Found September 09, 2009 on Kuklas Korner:
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from Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press, The Red Wings, old and young, turn out to be a bunch of Luddites. When the topic of using Twitter, not one Wing asked wanted anything to do with it. After the skate this morning, Kirk Maltby said he wasn’t even sure what it was for the longest time. He yelled out to Kris Draper to hear if he used it. Draper scoffed, smiled, and said something along the lines of that he may twitter, but not on his phone. I asked Justin Abdelkader – he, after all, is only 22, and spent three years at Michigan State University – and he wasn’t the least bit enthused, either. continued
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