lordstanley

You mean it's a Jersey thundercrack!?

Wait, how did I not know until today that Andy Kim is Canadian ...and still alive (that's not him in the YouTube still shot).

I mostly agree with you and winning it all in 2006 or 2013 would have capped truly championship-calibre seasons. 2012 didn’t have quite the same feel but I was still into it. This year would be undeserved but I’d still take it without apology because I have this nagging unfinished business from 2006-2014 plus I want to scratch that 39 year itch. Hell, I’d even use the injustice of not having home field advantage in 1987 to rationalize feeling good about winning ugly this year.

I’m glad you guys have such vivid memories of that game. I was 15 and missed it because I had better things to do - watching the submarine races under the Bluewater Bridge with my the captain of my high school’s cheerleading team and her older sister who was home from college for the weekend.

A performance of which Todd Jones would be proud.

Ford’s home run “trot” looked like one of those old b&w highlight reels from the ‘30s at jerky high speed.

Sure, I think it was interesting and glad you posted it. I, and I think others, was simply giving reasons why it should be discounted a bit as probably not as positive as it would seem at first glance. I don’t want to discourage anyone from finding and posting tidbits like that though.

He was pretty clearly safe but I’d like an answer to the TV guys’ question about there having already been a lost challenge.

There’s nothing like Canadian junior hockey for brutal hazing. Has been going on for decades, at least a few fresh scandals every year, but STILL happens. https://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/how-did-a-healthy-teen-die-at-a-minor-hockey-camp-1.6318194

i guess better than the opposite. But even if one values plus/minus, I think we’d have to adjust that guys like Compher, Sprong and Holl played on really good teams while the Wings players did not.

So all in all I like what Yzerman has done with the forwards. In goal, I wish I had more confidence in Reimer as a backup. He needs to be an upgrade on Ned so Husso doesn’t get worn out again. I like the Gostishere pickup but wish the Wings had done better than Holl, via trade if necessary. Fine with having kept both our 2023 1st round draft picks, and who the Wings picked with them, since we used the extra 2024 1st rounder to get DeBrincat. A grade of B for the offseason. I’d put the over/under for 2023-2024 points by the Wings at 88.

Yzerman has already done a ton this summer, even if DeBrincat is the only one I’m really excited about. Collectively, Kostin, Sprong, Compher, Gostisbehere, Holl, Reimer, Fischer and Deabrincat have the potential to improve the Wings. So no NEED to do more this offseason. But why not keep talking. If there is another smart move that Yzerman can make, go for it, don’t have to wait 12 months just because we think eight is enough.

True, but maybe he already knows enough about the Wings organization in GR and Detroit to think he has already cooked his goose with them and that that baggage would stop him from tearing up the AHL.

I like a guy who bets on himself, taking a financial risk doing so that may look foolish to many. I'd like him to recoup over the next 3-4 years enough financially to break even on that bet. But without lighting the world on fire offensively in San Jose!

I just checked to see whether he was related to Sal of the A’s. Yes, Sal was his older brother by 12 years.

So trading Bertuzzi at the deadline pays off. It means they got DeBrincat in exchange for 2 months of Bertuzzi, Debrango and Kubalik.

Just realized there has been a Czech purge. Yzerman has gotten rid of Hronek, Vrana, Zadina and Kubalik since February.

So do you think Yzerman is enquiring about Patrick Kane now?

So do I. I don’t get the shocked Sens fans that they didn’t get enough.

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2023/07/09/detroit-red-wings-trade-alex-debrincat-ottawa-senators-4-year-contract-extension/70385254007/ Yzerman sent Dominik Kubalik, prospect Donovan Sebrango, a conditional first-round pick and a fourth-round pick in 2024 to the Ottawa Senators. The Wings can choose between their own or Boston's first-round pick, which is from the Bertuzzi trade and top-10 protected. DeBrincat's resume shows his scoring prowess: 41 goals each in 2018-19 and 2021-22; 32 goals in 50 games in 2020-21 (the pandemic-shortened season); at least 20 goals in five of six NHL seasons. He has 187 goals and 373 points in 450 games. He has 11 goals and 30 points in 23 career games against the Wings.

No retention on Kubalik, i believe. I bet the Wings were pushing as hard as the Sens were for him to be imciuded.

Per Buddha. sebrango, a 4th rounder, and either boston's first or our first, whichever is lower.