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6-4. Ugh. Terrible loss. With 25 minutes to go I thought the 2 points were in the bag. Most goals the Ducks have scored this year.

What a hopeless minute and a half bringing it down to 1:29. 5-4 Ducks

What a disaster. 5-3

Can’t cough up a 2-goal lead to lowly Anaheim and lose.

It’s on Sportsnet in Canada but that probably won’t help you unless you have a VPN

Intermission times perfectly with start of Tyson vs Jake Paul. Yes I admit it, I’m watching, lol.

Raymond! Plenty of assists but nice to see him get his 2nd goal of the season, his first at even strength

Berggren gives the Wings a 2-1 lead. The Wings have carried the play against a weak opponent.

Two penalties within 4 seconds of each other so the Wings have a 5 on 3 for 1:56.

Just had to wait a few minutes. Buries his next chance! Tie game. https://x.com/hockeydaily365/status/1857626051511230512?s=61&t=don8lQTnTq5FKXq14p2GMw

Wow, Kasper alone in the slot with a golden opportunity for his 1st goal.

Ducks score just over a minute into the game. What’s the deal with Zegras? Would the Ducks give up on him, is he redeemable, and what could the Wings offer to get him?

Goalies are such wildcards. There are a handful that are above average for years, but there a bunch of others whose stats bounce up and down seemingly at random. I'm sure that the defense you're playing behind and the quality of the shots you see has something to do with that. Not all save % are created equal, let alone goals against average.

I agree it’s hard to draft and develop. So I also think people on HFBoards for example overvalue 2nd draft picks and prospect pools. And sure, you need luck. I don’t think Yzerman has been a lousy GM, but you sure look better if you have good luck and he hasn’t good that. - You’d think odds are that one of the six 2nd round picks in 2019-2020 would at least yield an equivalent to other non-1st round picks of years past like Hronek, Bertuzzi or AA. Didn’t happen - You’d hope to get lucky and have one of the many players you bought low on - Fabbri, Vrana, Walman, Ghostisbehere, Sprong, Kubalik - revive his career with the Wings and stick long-term. Nope, all gone for nothing. - Could pickups of Nedjlkovic and Husso, which both looked like great deals at the time, land your starting goalie? Nah, neither worked out - You’d think a couple of your top 10 picks would outperform his draft position, like Quinn Hughes did in Vancouver. Ok# 6 Seider did, although he is no Quinn Hughes. Maybe Edvinsson will. Raymond is about what you expect from a #4. Too early to say on Kasper, although at this point he’s as close to Rasmussen as he is to being a star i guess you keep trying I think Yzerman has had the right idea at many times, they just haven’t panned out as of yet

4 road games in 6 nights including a cross-country flight from Pittsburgh to California seems rough.

You only blow a team up if you have confidence the front office can successfully draft and develop players. So far the Yzerman regime hasn’t proven that. Remember the optimism in having 4 picks in the first 2 rounds in each of 2019 and 2020? Yeah, those six 2nd rounders contributed zilch. Nothing from 2021 below the 1st round will move the needle either - guys like Mazur who score 37 pts in the AHL in their 3rd season after being drafted MIGHT make an NHL roster and stick some day but likely a fringe add at best. This isn’t the NFL and Yzerman isn’t Holmes - can’t expect a few NHLers from each draft. So if we blow it up, we could be sitting here 5 years from now having added two gems equivalent to another Raymond amd Seider, a few promising prospects and a bunch of busts. If anything, the Wings might be better off trading all their 2-7th rounders for 2025 and 2026 for players further along. If you can’t break through by drafting and developing, you have to go to Plan B and try to do so by trades and signings, which is probably going to be riskier and more expensive but what other choices are there?

Let’s see what happens in Milwaukee now. Chance for an ultra rare occasion of the Wings and Pistons both winning on the same day. And oh yeah, both on the road. And both would be in OT to boot.

Edvinsson with the winner!

2-0 Wings when I went to take a shower. 2-2 when I came back out. Moral of the story: don’t bathe?

Pens will be ticked heading into tonight's game against the Wings. Lost 7-1 the other day to Dallas. Malkin even apologized to the fans. Yikes, as poor as the Pens are, they could unleash against the Wings like they did on opening night. At 13 points, the Wings are just 1 pt above the NHL basement, although they do have games in hand on many teams. https://www.nhl.com/news/evgeni-malkin-apologizes-to-pittsburgh-fans-after-loss-to-dallas

OJ had an all-time slash line of 61/11236/2 TDs, rushing yards and, ahem.

I read on one gaming site that what is now a 13 pt spread is the biggest the Lions have been favoured since 1995 when they played the Jags in the Jags’ inaugural season

Good question. I can’t really comment on Delvecchio, didn’t even see him on TV. Fedorov had a higher peak than Datsyuk, IMO. I wouldn’t argue strongly against anyone who placed either of them over the other.

Pavel’s Hall of Fame induction speech today. https://x.com/HockeyAgent1/status/1856158389610430559

This is really starting to feel like the ‘84 Tigers. A magical season. Of course the Lions still have to play the 2nd half and then win at least two playoff games to simply make the Super Bowl. But in June 1984 the Tigers still had to keep playing after 35-5 and then anything could happen in the short playoff series. But by early summer we and the national media knew something special was brewing. Just as we and the media know now.