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I would do a Zoom call for the entire game on Saturday if people showed up and it was a party and chips and drinks were served. I'd just watch the game in my bedroom away from my family so my parents don't hear all the baiting and Dekeyser whipping. But I'm not doing it if it's just you and Duke. Update us on Friday night how many emails you have. I'll send you mine on discord.

Raymond leads in points. Seider is already a top pair defenseman and leads all rookies in assists and TOI. So Zegras will win the Calder.

I've been back n forth all year on Names - but I've made up my mind. Absolutely trade. He's 29 and a career 35-40 pt player who PKs. Totally replaceable ancillary player. He's having an up year right now fersure, but that's exactly why you should trade him. He's at his most valuable at the end of his contract and twenties. Perfect scenario for us. Most years all you can get is a 4th for a player like him. Last year we may not have even been able to get a 5th. But now I think we might even be able to squeeze out a 3rd.... logic says trade trade trade. The counter - the decision to keep him - I think is = He's a Detroit boy. He's happy here and playing well. Maybe this is a longterm role player for us like Maltby or Glendening. But that's just emotion talking. Committing to ancillary players like this is a luxury you can achieve when you're really good and they want to stay. But look, even Glendening walked out us when we got bad... And we didn't even trade Glendog last year. Who know's why. Maybe there wasn't a good market for him, maybe SY really wanted to try to keep him still. Whatever the reason, we can all in hindsight agree that we absolutely should have traded him if we could have. Good feels vs logic should be an easy win for logic everytime. And he hasn't been re-signed yet which tells me he's probably on the block at this point. Sucks because I do really like him this year. We just ain't winning the cup this year and need to think about future assets now.

Cossa was expected to be a long term project. That's one of the reasons SY was fine with drafting him so soon after trading for Ned.

Adam Erne should have been traded last TDL as a rental. Had a great season, almost 0,5ppg. Red Wings definitely have taken another step this season in their rebuild thanks to Raymond, Ned and Seider coming in and Larkin going beast mode. Going into this season Yzerman probably planned on acquiring as many picks as he could at TD from role players and I hope he hasn’t changed his mind. Namestnikov, Erne, Staal etc should all be available imho.

Im not sure if Zadina will ever live up to the draft day hype but removing the 6oa tag am I the only one that thinks hes been decent? Far from great but good enough to fill a mid6 role imo. If he were a 3rd round pick would anyone be s***ting on him? Probly not. I remember alot of fans bashing Larkin the same way there bashing Zadina now. Not saying Z will ever have the impact that Larks has but I still say its too early to give up on the kid. Just my 2cents but what do I know.