slothfacekilla

All the chatter I've seen about that draft is that if Zadina hadn't fallen the Wings were taking Bouchard and not Hughes.

Oddly enough the Wings power play got better last season without Gostisbehere or Walman and that's pretty much why you would want them on the team. Plus I doubt he signs the deal he did in Carolina with Detroit.

This is absolutely insane. Anybody who supports this regime is a traitor to this country and the Constitution. If only these people were capable of feeling shame.

It would be pretty funny if he decided that he wasn't cool with it after all

Damn it Buch got traded to CSKA Moscow, looks like another season in the KHL. Kaprizov and Panarin came over at age 23 so Buch is trending towards that.

You can never have too many goalies in the organization imo, and I'm pretty sure they lost one of their echl guys to going back to Europe. He's young for a goalie and been playing well, seems like a decent shot in the dark.

The more I look at his numbers, the more I feel like if someone does that they are going to regret it. This season was the only time he's ever broken 50 points (51) and it was on a stacked team...

For what it is worth, if you add in the bonuses he hit then what the Wings paid Kane for last season is less than $1 million below what CapWages is estimating Sam Bennett will get per year this offseason: $5.75 million for Kane and $6.637 per year for 6 years for Bennett and the cap do be going up. I'm with G2 on wanting a more rounded player for that kind of cash but I also won't poo poo what Kane does bring if he does re-sign.

Their power play probably gets worse but I'm fine not re-signing Kane as well

https://www.eliteprospects.com/news/shl/detroit-red-wings-prospect-axel-sandin-pellikka-wins-2025-elite-prospects-award-as-swedens-best-junior-player

I have to hand it to you, when you decide you hate someone in sports you really go all in on it no matter what.

I don't think anyone has any illusions that Austin Watson is a key piece to a hockey team 😉

Bouchard looked absolutely awful on that Marchand goal lmao, he is such a perplexing player

First of all, what a hilarious picture to use. Makes him look like a creepy uncle or something. But honestly I can see him being a successful assistant again, he just didn't have the juice to be a head coach for that Wings tenure it seemed like.

Seems like he really lost that room

True, but luckily MBN is supposed to be a pretty good forechecker! I just hope we find someone somehow that isn't afraid to mix it up a little bit. I'm still annoyed that Utah ran Mrazek and not only was there no call the Wings just shrugged their shoulders and was like well that's life! From what I've seen MBN isn't shy about engaging other players especially when he's fired up.

Stole this from a poster on the hfboards who didn't cite what podcast....but I love the attitude from MBN here the Wings need this fire haha:

Pretty expensive imo..... Contracts are about to be insane this offseason after all the years of the flat cap.

But have you considered the emotional anguish I'd feel every time I saw Necas and was reminded we drafted Rasmussen over him?

I honestly might just buy out Holl if I were gm, at least it gives them a roster spot to play with

Sounds like the Stars might be looking to move Robertson to get some cap space this offseason? Kinda surprising but they do have a lot of free agents and Harley will need a new deal after next season. I guess the Dumba and Lyubushkin deals aren't great for them? Oh I didn't realize it was this bad: "The Stars have less than $5 million in cap space for 2025-26 with 16 active roster players under contract." Will be interesting to see where Nill goes from here...

I didn't even know this was something that could happen, interesting

LETS GO! He had a really good year this last year across his season in Finland + WJC. I'm excited to see where he goes from here, probably at least one more season in Europe I imagine.

I don't think I recognize the names very much, but I did enjoy the Canadian announcers more when I was up in Winnipeg this year haha. In full transparency I tend to mute and listen to music with all the TNT / ESPN broadcasters so you can take my Bucci feelings with a grain of salt.