lordstanley

IF the Wings can beat Buffalo tomorrow, they'll be 8 or 9 points up on all of Pittsburgh, Jersey and Buffalo. Which is pretty safe with 17 to go. So they'd need to worry about finishing ahead of 2 of Tampa, NYI, Philly and Washington. I think they're a better team than Philly and Washington.

Isles (Kings) and Caps (Jets) both on the road tonight. Less importantly, Devils (Rangers) are as well.

Is everyone's ESPN.com feed like this, or just mine? If the latter, have no idea what I did to alter things. In this order from top to bottom on the main page for me right now: - Timberwolves @ Lakers score - fine, maybe the only active pro or college game right now - Women's Gold Cup - hmm, ok, maybe big for some Americans - LSU vs South Carolina women's college basketball SEC tournament - story about South Carolina women's wild weekend - row of 4 video clips about LSU-South Carolina - big box of 6 women's college basketball scores - Iowa, USC win tournament titles - more women's college basketball - NBA scoreboard - two stories about Mac Jones trade - thought NFL content would be higher up - another story about "fallout from SEC title game" - women's college BB - below that a story about women's March Madness bracketology - men's college hoops scores - way down here? - Arnold Palmer golf results - NHL scoreboard - story about the NHL playoff picture and trade deadline - a bunch of stories about NFL free agency - isn't that the #1 topic of interest overall, nationwide? Either ESPN thinks I'm a woman, or someone literally got murdered in that LSU-South Carolina women's basketball game, or Caitlin Clark is an AI-generated bug unleashed by ESPN.

Good thing the Pens and Devils are slumping too and remain a comfortable distance behind. Wings need to put away Buffalo. For now, it’s 5 teams for 3 spots - Tampa, Philly, Detroit, Islanders, Washington.

Two teams came into this game on 4 game losing streaks. Vegas will come out wth a win. 5-3.

Killer. Knights take the lead wth 2:44 to go. While Rasmussen is grimacing with sore hand after blocking a shot on the play.

Wings are really coming on. 8-1 in shots this period. Tied with 3 minutes to go.

Holy crap, 3 great chances on one play for the Wings to take the lead but it somehow stays out.

And a penalty that gives the Wings a powerplay.

Wings have 3 shots this period Vegas has 1 Wings have 2 goals this period Vegas has 1.

Another Seider goal is tipped in. By Compher. Tie game with 17 to go in the 3rd. Let’s go!

2-1 after 2. So still losing, but not getting blown like in recent games? Still getting outplayed, but not as badly as in the 1st period. Low bar, grasping for positives.

Huh?

Sure needed that last minute goal by Rasmussen on a tip-in of a Seider shot.

Behind again, 1-0 Wings have been outscored 18-2 since being tied with NYI 3-3 late. That was only 9 days ago, feels like an eternity.

Wings @ Vegas tonight. 10pm start. Reimer in net.

Sabres beat Edmonton today so are 7 pts behind the Wings, with the Wings having 2 games in hand. But might be close enough for the Sabres to still feel they're in the race when they play the Wings twice this month. Devils still treading water at best, having lost to Carolina today. Penguins are playing at the Bruins right now in the 1st period. Flyers play at the Lightning later today, let that game not get to overtime please. Capitals should have an easy 2 points in Chicago, but that's what I thought about the Wings going into their game in Arizona last night.

Uh oh.

Yzerman presser summary.

In 2024 7-7-1 overall against teams above them in the standings, 3-5 on the road (including the past 5 road games against teams above them in the standings). That drops to 4-7-1 overall and 2-5 on the road if you remove the Kings (75 points) and Knights (73 points). Jan 4 - at LA Kings - win 4-3 (SO) Jan 11 - vs. Edmonton - lose 3-2 (OT) Jan 13- vs LA Kings - win 5-3 Jan 14 - at Toronto - win 4-2 Jan 17 - at Florida - win 3-2 (OT) Jan 19 - at Carolina - lose 4-2 Jan 23 - at Dallas - lose 5-4 Jan 27 -vs Vegas - win 5-2 Feb 10 - vs Vancouver - win 4-3 (OT) Feb 13 - at Edmonton - lose 8-4 Feb 15 - at Vancouver - lose 4-1 Feb 22 - vs Colorado - win 2-1 (OT) March 2- vs Florida - lose 4-0 March 6 - at Colorado - lose 7-2

Vegas gets Hertl. Lightning gets Dumba.

Yeah not sure he is any better than Yamamoto who the Wings waived in the same deal.

So Devils, Caps and Pens all selling.