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The Red Wings Suck Ass My Hate of Yzerplan Grows Ben Chiarot Stinks Bad

https://heavy.com/sports/nhl/detroit-red-wings/likely-eliminated-from-the-playoffs-steve-yzerman-has-much-to-answer-for/ Can't dispute this too much standing pat was sooo weird

Well... here we are I've been waiting to make this post, but I think it's finally time The Situation We are likely going to miss the playoffs. And we also won't have the cap space to make the team better in the offseason. In fact many of our players will walk in UFA for nothing, and it's very likely the team may get worse. On top of that, we also won't be drafting high, or in number. The vicious cycle of mediocrity is staring us in the face. Before I suggest what the yZerPLaN should do about it, I want to address some hard truths... Tough Pills For Swallowing This team is never going to win a cup with Larkin at 1C He isn't a defensive stalwart, but his offense is pretty good. Still, he's not within the realm of the NHL's elite centers. But he would be one of the best 2C's in the league if we could only find the player to bump him down. At the same time, the loss of Larkin in the lineup completely destroys this team. Which shows just how awful this team as a whole truly still is. Larkin is the cheap bandaid masking our flaws Larkin should have been sold at the 2023 deadline. It would have netted us a kings ransom in return, and another $8.7 million to spend on the rest of the lineup. Instead Larkin will be just good enough to keep us propped up in the mediocrity zone. The manlet isn't very good Debrincat has scored only 7 regulation goals in the last 52 games. This is not the high-end sniper one should consider as part of a scoring core. He's not worth the contract he's on, and that contract sets a bad precedence for young wingers like Raymond in need of new contracts. He really brings nothing else to the team if he's not potting goals. And he's not potting goals. Seider has been neutered by "da system" Love the fight the other night, but the Mo we fell in love with doesn't exist within the current state of the team. Aggression and creativity are at an all time low. He's Derek's robot out there, and this doesn't maximize any of his god given natural talent. I once argued Mo was designed to be the perfect leader/captain. Now I doubt this. In the words of Herb Brooks, "I wanted the guy who wouldn't take the test". Lyon is not a starting goalie He's strung together about 18 good performances out of 37. Or basically 50/50 chance we have an NHL goalie in net each night. He's played in 39 NHL games before reaching Detroit and is on the wrong side of 30 Yzerman has again failed to secure the net position, despite annual attempts, for the last 5 years Edvinsson is nothing special This will probably garner the biggest reaction, but I stand by it. I do not see a superstar in the making in the slightest. An NHL player yes, but not the serious difference maker everyone initially expected. The raw talent and size is there, but he has no idea how to use it. I see him topping out as a Brad Stuart. Useful 2nd pairng defender. I feel similarly about Cossa and Kasper at this point. Contributors, but not difference makers. The only exciting prospect we have is ASP Berggren is actually pretty good, and this team is mismanaging him Kid should have been on the roster to start the season. Instead the red wings would rather waste money on Kostin and time on Czarnik to bury him. Sad and stupid. Yzerman is not infallible Not trading Larkin and loading up with Debrincat and Kane are looking like serious mistakes.Then doubling down on this team at the 2024 TDL made it even worse. This is not even considering the other bad contracts and trades he's executed. I still have faith in the man that he will aggressively address our current problems Newsy needs to be gonesy No explanation necessary What do we do? I don't have a magic solution. All I know is standing pat (like we did at the the TDL) isn't the solution, and true solutions require bold decisions. And I do not consider trading Fabbrii, Maata, and/or Veleno for scraps to be a bold solution. Same with buying out Husso or Petry. What I would propose for bold is trading Dcat and Edvinsson. Those are trades that would actually the net serous assets we need. Players or picks. I would refer picks. We are also at the point where we either need to just call Cossa up, or acquire an actual proven goaltender Few actions this summer will lock us into the mediocrity cycle. Praying Yzerman isn't dumb enough to continue pursuing the Holland "we like our team path"... Oh and LOLande should be fired ASAP

I agree... you'd have to do a major edit to this team in order make it a successful/competitive playoff team. To fix what's broken will take more than trading for more of the same overpaid mediocre complementary pieces similar to what we already have.

I'll be honest in saying that I hope the Wings get their a$$e$ handed to them on this road trip so we don't have any more false hope

I genuinely like Ben Chiarot and how he plays the game of hockey. I just say that with a few heavy caveats. First, he should never play more than 3rd pair minutes with PK time. Also, he should always be paired with a very good defensive-defenseman because Chiarot likes to gamble at even strength. Third, because of these two things he should only be making Justin Holl money. Under those conditions I absolutely love Bennifer.

Chiarot, then Copp. Chiarot is priced like a 2A defenseman and plays like a Toledo Walleye 1B. Copp is priced like a 2C and plays like a 4LW.