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Scott Wheeler of The Athletic has been working his way through ranking the prospect pools from each NHL team. Today the Red Wings landed at #2. 1. Edvinsson 2. ASP 3. Kasper 4. Danielson 5. Cossa 6. Augustine 7. Mazur 8. Wallinder 9. Buchelnikov 10. Sodorblom 11. Buium 12. Gibson 13. Dower Nilsson 14. Lombardi 15. Anton Johansson Couple of things to note. Two of our best prospects (Berggren and Albert Johansson) aged out of his rankings, so we're actually in a better position even than his rankings would suggest. Also, Wheeler is famous for not liking Red Wings drafts. He always thinks we should take some tiny winger (Perfetti, Savoie, Benson) and we never do. So then he ranks our draft badly because we didn't. He's on record as really really not liking our picks. So for him to rank us this high is an acknowledgment of how good we really are, and also an indication that other evaluators may even be higher on our prospects than he is.

Okay kiddos tonight's rooting lineup ..... FOUR POINT game in MOTOWN we all know who we are rooting for ....duh Yotes @ Laffs we win Laffs lose we are tied for 3rd granted they have that pesky game in hand. Pens @ Kraken need a Kraken win as Pens have 3 games in hand which has potential of 6 points and could vault them into contention Sabres @ Tampa our win plus a loss by Tampa and we increase by 5 with us having 2 in hand Like Tuesday take care of your business and anything else that happens as in the teams in front/behind losing is just icing on the cake

I actually kinda wish they'd trade him. Tnias Mathurin is clearly AHL ready and Edvinsson is blocking him. If Shawn Horcroff isn't careful AHL ready guys like Mathurin, Jack Phelan, and Larry Keenan will get sick of being held back and start requesting trades. Hey hey ho ho Simon Edvinsson's got to go!!!! Hey hey ho ho Simon Edvinsson's got to go!!!!

If Freud were alive today, he'd be an analyst at Sportsnet.

Once you see the sheer intellectual laziness and dishonesty of their way of thinking, it's impossible to unsee - and you see it everywhere, from everyone, all the time. Dan Rosen's a guy I generally don't mind. Inoffensive. Middle of the road. Pretty reasonable. Even this take of his I'm about to complain about isn't super-unreasonable - but I'm gonna complain about it, because I think it reflects the slow creep of the hockey journo brain rot that's turning people stupid. Here: https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-fan-mailbag-for-february-28 So basically, to translate: "Ya gotta be a Real Good Team to beat the Real Good Teams, because it's only the Real Good Teams that ever beat the Real Good Teams, and the Real Good Teams are teams like Boston and Toronto, teams that are killing it in all three zones, playing the Real Good Team Hockey that allows them to be Real Good Hockey Teams, which gives them a shot at winning the Cup, because ya gotta be a Real Good Team to win the Cup, and to do that, ya gotta be a Real Good Team that plays the Real Good Hockey. And, frankly, I'm just not seeing that from the Wings, who've got question marks all over, because they don't play the Real Good Hockey, and if ya don't play the Real Good Hockey, you're not a Real Good Hockey Team." I am absolutely loving how everyone is pretending we don't see at least one massive upset in the playoffs every year. Here's what you have to do to beat a team in a best-of-seven series: f*** that team's s*** up. Find their weaknesses and hammer those weaknesses harder than they hammer your weaknesses. Execution, execution, execution. The Bruins have been playing like crap. They've lost one of the greatest matchup guys in the history of the game in Bergeron. They're soft, mentally and physically. But we're supposed to cower before them because they're A Good Hockey Team. And don't even get me started on Tronna.

I genuinely think that the hockey media has owned the narrative forever, and they don't know s***, and that's why nobody knows how to make sense of teams like the Wings. I was listening to a podcast the other day and Max Bultman (and other people from the Athletic) were debating something and Max offhandedly mentioned that maybe having a McDavid type player is actually bad for team building and those other dorks couldn't scoff hard enough. Like, how DARE he impune the notion that superstars aren't all they're cracked up to be. The entire calculus for hockey media is "You've got stars and you shoot alot, ipso facto you're a contender". Except there are tons of examples of that not working. Worse, there are almost zero counter narratives in media. I give Jared Keeso a lot of credit for this. He's the only guy talking about hockey who dares say something like "maybe giving a s*** and not being a p*ssy matters more than being pretty". There are several episodes of "Shoresy" devoted to it. But his show is "fiction" so nobody runs with it. I'd give anything to see hockey media address a few of these questions: If star power matters so much why do even the most legendary players (think Lidstrom) only win a few times in their careers? If statistical modeling can only tell us what we already know (Colorado is good) but not what we don't know (Vancouver is GOING to be better than you think) what value does it really have? If players matter so much why does a team like Vancouver go from terrible to exceptional from year to year with almost no change in personnel? If puck possesson matters so much why do GMs and coaches not just load up their teams with the best possession players they can get? If the draft lottery is such a game changer why haven't Edmonton and Toronto even won a conference title? Why doesn't Buffalo suck? Why is New Jersey regressing as they put more lottery picks into their lineups. IMO these are all super interesting questions that I'd love to read articles about, but nobody working in the hockey media will even ask the questions. Instead we get "Who's the most stylish Maple Leaf".

More reply's than the @Troy McClure Jocob Truscott thread LOL

I was gonna mention this too. Our six best prospects are all in key positions. But sure, we should have taken the 5'9, 155 lb, winger instead. Good thinking Wheeler.

If you read through the comments he admits that if the Wings picked Benson over Danielson that they'd probably be #1 on his list. LOL A top 6 that includes 2 D + 2 Centers + 2 Goalies?!!? EFF me. THIS IS AN IDEAL POOL OF PROSPECT YOU BESPECTACLED PASTY NERD BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just send me the link

we are all old

65 sigh .....games on the Sony 85 are way better level up before playoffs Mr Kip!! ....LOL

That's from 2005 dude... 19 years ago :-/

There was never a doubt in my mind. Edvinsson’s game winner. Suck an egg Jesper! https://x.com/HockeytownWpod/status/1763033395653730513?s=20 And here’s Kasper cucking Jesper as well. https://x.com/griffinshockey/status/1762999899602166030?s=20

Aaaaaand Edvinsson goes it alone and wins the game for GR in overtime. Hell of a solo effort to win the goalie duel. Wallstedt looked good and was the only reason that game was close. Nice try

$5 says Tanev will get much better dental in Big D now that he’s outta that hellhole Canada…

I definitely want him up. Might not be this season, which is OK. Land a Rasmus Andersson, move a dman or two, give Edvinsson a full-time job next season straight out of the gate.

Yzerman on zoom call with Calgary now about Andersson.

This team is legit

I think he’s going to be really good, he’s still so young tho.

Sounds like the asking price on all the Dmen is a 1st rounder. Even for guys like Walker and Tanev. No wonder SY is listening on his Dmen.

That's better. Yes,

Or perhaps it us expierencing the collective delusion within the large, yet isolated, community of "Wings mania". Surely the eastern bourgeoisie clubs will soon again acquire the only truly valuable assets the market can provide, and our trivial late surge may be rendered feckless. I dub this collective delusion expierenced within the primal brain stem of the fanatics mind "Hyper Yzerman Positivity Error Syndrome" or the HYPES for short. I have seen many such cases.

Don't sleep on Johansson. He's really good. I watched him a year ago in GR, and even then came away thinking "that kid can do everything". He's also kinda mean, which I like. But for that reason I think he's likely to be part of trade packages at some point. We don't need any LHD and teams are going to want him. Very solid player though. Reminds me of a Dmitry Orlov or Nick Leddy type of guy.

I grew up watching Wings games with my grandpa and think about him often on nights like tonight. I wish he could have seen this game. But not as much as I wish Tyler Bertuzzi could have seen it.