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I don’t really get the concern actually. I just watched the Jets win the President’s Trophy with a 30+ year old 1C who’s not THAT much better than Larkin (if at all). Kyle Conner is just Lucas Raymond with a few more years of development under his belt. Josh Morressy isn’t any better than Seider. Edvinsson is actually better than any other defender Winnipeg has. Who’s their 2C? Adam Lowrey? Gabe Vilardi? But Kip, what about the goalie ? We certainly don’t have Hellebyuk but goaltending is actually a strength of our organization going forward. So maybe we don’t get a superstar there but I’m as confident in our goalie pipeline as you could possibly be given that they’re still prospects. So again, not concerned. Here’s the main difference between us and them. Their best players are 3-5 years older than ours. And that experience counts for a lot. Are rookies Kasper, Edvinsson, Sodorblom and Johansson as good as they’re going to be? Not even close. You think Marco Kasper just had a career year at age 20? Of course not. When he’s 23 he’ll score 30 goals. Same is true to a lesser extent with Seider and Raymond. Lucas will score 90+ points really soon. Seider will score 60+ soon too? Why haven’t they already? Because they’re young and our team sucked. That’s why. Im not concerned, Im impatient. Im tired of losing and I wish SY would stop shooting us in the foot instead of investing in the team. He shouted out Montreal and St. Louis in his presser and failed to mention that both those teams invested significant assets to get players from outside their organizations. Suzuki, Laine, Buchnevich, Bromberg, Holloway, Newhook, Dach, Anderson, Schenn, Fowler. Those are good to great players that those organizations ponied but assets to acquire. Our GM has done that ONCE (Debrincat). Otherwise all he’s done is bring in junk to bridge the gap. But it’s kinda irrelevant now because all his young talent is finally arriving on the roster and most of them are as good (or better) than advertised.

I could deal with that. You could package a deal of Ras or Berg along with picks for Issac Howard. What are the odds that Toews get's a "show me" contract here like Kane did? Would it be worth it?

Gentlemen, After posting the above I was kinda feeling bad. Because, since Yzerguy was being more candid and friendly i thought, maybe I shouldnt have critiqued him so much The average Detroit fan does not feel the same. Observe: Yzerman has lost the narrative. Detroiters are arguably the biggest sports fans in the entire nation. Besides Boston, Detroit is the only major city in the country that has all 4 major sports teams with no duplicates in the city/state to divide loyalty. Detroiters proved this last year by setting record attendance for the NFL draft, record road attendance for the lions, and chanting JARED GOFF at even Wings games. This city goes hard when ur good, and is nastyyyy when ur bad. Detroit wants the Wings to be good, needs the Wings to be good, and demands that the Wings be good. What bizzaro world is this where the Lions are superbowl favs, the pistons are in the playoffs, and the tigers can sell at the deadline and still make the playoffs, but Steve FUQQING Yzerman cant even get a playoff appearance in over half a decade. I'm tellin ya now, read the room, Detroiters - like the biblical Abraham - will sacrafice their only son (yzerman) for eternal salvation. Plan harder bucko