GMRwings1983

This team has been soft for 25 years. They had talent for much of that period and that made their soft play less relevant. Now they're soft and not talented. A bad combination.

Lalonde's next NHL head coaching job will be in........................

Lalonde should be fired and replaced with an NHL coach.

It's almost like he's a habitual marijuana user.

Yzerman either needs to fire Lalonde or leave the GM position. The complacency isn't getting the team anywhere.

This thread might make it to two pages!

Johnson. Navin R. Sounds like a typical bastard.

How are we looking tonight?

Imagine how bad Holl must be to miss this lineup. Edvinsson will be here longer than Lalonde. Let him be a whipping boy if necessary.

The 4th line should be grinders who can energize the crowd, win puck battles, deliver big hits, punch faces. Detroit's 4th line are milksops. As usual. This roster has the same problem as prior years. Only one good center. Too many dumb defensemen. No real #1 goalie. Lalonde as head coach.

I'm getting hard thinking about Austin Watson punching people in the face while wearing a Red Wings uniform.

Why? He played there last year. Isn't he done learning how to play against future car salesmen?

The Ravens need a real quarterback to play alongside Lamar Jackson. Imagine what they could do then?

Utah? He's going to play basketball now?

Yzerman is a known pothead.

The commies...........I mean Capitals, took our spot!

Play in games are stupid. They only exist for extra tickets and TV revenue. 82 games is enough time to give everyone a chance to qualify.

I hope Philadelphia burns to the ground. And loses another Super Bowl soon.

I forgot your boy Jamie Benn. Also, is MacKinnon basically the de-facto captain of the Avalanche? He's technically not a captain. And who are the problem kids?

Crosby Tayes Ovechkin Marchand Barkov Kopitar McDavid Tavares

And hire a witch doctor to exorcise the players who return. Don't want them to remember anything about this collapse.

It's like an AEW roster. Vanilla midgets. They've been s*** since Larkin returned also.

Or didn't lose to Washington last week..........or the week before that.

What happened to this kid during the last few weeks? I realize you're not going to score a goal every game, but to completely fall apart offensively was shocking and disconcerting. Is it because as someone mentioned, Datsyuk returned, and Nyquist somehow let up? Maybe, but if anything, he should have had less attention on him after Datsyuk returned. But the two events do seem to coincide. Was it the line combos changing? I thought Nyquist had good chemistry with Legwand and Franzen, but Babcock decided to play each one on a different line (all of which didn't work). I think that contributed heavily to all three players struggling in the playoffs (thanks Mike). Is it because we played a big, physical team like Boston? Very likely, but that's not going to change. We have to play in the same division as them now. Also, his drop off started before the playoffs, so it wasn't just Boston. Or is it because he was hurt (the typical LGW playoff disappearing excuse) Always tough to know who is or isn't hurt because of how much secrecy teams keep, but that's a possibility as well. It does remind me of Datsyuk disappearing in the playoffs in 2004 and 2006. Albeit, Pavel was a better player at that time than Nyquist is now. Of course, I realize few very players played well for Detroit during the playoffs, so it's not just Nyquist. All the young players struggled in the postseason. But still, with the kind of play he showed us after the Olympics, his drop off was the most surprising of all. I hope he can put this behind him and step up in the future.

Nah. They weren't getting anything important for those scraps at the TDL. I agree he should have sold but just to get "something". They weren't getting high picks for s*** players. I'm not sure anyone would even give a 1st for Kane.