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Sheesh. Even Jesus is left handed. SMH.

HYPE! LGRW!

Imagine a 2019-2020 Red Wings rookie class of Hughes/Kakko, Hronek, Veleno, Zadina.

Maybe it made the game more entertaining, and maybe that's all that should matter to us as fans. But in terms of, like, actual hockey stuff and the business of being a serious pro hockey player, it was selfish and stupid. The way I see it, this whole run of reasonably good hockey the Wings have been on over the past month or so has been leading up to these next two rematches. They're the big measuring stick games. The Lightning, in particular, are a demon we need to exorcise; they're the closest thing we have right now to a hated nemesis. Removing Bertuzzi from the equation removes the one player you could point to and say, "We haven't really had this kind of player in a while. Even last season he wasn't playing like he is this season. He gives us a different dimension and might be exactly what we need against a team like Tampa that has completely owned us for a long time now." tl;dr It would've been nice to see the Wings square off against Tampa and Toronto at full strength and it's so perfectly stupid that our hottest player got himself suspended and will miss those two games (and only those two games).

1) Howard to the Blues for Allen, 2019 3rd, and 2021 1st. 2) Nyquist to Nashville for 2019 1st. 3) Green to Toronto for 2019 1st. 4) Dekeyser and Abdelkader to Ottawa for Mark Stone. 5) Nielsen and Helm to Buffalo for 2020 2nd and 2021 2nd. 6) Karlsson signed in UFA Zadina (1) - Larkin (6) - Stone (9) Athanasiou (3) - Cozens (1) - Mantha (4) Bertuzzi (2) - Rasmussen (1) - Frk (1) Svechnikov (1) - Veleno (1) - Glendening (2) De La Rose (1)/Smith (1) Karlsson (11) - Cholowski (1) Hronek (1) - Sulak (1) Saarijarvi (1) - McIsaac (1) Witkowski (1) Allen (4) Bernier (3) About 60 mil of cap.

In between periods Kevin Weeks was saying he couldnt believe Lil Bert got suspended. Weeks said the Avs player could have let go of the stick vs spearing folks. He is young he will learn. I am totally fine with them feeling their oats and being a bit feisty.

I think you're being a little over dramatic aren't you lol

I thought I was gonna get suspended from LGW for stating similar last night.

I'm gonna be miffed if Bertuzzi has to sit out against Tampa. And it's Bertuzzi I'll be miffed at, not NHL Player Safety. Reasons: He has to be smarter than that. (Same goes for Rasmussen and Larkin, I suppose.) This is a big week for the team and he's been playing really well...and now we might be without him for at least one of these two upcoming measuring stick games (Tampa and Toronto). Can't risk hurting the team like that.

What if he refuses to pick up the phone? What's the punishment there?

Yes it is. Max 5 games if it’s not in person. I imagine the spear on him will decrease the punishment. Hoping one game.

THREE FIRSTS 2019 !!!!!

Who are we getting with our first and the first from the Howard trade?

We'll get a 1st for Nyquist, somewhere in the 22ish range, he'll drop to us and you'll have your wish!

I'd like to draft Newhook for the simple fact that he's a kid from my hometown and my cousin has been training him for the past several years. I met him a few years ago and my cousin was telling me "he's a hell of a hockey player", "definitely going to be an NHLer". I kind of scoffed and said, "you said the same thing about (James) Melindy" (drafted 88th overall by Phoenix in 2012, 24 years old and never played an NHL game, and likely never will). Never thought Newhook would actually be considered a potential top 10 NHL draft pick a few years later. IF we end up around the 8-12 range again, he's a player I'd love for us to target.

Larkin is playing to kill right now. Almost scored, rocked Rantanen with a big open-ice hit a few seconds later. Future Captain.

Best not to risk overworking Howard, might get hurt Gives Bernier a chance to stick it to his former team We have Tampa and Toronto this week and those are arguably more important games and Howard can't start all the games this week imo

good game larkin is impressive all over the ice. nice to see he raised his level of play bad call on the bert goal

Points update: Nyquist (1G, 2A) - 4 goals and 21 points thru 26 games Larkin (1G) - 10 goals and 22 points thru 26 games Bertuzzi (1G) - 9 goals and 16 points thru 26 games Green (1A) - 2 goals and 14 points thru 17 games

I couldn't believe there were some who didn't want him re-signed.

We can, the dude is more offensively aware than almost all of our forwards. He's had some pretty egregious moments in the defensive zone though, but you take the good with the bad in this case I'd say.

100% swap him out and make the top line Mantha Larkin Bert. I agree entirely.

I wouldn't mind if he got another look on the first line over Abdelkader.

So we lose our hottest player for the two biggest games of the month. Awesome. Way to go, everyone. Couldn't have scripted it any better.