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I was gonna mention this too. Our six best prospects are all in key positions. But sure, we should have taken the 5'9, 155 lb, winger instead. Good thinking Wheeler.

Scott Wheeler of The Athletic has been working his way through ranking the prospect pools from each NHL team. Today the Red Wings landed at #2. 1. Edvinsson 2. ASP 3. Kasper 4. Danielson 5. Cossa 6. Augustine 7. Mazur 8. Wallinder 9. Buchelnikov 10. Sodorblom 11. Buium 12. Gibson 13. Dower Nilsson 14. Lombardi 15. Anton Johansson Couple of things to note. Two of our best prospects (Berggren and Albert Johansson) aged out of his rankings, so we're actually in a better position even than his rankings would suggest. Also, Wheeler is famous for not liking Red Wings drafts. He always thinks we should take some tiny winger (Perfetti, Savoie, Benson) and we never do. So then he ranks our draft badly because we didn't. He's on record as really really not liking our picks. So for him to rank us this high is an acknowledgment of how good we really are, and also an indication that other evaluators may even be higher on our prospects than he is.

Apparently if you wanna beat the unbeatable Wallstedt your best bet is to shoot the puck sorta hard in his direction. I'll never forgive Yzerman for taking Cossa instead.

There was never a doubt in my mind. Edvinsson’s game winner. Suck an egg Jesper! https://x.com/HockeytownWpod/status/1763033395653730513?s=20 And here’s Kasper cucking Jesper as well. https://x.com/griffinshockey/status/1762999899602166030?s=20

Lemme guess, this guy had Edmonton-Boston meeting in the finals last year? I always love how authoritative these guys sounds without a hint of irony after they've been so consistently, massively, wrong year after year after year.

B*tch I don't project anything. I'm not poor. I have a 65 inch LG Signature OLED M4. It's the Rolls Royce of TVs. Enjoy your Vizio, loser.

I actually kinda wish they'd trade him. Tnias Mathurin is clearly AHL ready and Edvinsson is blocking him. If Shawn Horcroff isn't careful AHL ready guys like Mathurin, Jack Phelan, and Larry Keenan will get sick of being held back and start requesting trades. Hey hey ho ho Simon Edvinsson's got to go!!!! Hey hey ho ho Simon Edvinsson's got to go!!!!

Aaaaaand Edvinsson goes it alone and wins the game for GR in overtime. Hell of a solo effort to win the goalie duel. Wallstedt looked good and was the only reason that game was close. Nice try

The internet is saying Tanev to Dallas is about done

AHL tv online is the way to do it. You can buy single day passes for 8 bucks. Edvinsson is a beast. https://x.com/HockeytownWpod/status/1762995431712096453?s=20 Lol…Kasper just tried the Michigan. GR announcers straight up said “I don’t like that”. They both said “it’s wrong” and “not a hockey play”

I think he’s going to be really good, he’s still so young tho.

2-0 Griffins. Rebound goal from Aston Reese and Kasper beat Wallstedt clean on a breakaway

Cossa vs. Wallstedt head to head tonight

Another thought: It's hard to score in the NHL. Teams may only score two or three times a game on 30-40 shots. So if you're bad defensively, but good offensively, you have to do the hard thing (score) a lot more often to win. But if you're good defensively you don't have to do the hard thing (score) nearly as often to win right?

That's a really good point. Justin Holl and William Wallinder for Radko Gudas please.

I'm not worried about Gudas' AAV. I'm worried about the term. He's 33 and it runs for two more years. Guys start falling off cliffs pretty rapidly at his age. Its iffy.

Given their history it's probably Little Caesars Pizza. Remember when everybody wanted the new arena to be named something cool like the "Gordie Howe Arena" or whatever? All the brainiacs were like "they'd be stupid to leave all that corporate money on the table". Then they gave the naming rights to their own corporation. Because clearly Little Caesars needed to raise awareness of their s***ty Hot-n-Ready pizzas.

My mistake, I missed it. You sure did. Overall I don't hate it. Don't love it (because none of the guys you mentioned are both RHD AND play solid defensively) but I don't hate it.

Generally speaking I agree with most of this. I do think the calculus changes a lot for RFAs and veterans without a Cup though. Like, if you're Jeff Petry and you've never won a Cup and you get a chance to play for a contender, but that contender is in Winnipeg, you're probably more likely to do it than you would be if you were 27 and hitting FA for the first time.

Overall I don't think this is the worst thing in the world. BUT one nitpick I have is that it doesn't really make sense to buy out Petry (creating dead cap space over multiple years) AND ALSO leave a hole at your 7th defenseman spot. Why not just keep Petry for the final year of his deal and make him the 7th defenseman? He's basically making 7th defenseman money already. He costs less than Holl...our current 7th defenseman.

But it's not because they don't HAVE to stay. You basically get stuck with the team that drafted you for a few years and then you get enough leverage to leave. Tkachuk did, so did Debrincat. The only players who are stuck on miserable teams are guys that are just barely good enough to be in the league. Like, it's better to be in Arizona than the AHL but it's better to be almost anywhere else than Arizona. So as soon as you're good enough/old enough to get the hell out of there you do.

I get what you're saying, Vancouver is an absolutely beautiful place. But I wouldn't want to play there either. I think there's a lot of wisdom in drafting players from close to home like SY does. No matter how gorgeous the place is, many people just don't want to live and work a zillion miles from their families and friends.

You're talking in generalities though. Can "random human" live in Calgary just fine? Sure. Would American professional hockey player Matthew Tkachuk MUCH rather spend his limited career (these guys are basically done in their 30s) playing for a winner in Florida instead of a loser in Calgary? Absolutely. I'm not maligning western Canada. I've traveled all over Canada and find the country beautiful and the people pleasant. It's a really lovely country. But I wouldn't want to work 3,000 miles away from every single person on Earth that I give a crap about. Especially if that place is in another country, and it's one of the coldest windiest places in North America.

Counter point, would YOU want to play for Calgary or Ottawa? It's not like these guys are requesting trades out of top organizations. As soon as I had enough leverage to get the hell out of Calgary I would too. Especially if I wasn't from Western Canada.

I genuinely think that the hockey media has owned the narrative forever, and they don't know s***, and that's why nobody knows how to make sense of teams like the Wings. I was listening to a podcast the other day and Max Bultman (and other people from the Athletic) were debating something and Max offhandedly mentioned that maybe having a McDavid type player is actually bad for team building and those other dorks couldn't scoff hard enough. Like, how DARE he impune the notion that superstars aren't all they're cracked up to be. The entire calculus for hockey media is "You've got stars and you shoot alot, ipso facto you're a contender". Except there are tons of examples of that not working. Worse, there are almost zero counter narratives in media. I give Jared Keeso a lot of credit for this. He's the only guy talking about hockey who dares say something like "maybe giving a s*** and not being a p*ssy matters more than being pretty". There are several episodes of "Shoresy" devoted to it. But his show is "fiction" so nobody runs with it. I'd give anything to see hockey media address a few of these questions: If star power matters so much why do even the most legendary players (think Lidstrom) only win a few times in their careers? If statistical modeling can only tell us what we already know (Colorado is good) but not what we don't know (Vancouver is GOING to be better than you think) what value does it really have? If players matter so much why does a team like Vancouver go from terrible to exceptional from year to year with almost no change in personnel? If puck possesson matters so much why do GMs and coaches not just load up their teams with the best possession players they can get? If the draft lottery is such a game changer why haven't Edmonton and Toronto even won a conference title? Why doesn't Buffalo suck? Why is New Jersey regressing as they put more lottery picks into their lineups. IMO these are all super interesting questions that I'd love to read articles about, but nobody working in the hockey media will even ask the questions. Instead we get "Who's the most stylish Maple Leaf".