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It's a little bit early, but I wont be around at Midnight to post it. Hopefully that's ok.

Holy hell. I'm going to this game, my first ever game, and Datsyuk is back? So excited!

Nill passed on drafting Larkin and chose Julius Honka. Honka could be really good too, but so far Holland's winning vs. Nill in drafting since he left because of this decision. The argument that Holland's success was due to others is one that can't be proven or disproven. There's no way that you know what happened behind closed doors so making that statement is just based on biased rather than fact. Think what you want to think. No. Nill negotiated the Z deal and Datsyuk made his own deal because he's magic. Holland is responsible for Franzen's deal because people hate that guy.

What about something like this? It would be something pretty different, but it would be a great way to incorporate the octopus.

13 returns on Friday the 13th!

Smith is what he is...not nearly as bad as half the fan-base make out, but not nearly reliable enough to earn complete trust. One thing is for sure...he needs to be alongside someone who is more defensively solid and calm under pressure. Hence the reason he looks better next to kronner or DD....next to kindl you have jakub's primary weaknesses (a slight lack of intestinal fortitude and a related capacity to panick under intense pressure) intensified by a complimentary s***- storm of Smith's erratic decision making and Iack of awareness.

Dats' Back

https://www.facebook.com/DETROITREDWINGS/videos/10153382847784139/?fref=nf Wet my self a little. ^Today from practice. Return of the Euro Twins!

The article makes it sound like Pulkkinen is a *****. Coach wanted a battle drill, Pulks couldn't take it and lost his temper and went off on Smith.

I'll take tomorrows vs San Jose if nobody minds.

I will make a LGW wager that Abby scores at least 15 goals this season

The only thing to complain about, and rightfully so, is the skyrocketing salaries for average players. It seems you have the Elite ($8M-$10M) then the bottom ($2M or less) and then for some reason you have everyone else making $3M-$7M and most not really deservng it. I konw the market dictates it, but in no real world does Abby deserve the same amount of money as a Nyquist. Nyquist is a 50+ points per year scorer, I can never see Abby getting above 30 too many more times, if ever again, heck I even thought $4.75M was a bit much for Nyquist so soon, I was kind of hoping for a bit less for a couple of years, then the bigger money. If you ask me, $3.5M is the top of the heap for players like Abby, if not a bit less but no more. But, I digress because we are living in an NHL world that says KFQ and Erection are worth nearly $5M....that's my complaint, we've gone through 2 lockouts to get a reign on these contracts, but you sure cannot tell by looking at most of them.

Aawesome stuff flashy. Good to see you back here. LETS GO WINGS!

i like our second line nyquist larkin tatar

Funny how many experts we have on here that didnt see any of the said incident. Oh wait, thats everyone. Let me chime in here on the "Im gonna comment on an issue i know nothing about" tip: Pulkinnen shouldn't be spearing Smith in the kidney and slashing him on his ankles if he doesnt want Smith to retaliate. Smith has already had stitches in both wrists and a lacerated kidney from previous Pulkkinen dirty cheap shots. He was like Jesus and "turned the other cheek" the first 6 times. But he finally had to retaliate. Wish these unfortunate circumstances didnt occur.

Meh Holland has made some mistakes. A lot of them are hindsight to us. But it's not entirely Holland if you think about it. It's what this league is becoming. Locking up guys left and right. Used to be where you locked up your elite players. Now everyone seems to be getting locked up. To be honest though we dont overpay players as much as other teams have in the recent past. Just not a fan of super long term deals.

For the record, im fine with the deal. I would have liked to see something with less term and/or money, but its nothing to get upset over. HOWEVER... this really makes me question Holland's ability to negotiate. Like, how much was Abdelkader's starting point? Did he want Tarasenko money or something? Because otherwise it seems like Holland just laid down on this one.

I think he could score around 20ish for another few years if he's paired with Hank. He's just going thru a slump at the moment.

23 goals last year. 10 goals in the Lockout shortened season (you have to look at games played) so you almost double that calculating for a full 82 games (19 maybe). Then the 2 full seasons he played before that while on the 3rd and 4th lines (7 and 8 goals). 13-14 is a concerning dip down to 10 goals, but otherwise, if you account for the line he was playing with and the role served, it looks like a pretty steady progression.

I think Holland plans on continuing with the youth movement. Abby will be a great complimentary guy with Dats and Z and then with Larkin and AA. We are just now seeing our high end prospects seeing NHL ice time. The deal is long but it's not like Abdelkader is being paid like some corner stone of the franchise, he's being paid like a good complimentary forward. Who knows what 20 goal scorers will be getting in 3 years and this saves us from getting a gritty scoring forward through FA. Something we will always need even int the future considering our prospects

Don't forget the iron clad, patented KHAZMTNMHMTTNIC (Kenny Holland Absolutely Zero Movement or Trades No Matter How Much The Team Needs It Clause © ) that it will come with.

I would be okay with 4.25M but getting close to 5M for 7 years is pretty close to being a bad deal imo. Not terrible, that's close to market value but with that term it should be lower You're dreaming

So an extra year and an extra 0.75M really makes or breaks this for you eh? You're really living in the margins on this one.

Moves are going to have to be made! If Abby is projecting north of $4M, Danny D is projecting north of $4M, guarantee Mrazek gets at least $4M...that doesn't even include having to try and better our team via trade or UFA, or the players that are out of options next season. This is why you have to get rid of Erection, one of Smith/Kindl and don't even think about re-signing KFQ. Helm can be traded, Andersson can as well. These are UFA's that are redundant on this team and will waste cap space if re-signed. Hell, most of us knew Helm was tradable with the emergence of Glen and Sheahan. Speaking of Sheahan, he will get in the $2M's on his next deal too. We need to make this team better, and right now, we need to add by subtracting so we can do so. If we want to even sniff Byf, we need to clear tons of capspace, especially if we are going to overpay 30 point players.

I'm shocked and appalled that Jeff Dunham is getting another special on comedy central. Everyone should boycott it and flood cc social media with stuff.