lordstanley

Pittsburgh today, home to CBJ on Tuesday, home to NYI on Thursday. Need to aim for a 3 for 3 on that to re-set the playoff race in the Wings' favor again heading into a tough 5-game road trip.

Panthers outshoot Tampa 50-16. And lose 5-3. Of course.

Wings improve to 7-7 over their past 14 games, lol.

Wings win. Islanders tie it on a powerplay goal with 30 seconds to go.

Empty netter!! Exhale

2:31 to go. Islanders trailing 3-2 with 3:05 in their game.

Seeing eye goal from Sprong gives the Wings a 3-1 lead. 4:46 away from ending this frickin’ thing.

I just went through the game logs. During the 7 game streak, only lead before today was two times in the 1st period of the Colorado game (game 3) for a total of 7 minutes

A lead! Kane caps off a flurry around the Sabres net

Fischer ties it. Game had been boring until then.

If you can't beat Arizona at home ...

There are not quite enough games left in the season for the Wings to match the Pistons’ 28-game streak.

Behind again, 2-1 late in the 2nd. Have the Wings even had a lead during the last 6 2/3 games?

I do think that one win, let's hope tonight a thumping of Arizona, can set the team back into a hot streak. Maybe just wishful thinking. But I think the Wings are actually a pretty good team.

The winning pitcher should be voted on by fans. It will be announced right after the game, in reverse order - 3rd, 2nd, 1st. Like the three stars in hockey.

I recall the good ol’ days of 2 weeks ago when the biggest controversy around the Wings was whether Jared Goff chants were out of place.

Ha, I came here to post that.

I'm going to wait until the end of season because I honestly don't know how to judge this team right now. 13-7-3 start into early December had been optimistic. Then 3-8-1 stretch was depressing, thank God for the Wings that the Lions and Wolverines were keeping everyone distracted. Then, it's like they shook that off as just an anomaly and went 16-4-2 to start 2024, which is 1/4 of the season playing as a top 5 team, or 3/4 of the season being 11th overall. Then Larkin gets hurt and instead of digging extra deep, you'd think, to show that wouldn't derail them like it did in December they have completed collapsed with an embarrassing 6-game losing streak. A tale of four mini-seasons. Let's see how final 17 games of the season. If they make the playoffs, even as 8th seed, I'll be satisfied with progress. If they miss, even as 9th seed, both Yzerman and Lalonde (Yzerman's hire of course) need to start feeling the heat.

But in Devellano's second season ('83-'84) the Wings made the playoffs (granted, super easy back then to do) and in his 5th and 6th seasons they made the conference finals. Sure, those teams were weaker than typical conference finals teams, but the '88 team (6th season) did go 41-28-11 in the regular season for 93 points in an era before OT and shootouts. This is Yzerman's 5th season.

0-6 after starting 2024 at 16-4-2. How do you lose 6 straight games in the NHL, not even picking up loser points?! When that stretch includes NYI at home, at Arizona and at Buffalo. 4 of the 6 losses have been blowouts. I'm struggling to recall a bigger meltdown by a decent Detroit sports team (I'm not talking about losing stretches by lousy Detroit sports teams, we've seen plenty of that the past 10 years). Yes, epic collapse is right, that's for sure.

I hope Rempe’s 15 minutes of fame is coming to an end.

Weird to do that with almost a quarter of a season to go. Final weekend, I’d maybe get it. But even then, a shootout is going to give you better odds of winning than a 4 on 3 I think.

Isles did indeed lose. A good night. So the Wings are back in playoff positions by the narrowest of measures - the RegulationOvertimeWins tiebreaker over NYI. Both have 72 points with 18 games to go. Philly and Tampa have 74 points with 17 games to go. Washington has 69 points with 19 games to go.

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.