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The Winter X-Games 14 rollout vid. Also, check out the Top Ten countdown from Winter X 14 here. #8 is insane! The guy does a 360 in mid air off his sled and lands it!

[ESPN Winter X-Games 14, Top Ten from Winter X-Games 14]

Lilja, Holmstrom, and Franzen might be back real soon!!

Lilja:

The long wait appears to be nearing an end for Red Wings defenseman Andreas Lilja. After sitting out 11 months because of a concussion, Lilja is expected to take a major step toward his comeback with a conditioning stint at Grand Rapids (AHL).

The Wings are in the process of finalizing the details. The stint would last three games or six days, with an option to be extended for two games. He still would be on long-term injured reserve and would not count against the salary cap or the 23-man NHL roster.

“If everything goes good, I’m hopeful by sometime (this) week he’ll be down there,” Wings general manager Ken Holland said.

Lilja did not accompany the Wings on their four-game road trip, which continues Tuesday in San Jose.

Holland said they’ll try to time Lilja’s conditioning stint to where he can play the most games. The Griffins play five games in nine days starting Friday.

Holmstrom:
Tomas Holmstrom might return Tuesday from a fractured foot sustained on Jan. 5.

Franzen:

Forward Johan Franzen, out since Oct. 8 with a torn left ACL, is scheduled to return to the lineup Feb. 9 in St. Louis. That would give him three games before the Olympic break. General manager Ken Holland said the only question mark is Franzen’s conditioning level.

With all these returning players this could be an interesting time for the Wings. They will be slightly more than $600,000 over the salary cap and one player over the 23-man roster limit when Franzen is activated, forcing them to make a move. It’s hard to say who would go looking at the players near the bottom of the roster there’s Patrick Eaves, Brad May, Drew Miller, Kirk Maltby, Ville Leino…..dang. I don’t want to have to make that choice, all of them have had a solid season so far. If I had to make a move it might have to be Ville Leino. He was a new signer this year so it I almost feel bad saying that based on about half a season but the Wings were expecting something close to a 20 goal season from Leino but with only 4 goals and 7 points in 42 games he is seriously lacking offensively. Babcock has noticed this as well making him a healthy scratch multiple times this season. Sucks to be Leino at this point in the season when so many were excited to have him around in the beginning. I guess we’ll see what happens. Good luck Holland.

[Y! Red Wings Team Report]

This is one of the most creative websites I’ve ever seen. Just hovering over objects in the header, footer, and even on the sides displays an animation and some even have some audio sound bites. Make sure you listen to the squirrel on the left side, kinda made me laugh, lol. Nicely done Meomi!

[meomi.com]

Sometimes AutoBlog has so many good things i just need to show you all of them without spamming you all with new posts. Behold 3 beautiful looking rides I really wanted to show you. The Tamburini Corse T1, the freakishly beefy 753-horsepower C25 Super-GT, and the BMW X5 Typhoon “Black Pearl” (click the links for more info & galleries of these rides.

[AutoBlog]

I saw this and it just makes me pumped for the NHL season to hurry up and get to the playoffs! Whether the Red Wings make it to the playoffs or not I will still watch a good chunk of playoff hockey. It’s like the video shows, it’s an epic battle on ice and it’s gotta be the hardest month in sports for the winning team.

[HockeyWebCast]

MacGruber is a SNL sketch, it usually cracks me up so this should be a fun one, lol.

Wallstreet was awesome. I can’t wait for this.

[Red Bull]

“EVERYONE IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM! 5 MINU-15MINUTES!” They have a freaking spaceship for a conference room! Toys toys and more toys! Really reminds me of the movie ‘Big‘ where Tom Hanks’ character gets a job playing with toys.

[LaughingSquid]

Jakob Michel runs a private business called ‘Modell-Lichtsysteme’ which retrofits die-cast 1:18 scale model cars with complete lighting systems including everything from dashboards to headlights, taillights and turn signals, to even interior trunk lights if you so desire.

The full package installed on Big Windy’s BMW M3 model (featured above) which includes interior and exterior lighting cost about $254, or 180 Euros, but cheaper packages that add just interior or just exterior lights are also available.

The detail that actually goes into these lighting packages is quite impressive! Check the links below for more images, some of them look like a real car at first glance.

[Modell-Lichtsysteme M3, OhGizmo!]