Gaudreau's Ghost is No Laughing Matter For Red Wings Fans

 The bad news is that the Columbus Blue Jackets missed the Playoffs. In their 25 Season History, they've only enjoyed 2 Playoff Series Wins and 1 Home and Away Playoff Series of Will, which egged on the Gloria St. Louis Blues inadverently.

But, it would be the Return of Olympic Sports at Ohio Stadium that Stirred Up Gaudreau's Ghost Costing another Playoff Spot, of that of the Detroit Red Wings. The truth is the Wings have gotten in a Permanent Rebuild that seems to have no end.

I doubt I'd be OK with hanging my hat on a Ghost, but, I'd feel pain that on those Michigan Lakes, the Lack of Commitment would replace the heated discussions on Which Year they should win the Stanleys Cup.

The World Famous Ohio Stadium stirred up the Ghosts and I'd feel that even if Johnny Hockey was here, he'd not be happy with what is going on.

What if we had a Detroit Red Wings, Minnesota North Stars and Quebec Nordiques Stanley Cup Round Robin?

We have not had year or even years in National Hockey League Cities where we have a perfect Bermuda Triangle of Stanley Cup Finalists in a Short Period of Time. And, if we twisted the Arm of Originality, what if we had the Detroit Red Wings, Minnesota North Stars and the Quebec Nordiques be every Stanley Cup Final like 2 of their 3 Latter Days where on the Road map in the Late 1990's?

If it was not for Norm Green, The Collar, a Hot Temper that melted Minnesota's Ice and Compulsive Expansion JUST to save the North Stars by downing the North Stars and the Blackhawks Farm Systems and a similar deal in Quebec City where Eric Lindros stood them up and down, changing the whole landscape of the NHL for better and for worse.

The Red Wings would have been a Konstinov and Fetisov from being crippled away from keeping a Dynasty and the lament and the regret that later ensued,was the constant and often times, unsuccessful efforts to chase a Dynasty and Recreate the Russian 5 in an All American City. To think, if you where a Nordiques Loyalist, you would have had your own Starting 5 that could have brought the Stanley Cup home to the Eastern Most Market in the NHL, other than Boston.

Especially when the WCW arrived at the Colisee in 1997, that being the 1st Big Sports Event there since the Nordiques where taken for the Phone Line (Literally), that was already a contentious Sports Day when we knew Frank Gifford was on his Last Links with ABC Sports and Marv Albert would have had, for shame, 12 Years in Prison and the Sex Offender Registry vs. Being the Commissioner of the Kinda Family Culture.

We would have had this loop a few times, especially if Montreal was in the Stanley Cup nearly Every Year in the 1960's and 1970's and the Penguins where set to Set to Go TWICE in our Lifetime and we would have had a 2nd Row at the UC and the 18087 of Stanley Cup Banners make the Lore Forever.

I could see this in St. Louis wanting not just to be enabled to Gloria instead of just being 6 Games Under .500 In Stanley Cup Lore instead of being 0-12 in Stanley Cup Lore before that, having to quench the Montreal Canadiens and their 0-8 Hex for Hockey's Identity and the 3rd Player in all of this would be the Las Vegas Golden Knights, who are still salty the Russian Machine celebrated with the Stanley Cup on Video in Las Vegas, which would be dismissed as easily smug had it not been literally them chips being down.

And, the 2nd Paragraph that would have been tied to story time, would be when I got into Hockey History in Middle School, Coach Lembeck said he was in the Twin Cities coaching, the year after their 2nd Stanley Cup Appearance, when Norm Green wanted to move the North Stars and everyone was Pitchfork and Tiki Torch Mad.