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    These kids have been fun to watch this pre-season. It's been several years since I've last watched a Wings game that was fun to watch like these. The mistakes that happen this year to me, seem different than the ones from the past few seasons. Those mistakes were more laziness it seemed to me, like the guys didn't care. I am not seeing any laziness this pre-season, so when mistakes happen, they aren't as frustrating to watch. 

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    On 7/27/2018 at 4:35 PM, ChristopherReevesLegs said:

    Do you know how players being sent down works in Seria A? I'm not very familiar.

    Say we waived Martin Frk... does he go to whichever AHL teams owns his rights? What happens if the AHL team that owns his rights wins the Calder and becomes an NHL team? Is he no longer ours? Just thinking out loud.

    Hockey's pretty unique in that it takes much longer for players to mature than in a lot of other sports. So there's a bigger dependence on the farm.

    There isn't any sending down players anywhere in the Seria A. A player is either good enough to play, or he isn't. If it's a matter of not having enough room, they can lend a player to any team in any league. 

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    They do this same thing in the Italian Seria A and I like it, it certainly makes things more interesting.  Something like that in the NHL would be pretty cool for the fans in areas where their local team is only in the minors. Grand Rapids for example, them Michiganders out in that area would have had a chance to see the Griffins in the NHL not too long ago. 

    I don't know if I'd like this in the NHL/AHL though, without (like you said) needing a major restructure. Right now it wouldn't be any fun at all for any team coming up from the AHL, they'd just get destroyed night in and night out in the big leagues. Interesting thought though. 

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    Forgive me here, I'm usually not up to speed when it comes to prospects, and I know very little about both Zadina and Veleno. 

    For those that know more about these guys, how far would you say they are from stepping into lineup?

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    20 minutes ago, BigWillieStyle said:

    I'd much rather see them play hard and win games, and then hope we do well with the bingo balls, than watch them give games away for a better shot at a top 3 pick. There is no honor in tanking, but there is in going out and giving 100%, and losing to a better team. 

    Oh for sure, I don't want them to tank purposely - karma would probably pop it's dirty little head in at that point and give us the worst possible pick we could end up with. 

    As for what everyone else is saying about the system, couldn't agree more with that. I just don't know what a better system would be, and probably why nothing better has been implemented. It does make sense for the worst team to get the best odds at the best player available right, so that they have an opportunity to come out of the basement. If they award best changes to getting the BPA to the "best worst team", then I feel that the basement teams would continuously struggle to get out (hell, even teams who get multiple BPA can't get out of the basement). I don't know, I just don't have a good suggestion there.

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    This is mostly about me, but I'm sure lots of others relate.

    I've always considered myself to be a huge Wings fan, I haven't missed a game in I don't even remember how long. Even this season, I still have every game on tv, but it's mostly background to me working on more productive things. Where I feel dirty, is I want the Wings to score, but I want them to score 1 less than the opposition. I understand that short term suckage = long term success, but does that make me (and others like me) a bad fan?

    I just want that #1 OA pick damnit!!!

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    1 minute ago, 13dangledangle said:

    If Babs gets Glendening Ill find it hilarious.  I find the talks about him wanting him hilarious, there's zero doubt hes Babs boy

    Part of me wants this to happen just because the Leafs fans are getting all worked up and don't want him. The other part of me doesn't want to give him up for what the leafs would pay.

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    6 minutes ago, ChristopherReevesLegs said:

    I took the day off today to enjoy this deadline. First off, let's all please remember the only player that NEEDS to be traded today is Mike Green. Anyone else is a little bonus.

    That being said Karlsson and McDonagh are really gonna f*** things up for us.

    I'd be perfectly content with this. It's just a bit nerve wrecking knowing that McD and Karlsson are available, so the Green stuff would happen at the very last's minute or we wouldn't get full value. I hope I'm wrong on the value part.

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    I'm just now turning on trade deadline talk for the day. By the sounds of the posts today, we might not be doing much huh? I'm surprised as some of these returns and don't get why we're not doing the same. Does Holland and Co really think we're making the playoffs this year and are trying to hold onto some of these guys?

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    So I went to last night's game and took my dad along with me and wanted to just update this thread with my thoughts on the place.

    Beautiful arena, no doubt. My only knock on it is the seating. They really stuffed those seats in there - at 6'0, my knees have never been so cramped. Even my dad at about 5'8" was a little cramped. Still, as much as the seating sucks, it still wouldn't prevent me from going a game there.

    I also now understand why the arena looks empty on TV. Unbelievable the amount of people that are watching the game from the concourse on the screens! I guess a lot of people go to the game just to be in that environment, but don't really care to watch the game in the bowl, they are content with hanging out in there and watching it on the screens. Curious if this will change when the Wings get good again actually.

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    2 hours ago, kickazz said:

    They do have their own, just not sure if it's finished yet. The District is still being built. I drove by today on the way home and the structure looked finished from the outside, but who knows about the inside. 

    For now, I would assume they're own isn't ready yet. 

    Gotcha, that makes sense, thanks. I have not seen a single thing there yet, and have been wanting to, so looking forward to heading out there for tomorrow's game and checking out the area. 

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    Forgive me if this has been asked a million times.

    I haven't had a chance this year to go watch a game at the new arena and I haven't even had a chance to be in the area to check it out at all. I plan on going to a game within the next few weeks and was curious about parking. I know there is plenty of parking around the area, but I was just curious - does the LCA have a parking garage of its own like the JLA did? I've done some searches, but all I've seen is the ability to reserve parking in the nearby areas, which is cool too.