Hossa

I am very skittish to write my first two posts on the Red Wings considering we want to start expanding to a national scope, but c'mon people, how can I not write about the "Hossa Heist" as it will be referred from here until the end of time?

This is quite possibly the biggest surprise signing in all of sports, period. No one, I mean NO ONE leaves 73.5 mill on the table of guaranteed money to go to a team that has the best chance of winning a championship, in any sport. Hell, he left 42 mill on the table from the team he just helped lead to the Stanley Cup Finals.

Pittsburg fans and national columnists are reeling in the light of this signing. One author wrote that, "he must see something in Detroit that no one else sees." Obviously he didn't watch the finals, or he's in a state of denial. The Wings won in what I call a "6 game sweep," and dominated the Pens on the ice and in every statistical category. And how can this dominance be questioned? Hossa just proved what Wings fans and players already knew, the Pens knew they were outplayed and were an inferior team. Hossa was on the ice and saw first hand how the Pens were handled like a Mexican Pinata in a Tijuana Prison. He knows his best chance for a Cup is on this Wings roster, which he has now thoroughly improved.

Having datsyuk, zetterburg, holmstrom and franzen, hossa, filpulla coming at you obviously makes this team the new 1997 squad, filled with future HOF'ers. Obviously, this begs the question of whether Holland, the best GM in sports in my mind, can keep them all together after this year. A huge task, obviously, but so was the Hossa signing in the first place.