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Wings fans should be deliriously happy. I certainly am. Why? Because the impossible dream seems to have been realized; YzerMADMAN seems to have pulled a gem from each of the past three drafts. 1. RAYMOND Raymond is a monster – and this isn't even his final form. He's still... As I've said before, he's going to bulk up. He's going to get stronger, quicker, faster, more confident. When the rest of his body catches up to his brain and eyes and hands...look out. "Fluke?" Not really. The eye test, the underlying numbers, and his pre-NHL body of work all tell us he's this good (though, of course, he's probably not a legit 82-point player right now). Even so, I can barely believe he's been this good this soon. Dude leads all rookies in points and goals and +/-. 14 points through his first 13 NHL games. 14 points! FOURTEEN! "OK, yeah, but what about all NHL skaters, not just rookies?" Dude's tied for 6th in the league in points. At 19 years old. (Turns 20 in late March.) We needed a Pettersson/Pastrnak-tier forward. It appears we found one. (Hence needed.) F***ing pinch me. 2. SEIDER Seider's been exactly the player we all know he is. The only question was point production. As with Raymond, we knew the production would come...just not this much this soon. Dude's 3 points off from leading all defensemen in points. "Fluke?" Nah. Like I said, he's been exactly the player we all know he is. He's not, like, riding an unsustainable shooting percentage. His production isn't tied to an Ovechkin/McDavid-tier. I don't think he's really catching teams off-guard. We badly needed a defenseman you could mention in the same breath as Hedman. We found one, and quite possibly two... 3. EDVINSSON One of Edvinsson's teammates – a vet, I think – recently said Edvinsson's the best defenseman he's ever played with. In explaining this, he said something to the effect of "Dahlin was amazing. But Edvinsson is something else." Nuff said.

In all honesty, I've been avoiding posting because I don't wanna jinx the run Raymond and Seider are on.

Too much good content and too many reasons for optimism getting scrubbed from this forum because of hyper-trolling and ill-mannered members. Anyway, @kipwinger this earlier. Deserves another look. Beautiful.

Hypeless GDT. WTF. @Dabura

All they have to do is to start were they left yesterday. Go Wings!!!

I dont hold a head coach responsible for the consistency of a young goalie, no. You're making an either/or fallacy. Blash is not washed of any and all responsibility. Neither are the players completely to blame for not turning into good NHL players. There is plenty of blame to go around, but making one person the scapegoat is myopic.

Gee I wonder why he benched him. Svech had injuries that interrupted his development badly and he never got on track again. He´s nothing special, didn´t perform. It´s unfortunated to "waste" a first round pick that way but he didn´t show that he´s worth it. 3 points on WPG´s first line is nothing special, Abdelkader could do that as well.

the creme rises to the top

yas!