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Caption Fun: Readers Have Clever Ideas About What's the Wings Are Doing Here

October 04, 2017, 9:17 PM by  Alan Stamm
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No fake news here, and not a phony caption challenge either.

This photo, tweeted Wednesday by Red Wings website editor Dana Wakiji, isn't staged. Her tweet below tells what's up going down, but we can't resist inviting playfulness.

"Caption challenge: The Detroit Red Wings are (a) tired, (b) stretching, (c) praying, (d) taking both knees or (e) ________," our social media post says. 

These are among smart shots slapped into our net:

  • "Contact fell out of my eye -- everyone get down and help find it." -- Alex Brayman, Wayne
    [Similar reply by Andrew Williams]
  • Doing yoga. -- Ryan Bogan, Westland
  • Kissing the new stadium! -- Lori Najduk​, Dearborn
  • Team-building exercise! Go Wings. -- Jeffrey Sherman, Northville
  • Pretending they're octopii. -- Ray Garcia
  • Stop, drop and roll. -- Kirk Hoeft, Hazel Park
  • Looking for a tooth. -- James Kopf, Ann Arbor
  • Ice burpees! -- Stephen Ball
  • Planking. -- Stephen Kienbaum (Bay City), Keith Kruszewski (Waterford) and Mary Gallagher
  • Ice nap. -- Linda Teufel
  • "I said no spitting on the new ice." -- Randy Ryba, Melvindale
  • Next time take the Viagra after the game! -- Logan Orr, Northville
  • Looks like the dry hump challenge. -- Merritt Anderson
  • I hope they at least took the ice out on a nice date first. -- Jason Adams
  • Combination indoor snow angels and stick-ups (hockey stick chin-ups). -- Mary Elswick
  • Security breach response training. -- Kathleen Morris
  • Singing "this is how we scrape the ice, scrape the ice, scrape the ice!" -- Jane Smith

​Levity beats reality, for sure. We like those a whole lot more than this actual explanation:



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