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Pretty much what I expect to see happen. One more year of stopgaps, one more high-end draft next summer, then times will be changin'. At that point not only will be there a deep, young core to lure UFAs, but there will be a s*** load of trade assets too. Not gonna see any big 7+ year deals this summer unless it's to lock up someone like Larkin.

I dont think SY intends to fix things to much until after the Bedard/Michkov draft and for good reason imo. Those 2 could be every bit as good as Crosby/Ovi/McDavid/Matthews. If we can get a top 10 pick this year and still have a chance at a top 2 next year we should be ready to compete soon thereafter. This team still lacks that true gamebreaker elite talent. Bedard/Michkov will be that. Fire Blashill it needs to happen. Other then that sign a few stop gaps for one more season of s***.

I'll agree, but more generally. I don't really care WHO we get to play LHD. Long term it's obviously going to be Edvinsson and one of Wallinder, Johansson, or Buium. But we need SOMEONE on the left side before we can judge the team (or coach). Leddy, DK, Staal, and Oesterle is an embarrassment. Walman seems "okay" but only as a 3rd pair guy...for now. Our defense is a catastrophe and that's on SY to fix.

All joking aside, could you imagine waking up one day to find that every news agency in Michigan (and a few national ones too) are writing stories about your inability to pee correctly. How embarrassing. He's got to be humiliated. Which...being a pervert...he's probably into.

I really don't like Al Sobotka and I disapprove of what he did. But that said, here me out on this one, I did well in high school sports, I I probably would have been one of Al's top guys. In fact I probably disapprove of what Al did more than the Red Wings, and I never would have allowed what happened to take place. My point being, I probably would have been an elite zam driver and could piss anywhere i like. Not that I would do that though.Still, no matter how much you dislike or disapprove of the guy, you can't ignore his cache. His Swagger. His je ne sais quoi. His savoy fare. Maybe what we call the "X factor" in the sales business. Sobotka has that. If he called on you to drive the Zamboni you, or I, would do it. I would be Sobotka's top guy is what I'm saying. Anyone would.

Doubtful. The Free Press article said Al's staff was entirely male. And the team is entirely male. Seems pretty clear that he's a perverted homosexual who just can't control himself. Good riddance.

Scotty used to say every coach has a shelf life. Eventually players tune you out. And Scotty jumped from team to team for that very reason. He knew when he was no longer having the desired affect. Babs was here for 10 years. When he left fans were eager to see him go. It was a successful decade but his voice was "stale". Bowman was here for 9. Blash has been here for 7. But Blash also coached these same players in GR, so he's really been here for ELEVEN years. The difference between Bowman/Babs and Blash, is players feared Bowman and Babs. Blash has always been praised as a players pal and good with kids. It shows. I believe it was Chelios or Shanahan who said "you hated Bowman for 364 days a year, but then you won the cup". Of course it comes out later that everyone hated Babs as well. Modano and Commodore felt screwed by him. Franzen and Nyquist hated him. And even talk of Lidstrom lobbying Holland to change coaches. Your not supposed to like your coach. A coach isn't your friend. They're your boss. Your task master. Tis better to be feared then loved. Our players have completely tuned Blash out at this point. I struggle to list any success stories he's had in his 11 year tenure. Fans are chanting fire blashill in the stadium on Easter. McCarty is on YouTube calling for his head. For the love of God I hope SY finally cuts ties with this idiot. We could have run Dan Bylsma or Dave Lewis for the past 7 years and had the same effect. But that's the conspiracy theory isn't it? Jeff is a yes man who does whatever SY wants, so no need to ditch him until SY is ready to go light speed. Which is an even worse look at his coaching. A coach shouldn't be a yes man lil *****. Jeff is going to be remembered as a black eye on this organization. A dark age we joke about in the future. Time to go out and get an actual grown ass man who can men out of these boys. I'm sick of the diaper changing butt wipe agenda.

Yeah it's ugly, but Ras is just another 3C in the sea of bottom 6 C's we already have

Ugly. All 3/4c at best. This team desperately needs a 2c to play behind Larks. Maybe Veleno gets there but I like him more as a 3c.

Seriously? He's a bust dude... completely invisible and irrelevant on a terrible team.