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Again, its an evaluation year.  What would firing Blashill in the middle of the year accomplish?  Maybe they win a few more games.  Bylsma would probably be the interim head coach and you probably wouldn't want him going forward, so you bring in another coach in the offseason.  You really think giving a young team 3 different coaches in the span of a year is a good idea?  Let him ride it out, see if he can work through it and if he can't (and I don't think he will), move on.
People complained about Yzerman getting robbed by trading AA for 2 second rounders.  Teams aren't going to give up much for what would be their backup goalie.  If Bernier gets traded for a 6th round pick, people would be complaining "Yzerman got fleeced!".  But since he didn't trade him, now its "What an idiot!  Winning doesn't matter anymore"  Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Holland's trades, signings and draft picks is why we're in this situation in the first place.  Over the past ten years, Holland has slowly destroyed the Wings.  Over the past ten years, Yzerman took a franchise that was in a rebuild and made them one of the top teams in the league.  When you're one of the best GMs in hockey over the past 10 years, yes you get free passes.  Not forever, but at this point, less than one year into his job as Wings GM, yes he does.
Not excuses.  Just talking crazy people off the ledge. 
Yes I am.  Holland did make a mistake signing Abby to that deal and it IS his job to know better than us.  He didn't do his job well and hadn't been doing his job well for sometime.  As I mentioned earlier, if Stevie makes these bad signings/trades/draft picks for a few years, then yes, he deserves any and all heat.  Until then, like Yzerman said, be patient.
Based on what criteria?  They have the worst record in the NHL, so are we supposed to give them an F?  We knew they were not going to be good this year before the season even started, so maybe we give them a C?  We're in a rebuilding year, evaluating what we have from players to coaches and I'm sure the front office has learned a lot, which is what their goal was from the start.  So do we give them an A?  Their really isn't way to "grade the season" seeing as how different people within the franchise had different goals.
 

Goose is finally loose baby!
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I called it f***ers!!!!!!

There is the big third period save we needed.

How many is a lot, 6 fans?

Tampa announcers saying possible Larkin interference. Blah, blah. Larkin has right to that ice.
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Way to waist you challenge dumbass.
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We don't always shoot. But when we do it is weak or ten feet wide.
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We don't always shoot. But when we do it is weak or ten feet wide.
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great chance by AA
better cut his minutes again

It was a can opener. If it was a weak trip and he acted like he got shot I'd have a problem.

Play the god damn kids
Larkin- datsyuk- Mantha
Aa- Richards- Nyquist
Tatar- sheahan- zetterberg
Helm- glen- Abby
4th matches up against Johnson all nights and beats the living piss out of those guys.
Kronwall- green
Smith- marchenko
Dd- Quincey
E sits because I can't watch that guy for another single minute of hockey
Mrazek in net because he is our best goalie and the only way we win a game is with him in her. Howard is trash
Datsyuk better step his game up because Johnson line is completely wiping the floor with him and z. If Nyquist and Tatar don't wake the F**k up then both can be scratches and I'll gladly give pulk and someone from GR a chance. Sick and tired of those two playing like pansies and the disappearing act.
Time to wake the f**k up and grow up. Blashill and holland need to be fired after this sweep

Double shift Larkin

At least we are getting some pressure now. Even if we even it up, no one could have any confidence in Jimmy keeping it out.
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Kronwall, what in the name of pete are you doing back there?
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What I wouldn't give to have Victor Hedman on our team.
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This team won't win with Howard. Team has no confidence with him behind them. Iif we are going to go down, at least let it be with our goalie of the future.
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This team won't win with Howard. Team has no confidence with him behind them. Iif we are going to go down, at least let it be with our goalie of the future.
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This team won't win with Howard. Team has no confidence with him behind them. Iif we are going to go down, at least let it be with our goalie of the future.
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This team won't win with Howard. Team has no confidence with him behind them. Iif we are going to go down, at least let it be with our goalie of the future.
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Those "you signed that contract, fulfill it" people make me wonder...what do you think, that slavery is still allowed? If he wants to go, and for good reason, while leaving the money on the table, then let him go. Everyone of us in every regular job can do the same. There isn't even a substantial approach for criticism. Not even that stupid "over 35"-rule, because he would agree to have his contract traded to help the team. If Holland is insane enough not to trade it, the blame is on him, not Pavel.
If he goes back to Russia, and it appears so, it shouldn't change our appreciation for him one bit. Just read that article...

At some point he's going to have to trust he rookies. These guys are special players. I don't know what Mantha did to deserve to be sat down and AA creates so much with his speed.

Mrazek playing darned well. Get him some goal support already, boys!