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Nothing wrong with looking at options in life. Sometimes people need assurance before they decide to stick with something or even to move on. If you were offered a job at say Google and you currently work for Apple, there's no one who wouldn't at the very least look at what benefits Google has to offer even if they're content at working where they're at. Babcock is doing what any normal person in his position would do. He's weighing his options. Nothing classy or classless about it. Also I'm not sure why people are assuming Blashill is somehow the better option when not even the organization itself does. Sure he's worked with the AHL roster but so has Babcock. For 10 years now actually. That's longer than Blashill. If babs stays, the Wings organization gets what it wants. If not they will interview Blashill. Nothing more or less to it.

I think the bottom 6 should be the last of our worries. And further more I think forwards should be the last of our worries. We have a number of top 6 forwards and bottom 6 forwards entering the league the next few years. DEFENSE is still the glaring issue with this team.

My kind of penalty

I don't think the difference between Johnson and Tatar/Nyquist was "toughness, grit, or compete level". I think, to a large extent, it was because Tyler Johnson was on the ice a lot more than Nyquist and Tatar were. He averaged 18:51 in ice time per game, while Tatar and Nyquist were 15:56 and 15:50 respectively. Also, our powerplay wasn't very good and that affected their production totals as well.

Ya cause if they were to get rid of one of the lucky charms marshmallow shapes you may just go postal

How will you drown your sorrows away about laffy taffy though?

Well, the three games we won were the three games that Miller and Glendening played the most. Smartass-ness aside, if Tatar and Nyquist weren't getting much done in the time they did have it's illogical to think they'd have done much more with a few extra shifts per game. It's not like they were playing 8 minutes. Plus, some of Johnson's TOI was on the PK. Zetterberg got 18 minutes, basically none on the PK, (more ES+PP time than Johnson) and he didn't manage much either.

Well you have to have an intelligent conversation once and a while

I didn't know Vancouver had a soccer team.

Letting him look is smart. If he's got something lined up, I'm sure he'll let the Wings know, and then they can know if they need to be searching for a coach. I hope he stays with us, but I wish him well. He's done good for us.

You need your own blog. I'd read regularly.

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Mcgrattan doesnt spell his name. He just looks at the paper and his name just appears.

Yeah, the no fun mods locked that topic.

Hey, I'm just spelling it the way he probably did until he was 20.

Ok he may not be the best at any specific category. But he is elite at Kronwalling.

We don't have 100% drafted players, but regardless, talent is talent. Doesn't matter where it comes from. In the past two years we've added two young 25+ goal scorers, the fact that we drafted them doesn't detract from that. That we've mostly (and perhaps permanently) lost one of the scorers we'd had hurts. That and that our big UFA signing hasn't lived up to expectations. If Franzen and Weiss had been healthy and Weiss was as productive as he was in Florida, it'd be a pretty big difference. Franzen has been as productive as Staal the past two years, and Staal was healthy for one of them. Weiss's production has been about 60% of what it was in Florida. We could have brought in Ryan (though likely at the cost of Nyquist or Tatar), and he could have gotten hurt and/or his production could have dropped (has dropped in Ottawa in fact). Hornqvist and Neal were traded for each other, and neither produced more. Lateral move. Cole is as good or better than Perron. Zidlicky isn't great, but filled a need. Yes, there are moves made for high quality players each year, from trades, UFAs, or promoting prospects. But not necessarily by every team every year. We have made some of them. What we've added at forward is as good or better than most teams. On defense, we've missed out on a few UFAs we tried to get. That does not mean we are not a team that makes those moves, or that we're trying to win a Cup with only drafted players. It only means that a few UFA defensemen chose other teams. Sucks that it's happened a few times in a row at a time when we really need it, but that's life. It's happened to every team, and will happen to every team again.

You know what else hurts Kronwall? Errorson.

Man thank Christ we didn't trade for overrated yandle .... Ekman larsson was the only one worth going for and phoenix won't deal him Rangers are gonna kick themselves for giving up all that for yandle I can't believe how rangers can't even score any goals ... It's f***en crazy

Well if you ask most everyone else, it's the smartest possible thing to do. Because Mike Babcock did it. Another thing to do, and this is probably a long shot, is to play your scorers a lot. Press offensively. Control the puck. And in doing so, make the other team use their 4th line 18 minutes a night and/or render their best player ineffective with defensive assignments. Nah...what am I saying? That would never work.

Why change one 'cock' with another one? ... sorry couldn't resist. Hitch is a good friend of Babs, I wonder if that has any bearing on it, knowing that if you say yes, your friend will be unemployed. Don't know if Hitch's job is secure or on thin ice but yah, St. Louis is way too much talent to be one and done. They need goalie but that's a problem that a coach cannot rectify or solve.

Subban threw Johnson down to the ice after a check on the boards in last night's game. Nobody really saw it or commented on it, and the crowd got sort of mad. I enjoyed seeing it.

I too hate this small piece of s***. Remember him going after Miller and giving him pretty nasty facewash with his gloves. He did it knwoing Miller face was cut open a couple weeks ago.

I'd love to see Brian McGrattan do unpleasant things to that punk in a closet.

Goons were phased out because in the cap era you can't afford to have a guy on the ice who looks like he's always half an inch from falling over that can't do anything but fight and plays 6 minutes a game. Not because there aren't people who won't take huge money to be punched in the face and not because teams don't want a pit bull on their team, it's all because of the cap, if you can't score or grind or defend, you lose your job