BDS will Wing it in Motown from time to time

Just passing on a little bit of site news. I’ve been asked to join the team at Winging it in Motown for the upcoming season. I’ll be covering prospects, what else? Obviously if you read this blog you know that’s my favorite thing to write about. But I really only do rankings, just three times a season. It’s not enough to satisfy my nerdy prospect needs. I threw around some ideas for a weekly feature over here, so when the opportunity to join the WIM team and basically do the same thing arose, I jumped all over that.

WIM was one of the first Wings’ blogs I ever read, even before the WTF Holland days, so I’m really honored to get an opportunity to blog over there. They’re part of SB Nation, which is essential reading if you’re into sports at all because they’ve got over 215 blogs, not one covering a duplicate team. James Mirtle heads the hockey section, and I’ve long considered his From the Rink blog to be essential reading. Needless to say, I’m thrilled that I get to be a part of the best blogging community in the business.

But fear not, I’m not shutting down Babcock’s Death Stare or anything like that. In fact, this probably means I’ll be blogging more than ever, especially when you look at the archives on the left you’ll see that I disappeared the past two years while I was in school, but I’m not letting that happen this year. I actually have multiple readers now, so I’m determined not to disappoint.

My prospects feature will run every Friday over at WIM. I’ll link to a few of them from here, but most likely not every week. I intend to zero in on three or four prospects a week, whoever’s performing well, or maybe some who aren’t. The idea is to get people who might want to start following prospects, but don’t feel like wading through my six different versions of my 20-page rankings an opportunity to start following and really learn what these players can do and where they come from. I figure with 39 prospects, taking 3-4 a week over the course of a season probably won’t get too dry, right? But I’m always open to suggestions and feedback, quite honestly I’m sure I will change the format a few times. I’ll also handle the occasional Game Thread or Game Review over there, only a few for now. I still intend to do reviews over here as well, but as I get going with school I won’t have time to do one after every game like I did in the playoffs and pre-season, so some will be here, some will be there.

I’m joined by Michael from The Production Line and Drew from Nightmare on Helm Street. Michael will head up a weekly feature called By the Numbers that promises an uncomfortable amount of number crunching and Drew will post a daily Quick Hits feature, giving his take on the Red Wings press clippings of the day. And as always, Christy and Casey aka MrNorrisTrophy will head up the crew and keep the place looking classy.

Needless to say, if you don’t read Winging it in Motown.. you’d better start!

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Oh.. I also wanted to talk business! The Wings close out the pre-season tomorrow against Farjestad at 1 PM. The game will be streamed on NHL.com, so be sure to check that out. All the other NHL teams in Europe have taken on club teams already. St. Louis beat Linkopings (SEL), Chicago beat one Swiss club (Davos, 9-2), but lost to another (Zurich, 2-1), and Florida lost to Tappara (SM-Liiga) in a shootout. But that’s okay. Nobody beats the Finns in shootouts.