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The Wings injuries and absences aren’t limited to the blue line. We’ve been missing one half of our brilliant telecast team. While I respect Larry Murphy, and really enjoyed his little deadline day sketch yesterday, he’s just not Mickey.

Mickey recently spoke to the press for the first time since he had his second surgery for lung cancer.

“I’m doing very well, things are good,” Redmond, 60, said by phone from his home. “I’m doing better than I should, and that’s great. My wife, Arlene, and I feel fortunate and blessed. There are so many people out there in our corner…

“I’m walking half a mile a day. I’m doing my breathing exercises that they like you to do. A lot of people struggle to make it across the family room after what I had. Things are very, very good at the moment.”

from the Detroit Free Press’ Mike Bredenell

To celebrate Mickey’s return towards health I’m posting a list of “Mickeyisms” collected by a buddy. I’m opening up the comments, please post some more Mickeyisms.

• “Oh Boy”
• “Wow”
• “Bingo Bango!”
• “Holy Jumpin’”
• “Put all the hay in the barn and let ‘em go at it!”
• “This is what the fans came for!”
• “This is no place for a nervous person”
• “Ginger ales after the game”
• “Hey Gang!”
• “That was a tic-tac-toe play”
• “Like a lumberjack fighting for the last pork chop!”
• “He likes it when you call him Fill Poola“
• “Keep your sticks on the ice kids, good things happen”
• “You can head for your parties! This one’s over!”
• “You go to sleep for a second against these guys — the red light’s on”
• “Holy Mackeral!”
• “Well, He’s a dandy”
• “The lumber is flying!”
• “Here comes Houdini” (his nickname for star centre Pavel Datsyuk)
• “He’ll go in for repairs”
• “He blew a tire”
• “They got ‘em rockin’ at the Joe!”
• “He got a little lumber on him, and it didn’t tickle”
• “His eyes were as big as saucer plates”
• “He couldn’t get the puck in the ocean, even while standing on the pier”
• “Now you kids out there, pay attention, you could learn something from the pros”
• “You’ve got to watch the puck or you’ll be spitting out Chiclets (teeth)”
• “That was a bang-bang play”
• “That type of call just doesn’t belong in the game of hockey”
• “Now that’s a chinsey call”
• “They don’t know what a penalty is here in San Jose”
• “Katie bar the door”
• “You only get a few kicks at the cat” (During a playoff game that wasn’t going the Wings’ way)
• “If I didn’t know better, I’d say the ice was slanted”
• “He just gave him a BC (British Columbia) two-hander” (Slash or high stick)
• “It’s a bench-clearing Donnybrook”
• “Hold it right there, gang!” (A common call to the video playback crew for replays)
• “There was no one going to the pop stand!”
• “Giving (him) a little Chin Music” (Players talking smack before a fight or after a rough play)
• “Water over the bridge, my boy!”
• “He’s making more turnovers than Betty Crocker!”
• “Look out!”
• “It’s a shooting gallery down there!”
• “You could’ve thrown a blanket over ‘em!”
• “That was like a pin ball game!”
• “Like Johnny on the spot!”
• “Put that biscuit in the basket”
• “His head looks like the top of a Makers Mark bottle”
• “He really left his jock strap hangin off the clock”
• “He got beat like a rented mule!”
• “You be the judge.” (When speaking about a penalty he doesn’t agree with)
• “It’s Nine O’Clock on a Saturday” (sung when a goal is scored about 9pm on Saturday night)
• “He had him out on 4th street!”