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Spotted steve on his way back to detroit

Don't believe him. He is dead. This is Jonas taking control of his account

South Africa. Back stateside now, but i jet back to europe soon. Promise im not dead, just wont be posting while im there. North america is superior to all places #changemymind

Pronman will soon learn the compete level/gumption/grit of the one they call Ras. He will rank him much higher than Veleno and Babs will be unable to hide his erection.

http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/24672724/detroit-red-wings-captain-henrik-zetterberg-back-injury-ending-hockey-career-according-general-manager-ken-holland Less than 30 minutes ago

I agree with the bold. F*** that other noise...

But then I wonder... What's to stop Chris Chelios from coming back and becoming Co-GM? @BottleOfSmoke @marcaractac

It's called Frying Pan and it's an abandoned lighthouse where people fish and scuba dive but it also has a webcam and you can watch Hurricane Florence arrive. Just awe inspiring! (Turn your speakers down, the wind sound is giant)

Yeah. I dunno. 12 packs of beer are pretty commonplace too. So, maybe it was 12+. ...but you can get a 30 pack of Lebatt Blue for the price of a 12 pack of something "better". Guess it depends on his tastes and such. I'm sure a case isn't out of the realm of possibility. Maybe not EVERY night. ...but regularly. Sure. I can see it. Couple of months ago when I wasn't in such a great place I was putting back 4-6 beers or a combo of a few beers plus a cocktail or two nightly. Thankfully, my ship has righted, but... I can see how it could get to a place that was much much worse. It sucks that depression has such as stigma attached to it. It sucks that you're just supposed to "figure things out" or "move on" or "man-up." I know I'm a huge smart ass on here a lot but if anyone ever just needs an ear. I will listen.

Big if true

Up doot for kierkegaard. Replace any mention of "the void" with "Nielsen's contract" and youll understand what he meant.

The Mullets never took a day off - let alone a shift!

President and CEO - Chris Illitch Senior VP - Holland Executive VP - Sergie Fedorov GM - Steve Yzerman Assistant GM - Kris Draper Coach - Daryl Sutter Assistant coaches - Niklas Lidstrom (defense and PK), Brett Hull (offense and PP) Goaltending coach - Dominic Hasek 2022-25 = Three peat Cup reign (FSN broadcasters Ken, Mik, Chris Osgood and Manny Legacy)

Couldn’t think of any better first move for general manager Steve Yzerman

Good question. I do not know. But I have a theory..... What kind of bridge is this?

Cory Pronman just released his top 100 prospects: https://theathletic.com/508797/2018/09/12/pronman-top-100-nhl-prospects-entering-the-2018-19-season/ Here's his top 15 and the 5 Red Wings prospects that made his list... 1. Rasmus Dahlin, D, Buffalo 2. Andrei Svechnikov, LW, Carolina 3. Casey Mittelstadt, C, Buffalo 4. Robert Thomas, C, St. Louis 5. Henrik Borgstrom, C, Florida 6. Filip Zadina, RW, Detroit Skating: 55 Puck Skills: 65 Physical Game: 55 Hockey sense: 55 Shot Grade: 60 Zadina skates well, with a powerful stride that eats up ice efficiently. He has near elite-grade hands, which allow him to be quite elusive. He can create as a playmaker and tends to make good decisions moving the puck, but he’s known as a trigger man with one of the better wrist shots in the draft class. What I love about Zadina is how multi-dimensional he is. He can attack defenses by dangling through guys, he can protect pucks and drive around guys, and he can power his way past defenders or utilize an inch of space to score from long distance. He is a highly competitive player who gets high marks for his character and competes his butt off to win puck battles on the ice. 7. Quinn Hughes, D, Vancouver 8. Jesperi Kotkaniemi, C, Montreal 9. Elias Pettersson, C, Vancouver 10. Martin Necas, C, Carolina 11. Gabriel Vilardi, C, Los Angeles 12. Cody Glass, C, Vegas 13. Oliver Wahlstrom, RW, New York Islanders 14. Brady Tkachuk, LW, Ottawa 15. Miro Heiskanen, D, Dallas 43. Joseph Veleno, C, Detroit Skating: 60 Puck Skills: 55 Physical Game: 50 Hockey sense: 55 Veleno is an excellent skater and he gets up to top speed quite easily with a powerful stride. Veleno works hard and plays a powerful style on the puck without taking many bad penalties. I don’t think he’s a dynamic playmaker, but he’s certainly above-average with the puck and can flash a tier higher. I like his puck skills. He’s a very smart player and he can consistently make above-average plays. While his shot/finishing ability is a bit worrying, Veleno has the speed, skills, smarts and physicality to be a very good playmaker and zone entry artist as an NHLer, combined with being a reliable two-way center. 52. Michael Rasmussen, C, Detroit Skating: 50 Puck Skills: 50 Physical Game: 75 Hockey sense: 55 Rasmussen, when healthy, had a solid third season in Tri-City and was very good in the WHL postseason. He’s a great playmaker, especially for a big man, who makes quick reads and shows good vision. He’s tough on the puck along the walls using his massive 6-foot-6 frame, is good in front on the power play getting his stick on pucks and taking up space, and has a quality shot to finish chances. Rasmussen is also solid defensively and wins puck battles using his size. He skates fine for a giant with a decent top gear but he’s not incredibly quick on his first few steps. With strength it’s possible the latter won’t be as much of an issue. He gets a bad rap, but he can play. Will he be a star? No, but he could be a top-six center. 58. Filip Hronek, D, Detroit Skating: 55 Puck Skills: 55 Physical Game: 45 Hockey sense: 60 Hronek had a successful first pro season, being one of the top rookie scoring defensemen in the league and one of the better 20-year-old players overall. He moves the puck with skill and confidence and shows great overall offensive instincts. For most of the season he quarterbacked the top power play unit in Grand Rapids. His skill/IQ drive his value but he moves well and showed he could skate at the pro level. The main issue for Hronek as a pro was dealing with the defensive side of the puck in terms of his reads and turnovers. He works hard enough that I think he can improve his battles with added strength but he’ll need to work on the risk in his game. 66. Jonatan Berggren, LW, Detroit Skating: 55 Puck Skills: 60 Physical Game: 40 Hockey sense: 60 Berggren’s skating is good, as he often shows the ability to beat defenders wide with speed and can change speeds very well. His hands are also impressive. You’d like to see a little more creativity, but he can make defenders miss. I like his vision a lot. He’s always looking to make a play and seems to have eyes in the back of his head. What I also like about his game is the pace he plays with. He’s always attacking, hitting the zone with speed and doesn’t make plays from a standstill. Berggren also has the hustle you like to see in a smaller player and can play on both special teams. Honorable Mention Filip Larsson, Detroit Notable Omission Dennis Cholowski

I feel it was fairly obvious that this was going to happen at some point, however what shocks me is that it is happening now. I always thought that this was going to happen after TB won their cup and began to regress 5-6 years down the road. After today, I can't imagine a scenario where he is not our GM in 2 years or less.

If anything can bring me out of the woodwork, it’s news of My Lord and Savior Stevesus Yzermanchrist making his long overdue return to the Motherland to (not) strap on his skates and lead us to a threepeat, a super bowl win, and the end of the Flint water crisis. The part of my brain that’s not having a fever dream hopes that all is well with his family, has tempered expectations that he will ever return to the Wings franchise in any official capacity, and will wait and see how this pans out like a normal-functioning human being. But I’d be lying if I said my initial reaction to the original tweets wasn’t to aggressively hump the nearest inanimate (or not—sorry Lesley) object whilst scream-singing Don’t Stop Believing. Whatevs.

Oh, lack-a-day. I've been gone for months and now finally reinstated, there are shenanigans afoot and I, being aged, do not know how to meme. I shall instead leave a picture for you as a show of support.

WARNING: NSFW

"Wine no longer makes my heart glad; a little of it makes me sad, much makes me melancholy. My soul is faint and impotent; in vain I prick the spur of pleasure into its flank, its strength is gone, it rises no more to the royal leap. I have lost my illusions. Vainly I seek to plunge myself into the boundless sea of joy; it cannot sustain me, or rather, I cannot sustain myself. Once pleasure had but to beckon me, and I mounted, light of foot, sound, and unafraid. When I rode slowly through the woods, it was as if I flew; now when the horse is covered with lather and ready to drop, it seems to me that I do not move. I am solitary as always; forsaken, not by men, which could not hurt me, but by the happy fairies of joy, who used to encircle me in countless multitudes, who met acquaintances everywhere, everywhere showed me an opportunity for pleasure. As an intoxicated man gathers a wild crowd of youths about him, so they flocked about me, the fairies of joy, and I greeted them with a smile. My soul has lost its potentiality. If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!" - Kierkegaard (as "A"), Either/Or tl;dr Kids = Possibility, hope, allure of the unknown. Veterans = Zzzzz. You do need veterans. But do you need so many veterans? I think that's the point of contention for a lot of people. There's a difference between "some veteran leaders" and "4,000 veterans, mediocrity as far as the eye can see, oldest team in the league." Abdelkader, Daley, DeKeyser, Ericsson, Helm, Glendening, Green, Jensen, Kronwall, Nielsen, Nyquist, Vanek, Zetterberg. So much old. Soooo much old. But, I mean, it is what it is. The mandate was "Keep The Streak Alive," our prospect pool has been unremarkable for a long time, and so we leaned on veterans. And now we're slowly getting younger, because The Streak is dead and buried and the overall quality of our prospect pool is improving. So it's all good.

Gerard Gallant taking the rejects of 30 NHL teams to the Stanley Cup Final put everything into perspective

But then we'd only have five veterans on the blue line.