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Arguably the most complete player to ever play the game. I get crap from all sides every time I say that, but the only thing the dude didn't do was throw hands twice a week. And you know what? He probably would've excelled at that too! Sergei made hockey cool. He's why I started playing hockey. I was never a particularly good hockey player, but I could skate like nobody's business. Why? Because I wanted to skate like Sergei Fedorov. Talk about "selling the sport" and "growing the game"! Anyway, this was long overdue and it's nice to get some closure, for lack of a better word. Long live the good old days! I randomly met Dino Ciccarelli at a golf thing. Wasn't even in Detroit. I was like "Are you Dino Ciccarelli?" And he was like "Yeh." Profound.

Not sure who is watching, but this was so long coming! I never ONCE felt ANY ill will towards Sergei. He, along with Probert will always be my favorite Detroit Red Wings! Congrats Sergei!

It was a really cool moment for the team, organization, fans, and Sergei too. I think it went well overall and didn’t drag on too long. Sergei was the man, and for a few years there was the best player on earth. He’s got all the accolades and awards. He’s got the Cups. It was always coming and it’s cool they finally did it. He’s an indelible part of the history of the organization.

I was 9 when Sergei was drafted, and I was just starting to really get into hockey; he was the coolest player to me. I met him a few years later at an autograph signing at Gibraltar trade center and I can still remember how excited I was to meet him while I was waiting in line. Essentially for me, this is where it all started. I'm really excited his number is finally in the rafters where it belongs.

As a kid in metro Detroit in the 90s the coolest thing you could own was a Fedorov jersey. Equipping that gave your character like +75 charisma with other child NPCs. I found a Lidstrom jersey in my loot box. So I will always be bitter towards Fedorov and how much cooler his jersey made you then lamewad Lidstroms did.

Yeah well I met Yzerman at Carl's Golf Land when I was like 8, and now he's like king of the red wings, so stick that in your pipe and smoke it

Same here, he was our Ovechkin to some extent. White skates instead of yellow laces and a visor, but he was a rockstar and the dude every kid wanted to look/play like.

Cot? Was he some sort of superstitious type, felt he needed to be punished by sleeping downstairs in a rather meager way, or was that for his Vietnamese side puzzy? Was there a jug for urine and feces too? Strange - he was a primary reason for getting here.

Anyone else notice Jimmy D failed to attend or even do a prerecorded message...?

One time me n a buddy were walking in downtown Grand Rapids early in the morning. There's a guy like an entire block away from us. Friend: I think that's Dan Clearly Me: that's not Dan Clearly Friend: HEY CLEARY! *Man turns and looks at us* (It's clearly Dan Clearly) *Awkward pause* Friend: ...FUCQ YOU! *Man turns away and continues walking* Profound

I think the real key is the cap space and tradable assets (picks, prospects). Right now, this team is honestly pretty middling. But, we're getting quality goaltending, we have at least one lights-out goal-scorer (DeBrincat), Seider is the unicorn we'd hoped he'd become, Edvinsson-Seider is the two-headed monster we'd hoped it'd be, and our power play is actually capable of winning us games now. When you add all the cap space in the world + trade chips to that...Yzerman has the ability to turn this team into An Actual Great Team literally overnight.

What are we waiting for? Larkin is never going to be better than he is now. Raymond and Seider are elite. We have good depth scoring, a top of the league powerplay, strong defense and goaltending, AND the eastern conference is wide open. Trade for two guys that have term and open the contention window. Right now our 1st round draft pick would be in the mid 20s. We don’t need that pick nearly as much as we need a 2C and a top four defender to bump ASP down to the 3rd pair. I’d happily trade this year and next year’s first rounders if we can land a 2C and top four defender. There are plenty out there. Pettersson/Hronek, Kadri/Andersson, Scheifle, Zibanejad, Thomas/Broberg. I’d trade any prospect not named Cossa or Danielson plus picks.

HAHAHAHAHAHA PACKERS HAHAHAHAHAHA

Sounds too expensive and too soon to be going for it. We're going to get smacked in the playoffs, I see 3 of our dmen getting drilled every time they touch the puck and wearing down and the other dmen plain running scared. We are one injury away from being mediocre and I don't want to waste trading our prospect strength, Cossa or Augie, for a small improvement. I'm hoping for patience at the TDL, let the boys get their playoff experience and we'll see who puts in the motivated effort in the offseason because of that experience.

I'll be the first to say it. John Leonard is a 1st line forward.

I actually think ASP will get eaten up in the playoffs and would really like to see him on a sheltered 3rd pair. Ed-Seider Johansson- Rasmus Andersson Chiarot-ASP

I doubt we're tough enough at this point to win a playoff round. For this reason, I wouldn't want to move ASP to the 3rd pair either through demotion or because of a trade. The kid needs the ice time to get better. If we could really upgrade the left side partner for him with a player that isn't on an expiring contract, I'm all for it. I'm actually really looking forward to next season with Cossa coming up and taking the reins and Kasper and Danielson getting better.

So what’s everyone’s impressions of the season so far? I’ll keep mine short. I’ve loved our forward lines and the emergence of Seider-Ed as a dominant defensive pair. Goaltending has been good enough to keep us in a divisional seed so it’s hard to complain about too much. We are weak at 2C and on the second defensive pair. Veterans at both positions would give us as good a team as any in the east (except healthy Florida).

Watching the WJC and liking the Wings kids so far. Pradel G for Slovakia looks like a Cossa clone, big, moves well and covers alot of net. Svrcek F is hardly noticible so far. Bear F not playing for Canada. Eddie Genborg does it all for Sweden. Size, speed, good vision and playmaking plus he loves to hit people. Max Plante looked okay in game one and really good vs the Swiss. Kid plays a 200' game, great speed and sweet hands. I was getting frustrated with the US play by play guys when they kept focusing on Mooney's scoring attempts and effort, basically showing the kid love. Meanwhile it was Plante who was pulling a Pavel by stealing so many pucks and setting up every chance Mooney had. The kid just has a knack for thievery with great vision once he has the puck.

What is good? The inverse of lazy and it sucks?

Guys, I think we're good again....

I think we are still in the learning and growing stage and we are doing it very well. I thank the Lord/Allah/Buddha or your deity of choice that Todd is the coach currently. It's nice watching games again!!!!

Yzerman said it back in 2019. Drafting and Time. BTW, I am glad he didn't gut the young players to acquire Hughes.

Yeah, now that we got John mafuqqin Leonard

Shanny thought he was gonna leap frog managing and become the big dick exec of the biggest team, now he can't find a job and has to ask his captain permission to enter the suite and scout for free. What Toronto does to folks. Anyway since we're sharing player stories. My buddies mom sold Shannys home in Detroit. She said he had a large unfinished basement to store the mountains of Shanahan trading cards he had, and a single cot in that basement, which is where he would sleep alone on the nights before games.