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"Tank" keep a rollin all night long....

HYPE!!!

Let's Go Petr!

I see another win from Petr tonight!

I never cheer for my team to lose even if it moves them closer to getting a better draft pick. Let's say you cheer for them to lose, you get the pick you want and they pick someone else or they pick the guy everyone wants and he's a bust. Now you're back to square one and you're still cheering against your team? Cheer for your team, hope that younger players get experience and confidence playing at the NHL level and that carries them into the next year. If you get the top pick in the draft and he works out, great. If not, no worries, there's a Steve Yzerman behind every Pat LaFontaine.

This is mostly about me, but I'm sure lots of others relate. I've always considered myself to be a huge Wings fan, I haven't missed a game in I don't even remember how long. Even this season, I still have every game on tv, but it's mostly background to me working on more productive things. Where I feel dirty, is I want the Wings to score, but I want them to score 1 less than the opposition. I understand that short term suckage = long term success, but does that make me (and others like me) a bad fan? I just want that #1 OA pick damnit!!!

HYPE! LGRW

Remember when we were 6 points out?

whats the hold up? at least we got Ken Daniels on the broadcast

LETS GO MRAZEK!

I wouldn't pick him at 2, but I'd definitely consider him anywhere outside of the top 3. Interesting to see Tkatchuk ahead of Svechnikov and Zadina on Craig's List... He also has Veleno at 27. I highly doubt he drops that low, but if he does, I'd be more than happy to snag him with our Vegas pick.

Boom! 5th Win for Petr... Now finish it off and make the playoffs!

Let's be fair: Mantha, Larkin, Svechnikov, Cholowski, Rasmussen isn't a group that screams "We're gonna use our first pick on an undersized defenseman who's playing at Michigan, because of course we are." I'm guessing Tkachuk and Boqvist are ahead of Hughes on our preferences chart. Possibly also Zadina, Bouchard, Dobson, et al. I'm sure The Powers That Be have done their homework and know what's at stake. Draper has said this organization needs to hit some home runs in the drafting department.

Devellano needs to call out Mantha for his pathetic showing against Kesler of all people. He should have thrown Kesler around like a rag doll. Instead, he acted like he was fighting against Joe Kocur.

Yes, there are bad fans. Every team has them, some just have more than ever. Hawks fans are a perfect example. I personally saw "diehard" Hawks fans of the early-mid 90s disappear by the late 90s only to reappear again 10-15 years later. Some of them even became Avs fans for a while just because they were competitive rivals of the Wings. Those are what I would refer to as "bad" fans. This team has some too, unfortunately. Although I believe almost 30 years of winning creates a stronger fanbase which can whether a few bad seasons. So there aren't as many "bad" Wings fans as compared to some other teams IMO. Being a Dolphins fan, I remember when they were in on the "Suck for Luck" sweepstakes. I wanted to finish last overall to get the number one pick. Unfortunately, the Colts have mastered the tank process. What are the odds the same team who finishes last overall the same year Peyton Manning enters the draft accomplishes the same thing the year Andrew Luck enters the draft only a year after making the playoffs with Manning? Speaking of Colts fans: awful, awful fans. Before Manning, most NFL fans in Indiana were Bears, Packers, Bengals and Steelers fans, maybe a few Browns and Lions. Then the Colts are good and then everyone is a Colts fan. Everyone's wearing a Colts jersey on Gameday. Then what happens when Manning is in Denver and the team is bad again? The Colts jerseys disappear and all the #18 Broncos jerseys pop up. That's why I can't stand the Colts or their fans to this day.

I watch just for the entertainment of seeing professional hockey at this point. I have no real interest in the outcomes of the games.

I root for this team to play hard, and win, every night, just as I did through the whole Dead Wings Era. I just realize that this team doesn't have enough talent to win more than 1/3 of their remaining games at best. Right now, I just want to see the young guys play good, strong, fundamental hockey. Sure, they're going to make mistakes here and there, but do they keep repeating them, or do they learn from them, and move on? I'm okay with getting beaten by better teams. I'm not okay with watching ourselves beat us for the other team. I'd much rather see them play hard and win games, and then hope we do well with the bingo balls, than watch them give games away for a better shot at a top 3 pick. There is no honor in tanking, but there is in going out and giving 100%, and losing to a better team.

I hear ya man. I'm in the same boat. I still don't miss a game. Like you, I honestly don't remember the last time I've missed a game. 5+ years for sure. But rooting for losses just feels dirty. My mindset during games is for the kids (Larkin, Mantha, Athanasiou, Bertuzzi, Svechnikov) to do well, and the vets (aside from Zetterberg) to do poorly, as stupid as that may sound... I hope we lose 4-3 / 5-4 every game, with the kids getting all the goals... I agree with this. I'd like to see a system implemented in which teams benefit from winning, not losing. How that would work, I have no idea... Maybe the team with the best record post trade deadline that misses the playoffs gets the first overall pick, and so on. No more draft lottery. It would definitely prevent teams from tanking and trading off a bunch of players every trade deadline. It would make the trade deadline a lot less interesting and free agency a lot more interesting. Teams would probably wait until after the season to trade off any players, and any players that were traded at the deadline would probably cost double. Either way, I hate rooting for losses...

I'm just apathetic right now and hope we get the #1 pick and start over next season.