lordstanley

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.

Let's see what a 2nd rounder + Berggen would get us, if anything. I'd be fine with giving up both. Not a 1st.

Winner! March is going to be exciting.

Overtime. Wings have 52 seconds left on a powerplay to start.

Impressive penalty kills by the Wings. 1-1 with 2:41 left in 3rd.

The two games that matter tonight are the Leafs on the road in Arizona and the Flyers on the road in Chicago.

Caps beat Devils 7-2. Isles beat Pens 5-4 in OT. Philly has 65 points after 56 games. Tampa has 65 points after 57 games. Wings have 64 points after 55 games. They are all in playoff spots at the moment. Devils, Isles and Caps all have 60 points after 55 games. Pens have 56 points after 53 games. They are all on the outside looking in at the moment.

Ok. Without reading any comments yet, I say fine with the money, term a bit long by a year, but whatever. Not really what you expect a top 10 draft pick to be, but Ras has found a role and most people are more positive on him now than they were 18 months ago.

The Atlantic article on Kasper's growth. https://theathletic.com/5284153/2024/02/19/red-wings-prospect-marco-kasper/?access_token=12041601 Paywalled, I believe, but here is the first part: GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The play that Griffins coach Dan Watson feels should be at the top of Marco Kasper’s highlight reel might surprise you. It’s not the between-the-legs goal he scored earlier this month against Manitoba, taking a pass at the net front and then fooling the goalie by tucking it through his own legs and in. It wasn’t the flashy assist he tallied in mid-November against Chicago, drawing in a defender on the rush before making a backhand pass into space for Jonatan Berggren. It actually didn’t earn him a point at all. That’s because the play Watson reserves that comment for was a different kind of highlight. It was Kasper’s racing end to end to beat an icing call, then holding off three Belleville Senators in a battle behind the net for nearly 15 seconds until Berggren eventually scooped up the puck and banked it in for a game-sealing goal. “If he had a highlight reel, that should be it right there,” Watson told The Athletic over the weekend. “Because that’s who he’s going to be.” That’s because the play Watson reserves that comment for was a different kind of highlight. It was Kasper’s racing end to end to beat an icing call, then holding off three Belleville Senators in a battle behind the net for nearly 15 seconds until Berggren eventually scooped up the puck and banked it in for a game-sealing goal. “If he had a highlight reel, that should be it right there,” Watson told The Athletic over the weekend. “Because that’s who he’s going to be.”

Sens beat Tampa. So the Wings now have a better points percentage than Tampa (Wings 1 pt behind with 2 games in hand) and Philly (Wings 1 pt behind with 1 game in hand).