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Trash the patch .....

And I was probably more pessimistic about Hughes than he deserved. But more broadly I just don’t like the way guys like the Hughes brothers, Matthews, Nylander, or Zegras play the game. Firstly because their unearned arrogance is unbelievable. Secondly because none of those guys have won anything in the playoffs. Just the other night Jack was chirping some dude talking about “people pay to see me play” like the point of the game is to be popular. Then a few nights later Gudas takes it easy on him when he’s skating in no-man’s land and the rest of the night Jack plays like he’s afraid to touch the puck. He wants to be a star but he doesn’t want to win. That type player drives me insane. If you’re not willing to take, or give, a beating to win the Cup I don’t want you on my team no matter what your rating is on NHL 24. This season really changed the way I view team building. We took a quantum leap forward just by targeting guys who give a sh*t.

Its a 1st for David Legwand O'clock

Word around the campfire is YzerMAN traveled down to Grand Rapids just to fart on Berggren. Walked into the locker room, told Kasper he's not playing tonight, and crop dusted the Swede on the way out. Incredible.

SY really wants Berggren to kill himself

Interesting very interesting ...

Veleno will have to carry the load for a couple of weeks I guess.

I think Yzerguy signs this guy on a 3 week deal for a dollar......he can play 2C ...

DeBrincat Reimer Kane Rasmussen Husso Raymond Franzen

Im not a huge fan of Wennberg. He plays a ton of minutes for the Kraken, in all situations, on the PP and PK... but just doesnt score a whole lot. He's probably fine as a rental, but I see him becoming the next Frans Nielsen.

Its not even over anymore, its joever.

I say we call up Kasper and throw him right into the fire as the 1c

Taxes, higher prices, cold weather, cant bring your guns. Why be Canadian?

Freidman doesnt say much about the wings we dont already know in his newest 32 thoughts SY wants to move Holl and acquire a "nasty" defender. Not interested in Guenztel bc of age + term. Will probably do something to reward the boys, but probs nothing huge.

Some random ideas from the hockey writers.. https://thehockeywriters.com/red-wings-mock-trade-deadline-2024/?fbclid=IwAR0uG5JuzJZnnTe8-JF6AbeoJAM8aZmESaY_ko3onuZ2gZzuKcjJzjkQckA

No buzzkill, it's all fun anyhow! I saw somewhere (I will try to find the article) talking about Bogosian being an option, He's a former Lightning, not sure if he was there with Yzerman or not though (without looking it up.) Is he a better option than Petry or Holl? He could probably be had for a pick. I hope Yzerman trades Holl, not that he is bad, but he is just taking up space after being pushed out of the lineup. He's probably wanting to go somewhere also, so he could actually play. Edmonton depth? Could get a pick from Holland. Holl would most likely waive his NTC to go there as well.

Pettersson isn't actually much worse than Matthews, and that is why superstars are terrible - a manifesto by kipwinger

A few of you smart dudes nailed it IMO. Here's what I'm thinking. You know how Usain Bolt looks like he's blowing everyone away when he runs? But the reality is that he's only a fraction of a second faster? That's because he's faster in relative terms but not absolute terms right? The guys he's smoking to the finish line are the ten fastest dudes on earth. And in a straight up, simple, competition (like track) he's faster and that's all that matters. But if they were all sprinting to put out a fire, or grab a baby that crawled onto a roadway, the difference in their times of arrival are infinitesimal. The perceived difference is huge, the practical difference is tiny. Another way of thinking about it is this. If one guy scores goals at a rate of 1 per game, and another guy scores goals at 1.25 goals per game, the second guy is better than the first guy by a lot in relative terms. But in absolute terms that difference is negligible. They're both really really good as scoring goals. What's more, if you need one goal to win a game in overtime they're both more or less equally likely since there's no such thing as fractional goals. It would take four games for the .25 advantage to come into play mathematically. Nick Lidstrom was much better than anyone else in relative terms, but not absolute terms. The difference between him and Scott Neidermayer or Sergei Zubov wasn't REALLY that big. Everyone we played against and lost to (in the playoffs) during our dynasty years was really really good too. Maybe not Lidstrom good, but good enough to win a complex competition from time to time. That was true even though the Red Wings had a number of such players on the team. So even with five or six such talents on a team we lost more than we won (not games, championships). But what if you could only have one or two guys like that on a team. Would there be much advantage at all? Is Auston Matthews' 1.34 points per game this year is way more impressive than Elias Petterson's 1.2 points per game in relative terms but almost imperceptible in any given game? Especially when one of those guys makes 5 million dollars more than the other. Next season Petterson will make 11 million and a year after that Matthews will probably make 15 million. Is the juice worth the squeeze? Like, obviously Matthews is a much better goal scorer in relative terms. But basically it's like the difference between getting a 99% or 100% in a test in grade school. The difference in reality is nothing.

digging up old threads is a scott r lucidi speciality

Watch Wennberg go to Colorado and watch him score four goals against us.