Detroit Free Press

Are you in? That's supposedly the Red Wings' playoff slogan this year, but midway through the third period Thursday night, it already had become a desperate fan's question. Are you in? That puck flying across the crease? Are you in? That shot that hit the post? Are you in? That Johan Franzen second chance? Are you in? That Pavel Datsyuk solo rush?

He has come a long way in 20 years, when he was skating for a British hockey team while teaching at a local college."Did you ever come to class with a black eye?" I ask Mike Babcock."Probably," he says.You can't get much more anonymous than the Whitley Warriors, near Newcastle upon Tyne, where Babcock, between classes, played hockey in "a barn that sat 5,000 people" and had a mesh screen instead of glass, so the puck bounced off it.

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