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Sure I think it would be very smart to shelter ADA behind Hronek and future Seider. Deploy him only in the Ozone. Let him QB your PP. Seider and Hronek can both eat the hard 22-24 minutes a night. Give DeAngelo the remaining 12-16. Let him boost his O numbers like he's good at. But get the cost payoff from his low ice time and jerk discount. And don't get me wrong, I trust Yzerman here. He drafted and traded the guy. He know's DeAngelo - albeit a younger DeAngelo - better than most. In his shoes I would simply just walk down to Marc Staal's locker and ask him what he thinks ADA these days. Can he handle being on a losing team like this one? If that answer is no I think you pass on him pretty easily.

> it's reported he's a loudmouth, emotional, prone to outbursts > confirmed by this recent incident and his waiving You believe this > It's reported that despite this he's well liked by his teammates > confirmed by current and past teammates and teams You don't believe this Forgive me, but you can see why it looks to me like your picking and choosing the information that helps confirm what you've already decided to be true. Now I'm not denying that he has a polarizing personality. I've seen the tweets. I've seen the history of suspensions. There seems to be a lack of composure with his emotional control there. He's very opinionated and doesn't back down from those opinions. IMO I see those qualities as a double edged sword. It's good to have a guy with such a high level of passion and conviction, but his lack of maturity to know when and how to display it obviously gets him into trouble in a professional setting. They've said when the team is winning TDA is one of the best guys to have around, but when the team is losing he does not handle it well. Furthermore, I won't also pretend that every player on that Rags team loved him. No group of 30 guys is gonna get along perfectly all the time. Some are better friends than others. But no team has ever reported him having deep strifes in the lockerroom with anyone. There was an attempt at it with some bad reporting that tried to suggest he was a bully to K'Andre Miller, implying racism. The team and other players have said that's completely false. And in fact DeAngelo took Miller under his wing when he came up the ranks and even collected his first goal puck for him. The point I'm taking forever to make is, like with most things, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Is he a conservative Qanon type guy who has maturity issues both online and on the ice? Absolutely seems to be the case. Is he a racist cancer that everyone hates? I'm not buying that at this point. Much like the John Chyaka situation in Arizona, everyone flipped on him for abandoning the team. Now that the dust is settling folks are realizing that there's a lot more to the story and the whole organizational structure has a cancer in it. Johnny may just have been trying to jump off a sinking ship before it went down. I think the Rags hated DeAngelo's twitter presence and how pissed their fanbase was about it. I know I would as a team from NYC. I think they worked on his maturity issues and it seemed to be going well for a long time there. Then the suspension, benching, and incident culminated quickly in them having to make good on their promise to waive him if any funny business occurred. I'm sure they did not make the decision to waive a young 60 pt Dman easily, but integrity by management has to be maintained at that point. It's a sucky situation. DeAngelo lost. The Rags lost... but someone this offseason might win walking into a cheap potentional 60 pt Dman. I wouldn't mind winning something like that for once as a modern Wings fan. I doubt the Rags organization cares to discriminate against TDA over his social political beliefs. However, social media presence was issue there. To the point that they instructed him to log off and end his account. Really really dumb on his part. Guy his age should know - especially as a public figure - you're gonna get put through the ringer and possibly lose business if you pop off online. I would take Evander Kane in a heart beat. I disagree with a lot of his politics, and his gambling issues seem to be a big problem. But he's got swagger and can play. That's all I really need from him personally. Then we can assemble a dark army of black players and ice the fab 5. Long shorts, black socks, and we can put Fubu on the helmets. Baller.

I know you'll trip over yourself to make the case that some right-winger is being mistreated but it's simply not the case here. Everyone in the know, including Deangelo, has said they don't believe that his political/social beliefs had anything to do with it. So just stop. Deangelo was waived because he's a prick. Staal said that despite being a good guy, Deangelo goes over the line yelling at coaches and refs. We all know that Deangelo smarted off to a young goalie who just made a critical mistake (costing his team the game) and got punched for it. You're not going to get far in the NHL if you alienate teammates, coaches, and refs. This is EXACTLY the same problem that Evander Kane has, and he's fairly left-wing. Yet you're not out here making up false narratives about how Kane is being "mislabeled" or whatever.

The team IS playing better though. With the exception of having 5 guys out for Covid, it's been all competitive, 1 goal games. They reduced their goals against by nearly an entire goal. The team struggles to score. That's it. And that is simply a lack of firepower. Coaching can't fix that. Ryan has been the only offensive addition, and he has been playing well. Bert is also out for an extended period. Most improvements have been made on the blueline. Hence why the team is better defensively. There are still no offensive dmen outside of Hronek on the team. That's where the struggle to score begins. The roster is still a bottom 5 roster in the league. Albeit a much more competitive one than last year, and a big part of that is COACHING. No coach is gonna come to Detroit and make the team any noticeably better. The roster is the problem, and Yzerman is only in year #2 of his rebuild. Get used to it, because we have a couple years of this left yet. With or without a new coaching staff.

Real good looking PP, Zadina looking like Ovechkin, just rip after rip.

End of the period was Zadina - Larkin - Mantha and Ryan - Fabbri - Brome. Both shifts created a good scoring chance, keep those lines in tact and see how it goes. Brome has no chemistry with Larkin or Zadina, maybe they will find some on the 2nd line now.

I’m a big Jon Merrill fan, and only partially because of his bitchin’ mullet/mustache combo.

Can anyone tell me what...the hell...Green Day has to do with hockey?

Comrie is on waivers! Yzerman can fix the organization's biggest ever mistake!

Still worth a shot.

DeAngelo is exactly the kind of risks the team should be taking. What's the worst that could happen? It makes the team worse? And you don't even have to say anything 'racist' in this day and age to be accused of being one. Just having certain social and political opinions makes it automatic. And once you're accused, it doesnt matter after that. Unless your name is 'Tom Brady'.

We haven't had mods on LGW for like three seasons. This place looks like WCW in late 2000 right now.

another one goal loss. PP is horrible still...imagine if we had a PP quarterback that could turn our 1 goal deficits into 1 goal gains? (DeAngelo) I am honestly very disappointed in Hronek's play. But is that because he may not be as good as we thought, or is it the coaching? I blame the coaches for a lot when it comes to making plays and technical issues, but at some point it has to go on the players decisions (or lack of) on the ice as well.

Y'all taking the bait

I fully support his trolling for I find it highly amusing and since this site has had 1 foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel for the better portion of the past 3 years.....Why the f*ck do I care ?