Shinzaki Posted Friday at 08:13 PM Posted Friday at 08:13 PM This is starting to look like the last years of the Dumars Pistons...perpetually blah Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted Saturday at 12:38 AM Posted Saturday at 12:38 AM There needs to be a major change of some kind. Several players need to go. Gibson needs to go. He's brutally bad. He's Rogie Vachon-bad. GAA of over 3.50. His SvPct has be be lower than .860. That's just not good enough. And he's giving up softies too. Cossa is playing extremely well at Grand Rapids. He's earning at least a look. This season feels like it's very quickly slipping away now. Talbot hasn't been all that great either. Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted Saturday at 12:45 AM Posted Saturday at 12:45 AM 4 hours ago, 1984Echoes said: Shake it up. 1 Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted Saturday at 12:46 AM Posted Saturday at 12:46 AM Oh, and I understand the defense has been bad, but Gibson needs to rise up at SOME point. Quote
1984Echoes Posted Saturday at 04:40 PM Posted Saturday at 04:40 PM (edited) 15 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said: Couple points in the Athletic's latest Red Wings article: As Red Wings skid into 25-game mark, how fixable are their biggest issues? - The Athletic 1. The Red Wings have been outscored (5 on 5) 23-11 with Johansson on the ice. 14-3 with Hamonic on the ice. 8-7 (we scored more) with JBD on the ice (but those are the most protected minutes on the team). SHAKE IT UP. 1S. (s = shake it up solution): Send Hamonic and Johansson to GR, call up Holl and Wallinder. They get 3rd pairing. Holl is the right vet to match up with Wallinder. He gets 10 games to prove he can hack it (Wallinder), or he needs more work and has to go back down to GR after 10 games. But at least he'll see exactly how big/strong/fast/tough the NHL is... so he'll know what he needs to do (IF he wants to stick in the NHL...). If he shows enough to stick in Detroit for the balance of the season, then that's just gravy. If Wallinder needs to go back down to GR, sobeit. But Johansson doesn't get to come back up to Detroit automatically. Same with Hamonic. If, and only if, they are playing better. If Johansson is playing MUCH better, then he can get called back up. If not... I don't know what the next step will be... but we'll cross that bridge when we get there. BTW: Is MBN showing yet that he deserves another chance in Detroit? 2. Gibson right now is the 5th worst goalie giving up 3.78 goals MORE than expected, he so bad. Talbot is SAVING 2.33 goals above expected... but he's 38. Our season hinges on Talbot playing most of the games? At 38? Or is Gibson going to catch fire and start producing in goal a whole lot better (reducing the stress on Talbot of carrying this team)? SHAKE IT UP. 2S. Call up Cossa. Same deal as Wallinder... 10 games. He either flashes enough to stick in Detroit, or he needs more GR time. Let's find out. Can we just send Gibson to GR? If not, we'll have to figure out how to compensate for a roster with 3 goalies. If he can, Cossa gets his 10-game audition. And Postava also can get a 10-game audition, if necessary. Just to see what sticks. Maybe Gibson improves significantly in GR. Maybe Cossa sticks with a below 2.5 GA and a .900+ save %. Or Postava does. SHAKE IT UP. And let's see what happens. 3. The Wings are scoring on 7.2% of their shots. They're not at net front often enough (everyone can see that). There are so many struggling forwards on this team I don't even know where to begin. Kane/ Kasper, Copp/Compher, Soderblom/Berggren/Ras providing... not enough. But something has to change... so... SHAKE IT UP. 3S. Soderblom/Berggren/Ras would be the easy solutions. Demote to GR... or just trade them. Or maybe it's easier to move Copp? Or worse, they would be lost for nothing if we tried to send them down to GR. So while I am being more of an advocate of SHAKING IT UP and giving chances to Lombardi/ MBN/ Mazur, who all 3 I think would add fantastic energy and skill and defense and a much higher net presence (with "young kid" limitations)... I don't know what the exact recipe is for getting that done. But I do want to... SHAKE IT UP. IMO. Edited Saturday at 04:40 PM by 1984Echoes Quote
1984Echoes Posted Saturday at 04:44 PM Posted Saturday at 04:44 PM PS: I think Mazur is still injured so there's a waiting period on using him as some kind of solution... In any kind of injury situation with him, MBN, or Lombardo... obviously we'd have to wait on that... I'm just sayin'... It's time to shake things up (as soon as any injuries are cleared...). Quote
Shinzaki Posted Saturday at 04:58 PM Posted Saturday at 04:58 PM The D would look better if we had kept Maatta. Quote
1984Echoes Posted Saturday at 05:00 PM Posted Saturday at 05:00 PM Just now, Shinzaki said: The D would look better if we had kept Maatta. Yes. Even if he was 3rd pair. And the D would have also looked better if we had found some way to keep Walman. But that's water under the bridge (on both counts...). Quote
1984Echoes Posted Sunday at 01:37 AM Posted Sunday at 01:37 AM End of 2nd period losing 1-0... But Boston is outplaying them all over the ice. Able to hold them to 12 shots though (we have 9); so not atrocious or anything... Talbot in goal, and has saved our bacon a few times... Hamonic-Chiarot and Compher-Ras-Raymond on ice for the GA... Quote
slothfacekilla Posted Sunday at 06:16 PM Posted Sunday at 06:16 PM I see that Kastelic KO'ed Seider in a fight last night, embarrassing that the team is letting Seider get his ass whooped like that I'm glad I didn't watch a second of the game. Quote
1984Echoes Posted Sunday at 10:57 PM Posted Sunday at 10:57 PM 4 hours ago, slothfacekilla said: I see that Kastelic KO'ed Seider in a fight last night, embarrassing that the team is letting Seider get his ass whooped like that I'm glad I didn't watch a second of the game. I think other teams are getting the idea that taking out Seider takes out 100% of the fight, whatever is there, of the Wings... And they are probably right. It wasn't just Kastelic... Seider was run at several times by several players... probably trying to throw his game off, or worse. Seider held his own until Kastelic went after him. And Kastelic went DIRECTLY at him, into the boards, and then started cross-checking Seider in the chest... literally forcing Seider to fight. Kastelic was hunting him for that... Quote
buddha Posted yesterday at 06:43 AM Posted yesterday at 06:43 AM 7 hours ago, 1984Echoes said: I think other teams are getting the idea that taking out Seider takes out 100% of the fight, whatever is there, of the Wings... And they are probably right. It wasn't just Kastelic... Seider was run at several times by several players... probably trying to throw his game off, or worse. Seider held his own until Kastelic went after him. And Kastelic went DIRECTLY at him, into the boards, and then started cross-checking Seider in the chest... literally forcing Seider to fight. Kastelic was hunting him for that... and his teammates did nothing. what's the point of having 6'6 guys like rasmussen and soderblom if they play like theyre 5'6? the wings have been pushed around for a decade. Quote
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