slothfacekilla

I was mildly surprised Larkin was the Wings' all star over Seider but it also could just make sense for the roster construction

....the Ken Holland who literally hasn't fired a head coach as a GM??

I can't wait for Blashill to be gone or at least for him to be forced into playing actual hockey with a stronger roster. Watching the Wings dump and chase on a 5 on 3 power play the other night and play the trap when down big against the Kings was infuriating. Crazy how their power play is once again buttcheeks with them doing the dumb drop passes in the neutral zone that he seems to love. No matter who the power play coach is it always seems to revert back to this bs. They even shuffled players around and now their handedness seems to take away potential passing and shooting lanes on their power play by design. Then we have to listen to him after every game talking about how the team wasn't ready to go. Longest tenured coach in the NHL with nothing to show for it. Team routinely starts late and can't win on the road. Barely ever seem to steal games. The roster isn't great but what exactly is he doing here?

I read somewhere he is staying in Sweden but will be involved in helping develop the defense (by watching European prospects in person and US games on TV I guess?) and be a sounding board for Yzerman on moves, etc. Steve was VP of Hockey OPs under Holland (I am pretty sure) so this is probably a way for him to get into the management side of it slowly I would think. Seems like a lot like what Kronwall does over in Europe with the defense prospects but not as direct on ice and more... overall focused I would imagine.

With DMac these days I'm guessing lots of joints

Hopefully this is a creative way around the salary cap and we can get him on the ice (only half kidding)

I wonder if he realizes that it is part of his job to make sure his team is ready to start games? It seemed like he had them playing the freaking trap in the second period last night, I had to turn it off.

Well I guess my wife did me a favor…

So my wife got too nervous about the Covid outbreak so I sold my tickets. Incredibly sad right now haha.

Top line Frk is a scary thought

I kinda forgot about Mastro

We can only hope! haha. I'm kinda interested to see if this game happens...

I'll be sitting to the right of the Wings bench in row 4 on an aisle, if you see someone wearing a white Raymond jersey with long hair and a tie dye mask it's me!

This game has been moved to Sunday because of the Ducks' covid situation

Domi is a no for me, Hertl is intriguing but I'm not sure his impact would be enough

If all these players make it to FA there are some interesting names https://www.capfriendly.com/browse/free-agents

Can't say I expected this game to be so heated, Gagne fighting now

Suter gets his second! Rasmussen with some tough plays but he set Suter up nicely there

San Jose gets one back

...and a Bert shorty?!

Suter shorty!!

Hopefully the Sharks power play is as bad as the Wings' is...