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Harder than 60 Minutes of Hell ? Impossible!! Also, if you're not watching a single game you should sort of not maybe sort of you know, be so opinionated?

Quenneville was fired because he couldn't do anything with a team that's more talented than our team. What makes anyone think he's a great coach for kids? What makes anyone think he wants any part of a rebuilding team that's bereft of elite talent? Literally the only thing that matters is how our kids are doing -- and, again, our kids are doing fine. Larkin's a point-per-game 1C right now and he's going to be the next captain. Bertuzzi is scoring. AA is scoring. Mantha's in a funk, but he scored 24 goals last season. Cholowski is a revelation. Rasmussen's developing. Veteran and top trade chip Nyquist is scoring at almost a point-per-game clip. Our record sucks because our team sucks. Which is fine, because our team needs to suck. Sucking for an extended period of time is the only way out of this hole. Blashill is delivering on the sucking part of the equation and I see no solid evidence that he's hurting players' development. And, again, most available coaches probably wouldn't want to come to Detroit anyway, especially with a GM change probably coming soon. (New GM probably gets to pick his coach.)

Blash'd be reading this thread like #TrusttheProcess

yo, I heard there can only be one Jr. mod. Perhaps there should be an Agni Kai between @Dabura and @ChristopherReevesLegs

Uber driver is a doosher for releasing this on the web They were relaxed and speaking candidly/frankly about their team. Tell your friends a cool story, no reason to tell the entire hockey world.

Yep. I'm sure Mantha and AA at least know enough to wait until they are in their condos playing Fortnite before they laugh about all Blashill's abundance of pink shirts n' ties, and Ferschweiler shiny bald head. Zetterberg taught them good.

On a quick little election day side note, a couple of choices on the ballot for State Board of Education is Scotty Boman (missing the W) and John Tatar. Funny right? But following that up with one of the choices on the ballot for U of M Regent is John Hudler. Not trying to turn this political by no means, just thought it was super funny seeing those names on my ballot this morning! I don't get triggered anymore. But ya, the loyalty thing has really hurt this team in recent years.

BECAUSE OF KEN HOLLAND NOT BEING ABLE TO MAKE THEM TRADES FOR #1 DRAFT PICKS!!!!!!!

BECAUSE OF KEN HOLLAND NOT BEING ABLE TO MAKE THEM TRADES FOR #1 DRAFT PICKS!!!!!!!

https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/blackhawks-fire-coach-joel-quenneville-and-assistant-coaches/ G'dang'it. Fire Blashill already. Get him off the bench and away from our under-developing youths. Hire a proven coach in Quenneville. The Holland/Blashill tandem sucks b@lls and needs to be terminated. We have given this experiment way too much time and there has been little to no progress and in fact a lot of our players have regressed each year under Blashill. He needs to go back to coaching Pee-wee hockey and Holland needs to clear the way for Stevie to come home. Enough is enough. I did not watch one game last year and will continue my protest until this ends. Fans of the Red Wings need to make their voices heard before we become the Leafs... why make any effort if the company still makes money? Hit them where it hurts them. I don't think Quenneville makes us a cup contender but I do think, as I have said like a broken record, I believe it will make us a hard team to play against right now and then to see progress from there.

HYPE! LGRW!

What happened to the "human eraser"? The kid that stepped in out of college and had an immediate impact? He was thriving under a real coach and has withered since his departure. What about "the best 3rd line C in the league" as named by Babs? Withered as well. Larkin has finally been thrust into the 1C spot but I would bet my saving that if Z were around Blashill would be doing hand-stands on that crutch as he has in the past... lean on the crutch to try to mask his inabilities. Heck, keep Blashill under Q (or another good coach) and hope in the very far future he learns and is worth the wait but having him "learn to drive on the track during a race" is a bad strategy and it is showing so on the ice.

How would you know? You don't watch games Blashill is great a developing kids, at least that's the narrative this fan base fed me starting in 2014 when I said letting go of Babcock was a huge mistake. I'm not saying Coach Q isn't a decent coach or that he doesn't know how to coach youth, I'm saying swapping out Blash for Coach Q will do nothing to remedy anything. If we fired Blash this instant and hired Q, you would all praise the hockey gods and get super hype... that hype would wear off in about a year or two when you realize we're still losing games and nothing has really changed, and then you all will turn on coach Q at that point, just like you've all done with Blash already. The problem is not with the coach, the problem is with this roster. This team is 5 years from winning anything, and unfortunately it'll probably be even longer than that. Coach Q has ZERO desire to strap himself to that, and it wouldn't do us much good anyway to hire him. He'll be an LA King soon enough. Losing, it's what's for dinner.

But do you believe that Coach Q with 22 years of NHL coaching experience, 3 Stanley Cups, and 18 playoff appearances would be totally clueless on how to go forward with this younger team? Like is Blash, with his few years of NHL experience and 1 playoff game win the only guy in the world that knows how to coach a younger, rebuilding team? I think Coach Q would be just fine. Actually, more than fine. Again, I won't be upset if we don't get him, but I believe you always go out and get the very best if available. If he did come here, he'd be fully aware of what he was walking into. It's not like he'd be surprised at training camp and bail. If we COULD get him, I'd likely do it under a long term deal. Last point - it may be a lot easier and quicker to rebuild if you have a coach with a proven track record of winning cups, handling superstars, etc. to attract top players to come play for the Wings. I don't think Blash gets any players in a frenzy with all of his hockey cred.

As has been mentioned... good coaches are hard to come by and one just became available, it is bad management not to pursue it. Love or hate Blashill his record speaks volumes and he has had enough time to figure things out by now. This is not a Stanley cup wining roster but I do believe it can be a lot more competitive and miserable to play against... it is neither. I've been a Wings fan since the early 80's and watched through the Dead Win era and despite a tonne of losing the team was still a lot of fun to watch, this teams play is BO-RING. Think of the difference when Scotty took the reigns and then gave them to Dave Lewis... same team basically with very different results (I don't think Lewis is even coaching in the league anymore). Then from Lewis to Babcock.... BIG change. Now Babcock to Blashill a big change again in the wrong direction. A good coach is a difference maker. Motivates his player and gets the most out of them plus has a good strategies... I see none of that with Blashill. We have a young, big and fast team... we should be at least a team that every other team dreads playing against and we are not even close.

You should be junior moderator.

HYPE +1 LGRW! we have some Canuck spies on our ranks

It's a living.

GO WINGS!! BTW thank you for creating our GDTs. You ROCK!!!

Funny names fersure lol another interesting name on their is John James #Based Coach Q is going directly to the LA Kings, let the countdown begin. I've said this in many other threads now, and I'm guessing at this point I will be repeating myself all season, REBUILDING TEAMS LOSE, that's what they do. Ya'll have wanted to sell and rebuild for so long, and now we're in the thick of it and you suddenly don't understand why we're losing and you're upsets. Blashill was brought in because he develops kids and won with kids at the AHL level. That's LITERALLY the exact skillset you want in a coach presiding over a rebuild. But ya'll want to have your cake and eat it too... not gonna happen. We are BAD. Probably gonna be bad for a while bad. So strap in. Swapping out for coach Q is not gonna do anything for us at this point. Larkin is playing great this year - Blash gets no credit Athanasiou is playing great this year - Blash gets no credit Bertuzzi is playing great this year - Blash gets no credit Cholowski is a gift from god - Blash gets no credit Rasmussen is now turning it on - Blash gets no credit Blashill is doing essentially what was asked of him. The only kid struggling under him right now is Mantha. Welcome to rebuilding Sally's

I'm really not sure how people expected this team to perform this season. Would a different coach make this team any better? Maybe... I'm not sure though. Larkin is having a breakout season. Mantha has struggled. I doubt that's on Blashill though. Athanasiou was playing the best hockey I've seen him play prior to the injury. Bertuzzi is playing above expectations. Rasmussen is playing as well as you can expect a 19 year-old. Cholowski has far exceeded expectations. Who are all these kids that he's "ruining their development"? EDIT: Even if a different coach like Quenneville would make this team slightly better, is that really the best thing for this team going forward. No it's not...

Sorry, but I find it hard to take your opinion with any credence when you admittedly haven't watched a single game in a year and half or longer... Maybe Blashill isn't the best coach in the world (he's certainly not the worst), but this team isn't going anywhere any time soon, regardless who's behind the bench. Blashill is not the reason we're a bad team. We're a bad team because we don't have any elite players. We don't have any elite players because we've been so good for so long. Maybe, if Blashill is as bad as you think he is, he will be the reason we finally get that elite player we so desperately need in next year's draft... Or maybe we'll be bad enough this year despite who the coach is, due to the natural cycle of a salary cap league...

The kids are doing fine under Blashill. Quenneville's not gonna want to come to Detroit. We are a bad team because we have almost zero high-end talent.

Rookie watch: Cholowski coming on strong for Red Wings [NHL.com]

I'll just leave this lil' HYPE nugget right here