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I hope we get Mantha like last game the rest of the way.

HYPE! LGRW!

At the game!!! So stoked!!! LGRW!!!

I had a pretty good pre-game feeling about the Preds game and I have a similar feeling about this one. Caps clobbered us in our previous meeting and I'm expecting the Wings to play like there's something to prove tonight. Should be a good one. I think. Maybe. Possibly. Hopefully. A little under an hour until game time. LGRW!

Reminder: 5 o'clock start time.

I think this is fair.....though I would just add that for me to consider someone elite, I need to see this level of play for a few seasons in a row. Many guys have been top 5 players at their position for 1 year only to drop off the next season.

Amazing job by the crew last night! Larkin is blowing my mind every time he scores an OT goal, nice to see he tops the most OT goals by a Wings player to cement his personal effort. Also on a side note, how many gosh darned breakaways/shoot out attemps does AA have this year? Seems like a ridiculous amount for 1 player, I mean Helmer has always gotten his fair share of chances but AA gets 1 or 2 a game it seems

No doubt. I'll get to see Ovechkin. Win or lose, I'm stoked. For sure.

I think Jensen will score today. Just because....

Hope you have a blast, my dude! Represent that LGW.com HYPE!

How is everyone this fine afternoon? I also have a good feeling about this one.... getting Mantha back was as big as he is... .and if we can get Green back on his skates, we may have something here. LGRW!!

My thoughts exactly! I get to watch this one so Im hoping for a good showing, big night for Mantha after his return me thinks

Notes: Green skating, getting closer to returning to Wings [DetroitRedWings.com] GREEN HYPE! ATHANASIOU HYPE!

Yeah, Larkin clearly wasn't elite when this thread was created, but I'd consider him close now. Not quite there yet though based on *my* definition of elite (top 5ish at his position). I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility though, for him to emerge as an elite center over the next couple years, especially if / when he's given a couple capable (maybe even elite themselves) wingers. I thought Larkin could become a 70+ point, responsible, two-way center, and it looks like that's around where he'll end up this season, at the tender age of 22. I didn't think he'd ever become a 90+ point center, which is what I'd consider him in the conversation of elite. But after seeing what he's capable of with wingers like Helm / Abdelkader and Mantha / Nyquist, I think he could definitely get there with a Hughes / Kakko / Cozens and Zadina / Mantha on his wings...

A lot can change in the next 6 months, but it's still Cozens for me right now.

I consider "elite" to be in the top 5 at your position (maybe less for goalies). So while I wouldn't consider LArkin "elite", he is definitely better than above average. I would rate him as a "Star" or an All-Star calibre center. And he is definitely a 1C at this point.

Not bad for an above average 2C, eh?

Points update: Larkin (1G) - 18 goals and 40 points thru 43 games Athanasiou (1G) - 15 goals and 25 points thru 37 games Nyquist (1A) - 10 goals and 35 points thru 43 games Cholowski (1A) - 6 goals and 15 points thru 41 games Wings played a hell of a game and absolutely deserved this win. Felt like a playoff game at times. Fun, fun, fun!

Larkin (18) OT winner from Hronek (4) - NSH 3, DET 4 What a game! What a win!

Wow, I really missed this guy lately. Thank you Larkin, Bert, Vanek, AA, and successful goalie interference challenge .

we deserved this one... good effort, Larkin starts a new streak and we WIN!!!!

No Moosie? Not liking that... dang it... Have fun, and cheer real loud for them...

Sup loo. I'm good, you? Incidentally, YOU FRKING JINXED IT!