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Unfortunately the only thing Holland has been good at lately is vomit inducing platitudes. To me the "over-ripe" one is like nails on a chalkboard.

Good, I hope he leaves. With Weiss returning and Legwand showing no ability to play on a lower line, bringing him back could turn into a disaster.

Holland hates admitting that he's wrong. He traded a 1st for Quincey, which meant that turnover Kyle was always coming back.

With the way Holland is designing this team pretty soon only the players will be occupying Joe Louis Arena.

The Red Wings have turned into the ugly cousin at a wedding that no one wants to sleep with.

All sensible thought went out the window the moment Kenny thought it was a good idea to give "turnover Kyle" 4 mil a year. I say throw him to the wolves he deserves it today. And yes from now on I'm calling Quincey "turnover Kyle"

I'd like to kick him in the tires.

I called this at the beginning of the year, I was worried about it all year, and now Holland has made the worst move of the offseason and it's only day one.

Yes, but they're red wheels so they're pretty when they spin.

Why does Kenny not have enough money for these players? Is he skimming off the top?

Time for another lockout?

The wings motto is the same as the Statue of Liberty -"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses". The problem is that even the tired, poor, huddled masses don't want to sign here.

Righty would be nice, but the priority should be to upgrade. Righty, lefty, he can shoot with his di** for all I care as long as he's an upgrade over what we have.

Great contract, got it done early so now Kenny can take the day off. Maybe catch up on Game of Thrones.

No not any specific player, but ever since the salary cap was instituted, countless impact players have been traded, as well as the rights to some good UFA's, and we haven't been a part of it. This is the perfect year to make a trade with the free agent market having a down year.

I wasn't referring specifically to Kesler, I meant making a trade for an impact player still in his prime. These guys seem to get traded every year, and we're always on the outside looking in.

I hate this, how come Kenny never does anything like this?

I thought I detected some sarcasm, but I guess I was wrong. Sorry.

Generally yes, but cash is also a consideration- Emmerton could be a 4th liner in the NHL and get paid the minimum or as in his case he could go to Russia and get paid more. T his case is different though it's not like Almquist is going back home, the only reason he is leaving is because Holland and Co. didn't want to give him a chance last season, even with all the problems on D. If he couldn't hack it then we could say he's not good enough, but since he wasn't getting a chance we don't know whether he's not good enough, not ready, or is simply being over looked. My point is that if he was at least given a chance last year, it's possible that instead of bolting he'd still be in the organization, at the very minimum continuing to develop. It took Hudler over a year to get back to NHL game speed, Almquist's development will slow down exponentially in the KHL. And I care about his development mainly because I feel like he still has a chance with the Wings.

Didn't say it always works out, but he did get paid more. Which was the reason he went.

It doesn't indicate that, "get an opportunity to play" indicates that some players especially younger guys would prefer to play in the KHL then in the minors. But your right most guys that have tasted the NHL don't leave unless they are forced to ( take the hint: Cleary), but now and again you do see some younger players go play in Russia or threaten to go back to Sweden. Doesn't mean they are not good enough to play in the NHL, players like to use the KHL as leverage, but sometimes I think they're bluff gets called and at that particular moment some of them prefer to go overseas for a couple years. They can make more than in the minors and can come back at any time. Taking out the fact that Radulov is Russian, the guy is getting paid something like 9 mil to play in the KHL, I too doubt that his childhood dream was to play in Russia, but he's not approaching 9 mil at the NHL level, so why not.

How many times over the years have we heard that so and so is not big enough to play in the NHL? It took Rafalski forever to get to the NHL because teams thought he was too small. I'm not putting Almquist in the same category as Rafalski but using him as an example that the size argument has a tendency to be overrated. Plus he's not that small, he's 5'11, yeah he weighs only 174lbs but we've seen in the past athletes put on muscle in the offseason. With the amount of problems the Wings had on the blue line last year Almquist should have gotten a look, then we could actually debate whether he's good enough to play in the NHL or not. At the very least it would have shown a young player that he has value to the organization, which could have kept him in Grand Rapids a year longer before he would have decided to jump ship to the KHL. A lot of players don't go to the KHL because they're not good enough to play in the NHL, they go because they can get an opportunity to play and will make more money.

This is what happens when you completely ignore your defensive prospects like what Holland did with Adam last year. He essentially realized that if he didn't get a chance last year with all the problems Detroit had on the blue line he's never going to get a chance in Detroit.

Just saw this today, and while I don't think its that big of a deal, I do have to say that The Wings commenting on it just made it seem like it was it was ok for every jackass to come out of the woodwork and pile on this girl. Who lets face it, did nothing wrong other then say that she like the Wings. They should have just stayed out of it and instead started a twitter feud with another organization, like what the Kings do. And Guys let's face it if Lidstrom was a chick we would be writing the same thing on our twitter accounts.