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Saturday Matinee Game. Here's to a Wings win and passing Boston in the standings. LGRW!

What if they rolled out a Mantha - Larkin - AA line

Let's Go Wings! Kick butt like my kids did at region chorus (I got two into all-states). Let AntMan get a goal streak going, have Dylark get it going again, and blow up the scoreboard. With Boston slumping, just leapfrog them and take the wildcard issue away. With the Stralman injury in TB, that could help us as well. That line has the potential to..... KICKAZZ! Though I don't see it happening just yet, I don't think Blashill trusts them defensively enough. In a couple of years though....

Many things wrong with this. One: Can't offer 8 years. 7 years is the max. Two: Can't offer $20M signing bonus (unless spanning multiple years). Max is about 14 million, depends on the cap. Three: Trouba being a potential Norris winner is a stretch. Offensive skills seem only decent at best. Four: Trouba right now is not worth close to $8M. That'd make him the 2nd highest paid defenseman in the NHL. Five: Compensation for that would be 4 1st-round picks. Trouba is not worth close to that. Six: That would create some serious cap problems for us. Seven: Offer sheets are stupid. There is a reason why almost no one makes them.

A 2nd new Wings fan in my family is on the way, though this time around we'll be looking for pink Wings gear! She's "officially" due on July 31st, though she'll actually be here a week or two before that. Parker (my First Wings fan) is ridiculously excited to be an older brother.

Got to take advantage of Bostons slump. LGRW !

Please do not be tentative; take it to them. THIS IS YOUR BARN! Show the fans you care about the streak and they're not going to let anyone take it away from you. Work together as a team not against each other. COMMUNICATE OUT ON THE ICE! And for crying out loud, please keep Ericsson off the ice as much as possible or at least threaten him with something so he makes better choices...hell everyone on this team needs to make better choices. And the most important thing, THE FREAKING GAME STARTS WHEN THE PUCK IS DROPPED not when there is 10 minutes left in the game. I STILL BELIEVE!!! GO WINGS!!

Goose is due

Nice!!!! What a pass by Richards!

Ya, that's the mentality you want your team going into a huge game with.

Just win. Let's go boys. Let's go Wings!

Hornblower is a face you want to punch.

Happy to SEE YOU!!!

WHOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! See I told you guys could score first!!!

I love that the Joe is booing Crosby

One: max length deals are dangerous anyway Two: Since always, or it would be circumvention. Three: If you're paying a defenseman that much he'd better be a Norris caliber guy from the day you start paying him that. Four: Who knows what he's going to be worth in two years is right. You might be paying a second pair guy $8 mil a year Five: Trading 4 1st rounders for one guy is a bad idea, period. Six: Can't sell what nobody is buying Seven: Offer sheets are always matched unless the contract is so ridiculously bad the GM would be a complete moron for either offering it or matching it, that's why almost nobody does it. That means it's not a tool that can be used to acquire help

But the saving grace it appears it's not on NHL network, NBC, or any other station where Doc, Eddie and Pierre are commenting on the game. I would be terrified if this was a 3 PM game on Sunday.

Pitt flys out there right now. You cannot come out like you have the last 2 games. If Kronwall is hurt cut his minutes or don't play at all. He's been a major detriment to this team since he's been back. I do believe if you win this one in regulation they make the playoffs. 3rd most important game left on the schedule. It's at home and Pitt is coming off a very disappointing loss. Need the put the hammer down. Wings win 3-2 Smith, Helm, Mantha Crosby x 2 he is red hot for them

Nice gdt as usual homie, Heres to hopino we get 2 points. Let's go wings !!

Just outta curiosity...am I the only one that sees Smith as a pretty big asset on this push for a playoff appearance? He's picked up his game and he's our most physical player right now. I was on the fence about him for a while, but I'm really liking what I see.

You're starting to sound like Bill/Miller, if you hate Nyquist so much just make a thread about him and contain it in there. Nyquist/Tatar definitely are not the next euro twins, but they are still very good third line wingers. Its annoying how quickly people will just turn on a player. In all honestly, I doubt Holland signs Qunicey, Helm, Richards or Miller. I could see him maybe signing one, but I would say the chances of all four coming back area pretty slim especially Richards.

Just my take on the game....Kronwall and Ericsson are the two worst d-men on the team. Period. They single-handedly almost gave that game away last night...and most nights. Nyquist needs to sit, he is no longer any sort of threat...except to melting the ice with his suckiness. Geez, remember when we had a team full of GOOD Swedes? Now we have one that's on his last leg and still carrying the team. If we could rid ourselves of the three mentioned above, we'd be a better team by subtraction. BTW - Anyone else having issues logging in on an android device? I can no longer log in on my phone or tablet, I get some wierd long error message....

Red Wings playoff chances 50.6% People's dream of the Red Wings tanking and it coming true 0% Mike Illitch/Ken Holland even considering tanking 0% People complaining for the next 5 years about us not tanking 100%

Lol. So I actually looked it up. Datsyuk hasn't decline in possession metrics at all. (like I said in that other thread) Stamkos's decline is nearly identical to Zetterberg's. Z was 54% in corsi while Stamkos was 53% last year. Both at 51% this year. Big dip. Anyways to steer this back to topic. Technically Stamkos's value should drop. He simply isn't the 90 point scorer he was for like 3 seasons in a row. And as I've already pointed out - he isn't a more "complete player" like we think he is. He's just not the offensive player he was years ago. And defensively speaking he hasn't really gotten much better. But obviously these damn teams will throw their money at him. Except Holland. I don't think Holland will pay him $10 million - because truly speaking I'm starting to wonder if Stamkos is really worth that much. Who knows. Maybe I'm being overcritical now.

Wooooo, a win! It looked like the Wings kind of forgot what it was like to win at the end back there. In any case, great job Jimmy, your nachos were on point! Sharp as cheddar, just the way I like it.