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I don't plan to write about this every week, but I want to make sure as many people as possible are aware of the great effort put forth by the Wings' bloggers each week to put together a dedicated Red Wings podcast, called The Obstructed View. Every week, Chris from Motown Wings sits down with a panel of bloggers who then hash out the week's stories and issues, and I've been pleasently surprised in the first two episodes with the quality of the production (not that I thought it would suck, but seriously, this is good). This week brought together The Chief (who is every bit as entertaining as you'd expect), George (who is every bit as wise and subtly hilarious as you'd expect), and Jess (who is every bit as quick-witted and proudly obscene yet knowledgable as you'd expect) and it sounds great. Check out TOV for the listen, it's long (around 75 minutes) but it's not at all dull and it flows wonderfully.
I'll be on next week with Matt from On the Wings and Tyler from The Triple Deke. Two of the first three Wings' blogs I actually read regularly, so I'm really pumped and honored to be able to sit down with those guys. Keep an eye out for that, I'm sure I'll keep plugging the hell out of it.
On the topic of how great the Red Wings' community is, if you're unaware of the effort going out at Abel to Yzerman right now, I wanted to direct your attention to the new campaign: Herm to Hockeytown. I've been really impressed with the effort of the community over there (which is to say the entire Red Wings online contingent, because the majority of regulars over at A2Y frequent other blogs as well, including this one, and I don't think a Red Wings blogger out there doesn't have A2Y in their RSS feed) in helping a fellow Wings' fan out. I've been so impressed, in fact, that I've neglected to mention it entirely over here, so I want to rectifiy that.
Guilherme from Red Wings Brasil,who's commented over here a handful of times, has never seen a Wings game or even met a Red Wings' fan. As a native Michigander who hasn't even left the state in.. I don't even want to think about how long, that's an absurd thought to me. Every person I meet up here I usually just assume is a Red Wings' fan and I'm always impressed with the number that watch the Wings regularly. I can't imagine what life would be like without the Red Wings (I don't even remember what I did the lockout year, I think I blocked it out), so I think it's imperative that Guilherme see a Wings' game.
So the citizens of A2Y have pooled money and resources (including housing from Osrt, also someone who's commented here before) to fly Guilherme from Brazil to Detroit to catch a Wings game. The goal was $1,000 for airfare and tickets, and they reached that in just 30 hours. After realizing it was going to take more than that for a plane ticket and all that, they decided to uncap the limit and donate any excess money to the Children's Hospital of Michigan. So not only is it a worthy cause in helping a Wings' fan out, it's a great cause in general for helping kids in need.
Head over to A2Y if you want to chip in, I really think it's a great idea. It looks like they've targeted the March 26 game (a fine date in Red Wings' history) but for now they're just rallying funds to make this all happen.
Great job, everyone, and keep it up.
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