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Reimer has played four games in 2024 and has allowed a total of four goals. Yes, we have to worry about Lyon being overworked, but maybe something changed at Christmas as far as tightening up a bit. In the 21 games since then, have allowed 3 or fewer 17 times. Here's what the standings were like on New Year's morning. 15-4-2 since then. They had started off 14-8-3 before the 3-8-1 stretch to end 2023 almost killed them. But I think there were extenuating factors that makes the 3-8-1 the outlier, not the strong record before and after that. Larkin got viciously injured, Perron got suspended for defending him, and those two exclusions coincided with a hectic schedule of 9 games in 15 days. The team fell apart, but righted itself after the holidays. I don't expect much if any regression the final 24 games. True, the recent 5-game winning streak might be a bit misleading, as 3 of those 5 wins were in OT, which I don't value as much even though the standings do. But two 5-goal wins in there as well, over middle of the pack Calgary and St. Louis teams. Finally, goal differentials on the season for the Wings vs the teams they're in the mix with. Toronto +35 Carolina +28 Detroit + 25 Tampa + 5 Philly + 2 NJ -12 Washington -31 Pittsburgh +15 NYI -28

Maybe the best return since Guy Ladleur went back to the Montreal Forum and scored for the Rangers.

Kane with the storybook finish!!

Overtime. Got a point at least.

Wings buzzing now, going for the win. 2:22 to go in the 3rd.

DeBrincat ties it from behind the goal line! 4 minutes to go, 2-2.

Not that surprised that today might be a bit of a letdown game. Still would be nice to salvage a point or two against a bad team. Chicago 2 Detroit 1 with 13 minutes to go in regulation.

True in recent 5-10 years but maybe not going forward. Pittsburgh and Washington are done as contenders. Florida looks strong but likely not a dynasty in the making. Toronto has the talent to put it together and win it all one of these years, but they certainly have playoff vulnerabilities and unless their big stars get even better how are they going to improve at all. Tampa has peaked. Boston hanging on for a bit but how much longer. Carolina may have plateaued. A few teams roughly equal to the Wings like the Devils and slanders. Rangers should be tough for the foreseeable future, but are they any better than the West's Colorado, Dallas and Edmonton.

right, that's me too. Which is why I'd prefer Tampa beat NJ today and that the Flyers beat the Penguins. Getting in is way more important to me than seeding, when the top 3 looks set to be Florida, Boston and NY Rangers in who knows what order.

Leafs are getting on a big roll. Bertuzzi scores a hat trick on his 29th birthday. Brings his season goal total to a still-low 10.

Is this part of the reason the Wings’ offense was dynamic today?

Why I'm not worried about the Capitals catching the Wings: Anthony Mantha is their 4th leading scorer, with 29 points in 51 games.

I’m 56 years old, not sure how many good years i have left, produce now dammit, lol.

Wings win 6-1, are 14-4-2 in 2024, are 12th overall in points, and are going to make the playoffs.

Holland between 2008-2018 almost always found a solid NHL player after the 1st round. It's true that some of these didn't really make the NHL until 3 or 4 years after their draft year. 2008: Nyquist, 4th round, 760 NHL games, 471 points 2009: Tatar, 2nd round, 835 NHL games, 475 points 2009: Nick Jensen, 5th round, 539 NHL games 2010: Calle Jarnkrok, 2nd round, 693 NHL games, 299 points 2010: Petr Mrazek, 5th round, 374 NHL games in net 2011: Xavier Ouelett, 2nd round, 178 NHL games 2011: Alexey Marchenko, 7th round, 121 NHL games 2012: Andreas Athanasiou, 4th round, 470 NHL games 2013: Tyler Bertuzzi, 2nd round, 381 NHL games and counting 2013: Mattias Janmark-Nylen, 3rd round, 529 NHL games 2014: None (4th rounder Christopher Ehn didn't really do enough for me to count) 2015: None 2016: Filip Hronek, 2nd round, 368 NHL games, 199 points and counting 2017: Gustav Lindstrom, 2nd round, 151 NHL games (I'd consider him a borderline "NHLer") 2018: None, or Berggren a borderline NHLer with 76 NHL games but still some time

Wings clamp down and then get goals from Compher and DeBrincat to put the game out of reach. 6-1 after 2.

So often a 5 on 3 kill gives the opponent life. 4-1 now.

For sure. All his hits 2019-2022 were top 8 picks. Will see about Cossa, a mid-1st rounder. While any 2nd rounder is anything but a sure thing, more likely than not to not make the NHL, the whiffs on six 2nd round picks 2019-2020 is abysmal: Tuomisto, Mastrosimone, Johansson, Wallinder, Niederbach, Hanas. Then the 2021 2nd rounder was Buium. Not good, Stevie, not good.

DeBrincat’s 20th makes it 4-0 after 1. Complete dominance.

Raymond is now 16-31-47 in 57 games. Last season he was 17-28-45 in 74 games. Rookie season he was 23-34-57 in 82 games.

3-0! What a start. The Blues don’t have their 1st shot on net yet. And here is a blast from the Motown Sports past:

2 on 1 to make it 2-0! Raymond to Rasmussen.

9am Vancouver time. Coffee, bacon, eggs & Wings. Game is on ABC. Kane gives the Wings a 1-0 lead over St. Louis just 33 seconds in.