General Wings Comments 2025-26

[lordstanley]

28 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

8 years isn’t 10.    

They’ve done a much better job of acquiring future draft assets during their stretch of ****itude than the Wings.  8 first rounders the last 3 years and they have 4 more coming in the next 2 years.  They also have 5 second rounders too.    Even a blind squirrel has to hit on a few of these.   

 

I like the trajectory of San Jose. Have missed the playoffs 7 straight years but were in the conference finals as recently as 2019 and didn't bottom out until 2024. Of course one can easily ask where they'd be without Macklin Celebrini but they sucked at the right time and won the right lottery, to complement u-24s like Will Smith, William Eklund, Collin Graf (44 Pts in 78 GPs this season from a 23 year old who went undrafted), Michael Misa (moved down 1 in lottery but still got #2 overall in 2025), Igor Chernyshov (16 PTs in 25GP this season from a 2024 early 2nd rounder), Sam Dickinson (69 GP this year from a 2024 #11 overall).

[Mr.TaterSalad]

2 hours ago, slothfacekilla said:

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

I think if we had Connor Bedard to build around instead of Dylan Larkin most internet fans would be elated. I know I would be. I think you'll always find a group of fans that bitch for the sake of it and wouldn't be happy even if we won the damn cup. But if we had Bedard to build around, I suspect this fan base would feel better and be more forgiving of the GM.

[slothfacekilla]

10 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

I think if we had Connor Bedard to build around instead of Dylan Larkin most internet fans would be elated. I know I would be. I think you'll always find a group of fans that bitch for the sake of it and wouldn't be happy even if we won the damn cup. But if we had Bedard to build around, I suspect this fan base would feel better and be more forgiving of the GM.

I imagine Wings fans would call Bedard a bust at this point if they had him

[Hongbit]

Levshunov would’ve already been run out of town even though he’s still not old enough to drink.

[buddha]

24 minutes ago, slothfacekilla said:

I imagine Wings fans would call Bedard a bust at this point if they had him

he was hyped to be the next sidney crosby and he's fallen well short of that standard.

that said, the hype was the problem, not bedard.  he may be more like patrick kane, and i'm sure the hawks would take that.  besides, they used to call kane a disappointment too 

[buddha]

and celebrini has been better, which might sting a little.

[Hongbit]

1 minute ago, buddha said:

and celebrini has been better, which might sting a little.

Celebrini turned out to be under hyped and he was the consensus #1 player in his class.