General Wings Comments 2025-26

[slothfacekilla]

35 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

PS: Would Vancouver actually stoop this low...?

Or would they take on this chance (their bet/ risk) that they could actually turn Ras into something?

Stupid chance and ****ty risk... but who knows what Vancouver is actually thinking right now...?

He's a local boy who doesn't love a good story 😂

[sagnam]

Wonder if our organization’s goal is to win the AHL and we just never noticed.
 

https://www.nhl.com/redwings/news/red-wings-acquire-michael-milne-and-wojciech-stachowiak-from-tampa-bay-lightning-in-exchange-for-ian-mitchell

[slothfacekilla]

They're just trying to fill their AHL roster with all the call ups and injuries.  They also signed a bunch of guys to tryout deals too.

[buddha]

This really has been the most depressing season in a long time.  once again they were right there.  once again injuries caught them at the wrong time.

only this team they dealt their first round pick.  you know what that means....welcome to st louis gavin mckenna!

[Jason_R]

How are we feeling about the Faulk trade today?

[1984Echoes]

He's under contract for next season too...

So...

Incomplete.

But definitely ASP needed to go down to GR. And the Wings needed Faulk to absorb 2nd pairing minutes because of that. Although I've read that he & Chiarot are NOT a match made in heaven... to me that means Chiarot needs to be pushed down to 3rd pair... except who's going to push him down...? ALJO? Nope.

Back to Faulk... If they would only bring up Buium or Wallinder... I think he'd be the perfect mentor/ fit for a young LH'ed D'man just breaking into the NHL...

I REALLY want to see a 2nd pair next year of Buium and Faulk... I'll let you know how I REALLY feel about the trade for Faulk by next year's trade deadline...

I think he was a good add... although it did cost that 1st round pick...

Just my 2 cents. 

[Jason_R]

https://octopusthrower.com/don-t-worry-about-slumping-red-wings-sophomore-01knt0b5rte4

For Kasper panicans. 

[buddha]

6 hours ago, Jason_R said:

https://octopusthrower.com/don-t-worry-about-slumping-red-wings-sophomore-01knt0b5rte4

For Kasper panicans. 

there's a lot of rationalizing and cherry picking in that article.

[Jason_R]

1 hour ago, buddha said:

there's a lot of rationalizing and cherry picking in that article.

I don’t disagree. But season two does not necessarily define a career. 

[Jason_R]

Since the Canadian teams don’t seem to like the American Olympic hockey players, what do we think about a trade for Brady Tkachuk? He has one more year on his contract for a little over $8 million. He would bring an abrasiveness to the team that we haven’t had in a long time not to mention being a top line scorer. 

[buddha]

11 minutes ago, Jason_R said:

Since the Canadian teams don’t seem to like the American Olympic hockey players, what do we think about a trade for Brady Tkachuk? He has one more year on his contract for a little over $8 million. He would bring an abrasiveness to the team that we haven’t had in a long time not to mention being a top line scorer. 

sure.  but they wont trade him to us and if he's on the market were likely to get outbid, just like we did for hughes.

and we dont have a first round pick to trade this year.

[Hongbit]

7 hours ago, buddha said:

and we dont have a first round pick to trade this year.

Watch this be the year the Wings card finally moves up.   

[lordstanley]

1 hour ago, Hongbit said:

Watch this be the year the Wings card finally moves up.   

The Leafs traded their 2026 #1 last year at the deadline but it's top 5 protected. The Leafs finally fell into the NHL bottom 5 tonight. If the Leafs win the lottery and get to pick Gavin McKenna ...

[Jason_R]

16 hours ago, buddha said:

sure.  but they wont trade him to us and if he's on the market were likely to get outbid, just like we did for hughes.

and we dont have a first round pick to trade this year.

I agree it is unlikely. But they traded DeBrincat to us. They traded Perron to us. Sure, different situations, but every situation is a different situation. If Ottawa doesn't think they can re-sign Tkachuk or doesn't want to re-sign him because he's American, he's exactly the kind of player Yzerman should be in on, especially if Yzerman does not intend to trade Larkin. Larkin needs someone to do the dirty work on the ice and in the locker room. 

[buddha]

6 minutes ago, Jason_R said:

I agree it is unlikely. But they traded DeBrincat to us. They traded Perron to us. Sure, different situations, but every situation is a different situation. If Ottawa doesn't think they can re-sign Tkachuk or doesn't want to re-sign him because he's American, he's exactly the kind of player Yzerman should be in on, especially if Yzerman does not intend to trade Larkin. Larkin needs someone to do the dirty work on the ice and in the locker room. 

if tkachuk comes out and says "i will not sign an extension and will only sogn an extension with the detroit red wings" then we can probably trade for him.

the red wings have a better chance of making the playoffs this season than that happening.

[lordstanley]

I'm very reluctant to re-post Jeff Moss of all people but, this one time, he makes a reasonable point.

 

 

[Jason_R]

8 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

I'm very reluctant to re-post Jeff Moss of all people but, this one time, he makes a reasonable point.

 

 

Yes, something is wrong with the culture. I don’t know what it is but the front office seems to function too much as a museum of the Red Wings dynasty. 

Ironically, short of a complete obliteration of the front office, Stevie is the only one who has a hope of managing this dynamic. I feel like he needs to bring in a hockey lifer from outside the franchise who can do the dirty work of holding some of the former Wings accountable. 

I wonder what Keith Tkachuk is up to these days. 😂

[gehringer_2]

It's just not that complicated. In a capped league there are only so many avenues to get better - lopsided trades, drafts, and better development. Unless your FO can outperform other FOs at those tasks, you will never put a better team in the ice than your competition. So to say that this FO "did as well as.." is useless. They have to do *better* than the other guy, otherwise you just stay where you are. So not many second rounders make it? That's a loser's take, if you are going to win *you* need to be the guy that finds the 2nd rounders that do. That may sound harsh but that's the reality of pro sports, it's not a forgiving business. SY often bemoans the fact that it's hard to better - so the 1st step is finding people who can do what's hard.

What sports organization goes 10+yrs under performing its competition without any personnel changes being made? We are basically waiting for the blind squirrel to stumble into a nut somewhere with this org (OK they did once with Moritz so they've already burned one allotment of luck). If they want a different result, it's time to have different people driving the result, or maybe turn it over the ClaudeGPT.

[Hongbit]

This is a great way to ensure you don’t have a 10 year rebuild.   Must be nice.  I do have to give Chicago credit for not trading their lottery pick for a 34 year old defenseman.  

[lordstanley]

28 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

This is a great way to ensure you don’t have a 10 year rebuild.  

The Hawks have missed the playoffs the last six years and eight of the last nine and are still next to last in the NHL this year. So they’d already in a 10-year rebuild. 

[Jason_R]

This guy’s write up is worth a read. 

I said in another post that the front office looks like a DRW dynasty museum. This guy said something that serves as a counterpoint. He mentioned when a young player asked about Vladdy, “Who’s in the wheelchair?” This guy‘s point is that the young players don’t seem to have any understanding of the culture that made the Red Wings dynasty what it was. They might see some of these guys around the building but not understand the competitiveness that made them great. 

I don’t know what that means, but who is Draper competing against to keep his job as an executive the way he was competing to anchor the Grind Line? The front office seems like the place Wings greats have gone to take a victory lap. 

[gehringer_2]

11 minutes ago, Jason_R said:

This guy’s write up is worth a read. 

I said in another post that the front office looks like a DRW dynasty museum. This guy said something that serves as a counterpoint. He mentioned when a young player asked about Vladdy, “Who’s in the wheelchair?” This guy‘s point is that the young players don’t seem to have any understanding of the culture that made the Red Wings dynasty what it was. They might see some of these guys around the building but not understand the competitiveness that made them great. 

I don’t know what that means, but who is Draper competing against to keep his job as an executive the way he was competing to anchor the Grind Line? The front office seems like the place Wings greats have gone to take a victory lap. 

The Wings front office is the sales room in GlenGary GlennRoss. The question is who is going to give them the Alec Baldwin speech.

[1984Echoes]

40 minutes ago, Jason_R said:

... The front office seems like the place Wings greats have gone to take a ...

nap.

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by 1984Echoes

[slothfacekilla]

God internet Wings fans would lose their minds if they were on the Blackhawks trajectory, I can't even imagine