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I saw that too. I'd shoot SY with a gun if he moved one our best trade chips for Jonatan Berggren 2.0

https://x.com/i/status/1957792169487426043

You can only hope the apple falls far from the tree.

Actual conversation I had with my son today - had me raging: Him: Yeah dad, I think the Kraken get 60 wins this year Me: HA, foolish child of the emerald city, you speak as if history was a tavern tale. But the scrolls bare not but sorrow for thine ilk. Him: But Matty Beniers is like a really young and faster version of Larkin. Me: I have born witness to ages unending! From Vlad the impaler to Pasha the magic man! In the frost-bitten halls of the Joe we forged centers like sacred blades. Beniers is but a butter knife... Him: Sure, but the Wings havent been good since like 2011. Me: Thou clingeth to a young team! Since then many winters have passed, like sand through an hour glass, and our pool ripens with age. Him: Yeah, but the Kraken are still ahead of you. Me: YOU ARE BUT A CARCASS DECLARING YOURSELF A FEAST. He stopped talking to me after this. Was I too harsh? Too guarded? I feel like I should ground him for his traitorous insolence, but I'm not sure. Honest feedback appreciated.

Unless you get a trade for a Robertonsesque player that doesn't gut your roster make no more moves. We have guys thay can be promoted... it's time to sink or swim. This year will tell if we're moving forward or launching rebuild 2.0.

Carolina in town that night...

I hate it. Sure he was an amazing player. Nobody is debating that. But he was also a poopy pants baby who left the team to make less money elsewhere because he was butt hurt that he didn't get more accolades (beyond his three Stanley Cups, two Selke's, and one Hart Trophy). Boo hoo. I always liked that for the most part the players in the rafters in Detroit where exceptional players AND great team guys/guys who cherished playing for Detroit. Fedorov was exceptional no doubt, but he never had any great love for Detroit until after the fact. I genuinely don't think this would even be happening if our team didn't suck so much right now. 0/10 Hate it.

Gibson and Edvinsson both need to step up in big ways this year. If that happens, those tiers will look silly.

Here's the goalie tiers followed by the Defense. Offence should be out in a couple of days. https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/nhl-summer-talent-tiers-goaltending-1.2342916 https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/nhl-summer-talent-tiers-defence-1.2344922 https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/travis-yost-s-nhl-summer-talent-tiers-wingers-1.2347543

I don't mind the Hamonic signing, As long as Holl never plays another game for Detroit.

Hampus Tramonic just signed

Red Wings sign Travis Hamonic, To a 1 year $1,000,000 contract. Hopefully a depth signing for GR.

At least it'd be something...

Prediction: Before the start of training camp the Red Wings will trade for Rasmus Andersson and sign Maxime Comtois to potentially fill their second pair RHD and first line LW spots.

More ppl need to be shot with guns

Not sure I buy Buffalo being 2 tiers better than us. I wonder who here would trade Mo, Ed and AlJo for Power, Dahlin and Byram. I would love Dahlin, but I think Power and Byram have maxed out and for us Ed's second season could be great. We just need another top 4 defenceman.

I always found the story of the Japanese mob, the Yakuza, being the founding owners of the lightning interesting and finally dug into the story. >zeigler, the commisioner before bettman, announces he wants to expand the league by 7 teams in the early 90s >phil esposito wants his own team, and thinks he can make one work in Florida >phil collects investors and stages a game in florida to show florida can support a hockey team >game goes great, but phil later discovers the owner of the stadium he used is Karmanos (later and now former owner of the Canes and rival of the illitch family... somethin somethin fedorov and compuware) and Karmanos wants in on phils bid in exchange for lease of his stadium >esposito tells him to pound sand, but now has to build his own arena and thus loses his investors >seeking new investment phil meets a guy who says he can setup him up with wealthy japanese investors who want in >they fly to japan, where high profile business is usually done in honorable boards rooms, but the company he meets with instead take him to a hostess club, which is basically a hooters/borderline strip club >phil is cool with it, and former commissioner zeigler basically does no background checks, because the japanese are offering straight cash and a lot of it >then, through a series of hostile power moves, the jap investors basically force out all the minority owners and take full control of the lightning >it becomes clear the owner of this japanese group may not even exist. He never attends a game, or is even seen or met at all. Never heard from other than by letter. And theres basically no record of his existence in japan. >the japanese run the lightning into the ground both on the ice and financially. And theres many transactions on the books that make little sense (money laundering/washing) >the land developer for the lightning stadium ends up suing the lightning for hundreds of millions. In the lawsuit its revealed the japanese henchman of the owner assigned to oversee the team (a real physical person) has been accused by many japanese businsses of being a gangster. >after running up millions in debt (and likely washing even more money than that) the japanese sell the team and all the japanese involved dissapear off the face of the earth like they never existed Interesting story. The japanese mob ran an NHL franchise as a multi million money laundering scheme.

There is an open spot at left wing and an open spot on the 2nd pair RHD. Or rather, those spots are up for grabs. Don't be surprised if some combination of Mazur, Danielson, or ASP make the opening night roster in lieu of any additional moves from outside the organization.

While they'd help us short term, We do need better long term solutions.

He can be the future considerations in the Tarasenko deal. Shoot, we already gave them Tarasenko, just add a couple more pieces.

I'm liking the Eddie Genborg pick more and more. Initially I thought he only had bottom 6 potential, but that may not be the case. He dominated goal scoring in Swedish juniors last season which I didnt realize. He then got brought up to his pro team halfway through the season... In the pros they used him as a 4th line grinder type, and as a net front presence. So he never really got the chance to be THE GUY in a big role. But he was still a big nasty 4th liner for them... from what ive seen his shot is excellent and his speed is really good. He may have a breakout season in pros this coming year. If not, he's still a strong AF kid for 18 that can win battles against men already... European scout slammed a Swede right into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the town of LA, just delivered our draft rankings. The 2025 rankings. 224 prospects got drafted. Red Wings selected all forecheckers... Didn't see the first Swede until the 2nd round. A Genborg. Six-foot 2-incher. You know how you know that when you're on the ice, Chief? You tell by lookin' from the helmet to the skate... What we didn't know... was our hockey mission had been so secret, no referees or linesmen had been sent... They didn't even open the penalty box till the 3rd period. Very first shift, Chief, Swede come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. Y'know, it's... kinda like ol' trap style, like you saw in New Jersey, like in the battle of the 96 finals, and the idea was, Swede comes to the nearest man and that man, he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin', and sometimes the Swede go away... sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that Swede, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. Y'know the thing about a Swede, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he hits ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then... oh, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin', the ice turns red, and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces. Y'know, by the end of that first period... lost a hundred men. I dunno how many Swedes. Maybe a thousand. I dunno how many men, they averaged six a period. In the 2nd period, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Michael Misa, from Ontario, forward, playmaking type. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up... laid on the ice like a kinda loose stick. Upended. Well... he'd been hip-checked below the waist. 3rd period a linesmen saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. Young linesmen, a lot younger than Mr. Misa. Anyway, he saw us and come in and three shifts later, a big fat referee comes down and start to pick us up. Y'know, that was the time I was most frightened, waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a neck guard again. So, 224 prospects got drafted, 50 eventually made rosters, and the Swedes took the rest, June the 28th, 2025.

Yes, it will be very interesting to watch, especially with the energy crisis/shifts involving the Russian Fed and their supply of oil to the west. Your comment also reminded me of when I used to summer in Bruge. The heat would tense my muscles up in a very bad way. Luckily, I had ordered Mr. Hankey's Gut Punch and it really helped with my stretching, and I noticed a real improvement in my gut health. Go figure.

I was listening to a podcast with Max Bultman from the Athletic and he claims that Max Plante was an already over 6 feet tall on draft day. Bultman claims that his own height is a “true” 5’11 and that he looked up to Plante upon meeting him for the first time. Perhaps he’s a grower and not a show-er?

Yall know me, my track record on prospects is pretty decent... i fought on the slopes and highest peaks to defend the Seider pick and Ty Bertuzzi pick when others doubted. And I bashed guys like Jurco, Cholowski, and Zadina the moment I saw them take GR ice... And if you still have any faith in your old pal #9/CRL/DonHakan/BarkBurgerman/(fake)BlueAdams/Walman6million/Gwinder/ and 100 other names Ive used that I cant remember.... then trust me when I say: This filthy roster needs to be placed into gynecology stirrups, its azzhole braced open, and Jesse Kiiskinen and Max Plante need to be directly inserted like an enema, that will clean out the remaining shidt. Sorry not sorry for that image.