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I might try to make it home to Michigan to catch the ceremony.

Todd is not letting up on the veterans https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2025/09/29/todd-mclellan-critial-of-detroit-red-wings-preseason-performance/86431095007/ "Some of the older players have to get their games going quickly," McLellan said. " Almost a week from today or tomorrow we're playing against really, really good teams. Some guys, in my opinion after watching them tonight, some have only played a couple of games and aren't ready to play yet. "It'll be our job to have a chat with them maybe as early as tomorrow and put them on notice."

I thought ASP looked really good tonight tho. He’s been playing conservatively it seems because he had a lot of razzle dazzle with the puck tonight. He’s gonna be a good one.

Man we're getting worked by an AHL Pens team. Losing almost every puck battle and not making good reads or passes.

I really hope Compher starts out hot and pumps up that trade value a little bit. I think he's a genuinely good trade piece. His contract is a little bit of an issue, but he's going to be attractive to some team with Cup aspirations that's a little weak in their middle six. I fully expect Florida would be interested, given Barkov's injury. But also teams like Toronto and Carolina in the East and Dallas or Vegas in the West. After watching them in camp and the pre-season I genuinely think MBN-Danielson-Finnie/Lombardi/Mazur would be a qualitative improvement over any combination of Compher, Berggren, Sodorblom, or JVR. Trade Compher (plus whatever else) for help on defense and roll with a sheltered "kid line" as the 3rd line. Do what Tampa did with Kucherov, Palat, and Johnson en route to cup final when they were all super young and on the same line.

Vancouver just signed young Gabe Chiarot to an ELC, maybe Ben would enjoy a trade to Vancouver to help mentor his cousin?