General Wings Comments 2025-26

[1984Echoes]

I feel like we are missing a thread... so here it is.

And I didn't want to lose conversations in monthly game threads so I thought it better to put them here...\

Such as the trade deadline, Griffin call-ups, line combinations, etc...

Speaking of which:

I like Chiarot SOOOOO much better on the 2nd pair with ASP.

I think I had gotten locked into Seider on 1st pair and Edvinsson on 2nd pair (to keep at least one of them on the ice at all times...)

That I hadn't wrapped my head around:

1) Getting Chiarot to lesser minutes and lesser matchups would be a huge plus for the Wings (this I already felt KEENLY) and that that should include pushing Simon up to 1st pair and putting Chiarot to 2ns pair... Why didn't I think like this? I had him locked into 3rd pair in my mind.

2) Simon is still a kid. Making mistakes is still in his learning curve. So, putting him together with ASP turned into... UGGH!!!

3) Chiarot may be slower, but at 2nd pair, he's a better vet presence for ASP. Less exposed. More experience to chat into ASP's ear. I think this is a huge plus for ASP's learning curve.

4) ASP is not big. Chiarot is. I like this pairing.

[buddha]

i think seider played much better last night.  very physical.

unsurprisingly, edvinsson looks much better next to seider than he did next to asp.

the vegas game will be a big test.  vegas is big and physical, the kind of team that has given the wings a lot of problems in the past.

[buddha]

griffins are 7-0.  seems like the vets are driving it, though.

[1984Echoes]

Mazur, Lombardi, Toumisto (surprisingly?), Cossa and Postava (and Wallinder a little bit too) are also huge drivers for that nice start.

Mostly the vets...

But I like the overall team-winning and maybe that helps the kids over their learning curves as well...?

Some of the kids are playing quite nicely. Not that that tells us that they are NHL-ready yet...

 

(corrected a misspelling...)

Edited November 3, 2025 by 1984Echoes

[buddha]

32 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

Mazur, Lombardi, Toumisto (surprisingly?), Cossa and Postava (and Wallinder a little bit too) are also huge drivers for that nice start.

Mostly the vets...

But I like the overall team-winning and maybe that helps the kids over their learning curves as well...?

Some of the kids are playing quite nicely. Not that that tells us that they are NHL-ready yet...

 

(corrected a misspelling...)

mazur is hurt.  tuomisto?  why do you say that?  because he had a goal yesterday?

[buddha]

lombardi is the one young player who has really shone out.  danielson and mazur have been hurt.  mazur got 3 goals on opening night and not much since.

 

[1984Echoes]

12 minutes ago, buddha said:

mazur is hurt.  tuomisto?  why do you say that?  because he had a goal yesterday?

 

8 minutes ago, buddha said:

lombardi is the one young player who has really shone out.  danielson and mazur have been hurt.  mazur got 3 goals on opening night and not much since.

 

 

Are goals truly the only thing that counts with you?

Because...

There's more to hockey than only goals...

Carter Mazur has a goal and two assists in 4 games after his opening night. This is what you call "not much"? Oh, and a plus 7 on the season so far. Probably with some vet help... but a +7 in 5 games tells me he's playing his part in 200-foot hockey. Which, he always has...

I didn't even mention Danielson, because he's only played 4 games. But 5 points and a +2 in those 4 games? Sounds like another "not much" per your standards, amiright? But I'll take it.

Tuomisto: 4 points and a +3 in 7 games. Sounds like another "not much" per your standards, amiright?

But I'll take it.

[slothfacekilla]

Mazur and Danielson are still over a ppg at least

I think it is a good thing they added the vets to the Griffins roster, it seemed like last season the team really suffered from not having that element.  It certainly is a better team in front of Cossa which is what I was hoping for so he'd have a better chance for sustained success.  Danielson not having to literally do everything for the Griffins should allow him to maybe focus on his offense a bit.

[Motor City Sonics]

So Dylan Larkin is playing for Team USA. 

You know what that means, right? 

Here comes the injury, that doesn't end his season, but has him return at less than 100% and here comes the March Dive again.  

I can feel it.  

It's all just a little bit of history repeating.  

 

 

 

That stupid Four Nations thing killed the Wings last year.   Just killed them.  Our guys did not come back the same after that. 

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, Motor City Sonics said:

So Dylan Larkin is playing for Team USA. 

You know what that means, right? 

Here comes the injury, that doesn't end his season, but has him return at less than 100% and here comes the March Dive again.  

I can feel it.  

It's all just a little bit of history repeating.  

 

 

 

That stupid Four Nations thing killed the Wings last year.   Just killed them.  Our guys did not come back the same after that. 

yeah - I really wish the Wings had leaned on him not to go. A team would not normally be on fair ground doing that but given what happened last season the Wings would be completely justified.

[Motor City Sonics]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

yeah - I really wish the Wings had leaned on him not to go. A team would not normally be on fair ground doing that but given what happened last season the Wings would be completely justified.

Raymond is playing for Sweden

 

I am guessing Seider for Germany.