lordstanley

Because your point that they’re just not good enough seems accurate. Other teams have dug deep and reeled off wins when they had to. It’s one thing to lose touch with Carolina and Tampa. But how sad it is to in just 8 days fall 8 points behind and 6 points behind Boston after being tied with them. And pathetic to now be tied with mediocre Ottawa and Philadelphia after being 8 and 9 pts up on them at the beginning of this month. Copp missed a whopping 3 games. Larkin was back for then losses to Ottawa and Philly. Completely fragile team.

Boston storms back from 3-0 down to tie Columbus in final seconds and win it in shootout. I guess it is good news for the Wings as within 2 pts of Pittsburgh or Columbus. But Boston and Montreal (who have won 5 straight after late loss to the Wings, including twice over Carolina) are out of reach now for the Wings. Only the 2nd wildcard spot is available, realistically. But scoreboard watching seems increasingly pointless without the Wings doing the bare minimum to help themselves.

55 minutes of crap, 3 minutes of excitement, then fizzles out for the last couple of minutes. 5-3 Philly final. The door was open for the Wings and they stumbled and crashed.

Raymond scores.

DeBrincat scores.

Appleton scores.

Tippett has made the Wings look silly tonight.

Seider “goal” waved off for obvious offside. Wings played with desperation finally on that powerplay but Philly survived to intermission. Wings trail 3-0, no consistency.

3-0. Terrible. Same as Ottawa game.

The Wings need to kill this penalty with 4:12 to go or it might be all she wrote.

Another one through Gibson’s legs. Those can’t go in.

I can’t remember the Wings’ last good chance. Fortunate it’s only 1-0.

Wings were back on their heels the last couple of minutes of the period, could easily have been 2-0. But Philly leads 1-0 after 1.

Mazur has played two shifts for 1:50. Last year in his NHL debut he was injured on his 2nd shift after playing 1:10.

Breakaway goal through the legs of Gibson.