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Blues. Easy. I'm pegging them with the Cup. Hate the Blues but it's an old, stale hate. Rather them than Pittsburgh or San Jose. Still pretty neutral about the Lightning.

Detroit cap and prison onesie. Hmm.

Am I the only one who is not as excited about this anymore since the announcement? I should be, but I'm still just a little jaded over the roof...

This is russo's first year in the ahl though, isn't it? It's Mantha and AAs second pro year. So after next year, Russo would still fall under the "2 year" thing.

But the AHL is considered pro. Which meas guys like Russo, Mantha, AA (if I'm interpreting the rules correctly) would require protection.

I'm calling Blues in 6

Glad to see that MF Weber fail so badly ...

Do the Wings really even have a rivalry with anyone these days or is just whomever NBCSN says it is on a random Wednesday night?

Sure we have history with the Sharks but to I'm pretty much over it. The Sharks are a pretty likeable team to me and they play a good brand of hockey. Pavelski and Burns are awesome I think it's the Sharks year. Their best players are playing like there best players and also getting very solid production from secondary scorers plus their power play is lethal. They got a lot going for them right now

lol I nailed it

People to seem to forget the vaunted Babcock basically had the same results as Blashill for his final 3 years here. Getting in the playoffs either the last week/day, and getting stomped in the 1st round. The big difference is he had an actual veteran team, and superstars with some miles left on them still.

So we know why Bedard was let go of eh?

See, here's the thing. There aren't any guys on the Blues team from when the wings were a rival of theirs. The Sharks on the other hand have most of those dirty diving pieces of s*** still on their team. So yeah, I'd take the blues over diving joe.

Hopefully, the Sharks will win the Cup. I don't like the other three teams.

Yeaaaa who cares lol. Just another arena. That said though, I'm sure it will be nice on the inside. So I appreciate the construction updates.

Baby Zetterberg repping Detroit in Swedish magazine.

Okay. Hello. There are two arguments being made here: 1. Nyquist is not (currently) a good secondary scorer. 2. Neither were other good players in their first few years, so based on the talent we've seen from Nyquist - both in regular seasons past and in the IIHF World Championships - maybe we should give him some time. It's possible for one brain to entertain both of those ideas at the same time and find them both compelling. It's also possible to discuss those ideas without being sensationalist and condescending. Let's carry that mindset with us as we turn the discussion back to the thread topic, okay?