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Agreed. When I first saw the headline I thought "what a moron." But reading more about it and hearing what his parents did puts it in a whole different light for me. I guess you can blame him for being naive and not picking up on the problem earlier, but it's his friggin parents. The guy is likely busy playing hockey and trusting that his mother will be handling things and looking out for his best interests. Not having an agent didn't help. Agents are often evil, but a necessary one in the entertainment business.

He's an idiot? Really? I can't speak for anyone else, but the last person in this world I'd expect to screw me over financially is my mother. It's one thing to be awful with money, but what they did with his money goes beyond being financially irresponsible - they milked the **** out of him. They treated him like a cash cow and ran his debt into the ground. The amount they spent/lost has more to do with their greed and taking advantage of a situation than it does with making smart decisions. Disgusting on their part.

Sometimes you make mistakes....JJ trusted his parents, Fedorov trusted a financial advisor and gave him millions and millions to invest...that didn't work out too good for Sergei. He thought he was hiring a professional and JJ thought he was in good hands with his parents. Greed kills and nobody is immune to now and again.

That's not even the point, but go ahead with that. There's a difference between smart financial planning and people blowing all of your money without telling you. I had the same reaction.

Not saying I'd trust him with millions of dollars, but you can't call him stupid for thinking his parents would have his best interest at heart. He made a mistake.

my Dads really good with cars.And he helped put in my water heater. And he pulled a bunch of my baby teeth.

I think a more reasonable approach would be to not fight to begin with

Why does there seem to be some sort of weird, pathalogical, need to assign blame to each and every little thing that happens to this team? Smith went back out because he wanted to play, the coach probably wanted him to play, and the folks signing his checks want him to play. A cut on his hand is a minor injury. The kind that hockey players sustain CONSTANTLY throughout a season. Think about all the times that you see blood in the course of a hockey season. All of those are cuts, and all of those have the potential to get infected. Most don't. This one did. It's not anyone's fault. It just happened.

The solution to the problem is simple : All of this of course wouldn't have happened with McGrattan......

Here's an interesting tidbit I just ran across in a Khan article about Nestrasil... "[Nestrasil] would have been buried further down the depth chart once Pavel Datsyuk and Weiss return from injuries and after the club promotes top prospect Anthony Mantha, which it will likely do if he produces in the AHL the next few weeks." The bolded part is interesting because until very recently Khan had repeatedly taken the stance that as a result of his injury (and lost training camp), it would be unlikely that Mantha would crack Detroit's roster this season. This sounds almost definitive. As in, someone told Khan (off the record) that he'll be promoted if he plays well out of the game. Usually Khan's good about acknowledging when he's speculating. That doesn't seem to be the case here.

Call me optimistic, but I still think it'll be interesting to see how Weiss responds when actually getting a chance. Based on his history, he's plenty capable of becoming an important part of this team's offense moving forward. That was the goal when signing him and it's still possible that he could rise to meet that goal, and perhaps be better if given the right opportunities in time. And yeah, I get it, it's unlikely, and perhaps a bit crazy to think that at this point, but I think you've got to see how he does as a regular in the lineup before you do anything drastic.

For those of us who didn't catch the game. Not much of a fight but you can see Smith holding his hand immediately afterwards.

Pronger has been overshadowed by Lidstrom his entire career, and now will likely enter the HOF.....................in the same class as Lidstrom.

Agreed, but you'd think they would've cleaned it and covered it after the fight. It seems a little odd an infection shows up that fast. I'm really starting to wonder about the Wings training staff.

And yet nobody claimed Callahan when he was waived to begin the season. Strange.

But didn't he go to Michigan? Lol. I thought they hold their student athletes to a higher standard? He and Frank Clark are shining examples of what being a "Michigan Man" is all about!

You're advocating holding a guy out of the remainder of the game, for a cut on his hand, because there's a possibility of infection? Can you even think of another time in the last 20 years that a player missed a game due to an infected cut on their hand? That's how unlikely, and flukey, this injury is. To suggest that someone ought to know better (regardless of the score) displays magnificent foresight, hindsight, or (more likely) both. Athletes want to play. Coaches want them to play. They're not going to sit out for something so unlikely. Can you imagine how deep in Babs' doghouse Smith would be if he sat out the rest of the game because "maybe his hand could get an infection"? Babs' would ******* lose it.

I never got the impression that was Weiss' attitude. He may be fragile but from all accounts he seems to working hard.

Snowman. (although it's usually a snow woman because I've never been too good at making snowballs) Better gift: Candy or flowers?

First referees are against the Wings and now bacteria joins the anti-Wings bandwagon!!

I really think there was 0 chance that the Bruins would have traded Boychuk to a division rival. I think Ericsson is having a rough start due to his finger injury and his inability to train all out in the off season. The amount of hate he's gotten this year is shortsighted in my opinion. Hopefully he'll get back to the way he way the past couple of years.

Should be Lidstrom, Pronger, Fedorov and Lindros.

Yeah, I guess I was unclear what I meant. My post does say I think it'll be LIds, Feds, Pronger - and that'll be deserving. I've just always hated Pronger - I kind of just meant anyone else instead of that guy. There's no way the Kariya should actually be there ahead of Pronger. That fact that you guys got up in arms shows that there's no real question about this class, though. I did really like Kariya's character as a player, though - great speed, vision. But his career was messed up by concussions and he played on some pretty bad teams.

Probably should have done this about three weeks ago. The kid is clearly not ready to play NHL hockey. He works hard, and has some positives in his game, but a year ago he was only a mediocre AHL player. Excepting him to be a decent NHL player is too much at this point in his career.

I put off replying to this topic all day because I wanted to write a dissertation on why I think Feds is a lock for first ballot, and how I believe that a lot of his reported "attitude" problems hinged on cultural issues, and to reflect on the ways I feel Feds is superior to Forsberg. But now I'm sleepy and hungry and I don't want to say anything other than Fedorov is betterov