatible with more car models and much less interference at radio. The kit creates an amazing light output at 6000K which stands out at night or darkness. It can perfectly replace Xenon or halogen car light bulbs on all kinds of vehicles with IP68 super protection grade (water-proof, dust-proof, and corrosion-proof)
The comparison with other all-in-one headlights or no-fan headlights is below.
Basic Knowledge on Headlights
Although old-fashioned halogen still rules the road, LED headlights are becoming more popular. Halogen bulbs still rank highest as the most common headlight on the market, but several options, including xenon-based and light-emitting diode (LED) headlights, are growing in popularity.
LEDs have the coolest colour temperature at around 6,000 K, which makes them appear whiter than daylight and create more light output. Xenon headlights come in at around 4,500 K, while halogens round out the list at a yellowish 3,200 K. When it comes to reflection, LEDs offer better light return from road signs. Both LEDs and xenon produce a large pattern of light on the road, whereas halogens gives a small pool of yellow light directly in front of the automobiles.
Halogen headlights
Halogen lights are the most popular lights on the market and are found in most consumer cars. These bulbs are similar to familiar incandescent lights and use heated tungsten filaments to produce light. Halogen headlights produce a significant amount of heat, and even small deposits of skin moisture on the bulb during replacement can affect their performance. And it is shortest lifespan is the key weakness.
Xenon headlights
Xenon lights, also known as high-intensity discharge (HID) lights, produce a brighter light than halogen bulbs and with far less heat. These headlights require a large amount of power at the outset to produce their first burst of light, but once fully running, they require much less energy to maintain constant brightness comparing with halogen lights. Xenon bulbs have a long lifespan and emit little heat, but they cost more than halogen bulbs.
LED headlights
LEDs are the most recent innovation in headlight technology. Instead of gas and filaments, LEDs rely on small diodes that produce light when electric current excites their electrons. They need a low amount of power to work but do produce a significant amount of heat on the diode. This requires excellent heat control systems at the bottom of the headlight and near other car components. That makes the structure of headlight more complicated and costly.
Generally LED headlights last much longer than traditional headlights and typically last the life of a vehicle, which can be seen as an added value to consumers. And LED headlights are brighter and emit a whiter light, giving them an important advantage.
LED headlights also use 70-80 per cent less power than the alternative Xenon and Halogen headlights. That factor played a key role in the decision to use them on the 2008 Lexus LS600h L, one of the first production cars to use this technology.
(Model Number:CL-B6-H1)
- Same power as former version but more light output
- Latest flip-chip technology with much less thermal / electrical resistance comparing with other chips
- Built-in CANbus adaptor with error-free for 99.99% car models (all-in-one headlights don't have such feature due to small space)
- EMC filter with anti-interference feature (all-in-one headlights don't have such feature due to small space )
- Ultra-quiet fan with super speed at 9000RPM
- IC Driver with wide voltage range from 9V to 32V
- Direct plug-in replacement, no extra wiring required
- With excellent heat-dissipation structure
- IP68 waterproof protection grade
- With high and low beam, perfect replace H4 xenon or halogen headlight
|Socket Type:
|Led Power:
|120W (60W Per Light)
|Operating Voltage:
|Waterproof Rate:
|Life span:
|Body Color:
|Color Temperature:
|Diecast aluminum housing+Glass
|Lens Material :
|Box Size:
|Lumens Output:
|13800 LM (2x 6900LM)
|0.42kg/set (2pcs lights with packaging)
|Unit Of Measure
|What in the box per unit:
|2 x LED 60W Car Headlights
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